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Islamic History Expert: Moslem Peace with Israel? Never!
Islam History Professor Moshe Sharon of Hebrew University told a counter-terrorism conference Thursday, "There is no possibility of peace between Israel and the Palestinians whatsoever - ever.”
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1. Islamic History Expert: Moslem Peace with Israel? Never!
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By Ezra HaLevi
Islam History Professor Moshe Sharon of Hebrew University told a counter-terrorism conference Thursday, "There is no possibility of peace between Israel and the Palestinians whatsoever - ever.”
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Sharon, speaking at the annual conference of Herzliya’s Counter Terrorism Institute, said that Iran is dead serious about obtaining and using nuclear weapons in order to bring about its vision of an Islamic End of Days.
The veteran expert on Islam says that Western officials fail to grasp that the Arab and Islamic world truly see Israel’s establishment as a “reversal of history” and are therefore unable to ever accept peaceful relations with it. From Moslems’ perspective, “Islamic territory was taken away from Islam by Jews. You know by now that this can never be accepted, not even one meter. So everyone who thinks Tel Aviv is safe is making a grave mistake. Territory which at one time was dominated by Islamic rule, now has become non-Moslem. Non-Moslems are independent of Islamic rule and Jews have created their own independent state. It is anathema. Worse, Israel, a non-Moslem state, is ruling over Moslems. It is unthinkable that non-Moslems should rule over Moslems.”
Sharon dismissed various peace treaties signed by Moslem and Arab officials over the years as "pieces of paper, parts of tactics and strategies… with no meaning."
Sharon’s assessment focused on the danger posed by Iran. From studying Iranian culture, literature, newspapers, broadcasts and interviews with major players in the Islamic regime, Sharon concludes that a deep belief in a Shiite messiah is at the root of Iran’s nuclear project. “They truly believe that the Shiite messiah, the 12th Imam (also known as the Mahdi), is here, and that he will reveal himself… What moves the Iranian government and leadership today is first and foremost the wish to bring about the 12th Imam."
Addressing the theological doctrine of how exactly the this Messiah will be revealed, Sharon explained: "How will they bring him? Through an apocalypse. He (the Mahdi) needs a war. He cannot come into this world without an Armageddon. He wants an Armageddon. The earlier we understand this the better. Ahmadinejad wants nuclear weapons for this!"
Sharon has in the past insisted that the Western world was engaging in great folly by differentiating between radical and peaceful Islam. “All of a sudden we see that the greatest interpreters of Islam are politicians in the Western world,” he wrote sarcastically. “They know better than all the speakers in the mosques, all those who deliver terrible sermons against anything that is either Christian or Jewish. These Western politicians know that there is good Islam and bad Islam. They know even how to differentiate between the two - except that none of them know how to read a word of Arabic.”
“The difference between Judaism, Christianity and Islam is as follows: Judaism speaks about national salvation - namely, that at the end of the story, when the world becomes a better place, Israel will be in its own land, ruled by its own king and serving G-d. Christianity speaks about the idea that every single person in the world can be saved from his sins, while Islam speaks about ruling the world. I can quote here in Arabic, but there is no point in quoting Arabic, so let me quote a verse in English: ‘Allah sent Mohammed with the true religion so that it should rule over all the religions.’
“The idea, then, is not that the whole world would necessarily become Moslem at this time, but that the whole world would be subdued under the rule of Islam.”
That, Sharon insists, is the plan, in black-and-white, of the Iranian regime.
“This is why [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad seeks nuclear weapons,” he emphasized. “The faster we realize this, the better.”
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2. Cabinet Set to Vote on Sunday on War Investigation
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By Hillel Fendel
While outgoing Chief Justice A. Barak says he would be willing to head a State Commission of Inquiry into the recent war, the Cabinet appears ready to approve a lower-level investigation on Sunday.
| After weeks of indecision and uncertainty, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will reportedly present to the Cabinet this Sunday his proposal as to how to investigate the way the recent war was handled.
Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz, and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz have been accused of lack of preparedness, widespread misjudgements and even making military decisions based on internal political considerations during the war with Hizbullah. In addition, many say they did not achieve the goals they promised before agreeing to a ceasefire.
Olmert continues to resist continuing widespread calls for an authoritative investigative commission that can subpoena witnesses and essentially fire high-ranking officials. Instead, he has appointed a five-man commission that will attempt to investigate how both the government and the military ran the recent war - but that will not have the authorities a State Commission would have.
Olmert has, however, partially surrendered to the pressure, naming a judge - former Tel Aviv Regional Court President Eliyahu Vinograd - to head the committee. After Attorney General Menachem Mazuz disqualified two of Olmert's nominees to the committee, and after Olmert's choice to head the committee quit on his own, the final composition will be: Vinograd, Law Prof. Ruth Gavizon, retired Generals Menachem Einan and Chaim Nadel, and Prof. Yechezkel Dror.
In the meanwhile, Opposition Leader MK Binyamin Netanyahu and Labor Party Minister Ophir Pines have proposed that Aharon Barak, who retired yesterday (Thursday) as Supreme Court Chief Justice, head a State Commission of Inquiry. Barak has agreed to do so, if Olmert asks him.
Minister Pines, along with three other Labor Party ministers in the government, plan to vote against Olmert's proposal on Sunday. One of them, Eitan Cabel, said yet again today, "The crisis [of trust] between the public and the government will not be solved by the committee that Olmert wishes to appoint."
The Prime Minister, however, enjoys a comfortable majority for his proposal amongst the other coalition members - his own Kadima Party, Shas, and the Pensioners Party.
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3. More Talk on Freeing Gilad Shalit
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By Hillel Fendel
Arab press: Captive soldier Gilad Shalit sent a letter, deal for his release is imminent. Shalit's father: "Nothing the Arab press has reported has turned out to be true." Kassams at the Negev.
| Al-Ayyam, published in the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas, reports today that Corp. Shalit sent a hand-written letter to Israel, showing that he is alive. He was abducted by Hamas in Gaza nearly three months ago, and if the report is accurate, this would be the first sign of life received from him since.
Another Arabic-language paper - Al-Quds Arabi, published in London - has an even more optimistic report, stating Shalit will be released by Sunday. The paper says Israel and Hamas have concluded a deal whereby Israel will free 740 terrorist prisoners, in two stages, in exchange for the 20-year-old soldier. The purported agreement also stipulates the end of terror attacks against Israel and of Israeli retaliation and targeted killings. Hamas Authority official Mahmoud Zahar denied the report.
Noam Shalit, Gilad's soft-spoken father, would not even relate to the reports. He told Army Radio this morning (Friday) that so far, "not one word the Arab press has reported on my son has turned out to be true."
Al-Ayyam's report stated that the alleged letter from the captive soldier was given to Israeli officials in Cairo on Wednesday, after Hamas terrorist representatives brought it to Egypt.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) told reporters Thursday night that Gilad Shalit must be exchanged for Israeli-held Arab prisoners before his Fatah movement and Hamas can join together in a unity government. He also said that all violence must first stop - apparently referring to violence between Hamas and Fatah, as well as other internecine fighting, in the PA areas.
European Union Warming to Hamas?
Abbas' partner at the press conference, visiting French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, hinted that the European Union should begin re-considering its economic boycott against the Hamas-led PA, now that Fatah is set to join the government.
Hamas statements, however, show that no change in attitude towards Israel should be expected in the new PA government. Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, the PA's prime minister, said this week that terrorism will continue and that Hamas will not talk with Israel: "The outlines of any political agenda in the coming period will not harm the legitimacy of the resistance against the Israeli occupation."
Israel says it will continue not to recognize the PA government unless it fulfills three conditions: It must recognize Israel, ratify previous agreements made with Israel, and swear off terrorism.
Kassam Rockets
At least seven Kassam rockets have been fired from Gaza at Israel this week, including three Friday morning and another one shortly afterwards. Friday's rockets landed near Sderot, Netiv HaAsarah, and elsewhere. No one was hurt, and no damage was reported.
