PALESTINE

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.

Assalamu'alaikum Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad,

Religions in other words are ways of life. Meaning it's a ruling on how it's respective practitioners act/live their lives in every aspects may it be political, social or as individuals. Effecting their patterns of thinking, methodologies and policies in every level of conduct from worshipping, concept of justice to burial ceromonies.

I humbly suggest it is wise for Tun to reconsider Tun's remark stating the issue in Palestine as not a religious conflict. Thus broadering Tun's view on how to actually hand the problem to a determined resolvement.

I trust Tun, as a very learned and experienced Muslim character in history, the above fact are sufficient to be apprehanded by Tun for furthering progress towards global success in humanity.

May Allah The Most Beneficient bestow mercy upon this ummah (all human race).

Assalamu'alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

Dr Mahathir

Sir,

Joshua Kumar's synopsis (Feb 12,2009) on the
history of the middle east paints an accurate historical
claim for the existence of the State of Israel.
Historical borders change all the time.

The Islamic World should also be accountable to its own actions:

- 'Istanbul' should be returned to 'Constantinople'.
Christians would have a legitimate claim to lost lands
- 'Pakistan' should be returned to India as the 'Mogul'
invasion islamized India by force. Hindus have the legitimate
claim to that right.
- Turkey should return 'East Cypress' and muslims settler's
should freely leave and return the rightful land to Cypress.
- Muslims involved in historical (Malaysia) or recent (Indonesia)
race riots in the name of Islam should apologize and offer a
conciliatory gesture for deaths that occurred. After all, South Africa and Northern Ireland have made peace.
- Muslims should bring to justice the the murderous regime of
Sudan (Janjaweed) and Pakistan for the murders of Sudanize
and Muslims in Bangladesh.
-Dubai should stop subjugating islamic labourers from Pakistan
and India. They should be given a fair wage and relatives compensated for suicide cases.
- etc,etc,etc.
- Finally, Sunni's should apologize to the Shia's for murdering the
Prophet Muhammad's Grandson Ali.

My point is to add perspective to the 'Let's bash Israel forum'.
We see the world from our own magnifying lenses but its hard
to look at the mirror and see one's own flaws.

There seems to be a Xenophobic attitude towards Israel. Israel,
while not perfect, is a democracy with more freedom than any muslim
country i know off. Its ok to critize Israel on Al Jazeera etc,etc,etc.
I'm often shocked to hear things on the Mosaic Podcasts
on views and expressions that would have landed me in prison in
Malaysia. Yes, Palestinians are suffering. There is a war being waged by Hamas. However, if you look on the Israeli side. Arab Israeli's enjoy full citizenship and a higher standard of living with freedoms.
I used to be a Malaysian and was not afforded an opportunity for
post-secondary education. Yet, Arabs who are Israeli citizens in
Israel enjoy that. I watched with amazement on an arabic news cast
as an arab unversity student in Israel complained about her
education as I did not even have that opportunity in Malaysia.
Jewish doctors in Israel treat Palestinians without regards
to race of religion. For what its worth. Israel has made many
attempts at reconciliation i.e. Camp David accord and negotiations
with Yasser Arafat ('A Case for Israel' ~ Alan Dershowitz).
In fact, Anwar Sadat whom I deeply respect paid the ultimate price
for peace with Israel.

It is easy demonize the U.S. as a supporter of Israel
While turning a blind eye as Iran uses 'HAMAS' by proxy to
terrorize Israeli citizens. 'Samir Kuntar' one particularly
despicable individual smashed the head of a 4 year old boy with
his rifle. I won't elaborate further on his escapades except to
quote a newsweek article. His attacks are "so sickening they
give pause even to some of Israel's enemies". Whats worse,
to be paraded around by Hamas, Syria and Iran like some hero
makes me sick to my stomach. Sir, when you are confronted with
the likes of a 'Samir Kuntar' with the support of these regimes.
Would you not do anything in your power to protect your family?

If we only think this is simply a territory,race or religion issue, we are part of the problem. After all, human being aren't as intelligent as we always think we are, we just can't seem to be able to beat the evils within ourselves. Blame it on the all mighty Nature, lousy human behaviors merely exist to serve the evolution theory. When you are perpetrator,you will justify your actions against your perceived enemies; while when you are the victims,you want to revenge. Hatres entails revolution in your actions,this in turn drive evolution. Big challenge!

assalamualaikum TUN,
Tun, dulu saya sangat pelik sekali kerana melihat kekuatan israeli yang kerdil itu dapat menawan palestine yang gah.
tapi tidak sekarang ini.
Tun, bila saya berada di tanah Arab hampir 2 tahun ini baru lah saya sedar bahawa israel itu tidak sekuat mana tapi bangsa palestine atau pun Arab sendiri yang lemah. mereka hanya pandai berbicara tapi tidak berani bertindak untuk berjuang. mereka dikira malas dan pengecut.
Saya dan rakan di sini kecewa bekerja dengan mereka dan adakalanya hampir hilang rasa simpati terhadap palestine. Bangsa arab itu pentingkan diri sendiri dan hanya berbaik dengan kami untuk kepentingan diri mereka. Mereka langsung tidak bolih dikritik, suka dipuji dan lupa diri serta kami tidak bolih tunjuk bijak sikit pun. Bangsa Arab ini kejam betul. tak hairanlah banyak orang yang melalui pengalaman bekerja dengan bangsa ini tidak ambil peduli kemelut di middle east.
Bagi mereka punya pengalaman menerima kekejaman dan tekanan kerja secara psykologi maka akan ada perasaan dendam terhadap orang islam. mereka sebagai mangsa akan berdoa akan mengharapkan israel sebagai bangsa yang akan memusnahkan bangsa Arab yang kejam itu.
Tun, saya rasa Tun adalah orang yang dapat sedarkan bangsa Arab yang bersikap bongkak itu. Tolong lah Tun.
Tun, saya tidak mahu perasaan dendam itu menular juga ke negara kita. Saya dapati ada ciri-ciri sikap buruk bangsa arab itu mempengaruhi orang Malaysia yang tak guna akal dan dikuasai perasaan dan wujudnya perasaan dendam antara kaum. Lihat lah kemelut politik negara kita sekarang ini sungguh menakutkan.
Saya doakan Tun sihat dan dapat berjuang selagi ada keupayaan.
Tun, u r the best in my life.

Dear TUN,

What is happening in Our Country now, the whole world focusing on the world crisis and here the politician only focusing in PERAK crisis? Since 8 March last year till today the politic crisis prolong in our Country. Will this situation come to end………world economy getting worst and many people are losing their job and peace of mind , but at this situation all the politic people only worried and try to secure their position rather then contribute their service to the people that badly effected .

Salam...
Nak berkongsi sikit ttg artikel yg pernah sy baca...

Dlm Al Quran dah tersurat...

Kemuncak kuasa kaum yahudi/munafik & sewaktu dgnnya bila mereka
menguasai kawasan "EMAS HITAM" di dunia iaitu di Sg. Furat...
Mereka akan meluaskan empayar dgn menguasai kws ini termasuk berusaha menguasai Palestin, Lubnan, Iran dsb.
Tetapi, akan muncul satu kuasa Islam yang akan menewaskan mereka kelak dan Wallahualam bila dan siapakah kuasa Islam itu...tidak kita ketahui...Barangkali Iran?? Itu semua urusan Allah...
Dan bila telah sampai masa itu...percayalah kiamat sudah menghampiri kamu (tanda2 akhir zaman...)

Semoga Allah terus melindungi kita dan saudara2 kita yg berjuang ke jalan Nya...Byykan doa supaya Yahudi dan konconya2 diberi balasan oleh Allah...Amin..

(artikel tersebut lebih kurang bermaksud seperti di atas..di keluarkan kalau x silap pada tahun 2003/04 yg lalu)

Assalamulaikum.

Al-Quran adalah wahyu yang diturunkan oleh ALLAH kepada Nabi Muhammad untuk menjadi panduan kepada umat manusia sehingga hari Kiamat. Ia telah sempurna, sentiasa benar dan tidak ada yang lebih benar darinya.

Walaupun begitu ALLAH memberikan ruang yang seluas-luasnya untuk manusia berfikir dengan menggunakan akalnya. Sebab itulah manusia merupakan mahluk yang terbaik ciptaanNYA, malah lebih baik daripada Malaikat. Sebab itu malaikat diperintahkan sujud kepada Nabi Adam. Dengan syarat, manusia mengikut apa yang diperintah ALLAH dan meninggalkan apa yang dilarangnya. Sekiranya manusia memilih untuk tidak menurut perintahnya, manusia boleh bertukar menjadi mahluk yang paling hina, lebih hina dari haiwan yang tidak dianugerahkan akal untuk berfikir.

ISLAM diturunkan lebih kurang 700 tahun selepas Nabi Isa untuk membetulkan akidah manusia yang telah jauh tersimpang. Ketika Nabi Muhammad masih hidup ia tidak berpecah belah. Namun, selepas kewafatan Nabi Muhammad terutamanya ketika pemerintahan Saidina Ali, Khalifah Islam yang ke 4, umat Islam telah mula berpecah. Ia menjadi semakin buruk selepas itu.

Ini semua terjadi kerana masing-masing mempunyai tafsiran yang tersendiri mengenai Al-Quran. Lebih malang lagi kita bukan hanya berbeza pendapat malah tidak boleh menerima pendapat orang lain. Kita merasakan pendapat kita lebih benar dari orang lain.

Semakin lama, umat Islam semakin lemah kerana sikap kita sendiri. Berhentilah menyalahkan orang agama lain. Lihatlah kelemahan diri kita sendiri. Hanya dengan itu kita boleh bertambah kuat. kelemahan kita adalah disebabkan oleh diri kita sendiriiaitu tidak mengamalkan apa yang sebenarnya di tuntut oleh Agama Islam.

Sekian terima kasih. wasallam

SALAM,

kepada hsm_cai,

SAYA PUN SETUJU DENGAN KAMU. TAPI INGAT MAANA IKUT AL-QRAAN DAN HADIS ITU LUAS TERMASUKLAH MENUNTUT ILMU YANG SETANDING DENGAN PEREDARAN ZAMAM .KALAU MUSUH MEMERANGI KITA DENGAN SENJATA CANGEH KITA JUGA MEMPUNYAI SENJATA CANGEH JUGA. JANGAN KITA LAWAN DENGAN SENGATA SENAPANG PATAH,ATAU BALING BATU. kITA JANGAN BERPECAH KERANA BERLAINAN FAHAMAN SAPERTI DIPALSTIN MEREKA BERPECAH, TAK BERSATU ANTARA ALPATAH DGN. HAMAS. bERSATU SEAGAMA DITUNTUT OLIH AGAMA IA INI IKUT AL-QRAAN DAN HADIS.

salam Tun,

Tak guna banyak cakap mari kita umat islam hantar senjata kat Palstin ganyang Yahudi. Lama lama banyak orang dia mampus dan dia dapat penjaran dari itu.

Ni nak cadang OIC utarakan satu pakatan ketenteraan didewan raayat menteri luar Rais Yatim awal2 dah tolak ,macam mana ni. Mana semangat jihad kita. kalau nak cadang pun tak mahu bukan tak berani,kalau ta'berani tu bolihlah tahan ni tak mahu,palinglemah semangat menteri kita ini. Adakah dengan cadangan itu negeri kita akan diserang olih Yahudi itu atau takut apa lagi.
Setakat dengan sajak dan hulurkan derma tak ada kesudahan selagi tidak bertindak menalorkan sistem pertahan ,seperti sistem pertahan udara dan sengata pemusnah kerta kebal itu sudah cukup mengajar yahudi ini.

Mari kita sama sama berjihat hantar senjata ke Palstin, ayoh!!.

Biar lebih kerja dari banyak cakap. Wasalam.

Dear All Readers,

Pardon this question from an agnostic as I read with interest all the contentions especially those that are connected with religion, as I realize that this can very senstive.

Where is God when all these atrocities are perpetuated in HIS name ? How much longer must mankind be tolerated in the killing of one another if there is a GOD ? Have anyone seen HIM ?

Hello Dr. Tun,

here is my response to the points you've brought up.

with regards to point 1: will the committee criminalize the shooting of qassam missiles at israeli civilians? will it criminalize the execution of fatah members by hamas operatives?

with regard to point 2: this is very true, i hope more people will understand it. but the conclusion is that we have nothing against malaysia and malays, unlike what some people here think.

with regard to point 3: you're very wrong on this one. the jewish 'problem' is as much of oriental (mashriqi) jews as it is of western (ashkenazi) jews. our lives in the arab world were better than in the christian world, but they were horrible enough (again, i urge you to read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhud). we need our own country to survive. how would you survive if it weren't for malaysia? beaten up, abused and oppressed, like most minorities in this world.

with regard to points 4-22: war is horrible. there is no denying. but who is there to judge who's responsible and who started? the discussion should have been about that. had this war been less terrible if for any palestinian killed, there was a jew killed? no.

with regards to point 23: should be... but it isn't. their war is to wipe israel off the map. each and every jew to be sent away - to countries that don't want them at all, to countries that will abuse them and act antisemitically - arab or european alike! only the turkic people have a decent history of not abusing the jews (like azerbaijan), and that is why there is still a vibrant jewish community there.

with regards to point 24: it may surprise you to know that i don't hate arabs - being linked to arab culture like many jews with history in arab countries, and despite how they oppressed and even at times massacred us. i want peace. but we can't have peace when the objective is to found 'dar al islam' on all of israel/palestine. i will fight to my last drop of blood to prevent that.

with regards to point 32: how can you expect to stop the carnage, if you want to be one sided and not even recognize israel's right to exist, and prevent malay people from talking to israelis or coming to israel/vice versa???

ridiculous to label jews "Nazis" and with same breath praising "Hitler".

Dr.Ali Sina, handsomely formulated. that muslims' absurdity is like an ocean without the bottom.

Assalamualaikum hsm-cai,

Terima kasih kerana bersetuju dengan saya. Sekurang-kurangnya saya tak keseorangan.

Dalam memperkatakan masalah Palestine kita perlu berfikir dengan menggunakan iman bukan nafsu. Segala yang berlaku adalah dengan izin ALLAH dan IA mahu mengajar kita sesuatu yang tidak kita ketahui. Segala yang berlaku pasti ada kebaikkannya cuma kita manusia yang lemah tidak dapat melihat dan memahaminya. InsyaALLAH suatu hari nanti ianya akan menjadi bertambah jelas dan nyata.

Memang benar ramai daripada kita mahir membaca Al-Quran dengan segala bentuk bunyinya. Malangnya kita tidak cuba untuk memahaminya. Sedangkan Al-Fatihah yang hanya mempunyai 7 ayat, dibaca sekurang-kurangnya 17 kali sehari (kalau kita sembahyang) selama 365 hari setahunpun kita tak tahu maknanya, inikan pula seluruh Al-Quran. Kita semua yang mengaku beragama Islam patut malu dengan diri kita sendiri.

Dalam pada itu, kita hanya mendengar makna Al-Quran daripada mereka yang mengelarkan diri mereka Ustaz (sebahagian) tetapi hanya menggunakan Al-Quran untuk kepentingan diri masing- masing. Benarlah seperti yang dikatakan diakhir zaman manusia akan memperdagangkan Al-Quran. Marilah kita semua bukan hanya membaca Al-Quran malah memahaminya sendiri. Dengan itu kita pasti akan lebih berjaya.

Sebarlah segala apa yang saudara fahami terutamanaya Surah Al-Israk ayat 1-7, kerana itu merupakan kewajipan kita sebagai Umat Islam. Jika tidak kita akan berdosa.

Sekian. Wasallam

Salam,

kepada ash075387,

SAYA SANGAT SANGAT BERSETUJU DENGAN KAMU. KERANA MEMBELAKANGKAN AL-QURAN DAN HADIS LAH MENYEBABKAN UMAT2 ISLAM DI DUNIA NI DITINDAS OLEH ORG2 KAFIR.

Dear Matahari
salam
enough said, the Nazis teaches the jews pretty well and the jews are acting well on it to the palestines.

Dear Selva,
You can't keep Religion at Distance. You need rules and to abide them just as human rules (put seat belts on, etc etc) The thing is about being divided, it doesn't only happen in the muslim world. Also, the problem is because there are this extreme muslims party who thinks they are the best and everyone has to go on their way of 'goodness' which leads to extremism (when islam encourages patience, forgiveness and understanding), and there are careless muslims party who only enjoys fun life (foolish activities - drinnking alcohol, party, gossips, adultery, gambling, eating too much, etc etc.. ) the best is of course, to stay moderate, not too extreme, not too careless.. you need religion to feed your soul, for example controlling anger, have patience, and all these, we can create tolerance & peace..

Assalamualaikum Tun. Harap Tun sentiasa sihat sejahtera di bawah lindungan Ilahi.

Tun selalu mengajar supaya kita semua supaya belajar melalui sejarah. Tetapi kebanyakkan rakyat Malaysia terutamanya orang Melayu beragama Islam tidak pernah hendak belajar melalui sejarah. Mereka buta sejarah. Akibatnya kita bakal mengulagi kesilapan lampau. Sejarah bakal berulang.

Ketika Malaysia diberi kemerdekaan oleh British pada tahun 1957, Orang Melayu diberi syarat untuk menerima dan berkongsi kuasa dengan kaum Cina dan India. Pada pendapat British tak mungkin bangsa Melayu akan menerima syarat tersebut. Malang bagi mereka, pemimpin kita pada kita itu lebih bijaksana seterusnya menerima syarat tersebut kerana bagi mereka mendapatkan kemerdekaan itu lebih penting. Tak mungkin kita mampu menewaskan British dengan kuasa ketenteraan. Kesan daripada kebijaksanaan tersebut kita mampu berdiri sebagaimana sekarang.

Bayangkan sekiranya pemimpin kita menolak syarat tersebut dan berkeras untuk menguasai tanah yang berdaulat ini 100%. Kita berkemungkinan akan terus berperang sehingga kini dan tak tahulah apa yang akan terjadi.

Perkara yang sama juga berlaku kepada orang Palestine. Mereka diminta berkongsi dengan dengan orang Israel. Mereka enggan bertolak ansur walaupun sedar mereka lemah. Akibatnya selepas sekian lama, mereka semakin lemah manakala Israel pula semakin kuat.

Kini Israel berjaya memecahkan Palestine kepada dua kumpulan iaitu Fatah dan Hamas. Fatah mengatakan Hamas radikal manakala Hamas pula mengatakan fatah sekular ( boneka Amerika ). Ketika orang Palestine bersatupun mereka tak mampu mengalahkan Israel, inikan pula setelah berpecah belah. Fikirkanlah!!!

Kini perkara yang sama juga berlaku di negara kita. Orang melayu telah terpisah kepada dua. UMNO mengatakan PAS radikal manakala PAS mengatakan UMNO sekular. Bukankah itu sama dengan keadaannya dengan di Palestine? Mungkin dalam masa 50 tahun lagi kita juga akan mengalami nasib yang sama seperti Palestine. Renungkanlah!!!

Oleh itu sedarlah bangsaku. Kita tak jauh bezanya dengan apa yang sedang berlaku di Palestine. Cuma mungkin masanya belum sampai. Ia bakal menjadi kenyataan sekiranya kita semua terus leka dan berpecah belah.

kalau kita fikirkan secara mendalam, kenapakah orang Palestine gagal dalam perjuangannya kita mungkin mampu mencari penyelesaiannya.

Pada pendapat saya, orang Palestine semakin lemah kerana setiap kali menghadapi masalah mereka menunding jari kepada orang Israel. Mengikut buku 'The Secret', sekiranya kita melakukan sedemikian rupa, kita akan terus menyerap kelemahan musuh dan seterusnya memberi kekuatan kita kepada musuh. Lihatlah ke dalam diri kita, akui kelemahan dan perbetulkannya, InsyaALLAH kita akan dapat meningkatkan kekuatan.

Dalam masa yang sama, tahukah kita apa yang di praktiskan oleh orang Israel dalam mentadbir negara adalah sebagaimana yang disaran oleh ISLAM:
1.Sentiasa taat setia kepada pemimpin selagi pemimpin tidak menyuruh kita melakukan maksiat.
2.Berlaku adil kepada semua tanpa mengira pangkat dan kedudukkan.
3. Mengutamakan kepentingan bangsa, agama dan negara melebihi kepentingan keluarga dan diri sendiri.
4. Menguatkan pertahanan negara.
5. Sentiasa bersatu padu dan tidak berpecah belah.

Itulah yang orang palestine dan juga orang Islam Di malaysia mesti lakukan. Kembalilah kepada ajaran Islam yang sebenarnya bukannya Islam yang bersifat rhetorik.

Sekian terima kasih. Wasallam.

Dear Hanan,

Based on your Zionism info, it’s clear to me who can end the conflict or war. It won’t have any conflict or war if Jewish is immigrating to Jerusalem by not occupying Palestine. Palestinians have never expelled, terrorized and killed Jews before 1890 as European did to Jews. For the purpose of protecting Jewish community, ZO should not apply Jewish experiences of being expelled, terrorized and killed by European to Palestinians whom have never done it to Jews. And promoted ZO interests by using religious history is unjustifiable reason. What Theodor Herzl or ZO should have done before is actually to find out why people all over the world are decrying Jews as aliens.

ZO objective has resulted in the issue of occupation and how to legalize it. It will consume so much time, costs and risks. It will require huge capital, resources and manpower to establish Israel. No wonder proxy is needed to be placed everywhere. ZO may be achieving their objective or may be not. In fact, ZO has succeeded in establishing Israel even though has not captured yet Jerusalem. Sooner or later, people all over the world will realize that some of their resources included manpower have been being utilized through proxy for the purpose of Israel. Then, it will result in more non Jewish hate not only Zionist but hate all Jews. Who cause this hatred? Can non Jewish be blamed for the cause of hatred of Jews?

Therefore, you can’t blame people, especially Moslems, for saying Israel won’t have peace because ZO objective has not been met yet. You can’t blame people, especially Palestinians, for saying ZO has been creating the conflict or war from the beginning. You can’t blame people, especially Moslems, for saying ZO is having religious and races interests. You can’t blame people, especially Moslems, for saying Palestine Israel conflict or war is a religious or races war. Both are having religious history in Jerusalem through their Prophets, Mosque and Temple, and you know it. So, can the Israeli Jewish or Israeli Zionist be living peacefully and doing religiously by leaving side by side in harmony with Palestinian as expected by Theodor Herzl? I’m not defending Palestinians or Moslems because of I’m a Moslem but it’s just based on the original cause of initiated plan raised by Theodor Herzl or ZO.

Israeli, Palestinian and both leaders didn’t hate each other before Israeli immigrating to Palestine. Israeli’s aim to leave peacefully in Palestine have had a change of stress and hatred. Palestinians who owned and leaved peacefully before in Palestine become refugees with stress and hatred. Both are blaming each other. Both must be fighting and killing each other which both have never dreamed and experienced before. Both are condemned by world society. Are both of them enjoying of being blamed, killed or condemned? Meanwhile ZO leaders and proxies keep supplying money and weapons to Israel. What a great ambitious and morale!

If I may propose to you as Israeli Zionist who’s interested in seeking peace in Palestine, please advise wisely your ZO leaders for revising their objective seriously. If you could advise Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, so you could advise your ZO leaders as well. Saudi Arabia peace initiative, for example, would be a good alternative for ZO leaders revising the objective. I believe US, UK, UE, UN will proceed as per ZO leaders decision.

In return for your Zionism info, I quote from Qur’an for you as Israeli religious Jewish by hoping you may read and think it for considering the proposal above. I know you read Qur’an since you’ve quoted it before.

Moslem believe in one God as well as Jewish. My God is your God.

Al Mu'minuun 52: And verily this Brotherhood of yours is a single Brotherhood. And I am your Lord and Cherisher: therefore fear Me (and no other).

We believe that the truth is from God.

Al Baqarah 147: The Truth is from thy Lord so be not at all in doubt.

God has sent down the Book in truth and the Balance by which to weigh conduct.

Ash Shuura 17: It is Allah Who has sent down the Book in truth, and the Balance (by which to weigh conduct). And what will make thee realize that perhaps the Hour is close at hand?

God has sent down the Qur’an in truth and in truth has it descended.

Al Israa' 105: We sent down the (Qur-an) in Truth, and in Truth has it descended and We sent thee but to give Glad Tidings and to warn (sinners).

God has given Moses the scripture (Torah) and the criterion between right and wrong.

Al Baqarah 53: And remember We gave Musa the Scripture and the Criterion (between right and wrong), there was a chance for you to be guided aright.

God has given clear warning to children of Israel in Torah.

Al Israa' 4-8: And We gave (clear) warning to the Children of Israel in the Book, that twice would they do mischief on the earth and be elated with mighty arrogance (and twice would they be punished)! When the first of the warnings came to pass, We sent against you Our servants given to terrible warfare. They entered the very inmost parts of your homes; and it was a warning (completely) fulfilled. Then did We grant you the Return as against them: We gave you increase in resources and sons, and made you the more numerous in man-power. If ye did well, ye did well for yourselves; if ye did evil, (ye did it) against yourselves. So when the second of the warnings came to pass, (We permitted your enemies) to disfigure your faces, and to enter your Temple as they had entered it before, and to visit with destruction all that fell into their power. It may be that your Lord may (yet) show Mercy unto you; but if ye revert (to your sins) We shall revert (to Our punishments): and We have made Hell a prison for those who reject (all Faith).

