Happy New Year "Fireworks" Propaganda From Gaza

I Must've Taken A Wrong Turn In Albequerque!

Hamas senior got lost in the tunnels  

From: Simply Jews

Maariv, using Palestinian Pal Press as their source, tells that Tahr Atwa, a senior Hamas functionary and a part-time commander in Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades left Gaza five days ago to cross to Egypt, using the underground tunnels system. Recently his family received an anonymous phone call from Israel. The caller who presented himself as an intelligence officer, told the family that Mr Atwa is in Israel and recommended that they get a lawyer.

It was nothing, of course, for our operative to get into the location where Mr Atwa is kept. During the whole interview Mr Atwa was seething with rage, mostly directed at Fathi Hammad, Interior Minister of Gaza (and a part-time commander in Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades)."Zionist lover, imperialist infidel lackey dog, the son of a thousand" were the mildest terms used by Mr Atwa to characterize Mr Hammad.

"I kept telling this ...[omitted] that the ...[omitted] tunnels have become a ...[omitted] maze and a man can easily get lost. We have to have a clear set of signposts put into the tunnels. The no good ...[omitted] has never moved his fat unwashed ...[omitted]. When I get, Allah willing, back to Gaza, my people will kill his ass, raze his house and ... [omitted] his wives and children..."

When our operative tried to placate Mr Atwa, telling him that he is, in all probability, not going home anytime soon and that Mr Hammad may expire meanwhile of a natural malady such as an acute lead poisoning, Mr Atwa's rage boiled over and his power of coherent speech was lost.

The Mr Atwa's jail officer, speaking on condition of anonymity (of course), told our operative that Mr Atwa keeps demanding to be provided with a bus ticket to Cairo and an exit visa immediately. "However, Mr Atwa doesn't have a passport for us to put an exit visa in and, besides, the only banknotes he offers in exchange for the bus ticket are Egyptian pounds. Counterfeited, too", the officer added.

Cross-posted on Yourish.com

Muslims Drive out Christians from PA Territories ...

The Jooz Did It!

Arutz Sheva

Interview Series: International human rights lawyerJustus Reid Weiner:

 "They flee to almost any country that will issue them a visa."

From Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld 

"The disputed territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have been administered by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and in more recent years, in part, by Hamas. Under these regimes, the resident Christian Arabs have been victims of frequent human rights abuses including intimidation, beatings, land theft, firebombing of churches and other Christian institutions, denial of employment, economic boycott, torture, kidnapping, forced marriage, sexual harassment, and extortion.

"Muslims who have converted to Christianity are the ones in the greatest in danger. They are often left defenseless against cruelty by Muslim fundamentalists. PA and Hamas officials are directly responsible for many of the human rights violations. Christian Arabs also fall victim to the semi-anarchy that typifies PA rule."

Justus Reid Weiner is an international human rights lawyer and a member of the Israel and New York Bar Associations. His professional publications have appeared in leading law journals and intellectual magazines. Weiner lectures widely abroad and in Israel and teaches international law and business courses at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In Weiner's view, the crimes committed against Christian Arabs result from a way of thinking that dates back to the earliest days of Islam. "Traditionally, Christians and Jews were given an inferior social status known asdhimmitude in Islam. To this day, Muslim attitudes toward Christians and Jews are influenced by the concepts and prejudices that dhimmitude has spawned in Islamic society. The widespread persecution of Christians in various Muslim dominated lands brings many proofs of this.

"Israel is the only exception in the Middle East where the Christian population since 1948 has increased. It has risen by more than 400 percent. This also includes non-Arab Christians, such as Russian Christians who have moved to Israel as spouses of Jews.

"As dhimmis, Christians living in Palestinian-controlled territories are subjected to debilitating legal, political, cultural, and religious restrictions. Muslim groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad have built a culture of hatred upon the age-old foundations of Islamic society. Moreover, the PA has adopted Islamic law into its draft constitution.

"In such an environment, Christian Arabs have found themselves victims of prejudice and hate crimes. Tens of thousands of Palestinian Christians have left their ancestral homes and emigrated. They flee to almost any country that will issue them a visa.