The Israel Air Force bombed a Hamas terrorist's house in southern Gaza, under which an arms-smuggling tunnel had been dug. Several secondary explosions were heard afterwards, a sign of the presence of explosives and ammunition. The IDF has been active in the area consistently since Shalit's abduction nearly three months ago.
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4. Mass Grave of Massacred Jews Found in Ukraine
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By Hillel Fendel
The remains of some 1,800 Jews murdered by Nazis in Ukraine were discovered two weeks ago in a pit that became their mass grave. The search for additional mass murder sites there continues.
| A secret mission to find 60-year-old mass Jewish graves in eastern Europe has now become public, following its first "success." The operation is being funded by the Simon Weil Holocaust Research Fund in France, the Holocaust Museums in Paris and Washington, and the Zaka Organization. It was initiated by the Catholic liaison to the Jewish community in France, historian Patrick Dubois.
The participants made contact with Christian leaders in Ukraine, asking for help in locating the sites at which thousands of Jews were butchered and/or buried. Testimony was collected on Sundays over the course of four months, leading to the formation of a list of 500 possible mass-murder sites.
Based on the collected information, the first area to be physically checked was near the city of Lvov - now in western Ukraine but then, during World War II, a part of southeastern Poland. Its Jewish population on the eve of the war was 110,000, not including another 100,000 Jews in Lvov taking refuge from other areas of German-occupied Poland.
Ukranian nationalists, encouraged by the Germans, massacred about 4,000 Lvov Jews in early July 1941, and killed another 2,000 the next month - including groups of Jews they took to the Jewish cemetery and Lunecki prison, where they shot them. All the while, the Germans were murdering and deporting other Jews. By August 1942, more than 65,000 Jews had been deported from the Lvov ghetto and murdered, and in June 1943, the Germans destroyed the ghetto, killing and deporting the remaining thousands of Jews in the process.
Yehuda Meshi-Zahav - founder of the Zaka organization for emergency rescue, identification and recovery - and his son Shimon were on hand near a forest outside Lvov's Jewish cemetery two weeks ago when the mass grave was discovered. Having received detailed Halakhic [Jewish legal] advice on how to handle and relate to the bodies, they thought they were prepared - but actually seeing the piles of bones appear under their shovels proved to be a great shock.
Using metal detectors, they began digging in a particular area, and about two meters deep, the bones began to appear - with bullets still lodged inside them. On the bullets could be read the place and time of manufacture: Germany 1939, Germany 1941. Hundreds of skulls and bones were found.
Shimon, who was in Ukraine for three weeks, later said, "The scene unfolding in front of our eyes was shocking. An area of some 500 square meters filled with hundreds of skeletons, one on top of the other, in piles some two meters high. The most horrifying was to see two adult skeletons on top of children - parents apparently trying to protect their children. We know that the Nazis killed the Jewish families all together, as opposed to the way they killed the Gypsies." This in fact was one of the additional signs that the bodies were of Jews. Some of the skeletons were found standing, apparently indicating they were buried alive.
It is estimated that 1,800 Jews were killed and buried at that particular site. Attempts will also be made to find out the names of at least some of the victims.
The digging and subsequent covering of the site with a new layer of dirt was deemed by the rabbis who were present to be a kosher burial in accordance with Jewish Law. A half-meter layer of concrete was then placed atop the entire area, and prayers were recited.
Members of the delegation plan to return next week in order to place a memorial monument atop the site, which Ukrainian authorities have agreed to recognize as a Jewish burial site.
The name of the operation is "Kaddish for Ukranian Jewry," referring to the memorial prayer said in honor of those who have died. After the upcoming holidays, work will be renewed on locating additional mass graves of Jews massacred in Ukraine.
In two weeks' time, the World Holocaust Forum and the Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial will mark one of the most horrific documented Nazi atrocities - the brutal murder of 33,771 Jews at the Babi Yar ravine near Kiev in 1941 - with an internationally attended memorial ceremony at the site. Details to come.