If ZO leaders insist upon their innocence, I’m afraid the Palestine Israel conflict or war will no end. Moslem brotherhood will help Palestinians since reasons for fighting have met in accordance with God permission.

Al Hajj 39-40: To those against whom war is made, permission is given (to fight), because they are wronged; and verily, Allah is Most Powerful for their aid; (They are) those who have been expelled from their homes in defiance of right, (for no cause) except that they say, "Our Lord is Allah." Did not Allah check one set of people by means of another there would surely have been pulled down monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, in which the name of Allah is commemorated in abundant measure. Allah will certainly aid those who aid His (cause); for verily Allah is Full of Strength, Exalted in Might, (able to enforce His Will).

Conflict or war in Iraq, Afghanistan or even Gaza are supposed to be good examples or lessons for you and ZO leaders to think it over. Moslem fighters will be fighting against the occupier even if they are equipped by limited military equipments and even if they are called terrorists, extremists, fundamentalists, etc.

Ali 'Imran 111: They will do you no harm, barring a trifling annoyance; if they come out to fight you, they will show you their backs, and no help shall they get.

So, if ZO leaders revise its objective by ending occupation and having peace in Palestine including each party is doing religiously, then Moslem must end the conflict or war.

Al Mumtahanah 8-9: Allah forbids you not, with regard to those who fight you not for (your) Faith nor drive you out of your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them: for Allah loveth those who are just. Allah only forbids you, with regard to those who fight you for (your) Faith, and drive you out, of your homes, and support (others) in driving you out, from turning to them (for friendship and protection). It is such as turn to them (in these circumstances), that do wrong.

And there would be peace and harmony in Jerusalem among Moslem, Jewish and Christian, insya Allah.

Al Mumtahanah 7: It may be that Allah will grant love (and friendship) between you and those whom ye (now) hold as enemies. For Allah has power (over all things); and Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

I believe all Jewish including ZO leaders should have known from Torah that the dominion of the heavens and the earth belong to God and all affairs refers back to God.

Al Hadiid 5: To Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth: and all affairs are referred back to Allah.

And I believe all Jewish including ZO leaders should have known from Torah that all honor is with God.

An Nisaa' 139: Yea, to those who take for friends Unbelievers rather than Believers: is it honour they seek among them? Nay all honour is with Allah.

As a Moslem, I have to let you know it include proposed solution. Advising ZO leaders sounds impossible besides problems have became more complicated, but it's not impossible either. So it would be better to be tried in order to terminate the conflict and war that has been resulting in mankind killing. I wish KLFCW may be fully supporting you.

Ali 'Imran 110: Ye are the best of Peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah. If only the People of the Book had Faith, it were best for them: among them are some who have Faith, but most of them are perverted transgressors.

I believe, you as Israeli religious Jewish will give top priority to God more than to Zionism even though you’re Israeli Zionist. Forgive me if some of my words may be insulting you as Israeli Zionist. My intention is not insulting you but proposing you how to terminate mankind killing at my best. I don’t think you will kill someone even if you have the right to do it. Theodor Herzl wouldn’t raise Eretz Israel matter if he knew what has been happening till today, I guess. You may be a minister or former minister or military general or cleric or taxi driver or janitor or bouncer…… I don’t know... What I know you are Israeli Jewish and Zionist who’s able to do better than Theodor Herzl for Jewish brotherhood and all mankind. However, I leave it to you how you interpret and decide it.

Regards.

Assalamualaikum Yang berbahagia Tun.

Nak mintak sedikit pendapat. Harap Tun dapat menjawab pertanyaan saya ini.

Apa kata kalau saya katakan, apa yang berlaku di Palestine ketika ini telah tertulis di dalam Al-Quran semenjak lebih 1400 tahun yang lalu. Sebagai orang Islam kita mempercayai Al-Quran itu benar dan itulah yang tertulis di dalam Al-Quran (rujuk Surah Al-Israk ayat 1 hingga 7). Kemungkinan tidak ramai dari kita orang Islam yang mengetahui bahawa apa yang berlaku di Palestine kini telah tercatat dalam Al-Quran kerana kita membaca Al-Quran tanpa memahami maknanya.Mungkin ada yang tak membaca Al-Quran langsung.

Kini ALLAH memperlihatkan bukti kebenaran Al-Quran, kebenaran Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. dan kebenaran ALLAH, tuhan sekalian alam. Kalau kita masih tidak dapat memahaminya, ini kerana kita melihat dengan menggunakan mata kasar tanpa melihat dengan mata hati. Lihatlah dengan nama Tuhanmu.

Tidaklah salah bagi kita merasa hiba melihat kekejaman yang berlaku, tetapi itulah juga yang berlaku kepada Nabi Musa ketika beliau mengikuti Nabi Khaidir (Surah Al-Kahfi), bila Nabi Khaidir membunuh seorang pemuda. Nabi Khaidir melakukannya kerana beliau dianugerahkan ilmu di mana beliau boleh melihat apa yang bakal berlaku di masa depan. Kita tidak mempunyai ilmu tersebut. ALLAH lebih mengetahui apa yang kita tidak ketahui.

Walaubagaimanapun kita tidak perlulah khuatir kerana ALLAH berjanji dalam surah yang sama bahawa umat Islam akan bangkit kembali di Bumi Palestine. Janji ALLAH sentiasa benar dan ALLAH tidak pernah memungkiri janjiNYA. Saya amat yakin itulah yang akan berlaku.

Bagi saya umat Islam di Malaysia sepatutnya mengambil iktibar dan seterusnya meningkatkan Iman kita kerana saya pasti jika kita masih belum berubah dan melakukan apa yang disuruhNYA malapetaka pasti akan menimpa umat manusia. Apa yang berlaku di Palestine kini di lihat di seluruh dunia samada melalui televisyen dan internet. Seluruh dunia melihat kebenaran Al-Quran dan ALLAH. Kini pilihan terletak di tangan kita. Sekiranya manusia masih ingkar bala akan menimpa seluruh umat manusia sepertimana umat umat yang telah dihancurkan sebelum ini.

Kita begitu bersemangat ingin menolong umat Islam dan penduduk Palestine, kadang-kadang saya tertanya kenapa kita tidak begitu bersemangat untuk menolong jiran kita atau penduduk kampung kita yang juga dalam kesusahan. Ada yang tak ada rumah, ada yang tak makan, ada yang dianiaya malah ada yang tak mengaku mereka yang beragama Islam di sini sebagai orang Islam. Apa yang sebenarnya kita fikirkan. Selamatkanlah diri kamu, keluarga kamu, jiran kamu, negeri dan keluarga kamu dan mungkin seterusnya dunia. Mungkin kita telah melupakan keutamaan yang perlu kita lakukan.

Mungkin ramai yang tidak setuju dengan pendapat saya. Saya bukan berkata mengikut pendapat saya tetapi itulah yang tertulis di dalam Al-Quran yang sepatutnya menjadi rujukan utama kita. Bacalah Al-Quran dan fahamilah maknanya. Al-Quran tidak pernah silap, Ia sentiasa benar, hanya kita yang tidak dapat melihatnya.

Pada saya, Umat Islam di Malaysia tidak banyak bezanya dengan umat Islam di Palestine. Melihat keadaan kita sekarang yang berpecah belah(seperti di palestine), mungkin dalam masa 50 tahun akan datang kita pula akan mengalami nasib yang serupa. Ketika itu, kita pula yang mungkin di bom seterusnya menagih dan merayu bantuan dari orang Palestine dan masyarakat dunia. Fikirkanlah.

Saya amat berharap Yang berbahagia Tun membaca tulisan saya ini dan seterusnya dapat memberikan response. Harap maaf sekiranya tulisan saya ini menyakiti hati sesiapa, kerana itu bukanlah tujuan saya. Berkongsi ilmu itu adalah fardu. Jika tidak kita akan berdosa.

Sekian terima kasih. Wasallam.

I feel insulted that us jews, been commemorated by members here of killing 4 prophets and Jesus Christ. (tho according to koran Jesus was not killed. I premise they are munafiq) and not listed our much more horrifying killings of:
unicorns, flying fire spitting dragons, gargoyles, pegasuses, mermaids...etc

to fadzireen

"As reported by Associated on June 15 2003.A noble deeds by the Israeli to withdraw troops from parts of the Qaza strip and the Palestinians expressed readiness to take control of security.Elsewhere a Palestinian is killed and the militants vow to revenge.This is the beginning of 'the eight years of rockets raining into Israeli town'."
not only troop also citizens from their homes. hamas rebelled against PA. and took over Gaza. and the homes once were of jews became substituted for terror activity directed against israel with rockets. hamas initiated attack as part of their charter to continue to fight israel. and this is went on, eight years.

"Israel fight wars by proxy: Remember the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Sept 16 1982.Ariel Sharon instructed the Israel defense force to surround the outer perimeter of the two Palestinians refugee camps.In the meanwhile,he allows the Christian Phalangists militiamen inside the camps to massacre an estimate of 3500 Palestinians."
PLO initiated war against israel using Jordan boarders. PLO even planned to take over Jordan. the Jordanians expelled them in this event. 2000 were killed in process.
the PLO found a new position from which to continue to attack israel. in Lebanon. the christians were not happy about it as the Palestinians initiated attack on their neighborhoods. raping their women. but this yet raised them to take revenge on larger scale. not until their leader was assassinated.
sharon failed to forcast the outcome.

"The Kahan commission was established to investigate,and recommended that Sharon be removed as head of Defence Ministry.After much resistants,he resigned,and later formed the Kadima Party."
he did not pull the trigger nor command it to take place. yet he is the one to be hunted. odd where of the Christian Phalangists Pierre Rizk intelligence chief during this massacre period. became an financial assistant to Arafat.

"Eg.of a good Jews:Abba Eban served Israel's foreign minister,defending the country' reputation after the Six Days war.Nonetheless,he was a strong supporters of giving the territories ocuppied in the war in exchange for peace."
he also said "Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."

"Sociologist Baruch Kimmerling was an outspoken critic of Israeli policies."
what should we deduce from the fact he is an outspoken critic of Israeli policies?

"Map of biblical Israel shows that Ashdod,Askelon and Gaza belongs to the Philistines.The name Palestines comes,via Greeks and Latin,from the Philistines"
it does not comes from arabic. and Philistines comes via hebrew. DUH

Salam Tun,
This Arab people is full of hopeless hope as long they are not united and adamant about The Israelis returning the land that they captured during the 1967 war...
Meanwhile the Israelis will just continue with their wayang kulit to fool the world with their innocence...eg 10tons of bomb only destroy small area in Gaza...
The United Nation is just the stage where live performance of the wayang kulit is watched by hundreds of people from all the Nations of the World...
Sadly the story will always ended the Palestine people is the victim and the Israelis is the victor....( vict.. vs vict..)

Dear Hanan,

Just for my knowledge. Thank you.

Regards.

Salaam Tun,

Agree with you that this is no longer about religion but this war is about annihilation of a human race, i.e. Palestinians.

Dear Ali Baba,

If you like to get an explanation about what is the Talmud, please refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud

I still don't understand what has the Talmud to do with the Palestinian conflict. But if you are asking for just as a base of generic knowledge it is welcome.

Shalom
Hanan, Jewish and an Israeli Zionist.

Salam Tun,

TO HANAN,
Your recthoric on 'Israel right to exists' is a myths,America,the world police has undertaken and contain this threat,thus ensuring Israeli's existence.Israeli Airforce has an estimate of 1000 planes in their inventory,so that they can subdue and bomb the Palestnians back to stone ago.With such fire power(shock and awe) in hand,naturally,Israel is happy to receive the barrages of vintage /classics rockets launched by the hapless Palestinians.
With this contrast in fire power,yet in the eyes of the civilised world,the hapless Palestinians is seen as the aggressor.
The Israeli and allies has concorted and successfully reshape the thinking of the world communities.

The recent Israeli incursion,when brought to the UN,with negative result, frustrate the Palestinians even more.

Road Map for peace: The principles of the plan were first outlined by US President George Bush in a speech on June 24 2002,in which he called for an independent Palestine state living side by side with Israel in peace.

One condition was lopsided,that the Palestnians elect a new Prime Minister (Mr Abbas)before the plan can be initiated.No need to change Israeli Prime Minister.

As reported by Associated on June 15 2003.A noble deeds by the Israeli to withdraw troops from parts of the Qaza strip and the Palestinians expressed readiness to take control of security.Elsewhere a Palestinian is killed and the militants vow to revenge.This is the beginning of 'the eight years of rockets raining into Israeli town'.

Israel fight wars by proxy: Remember the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Sept 16 1982.Ariel Sharon instructed the Israel defense force to surround the outer perimeter of the two Palestinians refugee camps.In the meanwhile,he allows the Christian Phalangists militiamen inside the camps to massacre an estimate of 3500 Palestinians.

The Kahan commission was established to investigate,and recommended that Sharon be removed as head of Defence Ministry.After much resistants,he resigned,and later formed the Kadima Party.

These Israeli politicians are pulling wool over your eyes to pursue and strenghtened their polical career.If this conflict is resolved,you will never rally behind them.

Eg.of a good Jews:Abba Eban served Israel's foreign minister,defending the country' reputation after the Six Days war.Nonetheless,he was a strong supporters of giving the territories ocuppied in the war in exchange for peace.

Sociologist Baruch Kimmerling was an outspoken critic of Israeli policies.

Map of biblical Israel shows that Ashdod,Askelon and Gaza belongs to the Philistines.The name Palestines comes,via Greeks and Latin,from the Philistines

Dengan Izin Tun..

Come on Hanan...Where's your version of Shabra and Shatilla 'Chronicle'??

I am waiting...or dont't you have any???

Dengan Izin Tun..

Come on Hanan...Where's your version of Shabra and Shatilla 'Chronicle'??

I am waiting...or dont't you have any???

to Ali Baba

you're gone off topic.

for not to derail the thread here where you can get an info about talmud:
http://islamfactor.org/index.php?showtopic=1691

to mohd. saiful

"From my opinion,the world knew that holocoust is not made by muslim."
an oxymoronic statement.

fact: Mohammad Amin al-Husayni Grand Mufti of Jerusalem collaborated with Hitler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Amin_al-Husayni#The_Haram_ash-Sharif_and_the_Wailing_Wall

"Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you."

Salam sejahtera Tun

Orang-orang Kristen cukup menderita dalam konflik Israel dan orang Palestina
Brother Andrew berkata “Hati-hati kami hancur menyaksikan bertambahnya penderitaan akibat perang di Jalur Gaza.”
(pendiri Organisasi Open Door) adalah salah satu orang yang memainkan peranan penting di dalam pendirian Lembaga Alkitab di daerah kekuasaan Palestina.Organisasi ini ialah suatu yayasan kemanusia Kristen yang interdenominasi dengan misi utamanya menolong orang-orang Kristen yang teraniaya dimana mereka ada sebagai minoriti. Fokus Open Door sekarang ialah Timur Tengah, setelah kesatuan Negara-negara Komunis hancur. Ketika 415 aktifis Palestina yang ‘diculik’ oleh para tentara Israel (Desember 1993) dan ditempatkan di perbatasan Israel-Libanon tanpa makanan yang memadai dan tanpa listrik, brother Andrew dan orang-orang Kristen Palestina memgunjungi mereka berkali-kali menjadi tukang pos untuk komunikasi para aktifis keluarga mereka di rumah. (Brother Andrew and Al Janssen, LIGHT FORCE; The only hope for the Middle East)

Menurut Brother Andrew dalam bukunya Light Force, korban-korban yang paling menderita dari konflik Israel-Palestina yang bertahun-tahun ini ialah orang-orang Kristen Palestina (dengan segala rasnya) yang berdiam di wilayah kekuasaan Palestina (Gaza dan West Bank). Sering kali para aktifis organisasi-organisasi Islam dengan sengaja melepaskan roket-roket mereka di wilayah orang Kristen dan Israel membalas serangan tersebut. Jadi kerugian material serta jiwa terbesar ada pada orang Kristen dan remaja-remaja mereka dihadapkan dalam posisi yang serba salah: jika mereka tidak ikut turun kejalan, melontar batu ke tentara Israel misalnya, mereka dituduh bersekongkol dengan musuh Palestina, di sisi lain mereka tahu bahwa musuh mereka yang sebenarnya bukanlah orang Israel. Brother Andrew juga menjelaskan bahwa telah terjalin hubungan yang harmonis antara orang Yahudi Kristen dengan Palestina (juga Arab) Kristen, salah satu organisasi ikatan persaudaraan ini adalah Organisasi Musalaha

Orang Kristen sejati adalah pahlawan di waktu perang, dan korban di waktu damai.
"..Perjuangan kita
bukanlah berjuang melawan manusia,
tetapi melawan segala kuasa jahat diangkasa,
iaitu roh-roh yang berkuasa dan yang memerintah di
zaman yang gelap ini."
Efesus 6:12

The truth about Hamas,

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Hamas discourages Palestinians from seeking treatment in Israel
By Anav Silverman (YNETNEWS)

One of the most frequently reported items in the Arab-Israeli conflict today are the crossings between Gaza and Israel. As the only way for cargo, aid, and other goods to enter and leave Gaza, these crossings are essential to the livelihood of the 1.4 milion Palestinians who live in the Gaza Strip.
Ten minutes away from Sderot, sits the Erez Crossing - the only crossing that serves as a pedestrian exit point for Gaza Strip residents entering Israel. The crossing is open to Palestinian workers holding permits and families seeking medical treatment in Israel. Large numbers of journalists and international foreign press also pass through the point.
I recently had the opportunity to visit the Erez crossing where the first site that greeted me was a brand new medical center, which had been opened at the start of the unilateral ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in mid-January. Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance service, in cooperation with the Israeli Department of Health, opened the center to treat wounded Gazans, with the Israeli government investing millions of dollars into its construction.
The new Israeli medical center can handle 30 patients per hour and is staffed by paramedics and doctors who specialize in emergency medicine, pediatrics, trauma, gynecology, orthopedics, and other fields. It is equipped with state of the art laboratories, X-ray machines, and a pharmacy.
"The only problem," said Shlomo Tzaban, a manager at the Erez Crossing, "is that the medical center stands empty. No one is using it because Hamas discourages Palestinians from seeking treatment at Israeli hospitals."
Before entering Erez, Palestinians must first pass through a checkpoint on the Gaza side. Hamas controls that point on the Gaza end and therefore has complete authority on Palestinians seeking to enter Israel. Subsequently, there has been a dramatic decrease in the number of Palestinians seeking medical treatment in Israel - down to 80-90% - says Tzaban.
"Everyone in Gaza lives under Hamas control," explains Tzaban. "Hamas uses terror and fear to rule the Palestinian people.” Tzaban uses the judicial system in Gaza as an example.
Back in December 2008, the Hamas parliament sanctioned that Palestinian courts were to condemn offenders according to violent punitive measures under Islamic Sharia laws. Hamas punishments for Palestinian offenders include whipping, severing hands (for stealing,) crucifixion and hanging.
Tzaban, a 28-year old veteran of the IDF, emphasizes that Hamas will use any means now to win support of the Palestinians after the heavy damages inflicted by the war. "The fact that Hamas police recently raided an UNRWA storehouse in order to distribute the humanitarian aid on its own accord may shock the international community but it's happened before," says Tzaban.
"In order to maintain the support of the Palestinian civilian population, Hamas is trying to show that only their regime has the power to provide for the welfare of the Palestinian people, while simultaneously waging war against Israel.”
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Terrorists target crossings

The United Nations Relief and Work Agency accused Hamas of seizing humanitarian aid sent into Gaza from countries across the world on February 4. UNRWA stated that Hamas had seized thousands of blankets and hundreds of food packages that were meant to be delivered to hundreds of poor families in Gaza after UNRWA refused to hand over the humanitarian aid to the Hamas Ministry of Social Welfare.
Today, the Erez compound stands practically empty, except for a couple of Palestinian families and foreign journalists, and two peace activists standing outside. The compound was built five years ago and was meant to check through around 20,000-25,000 Palestinian workers at a time.
Although the opening of the crossings is essential to the Gaza economy, Palestinian terror networks have frequently attacked the Erez crossing. “On average, there are between two to four attempted Palestinian terrorist attacks on the Erez compound each month,” according to Erez, an IDF security officer at the checkpoint.
In the last four years, Palestinian terror networks have targeted the Erez crossing with almost 500 mortar shells. In May 2008, a Palestinian bomber from Gaza blew up an explosive-laden truck on the Palestinian side of the Erez crossing, causing an estimated $3.5 million in damages to the Israeli checkpoint.
Along with the Erez crossing, the three other crossings between Gaza and Israel include Karnei, Kerem Shalom and Nahal Oz. Initially, the crossing points were part of the Gaza security buffer facilitated under Yitzchak Rabin’s 1994 Oslo Accords. A wave of Palestinian suicide bombers had flooded into Israel and the security buffer was built as a means to prevent the entrance of such terrorists, which it was successfully able to do.
Once Palestinian terror groups recognized that suicide bombers could no longer enter Israel, they began developing rockets and explosives, intensely targeting Israeli communities bordering Gaza and the closest Israeli city to Gaza-Sderot, as well as the crossings themselves.
At this point, most of the crossings are considered closed, although the transfer of humanitarian aid into the Strip continues through the Karni, Kerem Shalom, and Nahal Oz crossings. Israel plans to fully open the crossings only when Hamas releases Gilad Shalit, the IDF soldier kidnapped at the Kerem Shalom border crossing almost three years ago.
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Shalom
Hanan, Jewish and an Israeli Zionist.

Dear Kamal Ahmad,

Salam Alaikum, שלום וברכה ידידי,

You are the point of light at the far edge of the tunnel. You are the hope that gives me the power to continue my comments despite the insulting comments.
You are the road sign that guides us to a peace junction and not a dead end road.
Dear Kamal Ahmad, we may share opinions via this blog and if you feel it is more comfortable for you to do it privately you may write me e-mails to: chalm@yahoo.com, as well as others may do it and they are more than welcome.
I think it is very important to all of us to learn about the other side belief and mentality.
We must stop being always "anti" and saying "don't", etc... We must start thinking positively how we can accept the other side. How we can be friends and not how we can be enemies.
Unfortunately the moderate voices are silent compared the radical voices. We need to be patient and finally the sun of peace will rise in the horizon.

Shalom
Hanan, Jewish and an Israeli Zionist.

Salam kasih dan hormat Ayahanda Tun. Minta diizinkan sedikit ruang jika boleh Tun. Terima kasih.

Dear Hanan. I have read some of your comments. All I can say is that you should continue to make your writings here. See, most of my fellow country man and woman have no real idea what a Jew is like. How you think, how you relate to others (non Jew). We don’t know you – and suffice to say, you don’t know us too. So I hope that you would continue your presence here - that is if the blog owner (Tun Dr. Mahathir) allows us all this kind space.

The road is never a dead end if you keep walking a straight one Hanan. But it may appear to be at times when you starts going into circles. Well, that’s that Hanan. You write I read if Tun lets.

לך על זה את הדת ועל לי היא הדת שלי. On to you is your religion and on to me is my religion.

Regards – Kamal Ahmad Yahya.

Salam semua. Sudahlah tak payah kita bertengkar dengan Yahudi. Kerana sebenarnya didalam kitab Torah dan juga Psalms - mereka telah juga turut bertengkar dengan tuhan mereka sendiri. Mereka adalah suatu bangsa yang taksub dan bongkak. Mereka juga adalah satu bangsa yang paling pandai tikam belakang dan memutar belitkan semua fakta kepada keuntungan mereka.

Mereka berpendapat begini: 1)Ambil dan kumpul semua fakta, 2)Teliti semua fakta, 3)Kemudian susun semula fakta-fakta tadi mengikut susunan yang akan membawa keuntungan maksima. Itu adalah cara mereka berfikir.

Untuk berkawan dengan Yahudi ibaratkan mengadai separuh jiwa dan untuk bertengkar dengan Yahudi harusnya telah hilang seluruh jiwa. Tuhan meletakkan bangsa Arab yang kasar sebagai sempadan mereka supaya mereka tidak lagi boleh memperluaskan ketamakan mereka sehinggalah turunnya Al-Masih Isa a.s. Setiap satu ada sebabnya.

Bertengkar dengan Yahudi saudara dan saudari saya sekelian, adalah sebenarnya amat membuang masa. Tuhan sudah tahu, hanya bangsa Arab sahaja yang boleh menghalang mereka akhirnya. Sebab itulah Israel terletak di tanah Arab dan bukan di Texas atau Nebraska. Telitikan, setiap satu tetap ada sebabnya.