"The demographics in the Palestinian areas have changed drastically. In Bethlehem, the Christian population was an 80 percent majority in 1950. Today the population of Christian Arabs in Bethlehem is hovering at about 15 percent of the city's total population. Neither the Palestinian Christian leaders nor the PA want to reveal accurate statistics. That would mean the extent of the emigration would become publicly known. They would then have to face questions about the reasons for this decline."

Seventy percent of Christian Arabs who originally resided in the PA administered areas now live abroad.

Weiner points out that Yasser Arafat determined the policy that led to this demographic shift. "After the PA gained control of Bethlehem, it redistricted the municipal boundaries of the city. Arafat also defied tradition by appointing a Muslim governor of the city. The Bethlehem City Council, which by Palestinian law must have a Christian majority, has been taken over by Muslims. Eight of the fifteen seats on the Council are still reserved for Christians, but Hamas controls the City Council with some Christian allies. Arafat crowned his efforts when he converted the Greek Orthodox monastery next to the Church of Nativity into his official Bethlehem residence.

"The problems for Christians in Bethlehem are typical throughout the Middle East. As in Palestinian society, Christian Arabs have no voice and no protection. It is no wonder they have been leaving. Because of emigration – some of it dating back two or three generations – seventy percent of Christian Arabs who originally resided in the West Bank and Gaza now live abroad. Tens of thousands live in Sydney, Berlin, Santiago, Detroit, and Toronto. The emigration of Christian Arabs has multiplied over the last decade, with no end in sight.

"It is currently estimated that the number of Christians living in Gaza totals only 1,500-3,000 amid 1.2 million Muslims. Probably less than fifty thousand Christians remain in all of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza together.” 

Weiner concludes: "The human rights crimes against the Christian Arabs in the disputed territories are committed by Muslims. Yet many Palestinian Christian leaders accuse Israel of these crimes rather than the actual perpetrators. These patriarchs and archbishops of Christian Arab denominations obfuscate the truth and put their own people in danger. This is often for personal benefit or due to intimidation. This motif has been adopted by a variety of Christian leaders in the Western world. Others who are aware of the human rights crimes choose to remain silent about them."

Notice To Gaza: Termination of Services

I Hereby Give You Notice of Termination

of Water and Electrical Services:

Reason For Notice:

    . Tenant is repeatedly late paying rent

    . Tenant has allowed an unreasonable number of occupants in the unit/site

    . Tenant or a person permitted on the property by the tenant has:

x   significantly interfered with or unreasonably disturbed another occupant or the landlord     x   seriously jeopardized the health or safety or lawful right of another occupant or the landlord 

x   put the landlord’s property at significant risk

x   .Tenant has engaged in illegal activity that has, or is likely to:

     damage the landlord’s property adversely affect the quiet enjoyment, security, safety or            physical well-being of another occupant or the landlord 

x   . jeopardize a lawful right or interest of another occupant or the landlord

x   . Tenant has caused extraordinary damage to the unit/site or property/park

x   . Tenant has not done required repairs of damage to the unit/site

x   . Breach of a material term of the tenancy agreement that was not corrected within a reasonable time after written notice to do so

    . Tenant has assigned or sublet the rental unit/site without landlord’s written consent

x  . Tenant knowingly gave false information to prospective tenant or purchaser of the rental unit/site or property/park

   . Rental unit/site must be vacated to comply with a government order

   . Non-compliance with an order under the legislation within 30 days after the tenant received the order or the date in the order

   . Tenant’s rental unit/site is part of an employment arrangement that has ended and the unit/site is needed for a new employee

Signed:

B. Netanyahu

Israel threatens to cut off power, water to Gaza

JERUSALEM (Google News) — Israel warned on Saturday that it would cut the supply of water and electricity to the Gaza Strip if rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas form a unity government.

"The foreign ministry is examining the possibility of Israel pulling out of the Gaza Strip in terms of infrastructure," Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told the daily Yediot Aharonot website.

A unity government deal "would transform the Palestinian Authority into a terrorist authority and would put an end to any hope for a peace agreement" with Israel, said Ayalon, who is also a Knesset deputy from the nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party.

On Friday, Israeli ministers decided to maintain a freeze on the transfer of tens of millions of dollars in tax monies to the Palestinian Authority hours after Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas held top-level talks with Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal at which they announced a new era of "partnership."