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5. Amnesty Finds Hizbullah Guilty of War Crimes
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By Hillel Fendel
The int'l rights organization Amnesty has released a report criticizing Hizbullah for “serious violations of int'l humanitarian law” and “deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian objects.”
| During the month-long war Hizbullah initiated by kidnapping two Israeli soldiers on July 12, the terrorists fired nearly 4,000 Katyusha rockets at Israeli towns and cities, killing 41 civilians and 12 soldiers. Even Al-Jazeera noted with surprise that "Amnesty International [had] not issued a report accusing Hizbullah of war crimes" - until today (Thursday).
Earlier, Amnesty had issued a scathing report against Israel, saying it had committed war crimes by targeting Lebanese infrastructures during the war.
Today's report noted that Hizbullah's Katyushas are "rockets with warheads packed with thousands of metal ball bearings intended to maximize harm to people... Katyusha rockets cannot be aimed with accuracy, especially at long distances, and are therefore indiscriminate" and illegal.
The report did not address the oft-repeated charges by Israeli and media sources that Hizbullah had used Lebanese civilians as protection against Israeli attacks. A recent Human Rights Watch report even denied these charges outright, claiming to have "found no cases in which Hizbullah deliberately used civilians as shields to protect them from retaliatory IDF attack."
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz that this was "contrary to what every newspaper in the world had reported and what everyone saw with their own eyes on television."
The Amnesty report notes that it is "based on first-hand information from visits to Israel and Lebanon; interviews with dozens of victims; official statements; discussions with Israeli and Lebanese military and government officials, as well as senior Hizbullah officials; information from non-governmental groups; and media reports."
Despite the above, Amnesty notes in the report that it is still "conducting further research" into the charges that Hizbullah used the civilian population as a cover for its military activities. The organization says it "intends to address them separately."
Dershowitz says Amnesty is wrong in its accusations against Israel. "Israel committed no war crimes by attacking parts of the civilian infrastructure in Lebanon," he wrote recently in The Jerusalem Post. "In fact, through restraint, Israel was able to minimize the number of civilian casualties in Lebanon, despite Hizbullah's best efforts to embed itself in population centers and to use civilians as human shields."
Dershowitz continues, "The total number of innocent Muslim civilians killed by Israeli weapons during a month of ferocious defensive warfare was a fraction of the number of innocent Muslims killed by other Muslims during that same period in Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Algeria, and other areas of Muslim-on-Muslim civil strife. Yet the deaths caused by Muslims received a fraction of the attention devoted to alleged Israeli 'crimes.' This lack of concern for Muslims by other Muslims - and the lack of focus by so-called human rights organizations on these deaths - is bigotry, pure and simple."
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6. Hebrew University Ranks Among World´s Top Universities
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By Ezra HaLevi
Jerusalem’s Hebrew University has been named one of the world’s top 100 universities by Newsweek magazine.
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Hebrew U. places number 82 on the list, which is headed by Harvard, Stanford and Yale. It is the only university in the Middle East to be included on the list.
Newsweek said its study took into account "openness and diversity, as well as distinction in research."
A separate ranking of the world’s top 500 universities published earlier this year by China’s Shanghai Jiaotong University ranked Hebrew University in 60th place. The Chinese report rated the university in 78th place the previous year. Also placing on the report were Haifa’s Technion (115), Tel Aviv University (116), Rehovot’s Weizmann Institute (151), Bar Ilan University (303), Ben Gurion University (304) and the University of Haifa (467).
Newsweek based half of its score on the three criteria used by Shanghai Jiaotong: the number of highly-cited researchers in various academic fields, the number of articles published in Nature and Science magazines, and the number of articles listed in the ISI Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities indices.
Another 40% of the score used the four criteria that the Times of London ranking system used: the percentage of international faculty, the percentage of international students, citations per faculty member and the ratio of faculty to students.
The last 10% was based on the number of volumes in the universities' libraries.
Founded by Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, and Chaim Weizmann, among others, Hebrew University has a reputation for its studies in the sciences and religion, housing the world's largest Jewish studies collection. Recent Nobel Prize Laureate Robert Aumann is a professor at the university.
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