Mereka ini tidak akan sesekali mengaku kalah, sepertimana juga mereka telah mengugut/memaksa tuhan dan Nabi mereka sendiri. Yahudi - ini anda hanya baru berurusan melalui laman web. Bukan lagi berdepan (kepada yang pernah - maka tahulah). Jika berdepan, jika kurang kesabaran pada hati dan tangan yang muda, alamatnya akan berakhir juga dengan kekejaman. Kerana itulah maksudnya untuk menjadi seorang Yahudi di bumi Allah.

salam Tun,

I regret that im not a good english user, but i try my best.

to hanan,jewish and an israeli zionist,

From my opinion,the world knew that holocoust is not made by muslim.
The Nazi made the final solution to their problem ( to expel jew and non german people out of german land).Then, the jew came to palestine (that is not belong to them ),occupied the land,then form military troops to invade all palestine according to zionist concept (so called written in their holy books ) that the land belong to the jews.So it is not the muslim that act like nazi,but the zionist itself. Hamas only have self made rockets,not like israel that have state of the art weapon and bombs.(same thing happen during holocoust,whereby jew got nothing at all).The world will turn around somedays and it is payback time.(That is written in Al quran).So Hanan,you dont have to accuse muslims as terrorist or criminal, but the act of terror exactly came from you, the zionist.

Mohd. Saiful, Muslim and Malaysian Malay

Dear Hanan,

I appreciate for your explanation for Zionism. Could you please explain a brief of Talmud?

Thank you.

salam Tun,

to Hanan,

You have no moral grounds to give advice.

YOU ARE THE ONE WHO SHOULD LOOK IN THE MIRROR.BUT I DOUBT IF YOU CAN SEE THE REFLECTION OF YOUR OWN IMAGE AS YOU ARE TOO MUCH COVERED IN BLOOD.

Zionist Jews are the ones who turned Gaza into a HUGE CONCENTRATION CAMP!

Jeng3

Dengan Izin Tun..

My my Hanan..What was it that you called the article...The Terrorist Chronicle?

Now you tell me what happened in Shabra and Shatilla according to your version...

From the Just ever....

Hanan, Jewish and an Israeli Zionist

Dear Ayesha, all other bloggers,

I really didn't mean to insult JJJ and JJJ please pardon me using you as an example. It was just an example how a dialog cannot be performed by tagging people as a group or a nation or a religion. If there are some “criminals” it doesn’t mean that the whole group is criminals. Some of the Muslims are terrorists; does it mean all Muslims are terrorists? Can I say all Muslims are Al-Qaeda? I have even Muslim friends, very friendly.
A mutual insulting is not bringing anyone to anywhere just a dead end road (or life).
I'm 100% sure that JJJ don't really know what means a Nazi and what they did to humanity, not to the Jews, just to humanity. Let’s not talk about what they did to Jews since this is the real business of the Iranian leader as an expert of the holocaust.
I'm not here, on Dr. Mahathir's blog because I want to insult someone. I'm here to have a dialog with rational people and not insulting people. You may criticize me, the Jews, the Israelis, whoever you find to criticize. But insulting and talking in a militant jargon is nothing to do with a dialog, with peace.
I think, my existence here made that blog a bit “spicy” and gave the people here an opportunity to write their opinions ambitiously so I can read them and internalize them. Even I'm not accepting many of the comments; I do respect the comments writers. I'm learning from your comments whatever they are.
My "insulting" JJJ was just to show you how a small conflict can ignite a fire. When one side is refusing to listen and internalize the other’s side opinion (at least listen with respect) it becomes exactly the same as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I don't know, many of my friends are saying to me that I'm "mad" writing my comments in Dr. Mahathir's blog since they don't believe it can help no matter what will happen. And I say to my friends that this is a non objective pre judgment of people. I say to them "before you have any standpoint about people you must first listen and learn them. You must not believe what you have been told by others. You must look for the information by yourself. You must use your brains. Don’t eat fast food saved in cheap restaurants – prepare and cook your healthy food. It is only you to know the real ingredients you used to cook that healthy food compared to the unknown ingredients of the fast food”.
I've learnt a lot about you in that blog and about Dr. Mahathir who is a very unique and special person even I don't agree about the most he is saying. But I have respect to him and I listen to what he says even it is painful (because I think differently). Everyone must learn that the first fundamental of a dialog is listening. The second fundamental is not insulting or humiliating. Without those two pillars a dialog cannot be but a bloody confrontation leaving both sides upset.
I think many of you don't even understand what I'm writing "between the words and lines" because you have some lack to "exchange your hat and wear mine".
You may be assured that I'm not here to disturb you. I have many other things to do except commenting here. Haven't you asked yourself even once, what is that Hanan doing here? Why is Hanan's desire to comment here? I'm pretty sure it was also surprising Dr. Mahathir and I believe he is reading what I'm writing here (at least someone in his office).
Everyone in the world wants peace but we are divided in the ways how to get that peace.
I'm optimistic and hope this is not a dead end road and finally we'll reach the junction of peace. Without that hope the Jews wouldn’t survive those 5000 years.
But, maybe I’m naive and wrong. It is really a dead end road and my investment of time writing my comments here is good for nothing. At least I gave a try and didn’t miss that chance. May be it is a deaf conversation which is very sad.

Shalom
Hanan, Jewish and an Israeli Zionist.

to JJJ

"exactly my point,it was not named Israel!It the Palestinians were occupying a land named Israel (or some other jewish sounding names..)then you might have a case."

you missed this paragraph from my post:

"Philistines are believed to be Aegean origin. yet there is 'no historical records' that can be affirm anything about them. all the information 'stem from the bible'. another 'problemic' detail is that the name 'Philistine' is 'jewish attribute'. it means 'invader'."
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"Anyway you come across suonding like a hard core Zionist (or supporter)"

you made a logical fallacy:ad hominem; directed at a person's emotions or personal sensitivities as opposed to 'rationale' or 'objective facts' (especially as in a court trial, whether in appeal or in attack)
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ZIONIST JEWS ARE THE NEW NAZIS!

Now it will be interesting to see how these Zionists here will try to twist this fact!

THE PLAIN SIMPLE TRUTH IS ZIONIST JEWS ARE THE GREATEST LAND ROBBERS,KILLERS AND WAR CRIMINALS!

No amount of media manipulating,of portraying hip chic modern-looking images of Jewish leaders can alter this plain simple truth!"
wishful thinking.

Damn you Hanan, it will be to the jews israeli zionist terrorist not just the extremist islamic terror.

Dear JJJ,

You are the twister of facts.
I would compare all Muslim beheads criminals and Hamas to the Nazis. I would compare the Muslims who murder Muslims to Nazis.
Do you mind?
Get closer to the mirror and wash your face well before you speak up.
Your jargon is not gaining even a single grain of the peace picture. You're not promoting even zero.
"Itbakh al Yahood" flows in your blood just because you have been brainwashed.

Hanan, Jewish and an Israeli Zionist.

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I would support Dr Mahatir Mohamad’s KL Foundation To Criminalize War if it would include criminalizing Islamic terror (refer to the list I published earlir in one of my comments) of all kindes as well as any international terror.
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If we want to find the root cause for Muslims terror we should look for the the root cause of wars.
Let's balance the weigh.
Also be aware that "WAR", "TERROR" and "CRIME" should be defined properly and accepted by all parties.
Justice maust be justice!!!
No double standard!!!

Hanan, Jewish and an Israeli Zionist.

salam Tun,

to ygalg,

exactly my point,it was not named Israel!It the Palestinians were occupying a land named Israel (or some other jewish sounding names..)then you might have a case.

Anyway you come across suonding like a hard core Zionist (or supporter)

ZIONIST JEWS ARE THE NEW NAZIS!

Now it will be interesting to see how these Zionists here will try to twist this fact!

THE PLAIN SIMPLE TRUTH IS ZIONIST JEWS ARE THE GREATEST LAND ROBBERS,KILLERS AND WAR CRIMINALS!

No amount of media manipulating,of portraying hip chic modern-looking images of Jewish leaders can alter this plain simple truth!

Ptui!

Jeng3

Salam Tun,

Young men and women can be influenced and manipulated easily by the wealthy and powerful politicians, media owners, peers, heroes or events because they have not gone through the reality of and hardship in life. I believe this young Arab man will change his mind if he has gone through personally this horrible and indespicable truth of war that was window-dressed in religion. I have seen some of these pictures which were emailed by a reporter of our local TV station. She informed us that these pictures will never be distributed in the western countries that are controlled by Jews, and she is right.

I have never seen such frightening scenes even in hollywood movies. A young boy was killed and his feet (sepasang tapak kaki) were missing. A young body was burned until it became a piece of cloth (thin) with no internal organs and we can see through this body, I think it was caused by the phosphorous bomb. There are some young Israel girls look so happy and excited in writing messages on the rocket missles.

An Israel online friend (an old man) of my teenage child has had sent some pictures on their side. If we compare these pictures, the damages and brutality caused by the Israel force were far, far, far more greater than the Palestinine Hamas. Tun, I believe majority of the Israelis do not know what happened in Palestine because their government must have disallowed these pictures to be shown in Israel which can cause kind and moderate Israelis to oppose to this brutality. Because of internet and weblog, I am sure many Israelis knew the truth.

Tun, revenge is not encouraged in Buddhism. Hatred and fury caused by enemy could lead us to seek revenge because we are human beings with emotion. The cause and effect of revenge will never end if we continue to seek for self-claimed justice and pass down to the next generation, thus it’s better to let the mother nature (the almighty) to decide the punishment, this is taught in Islam too.

Yes, Tun, this is a territory war that should be criminalized. Israel’s election is coming, and their military troops have used force to
conquer Palestine:

1. They force and frighten the Palestinians to vote Israel as the new government
2. They finished off the old stock of war weapons in order to raise new security and defence budget in USA to save their
failing economy. This explained why they did not stop bombing when UN demanded them to do so.
3. They humiliate and bully Muslims to make them opt for revenge to
create terrorism or Jihad (muslim keras adalah pihak yang paling senang dimanipulasikan Yahudi), thus, Jews will have a cause (reason)to force invade these muslim countries in the name of self-protection,liberty and democracy.

I sincerely hope that our local muslim brothers and sisters will not be fooled and manipulated by this misfortune, the same goes to the Middle East countries. Do not declare war or terrorism on Jews. Let their god punishes them, this is the universal theory of cause and effect. Let Israel creates their own enemies and terrorists (these people could be Israelis themselve because Money and Power are Everything to them and they have forgotten why their“Jesus Christ” was crusified brutally). I believe Israel will fall one day because of greed, it may not be long from now, and we have just watched how USA financial and credit collapsed, this was the effect caused by greed of Jews and those who followed their trend will be affected most.

I will support Dr Mahatir Mohamad’s KL Foundation To Criminalize War, this is the least I can do as a human being and for my next generation.

Dear Tun,

I have been following this war for since childhood days. I did a little study, though not as much as you and the knowledge you possess, apparently my conclusion is the same with yours. That this war will never end. Many more will die, both sides.

Instead, from the war of liberation, in years to come it will be a war of religion. To make thing worse, Muslim is always labeled as terrorists rather than peace-loving religion, as it is widely believed now. hence, Muslim may not get whatever support from the world's power.

Moreover, Arabs, through history, have shown they are not united.

So, the saga continues. We could only pray that one day, no matter no far it is from now, the war will end.

I can not understand is why Astro would chose an Israeli based company and Israeli technology for the supply of thier new gold smartcard. Nobody cares!

to JJJ

"If the jews were the original inhabitants then they would have named it otherwise,not Palestine as it is known today." "As it is Palestine were named after the original inhabitants,the Philistines!"

historically yet can be confirm what was the real name of the disputed land. now that you use the biblical account I will give you accordingly response thus from theological POV.

the land name was 'Canaan', due to his first inhabitants. god handed the land to Israelites. the land was divided among the Israelites tribes. and with it each portion of the land named by it's tribal inhabitants. judah, dan ...etc. there are cities that still known till today are of biblical origin. ashkelon, gaza, jaffa...etc.

Philistines are believed to be Aegean origin. yet there is no historical records that can be affirm anything about them. all the information stem from the bible. another problemic detail is that the name Philistine is jewish attribute. it means invader.

Canaanites on the other hand historically found to be real. they were the first civilization that introduced to us the alphabet.

back to Palestine. 'Philistines' were not the ones who named it. and were not the original inhabitants. furthermore historically not yet been proven that exist and what were their original national name.

For those who forgot the terror attacks by Muslims (Palestinians and/or Arabs) against the Jews (Israelis) since 1948. Those are legitimate actions and should not be called terror or actions against humanity. Obviously Israeli civilian innocent people cannot be counted as victims of terror - just a legitimate liberty actions. In counter what Israel is doing is not self defence, but a terror of a state. Those are just some of the events I made a research about. It would be interesting to know what would the Malaysian govermrnt or people do against those terror actions?

Sorry for being sarcastic - just for balancing the the weigh. The list can be longer but I ignored many events of the 70's-80's. I don't think you are so patient to read the whole list.

You should start thinking how this can be stopped. How violence of both sides can be stopped for a better future for both peoples to live side by side.
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Border conflict, 1949-1956
Jan 1, 1952 - Seven armed gunmen attacked and killed a nineteen year-old girl in her home, in the neighborhood of Beit Yisrael, in Jerusalem. The Mixed Armistice on investigation found that the case against Jordanian infiltrators could not be substantiated.
December 31 1951/ Jan 1 1952 a rape murder occurred. The MAC investigating officer, Major Loreaux, reported that the body of the girl had been found hidden in a cave about a mile from the Jordan border, the girl had been raped and murdered her face had been mutilated. Nothing, however, had been found to indicate that Jordanians had committed this atrocity. The case had not been discussed by the Commission. Major Loreaux expressed the opinion that the Israeli police would have a better chance of finding the killer than the Arabs would.[4]
The incident was used as pretext for the Israeli “reprisal raid” at Beit Jalla on January 6, 1952
• Apr 14, 1953 - Infiltrators tried for the first time to infiltrate Israel by sea, but were unsuccessful. One of the boats was intercepted and the other boat escaped.
• June 7, 1953 - A youngster was killed and three others were wounded, in a shooting attacks on residential areas in southern Jerusalem.
• June 9, 1953 - Gunmen attacked a farming community near Lod, and killed one of the residents. The gunmen threw hand grenades and sprayed gunfire in all directions. On the same night, another group of terrorists attacked a house in the town of Hadera. This occurred a day after Israel and Jordan signed an agreement, with UN mediation, in which Jordan undertook to prevent terrorists from crossing into Israel from Jordanian territory.
• June 10, 1953 - Attackers infiltrating from Jordan destroyed a house in the farming village of Mishmar Ayalon.
• June 11, 1953 - Gunmen attacked a young couple in their home in Kfar Hess, and shot them to death.
• Sept 2, 1953 - Attackers infiltrated from Jordan, and reached the neighborhood of Katamon, in the heart of Jerusalem. They threw hand grenades in all directions. No one was hurt.
• Mar 17, 1954 - Scorpion Pass Massacre - Bandits ambushed a bus traveling from Eilat to Tel Aviv, and opened fire at short range when the bus reached the area of Ma'ale Akrabim (Scorpion Pass) in the northern Negev. In the initial ambush, the bandits killed the driver and wounded most of the passengers. The bandits then boarded the bus, and shot some of the passenger, one by one. Eleven passengers were murdered. Survivors recounted how the murderers spat on the bodies and abused them. The massacre was apparently reprisal raid conducted by members of a Bedouin tribe expelled from the al-Auja region of the Sinai three and a half years earlier.[5][6][7]
• Jan 2, 1955 - Gunmen attacked and killed 2 hikers in the Judean Desert.
• Mar 24, 1955 - Gunmen threw hand grenades and opened fire on a crowd at a wedding in the farming community of Patish, in the Negev. A young woman was killed, and eighteen people were wounded in the attack.
• Apr 7, 1956 - A resident of Ashkelon was killed in her home, when the attackers threw three hand grenades into her house. Two members of kibbutz Givat Haim were killed, when terrorists opened fire on their car, on the road from Plugot Junction to Mishmar HaNegev. There were further hand grenade and shooting attacks on homes and cars, in areas such as Nitzanim and Ketziot. One person was killed and three others wounded.
• Apr 11, 1956 - Gunmen opened fire on a synagogue full of children and teenagers, in the farming community of Shafrir. Three children and a youth worker were killed on the spot, and five were wounded, including three seriously.
• Apr 29, 1956 - Egyptians killed Roi Rotenberg, 21 years of age, from Nahal Oz.
• Sept 12, 1956 - Attackers killed three Druze guards at Ein Ofarim, in the Arabah region.
• Sept 23, 1956 - Gunmen opened fire from a Jordanian position, and killed four archaeologists, and wounded sixteen others, near kibbutz Ramat Rachel.
• Sept 24, 1956 - Attackers killed a girl in the fields of the farming community of Aminadav, near Jerusalem.
• Oct 4, 1956 - Five Israeli workers were killed in Sdom.
• Oct 9, 1956 - Two workers were killed in an orchard of the youth village, Neve Hadassah, in the Sharon region.

Suez Crisis, October 1956-March 1957
Main article: Suez Crisis
• Nov 8, 1956 - Gunmen opened fire on a train, attacked cars and blew up wells, in the North and Center of Israel. Six Israelis were wounded.
• Feb 18, 1957 - Two civilians were killed by landmines, next to Nir Yitzhak, on the southern border of the Gaza Strip.
• Mar 8, 1957 - A shepherd from kibbutz Beit Guvrin was killed by terrorists in a field near the kibbutz.

Border conflict, 1957-1967
• Apr 16, 1957 - Terrorists infiltrated from Jordan, and killed two guards at Kibbutz Mesilot.
• May 20, 1957 - A gunman opened fire on a truck in the Arava region, killing a worker.
• May 29, 1957 - A tractor driver was killed and two others wounded, when the vehicle struck a landmine, next to kibbutz Kissufim.
• June 23, 1957 - Israelis were wounded by landmines, close to the Gaza Strip.
• Aug 23, 1957 - Two guards of the Israeli Mekorot water company were killed near Kibbutz Beit Govrin.
• Dec 21, 1957 - A member of kibbutz Gadot was killed in the Kibbutz fields.
• Feb 11, 1958 - Terrorists killed a resident of moshav Yanov who was on his way to Kfar Yona, in the Sharon area.
• Apr 5, 1958 - Terrorists lying in an ambush shot and killed two people near Tel Lakhish.
• Apr 22, 1958 - Jordanian soldiers shot and killed two fishermen near Aqaba.
• May 26, 1958 - Four Israeli police officers were killed in a Jordanian attack on Mount Scopus, in Jerusalem.
• At 1654 Local time Lieutenant-Colonel Flint of the Mixed Armistice Commission was killed apparently by a single sniper round while trying to evacuate the dead and wounded Israelis from an Israeli police patrol. The Israeli police patrol was on a disputed route past the al-Issawiya village in the Jordanian controlled area of Mount Scopus.[8]
• Nov 17, 1958 - Syrian terrorists killed the wife of the British air attaché in Israel, who was staying at the guesthouse of the Italian Convent on the Mt. of the Beatitudes.
• Dec 3, 1958- A shepherd was killed at Kibbutz Gonen. In the artillery attack that followed, 31 civilians were wounded.
• Jan 23, 1959 - A shepherd from Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan was killed.
• Feb 1, 1959 - Three civilians were killed by a terrorist landmine near Moshav Zavdiel.
• Apr 15, 1959 - A guard was killed at kibbutz Ramat Rachel.
• Apr 27, 1959 - Two hikers were shot at close range and killed near Massada.
• Oct 3, 1959 - A shepherd from kibbutz Heftziba was killed near kibbutz Yad Hana.
• Apr 26, 1960 - Terrorists killed a resident of Ashkelon south of the city.
• Apr 12, 1962 - Terrorists fired on an Egged bus on the way to Eilat; one passenger was wounded.
• Sept 30, 1962 - Two terrorists attacked an Egged bus on the way to Eilat. No one was wounded.
• May 31, 1965 - Jordanian Legionnaires fired on the neighborhood of Musrara in Jerusalem, killing two civilians and wounding four.
• June 1, 1965 - Terrorists attack a house in Kibbutz Yiftah.
• Sept 29, 1965 - A terrorist was killed as he attempted to attack Moshav Amatzia.
• Nov 7, 1965 - A Fatah cell that infiltrated from Jordan blew up a house in Moshav Givat Yeshayahu, south of Beit Shemesh. The house was destroyed, but the inhabitants were unhurt.
• Apr 25, 1966 - Explosions placed by terrorists wounded two civilians and damaged three houses in moshav Beit Yosef, in the Beit She'an Valley.
• May 16, 1966 - Two Israelis were killed when their jeep hit a terrorist landmine, north of the Sea of Galilee and south of Almagor. Tracks led into Syria.
• July 14, 1966 - Terrorists attacked a house in Kfar Yuval, in the North.
• July 19, 1966 - Terrorists infiltrated into Moshav Margaliot on the northern border and planted nine explosive charges.
• Oct 27, 1966 - A civilian was wounded by an explosive charge on the railroad tracks to Jerusalem.
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Since September 2000 1,176 Israelis have been killed by Palestinian terrorists. From the signing of the Declaration of Principles between Israel and the PLO on September 13, 1993, until September 2000, 256 civilians and soldiers were killed in terrorist attacks in Israel. Another 1,096 Israelis were killed during the Palestinian War between September 2000 and December 2005. (Note: This list also includes 18 Israelis killed abroad in terror attacks directed specifically against Israeli targets, and 3 American diplomatic personnel killed in Gaza).

• Sep 24 1993 Yigal Vaknin was stabbed to death in an orchard near the trailer home where he lived near the village of Basra. A squad of the HAMAS' Iz a-Din al Kassam claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Oct 9 1993 Dror Forer and Aran Bachar were murdered by terrorists in Wadi Kelt in the Judean Desert. The Popular Front and the Islamic Jihad 'Al-Aqsa Squads' each publicly claimed responsibility.

• Oct 24 1993 Two IDF soldiers, Staff Sgt. (res.) Ehud Rot, age 35, and Sgt. Ilan Levi, age 23, were killed by a HAMAS Iz a-Din al Kassam squad. The two entered a Subaru with Israeli license plates outside a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, whose passengers were apparently terrorists disguised as Israelis. Following a brief struggle, the soldiers were shot at close range and killed. HAMAS publicly claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Oct 29 1993 Chaim Mizrahi, resident of Beit-El, was kidnapped by three terrorists from a poultry farm near Ramallah. He was murdered and his body burned. Three Fatah members were convicted of the murder on July 27, 1994.

• Nov 7 1993 Efraim Ayubi of Kfar Darom, Rabbi Chaim Druckman's personal driver, was shot to death by terrorists near Hebron. HAMAS publicly claimed responsibility for the murder.

• Nov 9 1993 Salman 'Id el-Hawashla, age 38, an Israeli Bedouin of the Abu Rekaik tribe who was driving a car with Israeli plates, was killed by three armed men driving a truck hijacked from the Gaza municipality, in a deliberate head-on collision.

• Nov 17 1993 Sgt. 1st Cl. Chaim Darina, age 37, was stabbed by a Gazan terrorist while seated at the cafeteria at the Nahal Oz road block at the entrance to the Gaza Strip. The perpetrator was apprehended. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the murder.

• Dec 1 1993 Shalva Ozana, age 23, and Yitzhak Weinstock, age 19, were shot to death by terrorists from a moving vehicle, while parked on the side of the road to Ramallah because of engine trouble. Weinstock died of his wounds the following morning. Iz a-Din al Kassam claimed responbility for the attack, stating that it was carried out in retaliation for the killing by Israeli forces of Imad Akel, a wanted HAMAS leader in Gaza.

• Dec 5 1993 David Mashrati, a reserve soldier, was shot and killed by a terrorist attempting to board a bus on route 641 at the Holon junction. The Islamic Jihad Shekaki gorup claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Dec 6 1993 Mordechai Lapid and his son Shalom Lapid, age 19, were shot to death by terrorists near Hebron. HAMAS publicly claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Dec 22 1993 Eliahu Levin and Meir Mendelovitch were killed by shots fired at their car from a passing vehicle in the Ramallah area. HAMAS claimed responsibility.

• Dec 23 1993 Anatoly Kolisnikov, an Ashdod resident employed as a relief watchman at a construction site there, was stabbed to death while on duty.

• Dec 31 1993 Chaim Weizman and David Bizi were found murdered in a Ramle apartment. ID cards of two Gaza residents were found in the apartment, together with a leaflet of the Popular Front 'Red Eagle' group, claiming responsibility for the murder.

• Dec 24 1993 Lieut.Col. Meir Mintz, commander of the IDF special forces in the Gaza area, was shot and killed by terrorists in an ambush on his jeep at the T-junction in Gaza. The HAMAS Iz a-Din al Kassam squads publicly claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Jan 12 1994 Moshe Becker of Rishon Le-Zion was stabbed to death by three Palestinian employees while working in his orchard. The Popular Front claimed responsibility for the murder.

• Jan 14 1994 Grigory Ivanov was stabbed to death by a terrorist in the industrial zone at the Erez junction, near the Gaza Strip. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 9 1994 Ilan Sudri, a taxi driver, was kidnapped and murdered while returning home from work. The Islamic Jihad Shekaki group sent a message to the news agencies claiming responsibility for the murder.

• Feb 10 1994 Naftali Sahar, a citrus grower, was murdered by blows to his head. His body was found in his orchard near Kibbutz Na'an.

• Feb 13 1994 Noam Cohen, age 28, member of the General Security Service, was shot and killed in an ambush on his car. Two of his colleagues who were also in the vehicle suffered moderate injuries. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 17 1994 Yuval Golan, stabbed on December 29, 1993 by a terrorist near Adarim in the Hebron area, died of his wounds.