The transfer of funds, which make up a large percentage of the authority's monthly budget, was frozen on November 1 as a punitive measure after the Palestinians won full membership of the UN cultural organisation.

"If the Palestinians have signed an agreement over a unity government, it would make a transfer of funds impossible," a senior government official told AFP.

In January, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already threatened to cut off water and power to Gaza, which has been controlled by Hamas since the Islamist group chased Fatah from the territory in 2008.

Israel, which unilaterally withdrew from Gaza and dismantled Jewish settlements in 2008, continues to supply the territory with water and 70 percent of its electrical power, the rest being supplied by neighbouring Egypt or local power plant

Hamas Leaders Surface to Bang War Drum

Hamas, Islamic Jihad rally for Jerusalem

Published today (updated) 25/11/2011 15:54

Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is surrounded by his bodyguards after
Friday prayer in Gaza City on Nov. 25, 2011. (REUTERS/ Ismail Zaydah)

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Islamic Jihad and Hamas organized mass rallies in Gaza City on Friday demanding protection of Jerusalem's Palestinian character and Muslim holy sites.
After Friday prayers, Jihad supporters marched from al-Abbas mosque in the city, and Hamas gathered in Palestine Square, including Prime Minister in the Gaza-based government Ismail Haniyeh.
Jerusalem is in danger and the Islamic community should stand together to support the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City, Islamic Jihad official Sheikh Nafeth Azzam told the rally.
"It is illogical and unrealistic that Arab leaders stay silent about the rape of Palestine, and keep (Palestinian) prisoners in (Israeli) jails," he said. "It is more logical to take up weapons and confront the enemy."
Islamic Jihad supports the reconciliation deal ending division between Fatah and Hamas, he said, a day after leaders of the former rivals met in Cairo to progress implementation of the May agreement.
Azzam added that negotiations had not gained any national achievements and the Palestinian Authority should give up on this path.
In Palestine square, Hamas leader Musheer al-Masri told the rally the nation's leaders have started to unite with their people and take on the cause of preserving Jerusalem. The entire nation is responsible for liberating Al-Aqsa Mosque, he said.
Israel's occupation will disappear because of the determination of Muslims and their fight against injustice, he said.
Rallies also took place in other Gaza cities on Friday, movement leaders said.
Israel captured East Jerusalem in a 1967 war and annexed the city in a move never recognized by the international community.
East Jerusalem's Haram al-Sharif compound -- housing the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock -- is a revered as the site of Prophet Muhammad's journey through the heaven by Muslims.
Presidential legal adviser Ahmad Ruweidi said on Sunday that Israeli settler organizations have been given the green light by the Israeli government to take over a number of central Jerusalem homes belonging to Palestinians, after a Palestinian family was handed eviction orders near the entrance to Al-Aqsa.

Hamas lowers boom on Gaza banks that sent taxes to Palestinian Authority

... This Should Help Build Unity between Hamas and the P.A.

World Tribune

GAZA CITY — The Hamas regime has cracked down on major banks in the

Gaza Strip.

A Hamas court fined two major Gaza banks tens of millions of dollars for refusing to pay taxes to the Islamic regime. The decision, issued in mid-November, said the Bank of Palestine and Palestine Islamic Bank insisted on paying taxes to the Palestinian Authority, expelled by Hamas from the Gaza Strip in 2007.

“They have to choose between Palestinian and American legitimacy,” a Hamas official told the PA-owned daily Al Ayam.

Neither Hamas nor the Gaza judiciary published the decisions regarding the two banks. But executives said Bank of Palestine was ordered to pay Hamas $113 million in back taxes and fines. The 11 members of the bank’s board of directors were also banned from leaving the Gaza Strip.

Neither bank attended the Hamas court hearings. Executives said the banks would be unable to pay the fine and might close their branches in the Gaza Strip.

The PA did not respond to the court rulings. On Nov. 24, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was scheduled to meet Hamas politburo chief Khaled Masha’al in Cairo in another effort to form a joint government.

Palestinian sources said Hamas was believed to be preparing a crackdown on other major businesses that still recognized PA rule in the Gaza Strip.
They included fuel suppliers, cellular phone providers and power companies, all of which receive revenues through the PA.

