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\tSince US President George W. Bush and Secretary of State James Baker began the land-for-peace process in 1991, a demand made on the PLO and other elements in the anti-Israel terrorist front has consistently been that they recognize the State of Israel. After ducking and diving their way around this demand, the Arab side finally found the key: They would recognize Israel as \u201ca state\u201d but not as a \u201cJewish state.\u201d To this end, they\u2014including the Palestinian Arabs who enjoy Israeli citizenship\u2014support the institution of a \u201cone-man-one-vote\u201d democracy that will erode and finally erase Israel\u2019s identity as \u201ca Jewish state.\u201d The PLO\u2019s insistence that the \u201cright of return\u201d be given to all its refugees is designed to help hasten the explosion of the demographic time bomb.<\/p>\n

\tPrime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected this position outright. \u201cWe won\u2019t hold negotiations on our existence as a Jewish state, this is a launching point for all negotiations,\u201d he said. \u201cWe won\u2019t have an argument with anyone in the world over the fact that Israel is a state of the Jewish people. Whoever does not accept this cannot hold any negotiations with me. This has been made clear to the Palestinians and the Americans.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\tAdapted from an article by Stan Goodenough, www.jnewswire.com<\/em><\/p>\n

\tPalestinians: Allah, Kill Americans<\/b><\/p>\n

\t \t\t \t\t \t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"\" \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t \t\t<\/span> \tA Palestinian Authority [PA] (Fatah) daily newspaper\u2019s political cartoon illustrated a prayer for the killing of Americans. A Muslim is shown kneeling in prayer facing a US B-2 Stealth bomber. The words of his prayer are encased in missiles aimed at Americans: \u201cAllah, scatter them!\u201d \u201cAnd turn their wives into widows!\u201d \u201cAnd turn their children into orphans!\u201d \u201cAnd give us victory over them!\u201d<\/em> This curse for the death of Americans is a special prayer for Al-Qadr Night (the 27th day of Ramadan), when Muslims customarily pray in mosques throughout the night. This continues the identification by the PA and Mahmoud Abbas\u2019s (Abu Mazen\u2019s) Fatah faction with those who fight and kill Americans. The most recently published 12th grade PA schoolbooks, for example, call those who fight American soldiers in Iraq \u201cbrave resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tBy Itamar Marcus & Barbara Cook, Palestinian Media Watch<\/em><\/p>\n

\tIran: We\u2019ll Blitz Israel with 11,000 Rockets<\/b><\/p>\n

\tConsumed with their hatred of the Jewish people and eaten up by a desire to champion the final war against Israel, Iranian leaders vowed to unleash 11,000 missiles in a single minute against the Jewish state if Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities come under attack. So outrageous was the threat that Israeli experts quickly dismissed it as a sign of Iranian \u201cinsecurity\u201d and perhaps a mega-bluff to try to stave off what appears to be an increasingly imminent US- or Israel-led attack against the rogue state\u2019s atomic weaponry program.<\/p>\n

\tNo one disputes that Iran has weapons of mass destruction [WMDs] that pose a very real existential threat to Israel. What the analysts apparently cannot or will not accept, however, is that that country\u2019s maniacal mullahs believe so staunchly in the supremacy of their god over the LORD God of Israel, and in the rewards that await the shahid (Muslim martyr who dies killing Jewish people) in Paradise, that they are wide open to carrying out a \u201csuicide\u201d attack that is national in its scope.<\/p>\n

\tWere Tehran to make good on its promise, even if it stopped short of using WMDs, the devastation it could wreak on Israel is almost incomprehensible. Last summer saw the Lebanese Hizbullah successfully terrorize the Jewish people when, over the course of a month, they rained 4,000 Katyusha rockets across the northern reaches of Israel, claiming dozens of lives, driving more than a million Israelis from their homes, and inflicting billions of dollars in damage to the Israeli economy. Iran\u2019s arsenal is enormously more potent than anything the Hizbullah could wield.<\/p>\n

\tBy Stan Goodenough, www.jnewswire.com<\/em><\/p>\n

\tHitler\u2014A Palestinian Hero<\/b><\/p>\n

\t \t\t \t\t \t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\"\" \t\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t \t\t<\/span> \tRecently, the \u201cVoice of Palestine\u201d held a contest in which guessing Hitler\u2019s name would win a prize of 600 shekels [US $150]. Here are excerpts from Hitler\u2019s bibliographical information that was read over the radio: \u201cHe served in the German army during the First World War, was wounded in service, and awarded two Medals of Honor\u2026In 1923, he attempted to execute a coup but failed. He was arrested, imprisoned and released after serving a year in prison. In 1933, he became his country\u2019s Chancellor and used the state\u2019s mechanisms to crush his political opponents. He earned his popularity by succeeding to lower unemployment rates and to generate an economic recovery in his country. Later, he prepared his country for the Second World War\u2026His golden year was 1940, when his armies invaded Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Holland, and Belgium, and defeated France in June 1940.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tClearly, the name Hitler does not have the stigma in PA [Palestinian Authority] society that it has in the West. Indeed, not only the Hamas daily, but the Fatah-controlled PA dailies as well, have written in favorable tones about Hitler. To some Palestinians, the man and his name are sources of admiration.<\/p>\n

\tAdapted from an article by Itamar Marcus & Barbara Cook, Palestinian Media Watch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":28502,"template":"","categories":[507,514],"class_list":["post-19455","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notable-quotes","category-dispatch-from-jerusalem"],"acf":{"slideshow_code":"","issue":[2761],"credits":[{"field_564625679c8b8":"photo-credit","field_564625559c8b6":"","field_578f746b5ff7a":"","field_5646255f9c8b7":""},{"field_564625679c8b8":"photo-credit","field_564625559c8b6":"","field_578f746b5ff7a":"","field_5646255f9c8b7":""}],"simpleissue":"","external_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nEnemy at the Gates - Bridges for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgesforpeace.com\/article\/enemy-at-the-gates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Enemy at the Gates - Bridges for Peace\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Palestinians Will Never Recognize Israel as a Jewish State Just weeks before the Bush administration convened its Annapolis conference on the creation of Palestine, one of the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization]\/PA\u2019s [Palestinian Authority\u2019s] most senior spokesman, Saeb Erekat, declared that the \u201cPalestinians\u201d will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state. 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