• Feb 19 1994 Zipora Sasson, resident of Ariel and five months pregnant, was killed on the trans-Samaria highway in an ambush by shots fired at her car. The terrorists were members of HAMAS.

• Feb 25 1994 Sam Eisenstadt, age 80, was assaulted with an axe in the center of Kfar Saba. He died of his wounds shortly afterwards.

• Mar 23 1994 Victor Lashchiver, employed as a guard at the Income Tax offices in East Jerusalem, was shot and killed near Damascus Gate on his way to work. The Popular Front claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 29 1994 Yitzhak Rothenberg, age 70 of Petah Tikva, was attacked on a construction site by two residents of Khan Yunis by axe blows to the head. He died several days later of his wounds. The murderers, apprehended the next day, stated that they carried out the attack in order to clear themselves of suspected collaboration with the Israeli authorities.

• Mar 31 1994 Yosef Zandani, age 28 of Bnei Ayish, near Gedera, was found murdered in his apartment. Near the body was a leaflet of the DFLP "Red Star", explaining that the murder was carried out in revenge for the shooting of one of its members by an Israeli citizen. The Israeli acted in self-defense.

• Apr 6 1994 Asher Attia, 48, of Afula, bus driver; Vered Mordechai, 13, of Afula; Maya Elharar, 17, of Afula; Ilana Schreiber, 45, a teacher from Kibbutz Nir David; Meirav Ben-Moshe, 16, of Afula; Ayala Vahaba, 40, a teacher from Afula; and Fadiya Shalabi, 25, of Iksal were killed in a car-bomb attack on a bus in the center of Afula. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack. Ahuva Cohen Onalla, 37, wounded in the attack, died of her wounds on April 25.

• Apr 7 1994 Yishai Gadassi, age 32 of Kvutzat Yavne, was shot and killed at a hitchhiking post at the Ashdod junction by a member of HAMAS. The terrorist was killed by bystanders at the scene.

• Apr 13 1994 Rahamim Mazgauker, 34, of Hadera; David Moyal, 26 of Ramat Gan, an Egged mechanic; Daga Perda, 44, who immigrated from Ethiopia in 1991; Bilha Butin, 49, of Hadera; and Sgt. Ari Perlmutter, 19, of Ir Ovot in the Arava were killed in a suicide bombing attack on a bus in the central bus station of Hadera. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Apr 21 1994 The body of officer cadet Shahar Simani, 20, of Ashkelon, was found stabbed to death near the roadside at the village of Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem. He had been kidnapped while hitchhiking in the south.

• May 17 1994 Rafael Yairi (Klumfenbert), 36, of Kiryat Arba, and Margalit Ruth Shohat, 48, of Ma'ale Levona, were killed when their car was fired upon by by terrorists in a passing car near Beit Haggai, south of Hebron.

• May 20 1994 Staff Sgt. Moshe Bukra, 30, and Cpl. Erez Ben-Baruch, 24, were shot dead by HAMAS terrorists at a roadblock one kilometer south of the Erez checkpoint in the Gaza Strip.

• Jul 7 1994 Sarit Prigal, 17, was shot to death when terrorists opened fire from a passing car near the entrance to Kiryat Arba.

• Jul 7 1994 The body of Arye Frankenthal, 20, from Moshav Gimzo near Lod, who had left his base in the south the previous day, was found stabbed and shot near the Arab village of Kafr Akab, near Ramallah.

• Jul 19 1994 Lt. Guy Ovadia, 23, of Kibbutz Yotvata, was fatally wounded in an ambush near Rafiah. HAMAS took responsibility for the attack, saying it was "a response to the massacre at the Erez checkpoint".

• Jul 25 1994 Border policeman Sgt.-Maj. Jacques Attias, 24, died of his wounds after being shot by Palestinian policemen during the riots at Erez checkpoint on July 17.

• Aug 2 1994 Yoram Sakuri, 30, of Kiryat Netafim in Samaria, died of stab wounds suffered when a terrorist broke into his home on July 1st.

• Aug 14 1994 Ron Soval, 18, of Lehavim, north of Beersheba, was shot to death in an ambush near Kissufim junction in the Gaza Strip. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Aug 26 1994 Shlomo Kapach, 22, of Holon and Gil Revah, 21, of Bat Yam, elevator technicians, were murdered at a Ramle building site. Israel has requested the extradition of the suspected killers from the Palestinian Authority.

• Sep 4 1994 Sgt. Victor Shichman, 24, was killed at the Morag junction in the southern Gaza Strip while on patrol, from shots fired from a vehicle bearing Palestinian license plates.

• Sep 1994 Natasha Ivanov, 32, of Ashdod was strangled to death. In March 2001, a Palestinian arrested for being in Israel illegally, admitted to carrying out the murder in order to gain acceptance into a terrorist organization.

• Oct 9 1994 Ma'ayan Levy, 19, an off-duty soldier from Moshav Beit Zayit and Samir Mugrabi, 35, from Kafr Akab, in north Jerusalem, were killed in a terrorist attack in the Nahalat Shiva section of downtown Jerusalem. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Oct 14 1994 Cpl. Nahshon Wachsman, 20, who had been abducted by HAMAS, was murdered by his captors. Capt. Nir Poraz, 23, was killed in the course of the unsuccessful IDF rescue operation to obtain his release.

• Oct 19 1994 In a suicide bombing attack on the No. 5 bus on Dizengoff Street in Tel-Aviv, 21 Israelis and one Dutch national were killed: Haviv Tishbi, 54, of Tel Aviv; Moshe Gardinger, 83, of Tel Aviv; Pnina Rapaport, 74, of Tel Aviv; Galit Rosen, 23, of Holon; Zippora Ariel, 64, of Tel Aviv; David Lida, 74, of Tel Aviv; Puah Yedgar, 56, of Givatayim; Dalia Ashkenazi, 62, of Tel; Aviv Esther Sharon, 21, of Lod; Ofra Ben-Naim, 33, of Lod; Tamar Karlibach-Sapir, 24, of Moshav Zafaria; Shira Meroz-Kot, 20, of Kibbutz Beit Hashita; Miriam Adaf, 54, of Sderot; Anat Rosen, 21, of Ra'anana; Salah Ovadia, 52, of Holon; Eliahu Wasserman, 66, of Bat Yam; Alexandra Sapirstein, 55, of Holon; Dr. Pierre Atlas, 56, of Kiryat Ono; Ella Volkov, 21, of Safed; Ayelet Langer-Alkobi, 26, of Kibbutz Yiron; Kochava Biton, 59, of Tel Aviv; Rinier Yurest, 23, of the Netherlands.

• Nov 11 1994 Capt. Yehazkel Sapir, 36, of Kfar Sava; Lt. Yotam Rahat, 31, of Tel-Aviv; and Capt. Elad Dror, 24, of Kibbutz Nachson were killed at the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip when a Palestinian riding a bicycle detonated explosives strapped to his body. Islamic Jihad said it carried out the attack to avenge the car bomb killing of Islamic Jihad leader Hani Abed on Nov 2.

• Nov 19 1994 Sgt.-Maj. Gil Dadon, 26, of Bat Yam, was killed at the army post at Netzarim junction by shots fired from a passing car. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Nov 27 1994 Rabbi Amiran Olami, 34, of Otniel was killed near Beit Hagai 10 kms south of Hebron by shots fired from a passing car.

• Nov 30 1994 Sgt. Liat Gabai, 19, of Afula, was axed to death in the center of Afula.

• Jan 6 1995 Ofra Felix, 20, of Beit El, a university student, was killed when terrorists opened fire on her car north of Beit El.

• Jan 22 1995 Two consecutive bombs exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, killing 18 soldiers and one civilian. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The soldiers killed were: Lt. David Ben-Zino, 20, of Ashdod; Lt. Adi Rosen, 20, of Moshav Bitzaron; Lt. Yuval Tuvya, 22, of Jerusalem; Sgt.-Maj. Anan Kadur, 24, of Daliat al-Carmel; Staff-Sgt. Damian Rosovski, 20, of Kadima; Staff-Sgt. Yehiel Sharvit, 21, of Haifa; Staff-Sgt. Yaron Blum, 20, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Maya Kopstein, 19, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Daniel Tzikuashvili, 19, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Avi Salto, 19, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt. Rafael Mizrahi, 19, of Ramat Gan; Sgt. Eran Gueta, 20, of Ashkelon; Cpl. Soli Mizrahi, 18, of Ramat Ramat Gan; Cpl. David Hasson, 18, of Ashkelon; Cpl. Amir Hirschenson, 18, of Jerusalem; Cpl. Gilad Gaon, 18, of Herzliya; Cpl. Ilie Dagan, 18, of Kochav Yair; Cpl. Eitan Peretz, 18, of Nahariya; and Shabtai Mahpud, 34, of Moshav Tnuvot.
• Lt. Eyal Levy, 20, of Ashdod, and Cpl. Yaniv Weiser, 18, of Givatayim, who were seriously wounded in the attacks, later died of their wounds.

• Feb 6 1995 Yevgeny Gromov, 32, of Ashkelon, a security guard, was killed when terrorists opened fire from a passing car on the Gaza bypass road between Jabalya and Gaza City, as he was escorting a gasoline truck to a Gaza Strip filling station.

• Feb 13 1995 Rafael Cohen, 35, of Jerusalem, a taxi driver, was fatally stabbed on the Jerusalem-Ma'aleh Adumim road.

• Mar 19 1995 Nahum Hoss, 32, of Hebron and Yehuda Fartush, 41, of Kiryat Arba, were killed when terrorists fired on an Egged bus near the entrance to Hebron.

• Mar 29 1995 Police Insp. Nitzan Cohen, 22, of Jerusalem and Sgt.-Maj. Jamal Suwitat from Makr village in Western Galilee were killed when a Palestinian driver rammed his truck into their jeep in a convoy east of the Netzarim junction in Gaza.

• Apr 9 1995 Staff-Sgt. Yuval Regev, 20, of Holon; Staff-Sgt. Meir Scheinwald, 20, of Safed; Sgt. Itai Diener, 19, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt. Zvi Narbat, 19, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt. Netta Sufrin, 20, of Rishon Lezion; Cpl. Tal Nir, 19, of Kibbutz Miflasim; Sgt. Avraham Arditi, 19, of Jerusalem; and Alisa Flatow, 20, of the United States were killed when a bus was hit by an explosives-laden van near Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Jul 18 1995 Ohad Bachrach, 18, of Beit El, and Ori Shahor, 20, of Ra'anana, were killed while hiking in Wadi Kelt.

• Jul 24 1995 Moshe Shkedi, 75, of Ramat Gan; Rahel Tamari, 65, of Tel Aviv; Zviya Cohen, 62, of Tel Aviv; Zahava Oren, 60, of Tel Aviv; Nehama Lubowitz, 61, of Tel Aviv; and Mordechai Tovia, 37, of Tel Aviv were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Ramat Gan.

• Aug 21 1995 Rivka Cohen, 26, of Jerusalem; Hannah Naeh, 56, of Jerusalem; Joan Davenney, 46, of Connecticut; and Police Chief Superintendent Noam Eisenman, 35, of Jerusalem were killed in a suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus.

• Sep 5 1995 Daniel Frei, 28, of Ma'aleh Michmash, was stabbed to death when a terrorist broke into his home at night.

• Jan 16 1996 Sgt. Yaniv Shimel and Major Oz Tibon, both of Jerusalem, were killed when terrorists fired on their car on the Hebron-Jerusalem road.

• Jan 30 1996 Staff Sgt. Ehud Tal, 21, of Kibbutz Maoz Haim, was stabbed to death at the liaison office in an army camp south of Jenin.

• Feb 25 1996 In a suicide bombing of bus No. 18 near the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem, 26 were killed (17 civilians and 9 soldiers).
• The civilians:
• Daniel Biton, 42; Yitzhak Elbaz, 57, Boris Sharpolinsky, 64; Semion Trakashvili, 60; Yitzhak Yakhnis, 54; Peretz Gantz, 61; Anatoly and Jana Kushnirov, 36 and 37; Masuda Amar, 59; Swietlana Gelezniak, 32; Celine Zaguri, 19 - all of Jerusalem; Navon Shabo, 22, of Bnei Brak; Michael Yerigin, 16, of Kibbutz Maabarot; Matthew Eisenfeld, 25 and Sara Duker, 23, of the United States.
• Wael Kawasmeh, 23, of East Jerusalem, and Ira Yitzhak Weinstein, 53, of Maaleh Adumim, later died of their wounds.
• The soldiers:
• Sgt. Yonatan Barnea, 20; St-Sgt. Gavriel Krauss, 24; St.-Sgt. Gadi Shiloni, 22; Cpl. Moshe Reuven, 19; St.-Sgt. Maj. (res.) Arye Barashi, 39; Cpl. Iliya Nimotin, 19; Cpl. Merav Nahum, 19; Sgt. Sharon Hanuka, 19; Arik Gaby, 16 (student in pre-army boarding school) - all of Jerusalem.
• HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 25 1996 Sgt. Hofit Ayyash, 20, of Ashdod was killed in an explosion set off by a suicide bomber at a hitchhiking post oustide Ashkelon. HAMAS claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 26 1996 Flora Yehiel, 28, of Kiryat Ata, was killed when a car was driven into a bus stop at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem.

• Mar 3 1996 In a suicide bombing of bus No. 18 on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, 19 were killed (16 civilians and 3 soldiers).
• The civilians:
• Maya Birkan, 59; Naima Zargary, 66; Gavriel Shamashvili, 43; Shemtov Sheikh, 63; Anna Shingeloff, 36; Raya Daushvili, 55; George Yonan, 38 - all of Jerusalem; Sarina Angel, 45, of Beit Jalla; Gidi Taspanish, 23, a tourist from Ethiopia; Valerian Krasyon, 44, a tourist from Romania; Dominic Lunca, 29; Daniel Patenka, 33; Marian Grefan, 40; Mirze Gifa, 39; Dimitru Kokarascu, 43 - all Romanian workers.
• Imar Ambrose, 51, of Romania, died on March 9.
• The soldiers:
• Sgt. Yoni Levy, 21, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Haim Amedi, 19, of Jerusalem; Senior NCO Uzi Cohen, 54, border policeman of Jerusalem.

• Mar 4 1996 Outside Dizengoff Center in Tel-Aviv, a suicide bomber detonated a 20-kilogram nail bomb, killing 13 (12 civilians and 1 soldier):
• Bat-Hen Shahak, 15, of Tel Mond; Hadas Dror, 15, of Tel Mond; Kobi Zaharon, 13, of Tel Aviv; Inbar Atiya, 21, of Ramat-Efal; Dan Tversky, 58, of Tel Aviv; Dana Gutman, 14, of Moshav Mishmeret; Yovav Levy, 13, of Tel Aviv; Leah Mizrahi, 60, of Tel Aviv; Tali Gordon, 24, of Givatayim; Rahel Sela, 82, of Tel Aviv; Sylvia Bernstein, 73, of Hod Hasharon; Gail Belkin, 48, of Herzliya; St.-Sgt. Assaf Wachs, 21, of Holon.

• May 14 1996 David Baum, 17, a yeshiva high school student in Beit El, was killed when terrorists fired at students at a hitchhiking post at Beil El, near Ramallah.

• Jun 9 1996 Yaron (26) and Efrat (25) Unger, of Kiryat Arba, were killed when terrorists fired on their car near Beit Shemesh.

• Jun 16 1996 First-Sgt. Meir Alush, 40, an off-duty policeman, was shot and killed in a toy store in the village of Bidiya.

• Jun 26 1996 Staff Sgt. (Res.) Asher Berdugo, 22, of Kiryat Bialik; Sgt. Ashraf Shibli, 20, of Shibli; and Cpl. (Res.) Ya'acov Turgeman of Rishon Lezion were killed in an ambush along the Jordan River north of Jericho by terrorists who infiltrated from Jordan.

• Jul 26 1996 Uri Munk, 53, and his daughter-in-law, Rachel Munk, 24, of Moshav Mevo Betar, were killed in a drive-by shooting attack near Beit Shemesh. 30-year-old Ze'ev Munk, Rachel's husband, was critically wounded and died in the hospital the following week.

• Dec 11 1996 Etta Tzur, 48, and her son Ephraim, 12, were killed when their car was shot at by terrorists near Surda, west of Beit El.

• Mar 21 1997 Michal Avrahami, 32, Yael Gilad, 32, and Anat Winter-Rosen, 32, were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb on the terrace of a Tel Aviv cafe. 48 people were wounded.

• Apr 10 1997 The body of IDF Staff-Sgt. Sharon Edri, missing for seven months, was found buried near the West Bank village of Kfar Tzurif. Edri had been kidnapped and murdered by a Hamas terrorist cell in September 1996 while hitchiking to his home in Moshav Zanoah.

• Apr 25 1997 Hagit Zavitzky, 23, of Kfar Adumim and Liat Kastiel, 23, of Holon were found stabbed to death in Wadi Kelt.

• Jul 30 1997 16 people were killed and 178 wounded in two consecutive suicide bombings in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem: Lev Desyatnik, 60, of Jerusalem; Regina Giber, 76, of Jerusalem; Valentina Kovalenko, 67, of Jerusalem; Shmuel Malka, 44, of Mevaseret Zion; David Nasco, 44, of Mevaseret Zion; Muhi A-din Othman, 33, of Abu Ghosh; Simha Fremd, 92, of Jerusalem; Grisha Paskhovitz, 15, of Jerusalem; Leah Stern, 50, of Jerusalem; Rachel Tejgatrio, 80, of Jerusalem; Liliya Zelezniak, 47, of Jerusalem; Shalom (Golan) Zevulun, 52, of Jerusalem; Mark Rabinowitz, 80, of Jerusalem. Eli Adourian, 49, of Kfar Adumim, died of his wounds on August 11. Ilia Gazrach, 73, of Pisgat Ze'ev, died on August 29. Baruch Ostrovsky, 84, of Jerusalem died on October 3.

• Sep 4 1997 Five people were killed and 181 wounded in three suicide bombings on the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall in Jerusalem. The victims: Yael Botwin, 14; Sivan Zarka, 14; Smadar Elhanan, 14; Rami Kozashvili, 20; and Eliahu Markowitz, 40 - all of Jerusalem.

• Nov 19 1997 Gabriel Hirschberg, 26, was killed by automatic gunfire in the Old City of Jerusalem.

• Jan 6 1998 Yael Meivar, 25, died of gunshot wounds sustained in a terrorist attack on Dec 31, 191997 near the settlement of Alei Zahav in Samaria.

• Feb 11 1998 David Ktorza, 40, of Jerusalem, was stabbed to death near his home.

• May 6 1998 Haim Kerman, 28, was stabbed to death in the Old City of Jerusalem.

• Aug 5 1998 Harel Bin-Nun, 18, and Shlomo Liebman, 24, were shot and killed in an ambush by terrorists while on patrol at the Yizhar settlement in Samaria.

• Aug 20 1998 Rabbi Shlomo Ra'anan, 63, was stabbed to death in the bedroom of his caravan in Hebron.

• Oct 9 1998 IDF soldier Michal Adato, 19, was stabbed to death at Moshav Tomer in the Jordan Valley.

• Oct 14 1998 Itamar Doron, 24, was shot to death near Moshav Ora, outside Jerusalem.

• Oct 26 1998 Danny Vargas, 29, of Kiryat Arba was shot to death in Hebron.

• Oct 29 1998 Sergeant Alexey Neykov, 19, was killed when a terrorist drove an explosives-laden car into an Israeli army jeep escorting a bus with 40 elementary school students from the settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip.

• Jan 13 1999 Sergeant Yehoshua Gavriel, 25, of Ashdod, was killed when terrorists opened fire at the Othniel junction near Hebron.

• Aug 7 1999 The body of an Israeli, shot in the head, was found in a burned vehicle.

• Aug 30 1999 Yehiel Finfeter, 25, of Kiryat Motzkin, and Sharon Steinmetz, 21, of Haifa, were murdered whlie hiking in the Megiddo region.

Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism since September 2000:

• Sept 27, 2000 - Sgt. David Biri, 19, of Jerusalem, was fatally wounded in a bombing near Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.
• Sept 29, 2000 - Border Police Supt. Yossi Tabaja, 27, of Ramle was shot to death by his Palestinian counterpart on a joint patrol near Kalkilya.

• Oct 1, 2000 - Border Police Cpl. Yosef Madhat, 19, of Beit Jann, died of gunshot wounds sustained in a gun battle with Palestinians at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus.

• Oct 2, 2000 - Wichlav Zalsevsky, 24, of Ashdod, was shot in the head in the village of Masha on the trans-Samaria highway. Sgt. Max Hazan, 20, of Dimona, died of gunshot injuries sustained near Beit Sahur.

• Oct 8, 2000 - The bullet-riddled body of Hillel Lieberman, 36, of Elon Moreh was found at the southern entrance to Nablus.

• Oct 12, 2000 - First Cpl. Yosef Avrahami and First Sgt. Vadim Novesche, 33, two reserve IDF soldiers, were lynched by a Palestinian mob at the police building in Ramallah.

• Oct 19, 2000 - Rabbi Binyamin Herling, 64, of Kedumim, was killed when Fatah members and Palestinian security forces opened fire on a group of Israeli men, women, and children on a trip at Mount Ebal near Nablus.

• Oct 28, 2000 - The body of Marik Gavrilov, 25, of Bnei Aysh was found inside his burned-out car, between the village of Bitunia and Ramallah.

• Oct 30, 2000 - Eish-Kodesh Gilmor, 25, of Mevo Modi'in, was shot and killed while on duty as a security guard at the National Insurance Institute's East Jerusalem branch. Another guard was injured. Amos Machlouf, 30, of the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem, was found murdered in a ravine near Beit Jala.

• Nov 1, 2000 - Lt. David-Hen Cohen, 21, of Karmiel and Sgt. Shlomo Adshina, 20, of Kibbutz Ze'elim were killed in a shooting incident in the Al-Hader area, near Bethlehem. Maj. (res.) Amir Zohar, 34, of Jerusalem was killed in the Nahal Elisha settlement in the Jordan Valley while on active reserve duty.

• Nov 2, 2000 - Ayelet Shahar Levy, 28, and Hanan Levy, 33, were killed in a car bomb explosion near the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. 10 people were injured in the blast. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Nov 8, 2000 - Noa Dahan, 25, of Moshav Mivtahim in the south, was shot to death while driving to her job at the Rafah border crossing in Gaza.

• Nov 10, 2000 - Sgt. Shahar Vekret, 20, of Lod was fatally shot by a Palestinian sniper near Rachel's Tomb at the entrance to Bethlehem.

• Nov 11, 2000 - Sgt. 1st Class Avner Shalom, 28, of Eilat, was killed in a shooting attack at the Gush Katif junction in the Gaza Strip.

• Nov 13, 2000 - Sarah Leisha, 42, of Neveh Tzuf was killed by gunfire from a passing car while travelling near Ofra, north of Ramallah. Cpl. Elad Wallenstein, 18, of Ashkelon, and Cpl. Amit Zanna, 19, of Netanya were killed by gunfire from a car passing the military bus carrying them near Ofra. Gabi Zaghouri, 36, of Netivot was killed by gunfire directed at the truck he was driving near the Kissufim junction in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

• Nov 18, 2000 - St.-Sgt. Baruch (Snir) Flum, 21, of Tel-Aviv was shot and killed by a senior Palestinian Preventive Security Service officer who infiltrated the Kfar Darom greenhouses in the Gaza Strip. St.-Sgt. Sharon Shitoubi, 21, of Ramle, wounded in the Palestinan shooting attack in Kfar Darom, died of his wounds on Nov 20.

• Nov 20, 2000 - Miriam Amitai, 35, and Gavriel Biton, 34, both of Kfar Darom, were killed when a roadside bomb exploded alongside a bus carrying children from Kfar Darom to school in Gush Katif. Nine others, including 5 children, were injured.

• Nov 21, 2000 - Itamar Yefet, 18, of Netzer Hazani died from a gunshot wound to the head by Palestinian sniper fire at the Gush Katif junction.

• Nov 22, 2000 - Shoshana Reis, 21, of Hadera, and Meir Bahrame, 35, of Givat Olga, were killed, and 60 wounded when a powerful car bomb was denotated alongside a passing bus on Hadera's main street, when the area was packed with shoppers and people driving home from work. 60 were wounded in the blast.

• Nov 23, 2000 - Lt. Edward Matchnik, 21, of Beersheba, was killed in an explosion at the District Coordination Office near Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip. (The joint DCOs were established at the borders of Palestinian-ruled areas under the interim peace accords and were responsible for coordinating security and humanitarian cooperation.) Sgt. Samar Hussein, 19, of Hurfeish, was killed when Palestinian snipers opened fire at soldiers patrolling the border fence near the Erez crossing.

• Nov 24, 2000 - Maj. Sharon Arameh, 25, of Ashkelon was killed by Palestinian sniper fire in fighting near Neve Dekalim in the Gaza Strip. Ariel Jeraffi, 40, of Petah Tikva, a civilian employed by the IDF, was killed by Palestinian fire as he travelled near Otzarin in the West Bank.