The Gaza Strip contains nine banks, all of which have been threatened with sanctions for cooperation with Hamas. In 2010, Hamas raided two banks for cash frozen under international sanctions by Israel, the European Union and the United States.

The Israeli government provides about $13 million a month to the Gaza Strip for salaries for tens of thousands of former PA employees. In November, Israel announced that it would supply building material for the construction of nearly a dozen factories in the Gaza Strip.

'Next Palestinian gov't to be headquartered in Gaza'

Jerusalem Post

Hamas adviser Ahmed Youssef tells "Quds al-Arabi" time is "ripe" for consensus between Fatah and Hamas; PA President Abbas to visit Gaza in near future.

Hamas and Fatah agreed to headquarter the next Palestinian government in Gaza, a Hamas official told the Palestinian "Quds al-Arabi" newspaper on Friday.

Ahmed Youssef, a political advisor to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, told the newspaper that the time is "ripe" for consensus between the two opposing Palestinian factions. 

The agreement over Gaza indicates the possibility that the next Palestinian leader may also be a Gaza resident.

Youssef said Hamas would support Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in his bid to gain Palestinian membership in the United Nations, and that Hamas supported the establishment of a Palestinian state on the pre-1967 border with Jerusalem as its capital.

According to Youssef, Abbas will visit Gaza in the near future.

Children Play As Rockets Fall in Israel

Southern Israel and Gaza rocket threat. Impact on kibbutz communities and children.

Israel To Hamas: ... Stop The Rockets or Pay The Consequences

Israel Warns Hamas Over Gaza Rocketing

Thursday, November 17, 2011

IzraCastIsrael Warns That More Rocketing From Gaza May Trigger Major IDF Counter-Attack

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz: 'After Fall of Gadaffi Regime, Libyan Weapons May Have Been Smuggled Into Gaza'

IsraCast Assessment: Israel Has Given Hamas Notice That She Will Not Tolerate More Missiles From Gaza That Paralyzes Life In Southern Israel

Hamas Terrorists in the Gaza Strip

 Israel's patience is wearing thin after repeated rocket attacks from Gaza have paralyzed much of southern Israel and forced over one million Israeli civilians into their bomb shelters for days on end. This was the message from IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz in a closed door briefing to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Later the IDF spokesman, Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, told reporters that only 'an intiated and planned IDF operation' could put a stop to the Palestinian rocketing of Israeli civilians. David Essing has this assessment of the current calm that may prove to be the quiet before the storm, if the Palestinian decide to launch more missiles into Israel.

Michael Coren with Mosab Hassan Yousef

From YouTube:

Uploaded by sdamatt2 on Nov 15, 2011

"If Israel fails in the Middle East, I tell people here in the West that the Western civilization will fail."

Mosab Hassan Yousef was born in Ramallah, in the West Bank in 1978.

His father, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, is a founding leader of Hamas, internationally recognized as a terrorist organization and responsible for countless suicide bombings and other deadly attacks against Israel.

Yousef was an integral part of the movement, for which he was imprisoned several times by the Shin Bet, the Israeli intelligence service. He withstood torture in prison only to discover Hamas was torturing its own people in a relentless search for collaborators. He began to question who his enemies really were— Israel? Hamas? America? After a chance encounter with a British tourist, Yousef started a six-year quest that jeopardized Hamas, endangered his family and threatened his life.

He has since embraced the Christian faith and sought political asylum in America.

Gaza PA Farmers Learn Export Expertise from Israel

Israel National News

While rockets are fired by Gaza terrorists, PA farmers in the region are being taught by Israel how to export something better.