• Dec 8, 2000 - Rina Didovsky, 39, a Beit Hagai school teacher on her way to work, and Eliyahu Ben-Ami, 41, of Otniel, the driver of the van, were killed when a car full of gunmen opened fire on the van near Kiryat Arba. Sgt. Tal Gordon, 19, was killed when gunmen in a passing car opened fire on an Egged bus traveling south from Tiberias to Jerusalem on the Jericho bypass road.

• Dec 21, 2000 - Eliahu Cohen, 29, of Modi'in was shot and killed tonight by Palestinian terrorists waiting in ambush on the road between Givat Ze'ev and Beit Horon.

• Dec 28, 2000 - Capt. Gad Marasha, 30, of Kiryat Arba and Border Police Sgt.-Maj. Yonatan Vermullen, 29, of Ben-Shemen, were killed when called to dismantle a road-side bomb near the Sufa crossing in the Gaza Strip. The bomb was dismantled, but another bomb exploded, killing both and injuring two other soldiers. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Dec 31, 2000 - Binyamin Zeev Kahane, the son of the late right-wing leader Meir Kahane, and his wife, Talia, were killed when Palestinian snipers opened fire while they were driving on the Ramallah bypass road. Five of their children, aged two months to 10 years, were injured.

2001:

• Jan 14, 2001 - The bullet-ridden body of Ron Tzalah, 32, of Kfar Yam in Gush Katif, apparently killed on Sunday night (Jan 14), was found the following morning near the Kfar Yam hothouses.

• Jan 17, 2001 - Ofir Rahum, 16, of Ashkelon, traveled to Jerusalem to meet a young woman with whom he had conducted a relationship over the Internet. She then drove him toward Ramallah. At a prearranged location, another vehicle drove up and three Palestinian gunmen inside shot Rahum more than 15 times. One terrorist drove off with Rahum's body and dumped it, while the others fled in the second vehicle.

• Jan 23, 2001 - Motti Dayan, 27, and Etgar Zeituny, 34, cousins from Tel Aviv, were abducted from a restaurant in Tulkarem by masked Palestinian gunmen and executed.

• Jan 25, 2001 - Akiva Pashkos, 45, of Jerusalem, was shot dead in a terror attack near the Atarot industrial zone north of Jerusalem.

• Jan 29, 2001 - Arye Hershkowitz, 55, of Ofra, was killed by shots fired from a passing car near the Rama junction north of Jerusalem.

• Feb 1, 2001 - Dr. Shmuel Gillis, 42, of Karmei Tzur, was killed by Palestinian gunmen who fired at his car near the Aroub refugee camp on the Jerusalem-Hebron highway. Lior Attiah, 23, of Afula was shot to death by terrorists while traveling near Jenin.

• Feb 5, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Rujayah Salameh, 23, was killed by sniper fire near Rafah.

• Feb 11, 2001 - Tzachi Sasson, 35, of Kibbutz Rosh Tzurim in Gush Etzion, was shot and killed by Palestinian gunmen as he drove home from Jerusalem.

• Feb 14, 2001 - Simcha Shitrit, 30, of Rishon Lezion; Staff-Sgt. Ofir Magidish, 20, of Kiryat Malachi; Sgt. David Iluz, 21, of Kiryat Malachi; Sgt. Julie Weiner, 21, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Rachel Levy, 19, of Ashkelon; Sgt. Kochava Polanski, 19, of Ashkelon; Cpl. Alexander Manevich, 18, of Ashkelon; and Cpl. Yasmin Karisi, 18, of Ashkelon were killed when a bus driven by a Palestinian terrorist plowed into a group of soldiers and civilians waiting at a bus stop near Holon, south of Tel-Aviv. In addition, 25 people were injured in the attack.

• Feb 26, 2001 - The body of Mordechai Shefer, 55, of Kfar Sava, was found in an olive grove near Moshav Hagor. An autopsy revealed that he was murdered. Investigators suspect terrorist motives.

• Mar 1, 2001 - Claude Knap, 29, of Tiberias was killed and 9 people injured when a terrorist detonated a bomb in a Tel Aviv to Tiberias service taxi at the Mei Ami junction in Wadi Ara.

• Mar 4, 2001 - Naftali Dean, 85, of Tel Mond; his niece, Shlomit Ziv, 58, of Netanya; and Yevgenya Malchin, 70, of Netanya were killed in a suicide bombing in downtown Netanya; 60 people were injured. The Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 19, 2001 - Baruch Cohen, 59, of Efrat, was killed by shots fired at his car while driving to work in Jerusalem from his home in the Gush Etzion area. After being hit by bullets, he lost control of the car and collided with an oncoming truck.

• Mar 26, 2001 - Shalhevet Pass, age 10 months, was killed by sniper fire at the entrance to the Avraham Avinu neighborhood in Hebron.

• Mar 28, 2001 - Eliran Rosenberg-Zayat, 15, of Givat Shmuel and Naftali Lanzkorn, 13, of Petah Tikva were killed in a suicide bombing at the Mifgash Hashalom ("peace stop") gas station several hundred meters from an IDF roadblock near the entrance to Kalkilya, east of Kfar Saba. Four people were injured. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Apr 1, 2001 - Staff Sgt. Ya'akov Krenschel, 23, of Nahariya, an IDF reserve soldier, was killed in a firefight between army and Palestinian forces southeast of Nablus.

• Apr 1, 2001 - Dina Guetta, 42, of Haifa, was stabbed to death on Ha'atzmaut Street. Her murder was the initiation rite into a terrorist cell apprehended in July.

• Apr 2, 2001 - Sgt. Danny Darai, 20, of Arad, was killed by a Palestinian sniper after completing guard duty at Rachel's Tomb at the entrance to Bethlehem.

• Apr 21, 2001 - The mutilated body of Stanislav Sandomirsky, 38, of Beit Shemesh, was found in the trunk of his car near a village north of Ramallah late last night. Terrorist motives are suspected.

• Apr 22, 2001 - Dr. Mario Goldin, 53, of Kfar Sava, was killed when a terrorist detonated a powerful bomb he was carrying near a group of people waiting at a bus stop on the corner of Weizman and Tchernichovsky streets. About 60 people were injured in the blast. Hamas claimed responsibility.

• Apr 28, 2001 - Sgt. Shlomo Elmakias, 20, of Netanya, was killed and four women passengers wounded in a drive-by terrorist shooting attack on the Wadi Ara highway in the Galilee.

• Apr 28, 2001 - Simcha Ron, 60, of Nahariya, was found stabbed to death in Kfar Ba'aneh, near Carmiel in the Galilee. The terrorists responsible for the attack were apprehended in July.

• May 1, 2001 - Assaf Hershkowitz, 30, of Ofra, was killed when his vehicle was fired upon and overturned at a junction between Ofra and Beit El.

• May 8, 2001 - Arnaldo Agranionic, 48, was murdered by terrorists as he guarded the Binyamin Farm, a lonely outpost where he lived, on an isolated hilltop east of Itamar in Samaria.

• May 9, 2001 - Yossi Ish-Ran, 14, and Kobi Mandell, 14, both of Tekoa, were found stoned to death in a cave about 200 meters from the small community south of Jerusalem where they lived.

• May 10, 2001 - Constantin Straturula, 52, and Virgil Martinesc, 29, two Romanian citizens employed by an Israeli contractor, were killed in a bomb attack while repairing a vandalized fence at the Kissufim Crossing into the Gaza District.

• May 15, 2001 - Idit Mizrahi, 20, of Rimonim, was fatally shot in a terrorist ambush as she drove with her father and brother on the Alon Highway to attend a family wedding. Terrorists fired 30 bullets, 19 of which hit the family's car.

• May 18, 2001 - Tirza Polonsky, 66, of Moshav Kfar Haim; Miriam Waxman, 51, of Hadera; David Yarkoni, 53, of Netanya; Yulia Tratiakova, 21, of Netanya; and Vladislav Sorokin, 34, of Netanya were killed in a suicide bombing at Hasharon Mall in the seaside city of Netanya, in which over 100 were wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• May 18, 2001 - Lt. Yair Nebenzahl, 22, of Neve Tzuf (Halamish), was killed and his mother seriously wounded, in a Palestinian roadside ambush north of Jerusalem.

• May 23, 2001 - Asher Iluz, 33, of Modi'in was killed outside Ariel en route to supervise a road paving in the area, when Palestinian gunmen opened fire in an ambush.

• May 25, 2001 - The burnt body of Yosef Alfasi, 50, of Rishon Letzion, was discovered near the West Bank city of Tulkarem.

• May 29, 2001 - Gilad Zar, 41, of Itamar, was shot dead in a terrorist ambush while driving in the West Bank between Kedumim and Yizhar. The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

• May 29, 2001 - Sarah Blaustein, 53, and Esther Alvan, 20, of Efrat, were killed in a drive-by shooting near Neve Daniel in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem. The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

• May 31, 2001 - Zvi Shelef, 63, of Mevo Dotan, was killed in a drive-by shooting attack in northern Samaria north of Tulkarem. He was shot in the head and died en route to hospital.

• June 1, 2001 - Marina Berkovizki, 17, of Tel Aviv; Roman Dezanshvili, 21, of Bat Yam; Ilya Gutman, 19, of Bat Yam; Anya Kazachkov, 16, of Holon; Katherine Kastaniyada-Talkir, 15, of Ramat Gan; Aleksei Lupalu, 16, of the Ukraine; Mariana Medvedenko, 16, of Tel Aviv; Irina Nepomneschi, 16, of Bat Yam; Yelena Nelimov, 18, of Tel Aviv; Yulia Nelimov, 16, of Tel Aviv; Raisa Nimrovsky, 15, of Netanya; Pvt. Diez (Dani) Normanov, 21, of Tel Aviv; Simona Rodin, 18, of Holon; Ori Shahar, 32, of Ramat Gan; Liana Sakiyan, 16, of Tel Aviv; Maria Tagilchev, 14, of Netanya; and Irena Usdachi, 18, of Holon were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself outside a disco near Tel Aviv's Dolphinarium along the seafront promenade just before midnight on Friday. Sergei Pancheskov, 20, of the Ukraine; Yael-Yulia Sklianik, 15, of Holon; Jan Bloom, 25, of Ramat Gan; and Yevgenia Dorfman, 15, of Bat Yam died subsequently from their injuries. 120 people were wounded in the bombing.

• June 11, 2001 - Yehuda Shoham, aged 5 months, of Shilo, died of injuries incurred in a fatal stoning on June 5. He was critically injured by a rock thrown at the family's car near Shilo in Samaria.

• June 12, 2001 - Father Georgios Tsibouktzakis, 34, a Greek Orthodox monk from the St. George Monastery in Wadi Kelt in the Judean desert, was shot and killed while driving on the Jerusalem-Ma'ale Adumim road.

• June 14, 2001 - Lt.Col. Yehuda Edri, 45, of Ma'ale Adumim was killed by a Palestinian informant for Israeli intelligence in a shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass tunnel road connecting the Gush Etzion bloc with Jerusalem. One of his security guards was seriously injured.

• June 18, 2001 - Dan Yehuda, 35, of Homesh was killed in a drive-by shooting attack between Homesh and Shavei Shomron, near Nablus. Alex Briskin, 17, was moderately injured. Doron Zisserman, 38, of Einav, was shot and killed in his car by sniper fire near the entrance to Einav, east of Tulkarem. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

• June 20, 2001 - Ilya Krivitz, 62, of Homesh in Samaria was shot and killed at close range in an ambush late Wednesday afternoon in the nearby Palestinian town of Silat a-Dahar.

• June 22, 2001 - Sgt. Aviv Iszak, 19, of Kfar Saba, and Sgt. Ofir Kit, 19, of Jerusalem, were killed in a suicide bombing near Dugit in the Gaza Strip as a jeep with yellow Israeli license plates, supposedly stuck in the sand, blew up as they approached.

• June 28, 2001 - Ekaterina (Katya) Weintraub, 27, of Ganim in northern Samaria was killed and another woman injured late Thursday afternoon by shots fired at the two-car convoy on the Jenin bypass road.

• July 2, 2001 - Aharon Obadyan, 41, of Zichron Ya'akov was shot and killed near Baka a-Sharkia, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem and close to the 1967 Green Line border, after shopping at the local market.

• July 2, 2001 - The body of Yair Har Sinai, 51, of Susiya in the Hebron hills, missing since Monday (July 2) was found early Tuesday morning shot in the head and chest.

• July 4, 2001 - Eliahu Na'aman, 32, of Petah Tikva, was shot at point-blank range just inside the Green Line at Sueika, near Tulkarem.

• July 9, 2001 - Capt. Shai Shalom Cohen, 22, of Pardes Hanna, was killed and another soldier was wounded when an explosive charge detonated beneath their jeep after leaving the Aduraim IDF base south of Hebron.

• July 13, 2001 - Yehezkel (Hezi) Mualem, 49, father of four from Kiryat Arba, was shot and killed between Kiryat Arba and Hebron while protesting a shooting attack in the area the previous day.

• July 14, 2001 - David Cohen, 28, of Betar Illit, died of injuries sustained in a drive-by shooting in Kiryat Arba on July 12.

• July 16, 2001 - Cpl. Hanit Arami, 19, and St.Sgt. Avi Ben Harush, 20, both of Zichron Yaakov, were killed and 11 wounded - 3 seriously - when a bomb exploded in a suicide terrorist attack at a bus stop near the train station in Binyamina, halfway between Netanya and Haifa, at about 19:30 Monday evening. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• July 24, 2001 - The body of Yuri Gushchin, 18, of Jerusalem, brutally murdered, bearing stab and gunfire wounds, was found in Ramallah.

• July 26, 2001 - Ronen Landau, 17, of Givat Ze'ev, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists while returning home from Jerusalem with his father.

• Aug 5, 2001 - Tehiya Bloomberg, 40, of Karnei Shomron, mother of five and 5 months pregnant, was killed when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on the family vehicle between Alfei Menashe and Karnei Shomron. Three people were seriously wounded, including her husband, Shimon, and daughter, Tzippi, 14.

• Aug 6, 2001 - Yitzhak Snir, 51, of Ra'anana, an Israeli diamond merchant, was shot dead in Amman, in the yard of the building where he kept a flat. His body was found the following morning.

• Aug 7, 2001 - Wael Ghanem, 32, an Arab Israeli resident of Taibeh, was shot and killed by Palestinian assailants on the road near Kalkilya. Police believe he was murdered because of suspected collaboration with Israeli authorities. Zohar Shurgi, 40, of Moshav Yafit in the Jordan Valley, was shot and killed by terrorists while driving home at night on the Trans-Samaria Highway.

• Aug 9, 2001 - Giora Balash, 60, of Brazil; Zvika Golombek, 26, of Carmiel; Shoshana Yehudit Greenbaum, 31, of the U.S.; Tehila Maoz, 18, of Jerusalem; Frieda Mendelsohn, 62, of Jerusalem; Michal Raziel, 16, of Jerusalem; Malka Roth, 15, of Jerusalem; Mordechai Schijveschuurder, 43, of Neria; Tzira Schijveschuurder, 41, of Neria; Ra'aya Schijveschuurder, 14, of Neria; Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder, 4, of Neria; Hemda Schijveschuurder, 2, of Neria; Lily Shimashvili, 33, of Jerusalem; Tamara Shimashvili, 8, of Jerusalem; and Yocheved Shoshan, 10, of Jerusalem were killed and about 130 injured in a suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizzeria on the corner of King George Street and Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Aug 9, 2001 - Aliza Malka, 17, a boarding student at Kibbutz Merav, was killed by terrorists in a drive-by shooting at the entrance to the kibbutz in the Gilboa region, west of Beit She'an. Three teenage girls who were with her in the car were injured, one seriously.

• Aug 25, 2001 - Maj. Gil Oz, 30, of Kfar Sava; St.-Sgt. Kobi Nir, 21, of Kfar Sava; and Sgt. Tzahi Grabli, 19 of Holon were killed and seven soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists infiltrated an IDF base in Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip at about 3:00 AM Saturday morning. The attackers, members of the PLO Fatah faction and of the Palestinian security forces, were killed by IDF soldiers. The Democratic Front claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Aug 25, 2001 - Sharon, 26, and Yaniv Ben-Shalom, 27, of Ofarim, were killed when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on their car as they were returning home on the Jerusalem-Modi'in on road Saturday night. Their children, aged one and two, were lightly wounded. Sharon's brother, Doron Sviri, 20, of Jerusalem was fatally wounded and died the following day.

• Aug 26, 2001 - Dov Rosman, 58, of Netanya was killed in a shooting attack shortly before 17:00 on Sunday afternoon near the entrance to the village of Zaita, opposite Kibbutz Magal. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Aug 27, 2001 - Meir Lixenberg, 38, of Itamar, father of five, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists from a roadside ambush while traveling between the communities of Har Bracha and Itamar, south of Nablus.

• Aug 29, 2001 - Oleg Sotnikov, 35, of Ashdod, a truck driver employed by Dor Energy, was killed in a terrorist shooting attack outside the Palestinian village of Kutchin, west of Nablus.

• Aug 30, 2001 - Amos Tajouri, 60, of Modi'in, was shot in the head at point-blank range by a masked gunman in the Arab village of Na'alin, while dining at a restaurant owned by close friends.

• Sept 6, 2001 - Lt. Erez Merhavi, 23, of Moshav Tarum was killed in an ambush shooting near Kibbutz Bahan, east of Hadera, while driving to a wedding. A female officer with him in the car was seriously injured. Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Sept 9, 2001 - Ya'akov Hatzav, 42, of Hamra in the Jordan Valley, the driver, and Sima Franko, 24, of Beit She'an, a kindergarten teacher, were killed in a shooting attack 300 meters south of the Adam Junction in the Jordan Valley. A minibus transporting teachers to the regional school was attacked by Palestinian terrorists.

• Sept 9, 2001 - Dr. Yigal Goldstein, 47, of Jerusalem; Morel Derfler, 45, of Mevasseret Zion; and Sgt. Daniel Yifrah, 19, of Jerusalem were killed and some 90 injured, most lightly, in a suicide bombing near the Nahariya train station in northern Israel.

• Sept 11, 2001 - Border Policemen Sgt. Tzachi David, 19, of Tel-Aviv, and St.-Sgt. Andrei Zledkin, 26, of Carmiel, were killed just after midnight when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on the Ivtan Border Police base near Kibbutz Bachan in central Israel. A Fatah group claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Sept 12, 2001 - Ruth Shua'i, 46, of Alfei Menashe, was traveling home around 19:30 PM when shots were fired from a passing vehicle near the village of Habla near Kalkilya. She sustained injuries to her head and stomach and died en route to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba.

• Sept 15, 2001 - Meir Weisshaus, 23, of Jerusalem, was fatally shot late Saturday night in a drive-by shooting on the Ramot-French Hill road in northern Jerusalem.

• Sept 16, 2001 - Sgt. David Gordukal, 23, of Upper Nazareth, was killed in the exchange of fire on Saturday night in the south of Ramallah, during which five senior Palestinian terrorists were arrested and a number of Palestinian positions and a Force 17 camp were attacked.

• Sept 20, 2001 - Sarit Amrani, 26, of Nokdim, was killed Thursday morning and her husband Shai was seriously wounded in a shooting attack near Tekoa, south of Bethlehem. The couple's three children who were traveling in the vehicle were not injured. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Sept 24, 2001 - Salit Sheetrit, 28, of Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu was killed by gunfire shortly after 6:30 near Shadmot Mehola on the Jordan Valley road. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Oct 2, 2001 - Cpl. Liron Harpaz, 19, of Alei Sinai, and Assaf Yitzhaki, 20, of Lod, were killed when a Palestinian terrorist cell infiltrated the northern Gaza District community of Alei Sinai, opening fire on residents and hurling grenades into homes. 15 others were wounded in the attack.

• Oct 4, 2001 - Sgt. Tali Ben-Armon, 19, an off-duty woman soldier from Pardesia, Haim Ben-Ezra, 76, of Givat Hamoreh, and Sergei Freidin, 20, of Afula were killed when a Palestinian terrorist, dressed as an Israeli paratrooper, opened fire on Israeli civilians waiting at the central bus station in Afula. 13 other Israelis were wounded in the attack. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Oct 5, 2001 - Hananya Ben-Avraham, 46, of Elad was killed by Palestinian terrorists in a machine gun ambush near Avnei Hefetz in central Israel.

• Oct 7, 2001 - Yair Mordechai, 43, of Kibbutz Sheluhot was killed when a Palestinian suicide terrorist detonated a large bomb strapped to his body near the entrance of the kibbutz in the Beit She'an Valley.

• Oct 17, 2001 - Tourism Minister Rechavam Ze'evy, 75, was assassinated by two shots to the head outside his room at the Jerusalem Hyatt Hotel. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Oct 18, 2001 - Lior Kaufman, 30, of Ramat Sharon was killed and two injured, one seriously, by shots fired by terrorists at their jeep in the Judean desert, near the Mar Saba monastery.

• Oct 28, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Yaniv Levy, 22, of Zichron Yaakov was killed by Palestinian terrorists in a drive-by machine-gun ambush near Kibbutz Metzer in northern Israel. The Tanzim wing of Arafat's Fatah faction claimed responsibility for the murder.

• Oct 28, 2001 - Ayala Levy, 39, of Elyachin; Smadar Levy, 23, of Hadera; Lydia Marko, 63, of Givat Ada; and Sima Menachem, 30, of Zichron Yaakov were killed when two Palestinian terrorists, members of the Palestinian police, armed with assault rifles and expanding bullets, opened fire from a vehicle on Israeli pedestrians at a crowded bus-stop in downtown Hadera. About 40 were wounded, three critically. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsiblity for the attack.

• Nov 2, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Raz Mintz, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin was killed by Palestinian gunmen 5:45 P.M. on Friday at an IDF roadblock at near Ofra, north of Ramallah. The Fatah-affiliated Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Nov 4, 2001 - Shoshana Ben-Yishai, 16, of Betar Illit and Menashe (Meni) Regev, 14, of Jerusalem were killed when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a sub-machine gun shortly before 16:00 at a No. 25 Egged bus at the French Hill junction in northern Jerusalem. 45 people were injured in the attack.

• Nov 6, 2001 - Capt. (Res.) Eyal Sela, 39, of Moshav Nir Banim, was shot dead in an ambush by three Palestinian terrorists on the southern Nablus bypass road.

• Nov 9, 2001 - Hadas Abutbul, 39, of Mevo Dotan in northern Samaria was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists on Friday afternoon as she drove from work in nearby Shaked.

• Nov 11, 2001 - Aharon Ussishkin, 50, head of security at Moshav Kfar Hess, east of Netanya, was shot and killed at the entrance to the moshav on Sunday evening, after being summoned to investigate a suspicious person.

• Nov 24, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Barak Madmon, 26, of Holon, an IDF reservist, was killed by a mortar shell that landed in the soccer field of Kfar Darom in Gush Katif, while on his way to take up guard duty. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Nov 27, 2001 - Noam Gozovsky, 23, of Moshav Ramat Zvi, and Michal Mor, 25, of Afula were killed when two Palestinian terrorists from the Jenin area opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a crowd of people near the central bus station in Afula. Police officers and a reserve soldier confronted them, killing the terrorists in the ensuing firefight. Another 50 people were injured, 10 of them moderately to seriously. Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility.

• Nov 27, 2001 - Etty Fahima, 45, of Netzer Hazani was killed three others were injured when a Palestinian terrorist threw grenades and opened fire at a convoy on the road between the Kissufim crossing and Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Nov 29, 2001 - 1st Sgt. Yaron Pikholtz, 20, of Ramat Gan, was killed and a second soldier was injured in a drive-by shooting incident on the Green Line, near the West Bank village of Baka el-Sharkiya.

• Nov 29, 2001 - Inbal Weiss, 22, of Zichron Ya'akov; Yehiav Elshad, 28, of Tel-Aviv; and Samuel Milshevsky, 45, of Kfar Sava were killed and nine wounded in a suicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the city of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Dec 1, 2001 - Assaf Avitan, 15, of Jerusalem; Michael Moshe Dahan, 21, of Jerusalem; Israel Ya'akov Danino, 17, of Jerusalem; Yosef El-Ezra, 18, of Jerusalem; Sgt. Nir Haftzadi, 19, of Jerusalem; Yuri (Yoni) Korganov, 20, of Ma'alei Adumim; Golan Turgeman, 15, of Jerusalem; Guy Vaknin, 19, of Jerusalem; Adam Weinstein, 14, of Givon Hahadasha, and Moshe Yedid-Levy, 19, of Jerusalem were killed and about 180 injured - 17 seriously - when explosive devices were detonated by two suicide bombers close to 11:30 P.M. Saturday night on Ben Yehuda Street, the pedestrian mall in the center of Jerusalem. A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Ido Cohen, 17, of Jerusalem, fatally injured in the attack, died of his wounds on December 8.