While Hamas and allied terrorists continue to fire rockets and mortars at Jewish communities in the western Negev, Palestinian Authority Arab farmers in Gaza are being taught by Israelis how to export something better and more peaceful.
Despite all provocation, Israel has continued “business as usual” and this month held its training programs in fresh produce export expertise to prepare Gaza farmers for the new season that starts in another week or two.
Following the finalization of the trade process from Gaza to various European markets, a continuing education program for the region's Palestinian Authority agriculturalists was held last Tuesday at the offices of the Coordination and Liaison Administration for Gaza.
Representatives of the Coordinator of the Government Activities in the Territories (CoGAT) also announced that starting next month, a pilot program of furniture export from Gaza to Europe would also begin.
“This conference is part of the ongoing daily cooperation between the Coordination and Liaison Administration for Gaza and the Palestinians in the agricultural sector,” said the IDF Spokesperson.
During the past year, PA farmers in Gaza exported more than 399 tons of strawberries, 10 million carnations, 6.5 tons of cherry tomatoes and 6 million tons of red, green and yellow bell peppers to European markets.
Quartet Adviser Tim Williams also attended the conference.
One of the items on the agenda was teaching Gaza farmers to avoid the severe infestation of the red palm weevil, which destroyed crops last year. The pest managed to enter the region via the illegal tunnel network used by the Hamas terrorists to ferry people, weapons and contraband between Egypt and Gaza.
“Though the existence of these illegal tunnels served as the catalyst for the infestation, the CLA assisted the farmers in Gaza whose crops had been damaged,” the IDF Spokesperson pointed out.
“It is Hamas who is our mortal enemy, not the people of Gaza,” said Mark Regev, spokesman for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. “They have made it clear they consider every man, woman and child in Israel a legitimate target,” he told Arutz Sheva in a telephone interview Sunday afternoon.
“The Hamas agenda is separate from the people of Gaza, who we consider to be victims as well,” Regev said.

Israel speeds up work on airline defense system

Seattle PI

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has sped up work on a missile defense system for its commercial airliners because of fears that Palestinian militants in Gaza have obtained anti-aircraft weapons looted from Libya, defense officials said Friday.

All Israeli passenger planes will be fitted with the laser-based system "within months," or about a year ahead of schedule, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to brief journalists.

Israel began developing the system in 2002, after Islamic militants tried to hit an Israeli passenger plane with shoulder-fired missiles outside Mombasa, Kenya. The missiles missed, but the incident pushed Israel to find a way to better protect its commercial airliners.

About 100 planes are being fitted with the system, named C-Music, at a cost of about $135 million. It aims to improve on earlier technology installed on a smaller number of jets flying to destinations known to be home to militant groups or otherwise considered dangerous, especially in Africa and parts of Asia. That device fired flares to lure heat-seeking missiles away from the plane.

The officials said the new system uses lasers to more effectively jam heat-seeking mechanisms and throw missiles off target.

The project was sped up because of fears that weapons looted during the civil war in Libya have been smuggled into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, the officials said.

Israel has maintained a tight blockade on the Gaza Strip to prevent weapons smuggling since the militant group Hamas seized control of the territory from its more moderate Palestinian rivals in 2007. But tunnels underneath Gaza's border with Egypt still provide an entry point for smugglers.

During Libya's eight-month civil war, human rights groups and reporters came across a number of weapons depots that were left unguarded and were looted after Moammar Gadhafi's fighters fled.

The United Nations says preventing more weapons from being smuggled out of the country is a top concern but that it will be difficult because of the vast desert nation's porous borders.

In particular, the U.N.'s top envoy to Libya, Ian Martin, has urged authorities there to prevent thousands of shoulder-fired missiles and other weapons purchased by Gadhafi from getting into the hands of armed groups and terrorists.

He said Libya under Gadhafi accumulated the largest known stockpile of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles of any non-producing country.

Gadhafi was overthrown in August when anti-government rebels took control of the capital, Tripoli. He was captured and died in the hands of rebels on Oct. 20.

Palestinian militants tried to hit an Israeli military helicopter with a shoulder-fired missile this summer while it was pursuing Palestinian gunmen who had crossed from Egypt's Sinai desert into Israel where they killed eight people.

In Retrospect: ... It Was A Deal With The Devil!

What You Receive When You Make a Deal With

The Devil! ... "We'll Give You Nothing but Bombs, Spears and Swords"

From YouTube:

Uploaded by MEMRITVVideos on Oct 31, 2011

Khodhr Habib, a Member of the Islamic Jihad Leadership in Gaza, Vows: We Will Give You Nothing but Bombs, Spears and Swords, Which Will Slit Your Throats

Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas/Gaza) - October 25, 2011 - 04:34