• Dec 2, 2001 - Prof. Baruch Singer, 51, of Gedera was killed when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on his car near the northern Gaza settlement of Elei Sinai. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Dec 2, 2001 - Tatiana Borovik, 23, of Haifa; Mara Fishman, 51, of Haifa; Ina Frenkel, 60, of Haifa; Riki Hadad, 30, of Yokne'am; Ronen Kahalon, 30, of Haifa; Samion Kalik, 64, of Haifa; Mark Khotimliansky, 75, of Haifa; Cecilia Kozamin, 76, of Haifa; Yelena Lomakin, 62, of Haifa; Rosaria Reyes, 42, of the Philippines; Yitzhak Ringel, 41, of Haifa; Rassim Safulin, 78, of Haifa; Leah Strick, 73, of Haifa; Faina Zabiogailu, 64, of Haifa; Mikhail Zaraisky, 71, of Haifa were killed and 40 injured in a suicide bombing on an Egged bus No. 16 in Haifa shortly after 12:00. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Dec 12, 2001 - Yair Amar, 13, of Emmanuel; Esther Avraham, 42, of Emmanuel; Border Police Chief Warrant Officer Yoel Bienenfeld, 35, of Moshav Tel Shahar; Moshe Gutman, 40, of Emmanuel; Avraham Nahman Nitzani, 17, of Betar Illit; Yirmiyahu Salem, 48, of Emmanuel; Israel Sternberg, 46, of Emmanuel; David Tzarfati, 38, of Ginot Shomron; Hananya Tzarfati, 32, of Kfar Saba; Ya'akov Tzarfati, 64, of Kfar Saba were killed when three terrorists attacked a No. 189 Dan bus and several passenger cars with a roadside bomb, anti-tank grenades, and light arms fire near the entrance to Emmanuel in Samaria at 18:00 P.M. About 30 others were injured. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Dec 25, 2001 - Sgt. Michael Sitbon, 23, of Beit Shemesh, an IDF reserve soldier, was killed, and four other soldiers were injured, in a shooting attack Tuesday morning near the Jordanian border north of Beit She'an.

2002:

• Jan 9, 2002 - Maj. Ashraf Hawash, 28, of Beit Zarzir; Sgt.-Maj. Ibrahim Hamadieh, 23, of Rehaniya; Sgt.-Maj. Hana (Eli) Abu-Ghanem, 25, of Haifa; and St.-Sgt. Mofid Sawaid, 25, of Abu Snan, four IDF soldiers of the Bedouin desert patrol unit, were killed and two injured when two armed Palestinian terrorists from the southern Gaza Strip, carrying explosive belts, assault rifles, grenades, and dressed in Palestinian Authority police uniforms, infiltrated into Israel at 04:30 this morning and attacked an IDF post near Kerem Shalom. The terrorists, one a member of the Palestinian Authority's naval force, and the second a Hamas operative, were killed. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Jan 14, 2002 - Sgt. Elad Abu-Gani, 19, of Tiberias, was killed and an officer sustained gunshot wounds in a terrorist ambush near Kuchin, between Nablus and Tulkarm. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Jan 15, 2002 - Avraham (Avi) Boaz, 71, of Ma'aleh Adumim, an American citizen, was kidnapped at a PA security checkpoint in Beit Jala. His bullet-riddled body was found in a car in Beit Sahur, in the Bethlehem area. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder.

• Jan 15, 2002 - Yoela Chen, 45, of Givat Ze'ev, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists near the gas station at the entrance to Givat Ze'ev shortly before 20:00. Her aunt who was with her in the car was injured. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder.

• Jan 16, 2002 - Shahada Dadis, 30, an Arab resident of Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem, was killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting. He was found dead in a car bearing Israeli license plates south of Jenin in the West Bank.

• Jan 17, 2002 - Edward Bakshayev, 48, of Or Akiva; Anatoly Bakshayev, 63, of Or Akiva; Aharon Ben Yisrael-Ellis, 32, of Ra'anana; Dina Binayev, 48, of Ashkelon; Boris Melikhov, 56, of Sderot; and Avi Yazdi, 25, of Hadera were killed and 35 injured, several seriously, when a terrorist burst into a bat mitzva reception in a banquet hall in Hadera shortly before 23:00, opening fire with an M-16 assault rifle. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Jan 22, 2002 - Sarah Hamburger, 79, and Svetlana Sandler, 56, both of Jerusalem, were killed and 40 were injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with an M-16 assault rifle near a bus stop in downtown Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Jan 27, 2002 - Pinhas Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem was killed and over 150 people were wounded, four seriously, in a suicide bombing on Jaffa Road, in the center of Jerusalem, shortly before 12:30. The female terrorist, identified as a Fatah member, was armed with more than 10 kilos of explosives.

• Feb 6, 2002 - Miri Ohana, 45, and her daughter Yael, 11, were murdered in their home when an armed terrorist infiltrated Moshav Hamra, halfway between Jericho and Beit She'an in the Jordan Valley on Wednesday evening, opening fire. IDF reserve soldier, St.-Sgt. Maj.(res.) Moshe Majos Meconen, 33, of Beit She'an, was also killed in the attack. The terrorist, who entered the Ohana home disguised in IDF uniform, was killed by IDF forces. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility.

• Feb 8, 2002 - Moran Amit, 25, of Kibbutz Kfar Hanasi was stabbed to death by four Palestinians, aged 14 to 16, while strolling on the Sherover Promenade in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood Friday afternoon.

• Feb 9, 2002 - Atala Lipobsky, 78, of Ma'ale Ephraim was shot dead on Saturday night while driving on the Trans-Samaria Highway with her son. Palestinian gunmen opened fire on the car, apparently from an ambush, between Ariel and the Tapuah Junction.

• Feb 10, 2002 - Lt. Keren Rothstein, 20, of Ashkelon and Cpl. Aya Malachi, 18, of Moshav Ein Habesor were killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at the entrance to the IDF Southern Command base in Be'er Sheva. Four others were wounded, one critically. One of the terrorists was killed at the scene; the second, wearing an explosives belt, fled in the direction of a nearby school when he was shot and killed by a soldier and police officer. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 14, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Ron Lavie, 20, of Katzrin, St.-Sgt. Moshe Peled, 20, of Rehovot, and St.-Sgt. Asher Zaguri, 21, of Shlomi were killed and four soldiers injured when a powerful mine exploded under a IDF tank on the Karni-Netzarim road in the Gaza Strip Thursday night, following the detonation of a roadside bomb at a civilian convoy of cars and a bus.

• Feb 15, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Lee Nahman Akunis, 20, of Holon, was shot and killed by gunmen on Friday night at a roadblock north of Ramallah. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 16, 2002 - Nehemia Amar, 15, and Keren Shatsky, 15, both of Ginot Shomron were killed and about 30 people were wounded, six seriously, when a suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday night at a pizzeria in the shopping mall in Karnei Shomron in Samaria. Rachel Theler, 16, of Ginot Shomron died of her wounds on February 27. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 18, 2002 - Policeman Ahmed Mazarib, 32, of the Bedouin village Beit Zarzir in the Galilee, was killed by a suicide bomber whom he had stopped for questioning on the Ma'ale Adumim-Jerusalem road. The terrorist succeeded in detonating the bomb in his car. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 18, 2002 - Ahuva Amergi, 30, of Ganei Tal in Gush Katif was killed and a 60-year old man was injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on her car. Maj. Mor Elraz, 25, of Kiryat Ata and St.-Sgt. Amir Mansouri, 21, of Kiryat Arba, who came to their assistance, were killed while trying to intercept the terrorist. The terrorist was killed when the explosives he was carrying were detonated. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 19, 2002 - Lt. Moshe Eini, 21, of Petah Tikva; St.-Sgt. Benny Kikis, 20, of Carmiel; St.-Sgt. Mark Podolsky, 20, of Tel Aviv; St.-Sgt. Erez Turgeman, 20, of Jerusalem; St.-Sgt. Tamir Atsmi, 21, of Kiryat Ono; and St.-Sgt. Michael Oxsman, 21, of Haifa were killed and one wounded in an attack near a roadblock west of Ramallah. Several terrorists opened fire at soldiers at the roadblock, including three off-duty soldiers inside a structure at the roadblock, killing them at point-blank range. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 22, 2002 - Valery Ahmir, 59, of Beit Shemesh was killed by terrorists in a drive-by shooting on the Atarot-Givat Ze'ev road north of Jerusalem as he returned home from work. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 25, 2002 - Avraham Fish, 65, and Aharon Gorov, 46, both of Nokdim, were killed in a terrorist shooting attack between Tekoa and Nokdim, south of Bethlehem. Fish's daughter, 9 months pregnant, was seriously injured but delivered a baby girl. The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 25, 2002 - Police officer 1st Sgt. Galit Arbiv, 21, of Nesher, died after being fatally shot, when a terrorist opened fire at a bus stop in the Neve Ya'akov residential neighbhorhood in northern Jerusalem. Eight others were injured, two seriously. The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 27, 2002 - Gad Rejwan, 34, of Jerusalem, was shot and killed early Wednesday morning by one of his Palestinian employees in a factory in the Atarot industrial area, north of Jerusalem. Two Fatah groups issued a joint statement taking responsibility for the murder.

• Feb 28, 2002 - IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Haim Bachar, 20, of Tel Aviv was killed during clashes with Palestinians in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. IDF forces entered the camp to search for wanted terrorists.

• Mar 1, 2002 - IDF soldier Sgt. Ya'acov Avni, 20, of Kiryat Ata was killed by Palestinian sniper fire in the Jenin refugee camp.

• Mar 2, 2002 - The bullet-ridden body of Jerusalem police detective Chief-Supt. Moshe Dayan, 46, of Ma'aleh Adumim, was discovered next to his trail motorcycle, near the Mar Saba Monastery in the Judean Desert. Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 2, 2002 - Ten people were killed and over 50 were injured, 4 critically, in a suicide bombing at 19:15 on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem where people had gathered for a bar-mitzva celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue. The victims: Shlomo Nehmad (40), his wife Gafnit (32), and their daughters Shiraz (7) and Liran (3), of Rishon Lezion; Shaul Nehmad (15), of Rishon Lezion; Lidor Ilan (12) and his sister Oriah (18 months), of Rishon Lezion; Tzofia Ya'arit Eliyahu (23) and her son Ya'akov Avraham (7 months), of Jerusalem. Avi Hazan, 37, of Moshav Adora, died of his injuries on Monday morning (Mar 4). The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade took responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 3, 2002 - Ten Israelis - 7 soldiers and 3 civilians - were killed and 6 injured when a terrorist opened fire at an IDF roadblock near Ofra in Samaria: Capt. Ariel Hovav, 25, of Eli; Lt.(res.) David Damelin, 29, of Kibbutz Metzar; 1st Sgt.(res.) Rafael Levy, 42, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Avraham Ezra, 38, of Kiryat Bialik; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Eran Gad, 24, of Rishon Letzion; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Yochai Porat, 26, of Kfar Sava; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Kfir Weiss, 24, of Beit Shemesh; Sergei Butarov, 33, of Ariel; Vadim Balagula, 32, of Ariel; and Didi Yitzhak, 66, of Eli. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 3, 2002 - Sgt. Steven Koenigsburg, 19, of Hod Hasharon was killed and 4 soldiers injured when a Palestinian gunman opened fire near the Kissufim crossing in the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad and Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 5, 2002 - Police officer FSM Salim Barakat, 33, of Yarka; Yosef Habi, 52, of Herzliya; and Eli Dahan, 53, of Lod were killed and over 30 people were wounded in Tel-Aviv when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on two adjacent restaurants shortly after 2:00 AM. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 5, 2002 - Devorah Friedman, 45, of Efrat, was killed and her husband injured in shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass "tunnel road", south of Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 5, 2002 - Maharatu Tagana, 85, of Upper Nazareth was killed and a large number of people injured, most lightly, when a suicide bomber exploded in an Egged No. 823 bus as it entered the Afula central bus station. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 6, 2002 - 1st Lt. Pinhas Cohen, 23, of Jerusalem, was killed overnight near the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis, in the course of anti-terrorist activity. Cpl.(res.) Alexander Nastarenko, 37, of Netanya was killed when Palestinian gunmen crossed the border fence and ambushed an army jeep on the patrol road near Kibbutz Nir Oz.

• Mar 7, 2002 - Arik Krogliak of Beit El, Tal Kurtzweil of Bnei Brak, Asher Marcus of Jerusalem, Eran Picard of Jerusalem, and Ariel Zana of Jerusalem, all aged 18, were killed and 23 people were injured, four seriously, when a Palestinian gunman penetrated the pre-military training academy in the Gush Katif settlement of Atzmona. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 8, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Edward Korol, 20, of Ashdod, was killed by a Palestinian sniper in Tulkarem.

• Mar 9, 2002 - Avia Malka, 9 months, of South Africa, and Israel Yihye, 27, of Bnei Brak were killed and about 50 people were injured, several seriously, when two Palestinians opened fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians in the coastal city of Netanya on Saturday evening, close to the city's boardwalk and hotels. The terrorists were killed by Israeli border police. The Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 9, 2002 - Limor Ben-Shoham, 27, of Jerusalem; Nir Borochov, 22, of Givat Ze'ev; Danit Dagan, 25, of Tel-Aviv; Livnat Dvash, 28, of Jerusalem; Tali Eliyahu, 26, of Jerusalem; Uri Felix, 25, of Givat Ze'ev; Dan Imani, 23, of Jerusalem; Natanel Kochavi, 31, of Kiryat Ata; Baruch Lerner, 29, of Eli; Orit Ozerov, 28, of Jerusalem; Avraham Haim Rahamim, 28, of Jerusalem were killed and 54 injured, 10 of them seriously, when a suicide bomber exploded at 22:30 PM Saturday night in a crowded cafe at the corner of Aza and Ben-Maimon streets in the Rehavia neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 10, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Kobi Eichelboim, 21, of Givatayim died Sunday afternoon from wounds suffered in the morning when a Palestinian gunman disguised as a worker opened fire at the entrance to Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.

• Mar 12, 2002 - Eyal Lieberman, 42, of Tzoran was killed and another person was wounded in a shooting attack at the Kiryat Sefer checkpoint, east of Modi'in.

• Mar 12, 2002 - Yehudit Cohen, 33, of Shlomi; Ofer Kanarick, 44, of Moshav Betzet; Alexei Kotman, 29, of Kibbutz Beit Hashita; Lynne Livne, 49, and her daughter Atara, 15, of Kibbutz Hanita; and Lt. German Rozhkov, 25, of Kiryat Shmona were killed when two terrorists opened fire from an ambush on Israeli vehicles traveling between Shlomi and Kibbutz Metzuba near the northern border with Lebanon. Seven others were injured. Israeli forces killed the two gunmen, who were dressed in IDF uniforms, and carried out wide-scale searches for additional terrorists.

• Mar 13, 2002 - Lt. Gil Badihi, 21, of Nataf died of injuries suffered Wednesday morning in Ramallah. He was shot in the head by a Palestinian gunman as he stood next to his tank.

• Mar 14, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Matan Biderman, 21, of Carmiel, St.-Sgt. Ala Hubeishi, 21, of Julis, and Sgt. Rotem Shani, 19, of Hod Hasharon were killed and two soldiers were injured early Thursday morning when a tank escorting a civilian convoy drove over a land mine exploded on the Karni-Netzarim road in the Gaza Strip. Terrorists hiding in a nearby mosque detonated the remote-controlled explosive charge beneath the armored vehicle. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Fatah's al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade both claimed responsibility.

• Mar 17, 2002 - Noa Auerbach, 18, of Kfar Sava was killed and 16 people were injured when a terrorist opened fire on passersby in the center of Kfar Sava. The gunman was shot and killed by police.

• Mar 19, 2002 - 1st Lt. Tal Zemach, 20, of Kibbutz Hulda, was killed and three soldiers were injured when Palestinian terrorists opened fire on them in the Jordan Valley. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 20, 2002 - Sgt. Michael Altfiro, 19, of Pardes Hanna; St.-Sgt. Shimon Edri, 20, of Pardes Hanna; SWO Meir Fahima, 40, of Hadera; Cpl. Aharon Revivo, 19, of Afula; Alon Goldenberg, 28, of Tel Aviv; Mogus Mahento, 75, of Holon; and Bella Schneider, 53, of Hadera were killed and about 30 people were wounded, several seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus No. 823 traveling from Tel Aviv to Nazareth at the Musmus junction on Highway 65 (Wadi Ara) near Afula. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 21, 2002 - Gadi (34) and Tzipi (29) Shemesh, of Jerusalem and Yitzhak Cohen, 48, of Modi'in were killed and 86 people injured, 3 of them seriously, in a suicide bombing on King George Street in the center of Jerusalem. The terrorist detonated the bomb, packed with metal spikes and nails, in the center of a crowd of shoppers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 24, 2002 - Esther Klieman, 23, of Neve Tzuf, was killed in a shooting attack northwest of Ramallah, while traveling to work in a reinforced Egged bus.

• Mar 24, 2002 - Avi Sabag, 24, of Otniel was killed in a terrorist shooting south of Hebron.

• Mar 26, 2002 - Major Cengiz Soytunc of Turkey and Catherine Berruex of Switzerland, members of the TIPH observer force in Hebron, were killed in an ambush shooting by a Palestinian gunman near Halhul.

• Mar 27, 2002 - 22 people were killed (6 more died later) and 140 injured - 20 seriously - in a suicide bombing in the Park Hotel in the coastal city of Netanya, in the midst of the Passover holiday seder with 250 guests. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Shula Abramovitch, 63, of Holon; David Anichovitch, 70, of Netanya; Sgt.-Maj. Avraham Beckerman, 25, of Ashdod; Shimon Ben-Aroya, 42, of Netanya; Andre Fried, 47, of Netanya; Idit Fried, 47, of Netanya; Miriam Gutenzgan, 82, Ramat Gan; Ami Hamami, 44, of Netanya; Perla Hermele, 79, of Sweden; Dvora Karim, 73, of Netanya; Michael Karim, 78, of Netanya; Yehudit Korman, 70, of Ramat Hasharon; Marianne Lehmann Zaoui, 77, of Netanya; Lola Levkovitch, 85, of Jerusalem; Furuk Na'imi, 62, of Netanya; Eliahu Nakash, 85, of Tel-Aviv; Irit Rashel, 45, of Moshav Herev La'et; Yulia Talmi, 87, of Tel-Aviv; St.-Sgt. Sivan Vider, 20, of Bekaot; Ernest Weiss, 79, of Petah Tikva; Eva Weiss, 75, of Petah Tikva; Meir (George) Yakobovitch, 76, of Holon. Chanah Rogan, 92, of Netanya; Zee'v Vider, 50, of Moshav Bekaot; Alter Britvich, 88, and his wife Frieda, 86, of Netanya died of their injuries on April 2-3. Sarah Levy-Hoffman, 89, of Tel-Aviv died of her injuries on April 7. Anna Yakobovitch, 78, of Holon died of her injuries on April 11.

• Mar 28, 2002 - Rachel and David Gavish, 50, their son Avraham Gavish, 20, and Rachel's father Yitzhak Kanner, 83, were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the community of Elon Moreh in Samaria, entered their home and opened fire on its inhabitants. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 29, 2002 - Tuvia Wisner, 79, of Petah Tikva and Michael Orlinsky, 70, of Tel-Aviv were killed Friday morning, when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the Neztarim settlement in the Gaza Strip.

• Mar 29, 2002 - Lt. Boaz Pomerantz, 22, of Kiryat Shmona and St.-Sgt. Roman Shliapstein, 22, of Ma'ale Efraim were killed in the course of the IDF anti-terrorist action in Ramallah (Operation Defensive Shield).

• Mar 29, 2002 - Rachel Levy, 17, and Haim Smadar, 55, the security guard, both of Jerusalem, were killed and 28 people were injured, two seriously, when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 30, 2002 - Border Policeman Sgt.-Maj. Constantine Danilov, 23, of Or Akiva was shot and killed in Baka al-Garbiyeh, during an exchange of fire with two Palestinians trying to cross into Israel to carry out a suicide attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

• Mar 31, 2002 - 14 people were killed and over 40 injured in a suicide bombing in Haifa, in the Matza restaurant of the gas station near the Grand Canyon shopping mall. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Suheil Adawi, 32, of Turan; Dov Chernevroda, 67, of Haifa; Shimon Koren, 55; his sons Ran, 18, and Gal, 15, of Haifa; Moshe Levin, 52, of Haifa; Danielle Manchell, 22, of Haifa; Orly Ofir, 16, of Haifa; Aviel Ron, 54; his son Ofer, 18, and daughter Anat, 21, of Haifa; Ya'akov Shani, 53, of Haifa; Adi Shiran, 17, of Haifa; Daniel Carlos Wegman, 50, of Haifa. Carlos Yerushalmi, 52, of Karkur, died on April 1 of wounds sustained in the attack.

• Apr 1, 2002 - Sgt.-Maj. Ofir Roth, 22, of Gan Yoshiya, an IDF reserve soldier, was killed at a roadblock near Jerusalem's Har Homa neighborhood by a Palestinian sniper firing from Beit Sahur, near Bethlehem.

• Apr 1, 2002 - Tomer Mordechai, 19, of Tel-Aviv, a policeman, was killed in Jerusalem, when a Palestinian suicide bomber driving toward the city center blew himself after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Apr 3, 2002 - IDF reservist Maj. Moshe Gerstner, 29, of Rishon Lezion was killed in Jenin during anti-terrorist action (Operation Defensive Shield).

• Apr 4, 2002 - Rachel Charhi, 36, of Bat-Yam, critically injured in a suicide bombing in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv on March 30, died of her wounds. Some 30 others were injured in the attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

• Apr 4, 2002 - Border Police Supt. Patrick Pereg, 30, of Rosh Ha'ayin, head of operations in an undercover unit, was killed Thursday while attempting to arrest a wanted member of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

• Apr 4, 2002 - Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Einan Sharabi, 32, of Rehovot; Lt. Nissim Ben-David, 22, of Ashdod; and St.-Sgt. Gad Ezra, 23, of Bat-Yam were killed during the IDF anti-terrorist action in Jenin (Operation Defensive Shield).

• Apr 5, 2002 - Sgt. Merom Fisher, 19, of Moshav Avigdor; Sgt. Ro'i Tal, 21, of Ma'alot; and Sgt. Oded Kornfein, 20, of Kibbutz Ha'on - were killed in exchanges of fire between IDF troops and Palestinian gunmen in Jenin (Operation Defensive Shield).

• Apr 6, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Nisan Avraham, 26, of Lod was killed and five other soldiers were lightly injured when two Palestinian gunmen opened fire and threw grenades at the entrance to Rafiah Yam in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians, members of the Islamic Jihad, were killed.

• Apr 8, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Matanya Robinson, 21, of Kibbutz Tirat Zvi, and Sgt. Shmuel Weiss, 19, of Kiryat Arba were killed in an ambush by Palestinian gunfire in the Jenin refugee camp (Operation Defensive Shield).

• Apr 9, 2002 - 13 IDF soldiers were killed and 7 injured in the Jenin refugee camp by Palestinian terrorists. An IDF patrol by reserve soldiers was ambushed during operations in the refugee camp. Explosive devices were detonated against them, as well as gunfire directed against the soldiers from the rooftops of the surrounding buildings. The soldiers killed: Maj.(res.) Oded Golomb, 22, of Kibbutz Nir David; Capt.(res.) Ya'akov Azoulai, 30, of Migdal Ha'emek; Lt.(res.) Dror Bar, 28, of Kibbutz Einat; Lt.(res.) Eyal Yoel, 28, of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel; 1st Sgt.(res.) Tiran Arazi, 33, of Hadera; 1st Sgt.(res.) Yoram Levy, 33, of Elad; 1st Sgt.(res.) Avner Yaskov, 34, of Be'er Sheva; Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Ronen Alshochat, 27, of Ramle; gt. 1st Class (res.) Eyal Eliyahu Azouri, 27, of Ramat Gan; Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Amit Busidan, 22, of Bat Yam; Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Menashe Hava, 23, of Kfar Sava; Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Shmuel Danny Meizlish, 27, of Moshav Hemed; Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Eyal Zimmerman, 22, of Ra'anana.

• Apr 9, 2002 - Maj. Assaf Assoulin, 30, of Tel Aviv was killed in an exchange of fire in Nablus.

• Apr 9, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Gedalyahu Malik, 21, of Jerusalem was killed and 12 soldiers were injured in Jenin when an explosive charge was thrown at a patrol.

• Apr 10, 2002 - Avinoam Alfia, 26, of Kiryat Ata; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Shlomi Ben Haim, 27, of Kiryat Yam; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Nir Danieli, 24, of Kiryat Ata; Border Police Lance Cpl. Keren Franco, 18, of Kiryat Yam; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Ze'ev Hanik, 24, of Karmiel; Border Police Lance Cpl. Noa Shlomo, 18, of Nahariya; Prison Warrant Officer Shimshon Stelkol, 33, of Kiryat Yam; and Sgt. Michael Weissman, 21, of Kiryat Yam were killed and 22 people injured in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #960, en route from Haifa to Jerusalem, which exploded near Kibbutz Yagur, east of Haifa. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Apr 12, 2002 - Lt. Dotan Nahtomi, 22, of Kibbutz Tzuba, died of wounds sustained earlier in the week during IDF operations in Dura (Operation Defensive Shield).

• Apr 12, 2002 - Border policeman St.-Sgt. David Smirnoff, 22, of Ashdod was killed when a Palestinian gunman opened fire near the Erez crossing, in the Gaza Strip, killing one and injuring another four Israelis. The terrorist killed one and injured three Palestinian workers in the same shooting spree. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Apr 12, 2002 - Nissan Cohen, 57; Rivka Fink, 75; Suheila Hushi, 48; and Yelena Konrab, 43, all of Jerusalem; and Ling Chang Mai, 34, and Chai Siang Yang, 32, both foreign workers from China, were killed and 104 people were wounded when a woman suicide bomber detonated a powerful charge at a bus stop on Jaffa road at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Apr 20, 2002 - Border Policeman St.-Sgt. Uriel Bar-Maimon, 21 of Ashkelon was killed in an exchange of fire near the Erez industrial park in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pursued the Palestinian gunman and killed him. An explosive belt was found on his body. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

• Apr 22, 2002 - Sgt. Maj. Nir Krichman, 22 of Hadera, was killed in an exchange of gunfire, when IDF forces entered the village of Asira a-Shamaliya, north of Nablus, to arrest known Hamas terrorists.

• Apr 27, 2002 - Danielle Shefi, 5; Arik Becker, 22; Katrina (Katya) Greenberg, 45; and Ya'acov Katz, 51, all of Adora, were killed when terrorists dressed in IDF uniforms and combat gear cut through the settlement's defensive perimeter fence and entered Adora, west of Hebron. Seven other people were injured, one seriously. The terrorists entered several homes, firing on people in their bedrooms. Both Hamas and the PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.

• May 3, 2002 - IDF officer Major Avihu Ya'akov, 24, of Kfar Hasidim, was killed and two other soldiers injured in Nablus in a raid against a terror cell that was planning a suicide attack in Israel.

• May 7, 2002 - 15 people were killed and 55 wounded in a crowded game club in Rishon Lezion, southeast of Tel-Aviv, when a suicide bomber detonated a powerful charge in the 3rd floor club, causing part of the building to collapse. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• The victims: Esther Bablar, 54, of Bat Yam; Yitzhak Bablar, 57, of Bat Yam; Avi Bayaz, 26, of Nes Ziona; Regina Malka Boslan, 62, of Jaffa; Edna Cohen, 61, of Holon; Rafael Haim, 64, of Tel-Aviv; Pnina Hikri, 60, of Tel-Aviv; Nawa Hinawi, 51, of Tel-Aviv; Rahamim Kimhi, 58, of Rishon Lezion; Nir Lovatin, 31, of Rishon Lezion; Shoshana Magmari, 51, of Tel-Aviv; Dalia Masa, 56, of Nahalat Yehuda; Rassan Sharouk, 60, of Holon; Israel Shikar, 49, of Rishon Lezion; Anat Teremforush, 36, of Ashdod.

• May 12, 2002 - Nisan Dolinger, 43, of Pe'at Sadeh in the southern Gaza Strip was shot and killed by a Palestinian laborer. The assailant was apprehended.

• May 19, 2002 - Yosef Haviv, 70, Victor Tatrinov, 63, and Arkady Vieselman, 40, all of Netanya, were killed and 59 people were injured - 10 seriously - when a suicide bomber, disguised as a soldier, blew himself up in the market in Netanya. Both Hamas and the PFLP took responsibility for the attack.

• May 22, 2002 - Elmar Dezhabrielov, 16, and Gary Tauzniaski, 65, both of Rishon Lezion, were killed and about 40 people were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself in the Rothschild Street downtown pedestrian mall of Rishon Lezion.

• May 24, 2002 - Reserve IDF Sgt. 1st Class Oren Tzelnik, 23, of Bat Yam was killed and two soldiers wounded when terrorists opened fire on their APC during a counter-terrorist operation in Tulkarm.

• May 27, 2002 - Ruth Peled, 56, of Herzliya and her infant granddaughter Sinai Keinan, aged 14 months, of Petah Tikva were killed and 37 people were injured, some seriously, when a suicide bomber detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• May 28, 2002 - Albert Maloul, 50, of Jerusalem, was killed when shots were fired at the car in which he was traveling south on the Ramallah bypass road. Maloul and his cousin, who was lightly injured, were returning home to Jerusalem from Eli, where they operate the swimming pool. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• May 28, 2002 - Netanel Riachi, 17, of Kochav Ya'akov; Gilad Stiglitz, 14, of Yakir; and Avraham Siton, 17, of Shilo - three yeshiva high school students - were killed and two others wounded in Itamar, southeast of Nablus, when a Palestinian gunman infiltrated the community and opened fire on the teenagers playing basketball, before he was shot dead by a security guard. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Jun 5, 2002 - 17 people were killed and 38 injured when a car packed with a large quantity of explosives struck Egged bus No. 830 traveling from Tel-Aviv to Tiberias at the Megiddo junction near Afula. The bus, which burst into flames, was completely destroyed. The terrorist, who drove the car bomb, was killed in the blast. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The names of 16 of the victims have been released: Cpl. Liron Avitan, 19, of Hadera; Cpl. Avraham Barzilai, 19, of Netanya; Cpl. Dennis Bleuman, 20, of Hadera; St.-Sgt. Eliran Buskila, 21, of Hadera; St.-Sgt. Zvi Gelberd, 20 of Hadera; Sgt. Violetta Hizgayev, 20, of Hadera; St.-Sgt. Ganadi Issakov, 21, of Hadera; Sgt. Sariel Katz, 21, of Netanya; Cpl. Vladimir Morari, 19, of Hadera; Sgt. Yigal Nedipur, 21, of Netanya; Sgt. Dotan Reisel, 22, of Hadera; St.-Sgt. David Stanislavksy, 23, of Netanya; Sgt. Sivan Wiener, 19, of Holon; Zion Agmon, 50, of Hadera; Adi Dahan, 17, of Afula; Shimon Timsit, 35, of Tel-Aviv.

• Jun 6, 2002 - Erez Rund, 18, of Ofra died of gunshot wounds to the chest sustained in a shooting attack near Ofra, north of Ramallah, when Palestinian terrorists opened fire from an ambush.

• June 8, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Eyal Sorek, 23, his wife Yael, 24 - 9 months pregnant - of Carmei Tzur, and St.-Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Shalom Mordechai, 35, of Nahariya were killed and five others injured when terrorists infiltrated the community of Carmei Tzur in the Gush Etzion bloc and opened fire at 2:30 A.M. on Friday night. The Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• June 11, 2002 - Hadar Hershkowitz, 14, of Herzliya was killed and 15 others were wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber set off a relatively small pipe bomb at a shwarma restaurant in Herzliya.

• June 15, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Haim Yehezkel (Hezki) Gutman, 22, of Beit El, and St.-Sgt. Alexei Gladkov, 20, of Be'er Sheva were killed and four soldiers were wounded in a confrontation with terrorists near Alei Sinai and Dugit in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility. Lt. Anatoly Krasik, 22, of Petah Tikva died of his wounds on June 22.

• June 18, 2002 - 19 people were killed and 74 were injured - six seriously - in a suicide bombing at the Patt junction in Egged bus no. 32A traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem. The bus, which was completely destroyed, was carrying many students on their way to school. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Boaz Aluf, 54, of Jerusalem; Shani Avi-Zedek, 15, of Jerusalem; Leah Baruch, 59, of Jerusalem; Mendel Bereson, 72, of Jerusalem; Rafael Berger, 28, of Jerusalem; Michal Biazi, 24, of Jerusalem; Tatiana Braslavsky, 41, of Jerusalem; Galila Bugala, 11, of Jerusalem; Raisa Dikstein, 67, of Jerusalem; Dr. Moshe Gottlieb, 70, of Jerusalem; Baruch Gruani, 60, of Jerusalem; Orit Hayla, 21, of Jerusalem; Helena Ivan, 63, of Jerusalem; Iman Kabha, 26, of Barta; Shiri Negari, 21, of Jerusalem; Gila Nakav, 55, of Jerusalem; Yelena Plagov, 42, of Jerusalem; Liat Yagen, 24 of Jerusalem; Rahamim Zidkiyahu, 51, of Jerusalem.

• June 19, 2002 - Noa Alon, 60, of Ofra; Gal Eisenman, 5, of Ma'ale Adumim; Michal Franklin, 22, of Jerusalem; Tatiana Igelski, 43, of Moldova; Hadassah Jungreis, 20, of Migdal Haemek; Gila Sara Kessler, 19, of Eli; and Shmuel Yerushalmi, 17, of Shilo were killed and 50 people were injured - three of them in critical condition - when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem shortly after 7:00 P.M., as people were returning home from work. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• June 19, 2002 - Maj. Shlomi Cohen, 26, of Rehovot and St.-Sgt. Yosef Talbi, 20, of Yehud were killed and four soldiers were wounded Wednesday night in Kalkilya when Palestinian gunmen opened fire while the soldiers were in pursuit of two terrorists inside a building.

• June 20, 2002 - Rachel Shabo, 40, and three of her sons - Neria, 16, Zvika, 12, and Avishai, 5 - as well as a neighbor, Yosef Twito, 31, who came to their aid, were murdered when a terrorist entered their home in Itamar, south of Nablus, and opened fire. Two other children were injured, as well as two soldiers. The terrorist was killed by IDF forces. The PFLP and the Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• July 10, 2002 - IDF officer Capt. Hagai Lev, 24, of Jerusalem, deputy commander of a Givati reconaissance unit, was killed by Palestinian sniper fire while conducting a search for weapons smuggling tunnels in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. The Fatah Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the shooting.

• July 16, 2002 - Nine people were killed and 20 injured in a terrorist attack on Dan bus No. 189 traveling from Bnei Brak to Emmanuel in Samaria. An explosive charge was detonated next to the bullet-resistant bus. The terrorists waited in ambush, reportedly wearing IDF uniforms, and opened fire on the bus. While four terror organizations claimed responsibility for the attack, it was apparently carried out by the same Hamas cell which carried out the attack in Emmanuel on Dec 12, 2001. The victims: Galila Ades, 42, of Emmanuel; Yonatan Gamliel, 16, of Emmanuel; Keren Kashani, 29, of Emmanuel; Sarah Tiferet Shilon, 8 months, of Emmanuel; Gal Shilon (her father), 32, of Emmanuel; Zilpa Kashi (her grandmother), 65, of Givatayim; Ilana Siton, 35, of Emmanuel. The premature infant delivered after its mother, Yehudit Weinberg, was seriously injured, died of his injuries overnight. Yocheved Ben-Hanan, 21, of Emmanuel, who was critically wounded, died on July 18.

• July 17, 2002 - Lt. Elad Grenadier, 21, of Haifa was killed and three soldiers were wounded early Wednesday morning in an exchange of fire with the terrorists responsible for the attack in Emmanuel on July 16.

• July 17, 2002 - Adrian Andres, 30, of Romania; Boris Shamis, 25, of Tel-Aviv; and Xu Hengyong, 39, of China were killed and 40 were injured in a double suicide bombing on Neve Shaanan Street near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. Two of those critically wounded subsequently died of their injuries: Li Bin, 33, of China (July 24) and Dmitri Pundikov, 33, of Bat-Yam (July 25). The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• July 25, 2002 - Rabbi Elimelech Shapira, 43, of Peduel, was killed and another civilian injured in a shooting attack near the West Bank community of Alei Zahav, west of Ariel. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• July 26, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Elazar Lebovitch, 21, of Hebron; Rabbi Yosef Dikstein, 45, of Psagot, his wife Hannah, 42, and their 9-year-old son Shuv'el Zion were killed in a shooting attack south of Hebron. Two other of their children were injured. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• July 30, 2002 - Shlomo Odesser, 60, and his brother Mordechai, 52, both of Tapuach in Samaria, were shot and killed when their truck came under fire in the West Bank village of Jama'in, near Ariel. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• July 31, 2002 - Nine people - four Israelis and five foreign nationals - were killed and 85 injured, 14 of them seriously, when a bomb exploded in the Frank Sinatra student center cafeteria on the Hebrew University's Mt. Scopus campus. The explosive device was planted inside the cafeteria, which was gutted by the explosion. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: David Diego Ladowski, 29, of Jerusalem; Levina Shapira, 53, of Jerusalem; Marla Bennett, 24, of California (US); Benjamin Blutstein, 25, of Pennsylvania (US); Dina Carter, 37, of Jerusalem (US); Janis Ruth Coulter, 36, of Massachusetts (US); David Gritz, 24, of Jerusalem (US-France). Daphna Spruch, 61, of Jerusalem died of her wounds on August 10. Revital Barashi, 30, died of her wounds on August 13.

• Aug 1, 2002 - The body Shani Ladani, 27, of Moshav Olash, shot and bound, was found west of Tulkarem, near the Green Line, in the industrial zone where he was employed.

• Aug 4, 2002 - Nine people were killed and some 50 wounded in a suicide bombing of Egged bus No. 361 traveling from Haifa to Safed at the Meron junction in northern Israel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Mordechai Yehuda Friedman, 24, of Ramat Beit Shemesh; Sari Goldstein, 21, of Karmiel; Maysoun Amin Hassan, 19, of Sajur; Marlene Menahem, 22, of Moshav Safsufa; Sgt.-Maj. Roni Ghanem, 28, of Maghar; Sgt. Yifat Gavrieli, 19, of Mitzpe Adi; Sgt. Omri Goldin, 20, of Mitzpe Aviv; Adelina Kononen, 37, of the Philippines; Rebecca Roga, 40, of the Philippines.

• Aug 4, 2002 - Yekutiel Amitai, 34, of Jerusalem, a security guard, and Nizal Awassat, 52, of the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood in East Jerusalem, were killed and 17 were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a pistol near the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City. Border policemen exchanged fire with the gunman, killing him. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Aug 5, 2002 - Avi Wolanski (29) and his wife Avital (27), of Eli, were killed and one of their children, aged 3, was injured when terrorists opened fire on their car as they were traveling on the Ramallah-Nablus road near Eli in Samaria. The Martyrs of the Palestinian Popular Army, a splinter group associated with Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Aug 10, 2002 - Yafit Herenstein, 31, of Moshav Mechora in the Jordan Valley, was killed and her husband, Arno, seriously wounded when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the moshav and opened fire outside their home. The terrorist was killed by soldiers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Aug 20, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Kevin Cohen, 19, of Petah Tikva, was killed by a Palestinian sniper near Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip.

• Sept 5, 2002 - 1st Lt. Malik Grifat, 24, of Zarzir was killed and a soldier wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire, from a crowded school, towards an IDF patrol near Nisanit in the northern Gaza Strip. The terrorist was killed. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Sept 5, 2002 - Sgt. Aviad Dotan, 21, of Moshav Nir Galim was killed and three soldiers were wounded when a large bomb weighing over 100 kgs exploded under a Merkava tank near the Kissufim Crossing in central Gaza Strip. An umbrella group representing several Palestinian factions claimed responsibility.

• Sept 18, 2002 - The charred body of David Buhbut, 67, of Ma'ale Adumim, shot in the head, was found near el-Azzariya, a Palestinian village near Ma'ale Adumim, east of Jerusalem, the victim of a terrorist killing.

• Sept 18, 2002 - Yosef Ajami, 36, of Jerusalem was killed Wednesday afternoon when terrorists opened fire on his car near Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in the West Bank. The other occupant of the car, a foreign worker, was lightly injured. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Sept 18, 2002 - Police Sgt. Moshe Hezkiyah, 21, of Elyachin was killed and three people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Umm al Fahm junction. The terrorist, who was apparently planning to detonate the bomb after boarding a bus, set the charge off early when approached by the police for questioning. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Sept 19, 2002 - Solomon Hoenig, 79, of Tel Aviv; Yossi Mamistavlov, 39 of Or Yehuda; Yaffa Shemtov, 49, of Tel Aviv; Rosanna Siso, 63, of Gan Yavneh; Ofer Zinger, 29, of Moshav Pazael; and Jonathan (Yoni) Jesner, 19, of Glasgow, Scotland were killed and about 70 people were wounded when a terrorist detonated a bomb in Dan bus No. 4 on Allenby Street, opposite the Great Synagogue in Tel-Aviv. Hamas claimed responsbility for the attack.

• Sept 23, 2002 - Shlomo Yitzhak Shapira, 48, of Jerusalem was killed and three of his children wounded, one seriously, in a shooting attack Monday evening near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. The family, from Jerusalem, had come to Hebron to celebrate the Sukkot festival.

• Sept 26, 2002 - Capt. Harel Marmelstein, 23, of Mevasseret Zion, an IDF officer from the naval commando, was killed while leading a search for wanted terrorists in the West Bank village of Labed near Tulkarem. Senior Hamas terrorist Nisa'at Jaber ambushed the troops, opening fire and killing the commander. Jaber was killed by the soldiers.

• Sept 30, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Ari Weiss, 21, of Ra'anana, was killed and another soldier from the engineering battalion of the Nahal Brigade was wounded when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an army position in the Nablus casbah. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Oct 8, 2002 - Oded Wolk, 51, of Modi'in, who was critically wounded in an ambush shooting south of Hebron, died of his wounds the following day (Oct 9). Three other Israelis were injured in the attack when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on their car. Hamas claimed resopnsibility for the attack.

• Oct 10, 2002 - Sa'ada Aharon, 71, of Ramat Gan was killed and about 30 people were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up while trying to board Dan bus No. 87 across from Bar-Ilan University on the Geha highway (Route 4). Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Oct 21, 2002 - 14 people were killed and some 50 wounded when a car bomb containing about 100 kilograms of explosives was detonated next to a No. 841 Egged bus from Kiryat Shmona to Tel-Aviv, while traveling along Wadi Ara on Route No. 65 toward Hadera. The bus had pulled over at a bus stop when the suicide bomber, from Jenin, driving a jeep, approached from behind and exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Thirteen of the victims have been identified: Osnat Abramov, 16, of Holon; St.-Sgt. Liat Ben-Ami, 20, of Haifa; Ofra Burger, 56, of Hod Hasharon; Cpl. Ilona Hanukayev, 20, of Hadera; Ashati Indelau, 50, of Hadera; Suad Jaber, 23, of Taibe; Iris Lavi, 68, of Netanya; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Eliezer Moskovitch, 40, of Petah Tikva; St.-Sgt. Nir Nahum, 20, of Carmiel; Sgt. Esther Pisahov, 19, of Givat Olga; St.-Sgt. Aiman Sharuf, 20, of Ussfiyeh; Anat Shimshon, 34, of Ra'anana; Cpl. Sharon Tubol, 19, of Arad.

• Oct 27, 2002 - Maj. (res.) Tamir Masad, 41, of Ben Shemen; Lt. Matan Zagron, 22, of Itamar; and Sgt.-Maj. Amihud Hasid, 32, of Tapuah were killed and about 20 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at the Sonol gas station at the entrance to Ariel in Samaria. The two officers and soldier were killed while trying to prevent the terrorist from detonating the bomb. The terrorist was identified as a member of Hamas.

• Oct 29, 2002 - Three Hermesh residents - Orna Eshel, 53, Linoy Saroussi and Hadas Turgeman, both 14 - were killed and two were wounded when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and wearing an explosive belt opened fire, after infiltrating the settlement in northern Samaria. The terrorist was shot dead. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Nov 4, 2002 - Security guard Julio Pedro Magram, 51, of Kfar Sava, and Gastón Perpiñal, 15, of Ra'anana, both recent immigrants from Argentina, were killed and about 70 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a shopping mall in Kfar Sava. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Nov 6, 2002 - Assaf Tzfira, 18, of B'dolah and Amos Sa'ada, 52, of Rafiah Yam were killed when when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire in a hothouse and textile factory at Pe'at Sadeh in the southern Gaza Strip. The terrorist was killed by a security officer. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Nov 9, 2002 - Sgt.-Maj. Madin Grifat, 23, of Beit Zarzir was killed when a mine exploded during a routine patrol northeast of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip. The Givati Brigade company commander was wounded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Nov 10, 2002 - Revital Ohayon, 34, and her two sons, Matan, 5, and Noam, 4, as well as Yitzhak Dori, 44 - all of Kibbutz Metzer - and Tirza Damari, 42, of Elyachin, were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the kibbutz, located east of Hadera near the Green Line, and opened fire. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Nov 15, 2002 - Twelve people - 9 soldiers and three civilians from the Kiryat Arba emergency response team - were killed and 15 others wounded Friday night in Hebron when Palestinian terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at a group of Jewish worshipers and their guards as they were walking home from Sabbath prayers at the Cave of the Patriarchs. The dead included civilian worshipers and soldiers, some of whom were caught in an ambush as they pursued the attackers. Three terrorists were killed in the attack, which was claimed by the Islamic Jihad. The victims: Col. Dror Weinberg, 38, of Jerusalem; Border Police officer Ch.-Supt. Samih Sweidan, 31, of Arab al-Aramsha; Sgt. Tomer Nov, 19, of Ashdod; Sgt. Gad Rahamim, 19, of Kiryat Malachi; St.-Sgt. Netanel Machluf, 19, of Hadera; St.-Sgt. Yeshayahu Davidov, 20, of Netanya; Sgt. Igor Drobitsky, 20, of Nahariya; Cpl. David Marcus, 20, of Ma'aleh Adumim; and Lt. Dan Cohen, 22, of Jerusalem. The three civilian members of the Kiryat Arba emergency response team killed were Yitzhak Buanish, 46; Alexander Zwitman, 26; and Alexander Dohan, 33.

• Nov 18, 2002 - Esther Galia, 48, of Kochav Hashahar, was killed in a shooting attack near Rimonim, on the Allon Road, some 15 kilometers northeast of Ramallah.

• Nov 21, 2002 - Eleven people were killed and some 50 wounded by a suicide bomber on a No. 20 Egged bus on Mexico Street in the Kiryat Menahem neighborhood of Jerusalem. The bus was filled with passengers, including schoolchildren, traveling toward the center of the city during rush hour. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Hodaya Asraf, 13, of Jerusalem; Marina Bazarski, 46, of Jerusalem; Hadassah (Yelena) Ben-David, 32, of Jerusalem; Sima Novak, 56, of Jerusalem; Kira Perlman, 67, and her grandson Ilan Perlman, 8, of Jerusalem; Yafit Ravivo, 14 of Jerusalem; Ella Sharshevsky, 44, and her son Michael Sharshevsky, 16, of Jerusalem; Mircea Varga, 25, a tourist from Romania; Dikla Zino, 22, of Jerusalem.

• Nov 22, 2002 - IDF tracker Sgt.-Maj. Shigdaf (Shai) Garmai, 30, of Lod, was killed when an Israel Defense Forces Givati Brigade patrol near Tel Qateifa, in the Gaza Strip, came under Palestinian gunfire. Hamas claimed responsibility.

• Nov 28, 2002 - Noy and Dvir Anter, aged 12 and 14, of Ariel, and Albert (Avraham) de Havila, 60, of Ra'anana were killed along with 10 Kenyans when a car bomb exploded in the lobby of the Israeli-owned beachfront Paradise Hotel, frequented almost exclusively by Israeli tourists, near Mombasa in Kenya; 21 Israelis were among the 80 wounded. Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack, as well as for the simultaneous attempt to down an Arkia plane.

• Nov 28, 2002 - Haim Amar, 56; Ehud (Yehuda) Avitan, 54; Mordechai Avraham, 44; Ya'acov Lary, 35; and David Peretz, 48 - all of Beit She'an; and Shaul Zilberstein, 36, of Upper Nazareth, were killed and about 40 wounded when two terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at the Likud polling station in Beit She'an, near the central bus station, where party members were casting their votes in the Likud primary. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Dec 12, 2002 - Corp. Keren Ya'akobi, 19, of Hadera and Sgt. Maor Kalfon, 19, of Kiryat Yam were killed while on guard near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

• Dec 20, 2002 - Rabbi Yitzhak Arama, 40, of Netzer Hazani in Gush Katif, in the Gaza Strip, was shot and killed on the Kissufim corridor road while driving with his wife and six children to attend a pre-wedding Sabbath celebration in Afula. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Dec 27, 2002 - Four yeshiva students - St.-Sgt. Noam Apter, 23, of Shilo; Pvt. Yehuda Bamberger, 20, of Karnei Shomron; Gavriel Hoter, 17, of Alonei Habashan; and Zvi Zieman, 18, of Reut - were killed in Otniel, south of Hebron, while working in the yeshiva kitchen, serving the Shabbat meal to some 100 students in the adjacent dining room. The two terrorists from the Islamic Jihad, which claimed responsibility for the attack, were killed by IDF forces. Ten other, including six soldiers, were wounded in the attack.

2003:

• Jan 2, 2003 - The charred body of Massoud Makhluf Alon, 72, from Menahemiya in the Lower Galilee, was found in the northern Jordan Valley in his burned out car. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the murder.

• Jan 5, 2003 - Twenty-three people - 15 Israelis and 8 foreign nationals - were killed and about 120 wounded in a double suicide bombing near the old Central Bus Station in Tel-Aviv. The attack was apparently carried out by two members of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, with the help of the Islamic Jihad. The Israeli victims: Moshe (Maurice) Aharfi, 60, of Tel-Aviv; Mordechai Evioni, 52, of Holon; Andrei Friedman, 30, of Tel-Aviv; Meir Haim, 74, of Azor; Hannah Haimov, 53, of Tel Aviv; Avi Kotzer, 43, of Bat Yam; Ramin Nasibov, 25, of Tel-Aviv; Staff Sgt. Mazal Orkobi, 20, of Azor; Ilanit Peled, 32, of Azor; Viktor Shebayev, 62, of Holon; Boris Tepalshvili, 51, of Yehud; Sapira Shoshana Yulzari-Yaffe, 46, of Bat Yam; Lilya Zibstein, 33, of Haifa; Amiram Zmora, 55, of Holon; Igor Zobokov, 32, of Bt Yam. Foreign workers: Krassimir Mitkov Angelov, 32, of Bulgaria; Steven Arthur Cromwell, 43, of Ghana; Ivan Gaptoniak, 46, of Ukraine; Ion (Nelu) Nicolae, 34, of Romania; Guo Aiping, 47, of China; Li Peizhong, 41, of China; Mihai Sabau, 38, of Romania. Zhang Minmin, 50, of China died of her wounds on January 13.

• Jan 12, 2003 - Eli Biton, 48, of Moshav Gadish was killed and four people wounded when terrorists infiltrated the community and opened fire. Two terrorists were killed by Israeli forces. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Jan 12, 2003 - Cpl.(res.) Mikhail Kazakov, 34, of Jerusalem was killed by terrorists who infiltrated across the Israel-Egypt border, near the Negev town of Nitzana.

• Jan 17, 2003 - Netanel Ozeri, 34, was killed when terrorists entered his home, in an outpost north of Kiryat Arba, and opened fire. His 5-year-old daughter and two friends were wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Jan 23, 2003 - Cpl. Ronald Berer, 20, of Rehovot; Cpl. Assaf Bitan, 19, of Afula; and St.-Sgt. Ya'akov Naim, 20, of Kfar Monash were killed by terrorists while on patrol south of Hebron. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 6, 2003 - 2nd Lt. Amir Ben-Aryeh, 21, of Maccabim, and St.-Sgt. Idan Suzin, 20, of Kiryat Tivon were killed and two more soldiers were wounded in a shooting attack in the area of Nablus. Both gunmen were killed by return fire from IDF troops. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 11, 2003 - Maj. Shahar Shmul, 24, of Jerusalem was killed by a Palestinian sniper near the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem while checking a suspicious vehicle. The PFLP and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 15, 2003 - Cpl. Noam Bahagon, 20, of Elkana; Sgt. Tal Alexei Belitzky, 21, of Rishon Lezion; St.-Sgt. Doron Cohen, 21, of Rishon Lezion; and Sgt. Itay Mizrahi, 20, of Be'er Sheva were killed when their tank drove over an explosive device weighing 100 kgs while on patrol in the Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 23, 2003 - Sgt. Doron Lev, 19, of Holon was shot and killed when a Palestinian sniper opened fire at an army position in the southern Gaza Strip. The PFLP claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 5, 2003 - Seventeen people were killed and 53 wounded in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus #37 on Moriah Blvd. in the Carmel section of Haifa, en route to Haifa University. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Maryam Atar, 27, of Haifa; Smadar Firstater, 16, of Haifa; Kamar Abu Hamed, 12, of Daliat al-Carmel; Daniel Haroush, 16, of Safed; Mordechai Hershko, 41, of Haifa; Tom Hershko, 15, of Haifa; Meital Katav, 20, of Haifa ; Elizabeta Katzman, 16, of Haifa; Tal Kerman, 17, of Haifa; St.-Sgt. Eliyahu Laham, 22, of Haifa; Abigail Litle, 14, of Haifa; Yuval Mendelevitch, 13, of Haifa; St.-Sgt. Be'eri Oved, 21, of Rosh Pina; Mark Takash, 54, of Haifa; Assaf Tzur (Zolinger), 17, of Haifa. Anatoly Biryakov, 20, of Haifa, died of his injuries on March 8. Moran Shushan, 20, of Haifa, died of her injuries on March 11.

• Mar 7, 2003 - Rabbi Eli Horowitz, 52, and his wife Dina, 50, of Kiryat Arba, were killed and five wounded Friday night by armed terrorists disguised as Jewish worshippers who infiltrated Kiryat Arba, entered their home and murdered them while they were celebrating the Sabbath. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 10, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Tomer Ron, 20, of Moshav Moledet, was killed and four soldiers were wounded - one seriously - in Hebron, on the road between the Cave of the Patriarchs and Kiryat Arba, when Palestinian terrorists opened fire on a foot patrol. Two organizations - Hamas and Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front-General Command - claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 12, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Assaf Moshe Fuchs, 21, of Kibbutz Gvat was killed and another soldier wounded Wednesday morning in an exchange of fire with wanted terrorists from the Islamic Jihad in the West Bank village of Saida, near Tulkarm.

• Mar 18, 2003 - Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Ami Cohen, 27, of Netanya was killed and another soldier wounded south of Bethlehem when Palestinians opened fire during a search for wanted terrorists.

• Mar 19, 2003 - Zion Boshirian, 51, of Mevo Dotan was shot and killed while driving in his car between Mevo Dotan and Shaked in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Apr 10, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Yigal Lifshitz, 20, of Rishon Lezion, and St.-Sgt. Ofer Sharabi, 21, of Givat Shmuel were killed and nine others wounded when Palestinian terrorists opened fire before dawn on their base near Bekaot in the northern Jordan Valley. The PFLP and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Apr 15, 2003 - Lt. Daniel Mandel, 24, of Alon Shvut was killed and another soldier was wounded in an exchange of gunfire during a search for wanted Hamas terrorists in Nablus.

• Apr 15, 2003 - Zachar Rahamin Hanukayev, 39, of Sderot and Ahmed Salah Kara, 20, of Shuafat in northern Jerusalem were killed and four Israelis were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire at the Karni industrial zone crossing in the Gaza Strip. The gunman was killed by security personnel. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Apr 20, 2003 - IDF photographer Cpl. Lior Ziv, 19, of Holon, was killed and three other soldiers were wounded during an operation to destroy a Hamas smuggling tunnel in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip.

• Apr 24, 2003 - Alexander Kostyuk, a 23-year-old security guard from Bat Yam, was killed and 13 were wounded, two seriously, in a suicide bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP clamied joint responsibility for the attack.

• Apr 30, 2003 - Ran Baron, 23, of Tel Aviv, Dominique Caroline Hass, 29, of Tel Aviv, and Yanai Weiss, 46, of Holon, were murdered and about 60 people were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a beachfront pub, "Mike's Place," in Tel Aviv. The Fatah Tanzim and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out as a joint operation.

• May 5, 2003 - Gideon Lichterman, 27, of Ahiya, was killed and two other passengers, his six-year-old daughter Moriah and a reserve soldier, were seriously wounded when terrorists fired shots at their vehicle near Shvut Rachel, in Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• May 11, 2003 - Zion David, 53, of Givat Ze'ev near Jerusalem, was shot in the head and killed by Palestinian terrorists in a roadside ambush half a kilometer from Ofra, north of Jerusalem. Both Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.

• May 17, 2003 - Gadi Levy and his wife Dina, aged 31 and 37, of Kiryat Arba were killed by a suicide bomber in Hebron. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• May 18, 2003 - Seven people were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus no. 6 near French Hill in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Olga Brenner, 52; Yitzhak Moyal, 64; Nelly Perov, 55; Marina Tsahivershvili, 44; Shimon Ustinsky, 68; and Roni Yisraeli, 34 - all of the Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood in Jerusalem; and Ghalab Tawil, 42, of Shuafat. A second suicide bomber detonated his bomb when intercepted by police in northern Jerusalem. The terrorist was killed; no one else was injured.

• May 19, 2003 - Kiryl Shremko, 22, of Afula; Hassan Ismail Tawatha, 41, of Jisr a-Zarqa; and Avi Zerihan, 36, of Beit Shean were killed and about 70 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.

• June 5, 2003 - The bodies of David Shambik, 26, and Moran Menachem, 17, both of Jerusalem, were found near Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem, brutally beaten and stabbed to death.

• June 8, 2003 - Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Assaf Abergil, 23, of Eilat; Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Udi Eilat, 38, of Eilat; Sgt. Maj. Boaz Emete, 24, of Beit She'an; and Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Chen Engel, 32, of Ramat Gan were killed and four reserve soldiers were wounded when Palestinian terrorists wearing IDF uniforms opened fire on an IDF outpost near the Erez checkpoint and industrial zone in the Gaza Strip. Three terrorists were killed by IDF soldiers. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad issued a joint statement claiming responsibility for the attack.

• June 8, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Matan Gadri, 21, of Moshav Moledet was killed in Hebron while pursuing two Palestinian gunmen who earlier had wounded a Border Policeman on guard at the Tomb of the Patriarchs. The two terrorists were killed.

• June 11, 2003 - Seventeen people were killed and over 100 wounded in a suicide bombing on Egged bus #14A outside the Klal building on Jaffa Road in the center of Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Sgt. Tamar Ben-Eliahu, 20, of Moshav Paran; Alan Beer, 47, of Jerusalem; Eugenia Berman, 50, of Jerusalem; Elsa Cohen, 70, of Jerusalem; Zvi Cohen, 39, of Jerusalem; Roi Eliraz, 22, of Mevaseret Zion; Alexander Kazaris, 77, of Jerusalem; Yaffa Mualem, 65, of Jerusalem; Yaniv Obayed, 22, of Herzliya; >Bat-El Ohana, 21, of Kiryat Ata; Anna Orgal, 55, of Jerusalem; Zippora Pesahovitch;, 54, of Zur Hadassah; Bianca Shahrur, 62, of Jerusalem; Malka Sultan, 67, of Jerusalem; Bertine Tita, 75, of Jerusalem. Miriam Levy, 74, of Jerusalem died of her wounds on June 12. The 17th victim, male, who has not yet been positively identified, is believed to be a foreign worker from Eritrea.

• June 12, 2003 - Avner Maimon, 51, of Netanya, was found shot to death in his car near Yabed in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• June 13, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Mordechai Sayada, 22, of Tirat Carmel, was shot to death in Jenin by a Palestinian sniper as his jeep patrol passed by. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• June 17, 2003 - Noam Leibowitz, 7, of Yemin Orde was killed and three members of her family wounded in a shooting attack near the Kibbutz Eyal junction on the Trans-Israel Highway. The terrorist fired from the outskirts of the West Bank city of Kalkilya. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command claimed responsibility for the attack.

• June 19, 2003 - Avner Mordechai, 58, of Moshav Sde Trumot, was killed when a suicide bomber blew up in his grocery on Sde Trumot, south of Beit Shean. The suicide bomber was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• June 20, 2003 - Zvi Goldstein, 47, of Eli, was killed when his car was fired upon in an ambush by Palestinian terrorists near Ofra, north of Ramallah. His parents, Eugene and Lorraine Goldstein, from New York, were seriously wounded and his wife lightly injured. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• June 26, 2003 - Amos (Amit) Mantin, 31, of Hadera, a Bezeq employee, was killed in a shooting attack in the Israeli Arab town of Baka al-Garbiyeh. The shots were fired by a Palestinian teenager, who was apprehended by police. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• June 27, 2003 - Sgt. Maj. Erez Ashkenazi, 21, of Kibbutz Reshafim, an Israeli navy commando, was killed in an operation in Gaza to capture a Hamas cell, believed responsible for several bombings and the firing of anti-tank missiles in the Netzarim area.

• June 30, 2003 - Krastyu Radkov, 46, a construction worker from Bulgaria, was killed in a shooting attack on the Yabed bypass road in northern Samaria, west of Jenin, while driving a truck. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, in opposition to the declared ceasefire.

• July 7, 2003 - Mazal Afari, 65, of Moshav Kfar Yavetz was killed in her home on Monday evening and three of her grandchildren lightly wounded in a terrorist suicide bombing. The remains of the bomber were also found in the wreckage of the house. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• July 15, 2003 - Amir Simhon, 24, of Bat Yam was killed when a Palestinian armed with a long-bladed knife stabbed passersby on Tel Aviv's beachfront promenade, after a security guard prevented him from entering the Tarabin cafe and was wounded. The terrorist, who was shot and apprehended, is a member of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

• July 21, 2003 - The body of IDF soldier Cpl. Oleg Shaichat, 20, of Upper Nazareth, abducted and murdered on July 21 while on his way home, was found on July 28, buried in an olive grove near Kafr Kana, an Arab village in the Lower Galilee.

• Aug 8, 2003 - Third Petty Officer Roi Oren, 20, an Israel Navy commando, was shot in the head and killed in an assault on a Hamas bomb factory in Nablus.

• Aug 10, 2003 - Haviv Dadon, 16, of Shlomi, was struck in the chest and killed by shrapnel from an anti-aircraft shell fired by Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon, as he sat with friends after work. Four others were wounded.

• Aug 12, 2003 - Yehezkel (Hezi) Yekutieli, 43, of Rosh Ha'ayin, was murdered by a teenaged Palestinian suicide bomber who detonated himself as Yekutieli was shopping for his children's breakfast at his local supermarket.

• Aug 12, 2003 - Erez Hershkovitz, 18, of Eilon Moreh, was murdered by a teenaged Palestinian suicide bomber who detonated himself at a bus stop outside Ariel less than half an hour after the Rosh Ha'ayin attack. Amatzia Nisanevitch, 22, of Nofim, died of his wounds on August 28.

• Aug 19, 2003 - Twenty-three people were murdered and 134 wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated himself on a No. 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem's Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Avraham Bar-Or, 12, of Jerusalem; Binyamin Bergman, 15, of Jerusalem; Yaakov Binder, 50, of Jerusalem; Feiga Dushinski, 50, of Jerusalem; Miriam Eisenstein, 20, of Bnei Brak; Lilach Kardi, 22, of Jerusalem; Menachem Leibel, 24, of Jerusalem; Elisheva Meshulami, 16, of Bnei Brak; Tehilla Nathanson, 3, of Zichron Ya'acov; Chava Nechama Rechnitzer, 19, of Bnei Brak; Mordechai Reinitz, 49, and Issachar Reinitz, 9, of Netanya; Maria Antonia Reslas, 39, of the Philippines; Liba Schwartz, 54, of Jerusalem; Hanoch Segal, 65, of Bnei Brak; Goldie Taubenfeld, 43, and Shmuel Taubenfeld, 3 months, of New Square, New York; Rabbi Eliezer Weisfish, 42, of Jerusalem; Shmuel Wilner, 50, of Jerusalem; Shmuel Zargari, 11 months, of Jerusalem. Fruma Rahel Weitz, 73, of Jerusalem died of her wounds on August 23; Mordechai Laufer, 27, died of his on September 5; and Tova Lev, 37, died on September 12.

• Aug 29, 2003 - Shalom Har-Melekh, 25, of Homesh was killed in a shooting attack while driving northeast of Ramallah. His wife, Limor, who was seven months pregnant, sustained moderate injuries, and gave birth to a baby girl by Caesarean section. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Sept 4, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Gabriel Uziel, 20, of Givat Ze'ev was shot and mortally wounded by a terrorist sniper in Jenin; he died en route to the hospital. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Sept 5, 2003 - 2nd Petty Officer Ra'anan Komemi, 23, of Moshav Aminadav, from the Naval Commandos was killed in a clash with armed Palestinians in Nablus. A senior Hamas bomb-maker, believed to have orchestrated several fatal suicide bombings, was also killed in the clash. Four soldiers were wounded, one seriously.

• Sept 9, 2003 - Eight IDF soldiers were killed and 32 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a hitchhiking post for soldiers outside a main entrance to the Tzrifin army base and Assaf Harofeh Hospital. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Senior Warrant Officer Haim Alfasi, 39, of Haifa; Chief Warrant Officer Yaakov Ben-Shabbat, 39, of Pardes Hanna; Cpl. Mazi Grego, 19, of Holon; Capt. Yael Kfir, 21, of Ashkelon; Cpl. Felix Nikolaichuk, 20, of Bat Yam; Sgt. Yonatan Peleg, 19, of Moshav Yanuv; Sgt. Efrat Schwartzman, 19, of Moshav Ganei Yehuda; and Cpl. Prosper Twito, 20, of Upper Nazareth.

• Sept 9, 2003 - Seven people were killed and over 50 wounded when a suicide bomber at Cafe Hillel on Emek Refaim St., the main thoroughfare of the German Colony neighborhood in Jerusalem. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Dr. David Appelbaum, 51, and his daughter Nava Appelbaum, 20, of Jerusalem; David Shimon Avizadris, 51, of Mevaseret Zion; Shafik Kerem, 27, of Beit Hanina; Alon Mizrahi, 22, of Jerusalem; Gila Moshe, 40, of Jerusalem; and Yehiel (Emil) Tubol, 52, of Jerusalem.

• Sept 25, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Avihu Keinan, 22, of Shilo was killed and six soldiers wounded in an IDF operation to arrest wanted Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorists in the El Boureij refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.

• Sept 26, 2003 - Eyal Yeberbaum, 27, and seven-month-old Shaked Avraham, both of Negohot, south of Hebron, were killed during the holiday meal on the eve of Rosh Hashana in the Yeberbaum home when a Palestinian terrorist who infiltrated the settlement opened fire with an M-16 assault rifle. The terrorist was killed by IDF forces. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Oct 4, 2003 - Twenty-one people were killed, including four children, and 58 wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist from Jenin in the Maxim restaurant in Haifa. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Admiral (res.) Ze'ev Almog, 71, of Haifa, and his wife Ruth Almog, 70; their son Moshe Almog, 43, and grandsons Tomer Almog, 9, and Assaf Staier, 11, all of Haifa; Zvi Bahat, 35, of Haifa; Mark Biano, 29, of Haifa, and his wife Naomi Biano, 25; Hana Francis, 39, of Fassouta; Mutanus Karkabi, 31, of Haifa; Sharbal Matar, 23, of Fassouta; Osama Najar, 28, of Haifa, cook; Nir Regev, 25, of Nahariya; Irena Sofrin, 38, of Kiryat Bialik; Bruria Zer-Aviv, 59, her son Bezalel Zer-Aviv, 30, and his wife Keren Zer-Aviv, 29, with their children Liran, 4, and Noya, 1, all of Kibbutz Yagur. Lydia Zilberstein, 58, died on October 10 and George Matar, 57, died October 15.

• Oct 15, 2003 - Three American diplomatic personnel - John Eric Branchizio, 37, of Texas, John Martin Linde, Jr., 30, of Missouri, and Mark T. Parson, 31, of New York, were killed and one was wounded at the Beit Hanoun junction in the Gaza Strip when a massive bomb demolished an armor-plated jeep in a convoy carrying U.S. diplomats.

• Oct 19, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Erez Idan, 19, of Rishon Lezion, Sgt. Elad Pollack, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin, and Sgt. Roi Ya'acov Solomon, 21, of Tel Aviv, were killed and another soldier was seriously wounded while on patrol in Ein Yabrud, north of Ramallah, when terrorists fired on them from behind. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Oct 24, 2003 - Three IDF soldiers - St.-Sgt. Alon Avrahami, 21, of Or Yehuda, Sgt. Adi Osman, 19, of Kfar Sava, and Sgt. Sarit Schneor-Senior, 19, of Shoham - were killed and two others wounded when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the army base in the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim and opened fire on the soldiers' barracks. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

• Nov 18, 2003 - Two IDF soldiers, Sgt.-Maj. Shlomi Belsky, 23, of Haifa, and St.-Sgt. Shaul Lahav, 20, of Kibbutz Shomrat, were killed by a Palestinian terrorist who opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle, hidden in a prayer rug, at a checkpoint on the tunnel bypass road, linking Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion bloc. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Nov 19, 2003 - Patricia Ter´n Navarrete, 33, of Ecuador was killed and four other tourists, pilgrims from Ecuador, were wounded when a terrorist entered the Israel-Jordan border crossing terminal north of Eilat from the Jordanian side and opened fire. The terrorist was killed by Israeli security guards.

• Nov 22, 2003 - Two Israeli security guards, Ilya Reiger, 58, of Jerusalem, and Samer Fathi Afan, 25, of the Bedouin village Uzeir near Nazareth, were shot dead at a construction site along the route of the security fence near Abu Dis in East Jerusalem. The Jenin Martyrs' Brigades, affiliated with Fatah, claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Dec 22, 2003 - Capt. Hagai Bibi, 24, of Maaleh Adumim, and Lt. Leonardo (Alex) Weissman, 23, of Afula were killed when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire and threw hand grenades as they emerged from their jeep on the Kissufim-Gush Katif road in the Gaza Strip. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Dec 25, 2003 - Adva Fisher, 20, of Kfar Sava; St.-Sgt. Noam Leibowitz, 22, of Elkana; Cpl. Angelina Shcherov, 19, of Kfar Sava; and Cpl. Rotem Weinberger, 19, of Kfar Sava were killed and over 20 people were wounded in a suicide bombing at a bus stop at the Geha Junction, east of Tel Aviv, near Petah Tikva. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.

2004:

• Jan 13, 2004 - Ro'i Arbel, 29, of Talmon, was killed in a terror shooting ambush near his home in Samaria. Three other passengers of the vehicle were wounded. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Jan 14, 2004 - Cpl. Andrei Kegeles, 19, of Nahariya; St.-Sgt. Tzur Or, 20, of Rishon Lezion; security guard Gal Shapira, 29, of Ashkelon; and Border Policeman St.-Sgt. Vladimir Trostinsky, 22, of Rehovot were killed and 10 wounded when a female suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the Erez Crossing in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

• Jan 29, 2004 - Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded, 13 of them seriously, in a suicide bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. Both the Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, naming the bomber as Ali Yusuf Jaara, a 24-year-old Palestinian policeman from Bethlehem. The victims: Avraham (Albert) Balhasan, 28, of Jerusalem; Rose Boneh, 39, of Jerusalem; Hava Hannah (Anya) Bonder, 38, of Jerusalem; Anat Darom, 23, of Netanya; Viorel Octavian Florescu, 42, of Jerusalem; Natalia Gamril, 53, of Jerusalem; Yechezkel Isser Goldberg, 41, of Betar Illit; Baruch (Roman) Hondiashvili, 38, of Jerusalem; Dana Itach, 24, of Jerusalem; Mehbere Kifile, 35, of Ethiopia; and Eli Zfira, 48, of Jerusalem.

• Feb 22, 2004 - Eight people were killed and over 60 wounded, 11 of them school pupils, in a suicide bombing on Jerusalem bus no. 14A near the Liberty Bell Park. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by Mohammed Za'ul, from the Bethlehem area. The victims: Ilan Avisidris, 41, of Jerusalem; Lior Azulai, 18, of Jerusalem; Yaffa Ben-Shimol, 57, of Jerusalem; Rahamim Doga, 38, of Mevasseret Zion; Yehuda Haim, 48, of Givat Ze'ev; St.-Sgt. Netanel Havshush, 20, of Jerusalem; Yuval Ozana, 32, of Jerusalem; and Benayahu Zuckerman, 18, of Jerusalem.

• Feb 26, 2004 - Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Amir Zimmerman, 25, of Kfar Monash was killed and two other soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire near the Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The terrorists were killed by soldiers. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 27, 2004 - Eitan Kukoi, 30, and his wife, Rima Novikov Kukoi, 25, were killed in a terrorist shooting attack on the Lahav-Ashkelon road, along the Green Line. The PFLP and the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 14, 2004 - Ten people were killed and 16 wounded in a double suicide bombing at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Gil Abutbul, 38, of Ashdod; Danny Assulin, 51, of Ashdod; Avraham Avraham, 34, of Ashdod; Zion Dahan, 30, of Ashdod; Ophir Damari, 31, of Rehovot; Moshe Hendler, 29, of Rehovot; Mazal Marciano, 30, of Ashdod; Avi Suissa, 56, of Kiryat Malakhi; Maurice Tubul, 30, of Ashdod; and Pinhas Avraham Zilberman, 45, of Tel Aviv.

• Mar 19, 2004 - George Khoury, 20, a Christian Arab and the son of well-known veteran attorney Elias Khoury of Beit Hanina, was shot to death from a vehicle while jogging in the north Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which claimed responsibility for the attack, later published an apology.

• Apr 3, 2004 - Yaakov (Kobi) Zagha, 40, of Avnei Hefetz was shot dead by a terrorist outside his home, after his daughter Hani, 14, was shot and wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Apr 17, 2004 - Border Policeman Cpl. Kfir Ohayon, 20, of Eilat was killed, three others wounded when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the Erez Crossing. Hamas and Fatah claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

• Apr 25, 2004 - Border Policeman Cpl. Yaniv Mashiah, 20, of Jaffa, was killed and three others lightly wounded just an hour after the beginning of Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers when shots were fired at their vehicle near Hebron. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• May 2, 2004 - Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters - Hila, 11, Hadar, 9, Roni, 7, and Merav, 2 - of Katif in the Gaza Strip were killed and another civilian and two soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists fired on an Israeli car at the entrance to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc of Gush Katif. Fatah and Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

• May 11, 2004 - Six IDF soldiers were killed during an IDF operation to target Qassam workshops in Gaza City, when an Armored Personnel Carrier was struck by an explosive device planted by Palestinian terrorists. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The soldiers killed: Sgt. Adaron Amar, 20, of Eilat; Sgt. Aviad Deri, 21, of Maale Adumim; Staff-Sgt. Ofer Jerbi, 21, of Moshav Ben-Zakai; Staff-Sgt. Ya'akov (Zelco) Marviza, 25, of Kibbutz Hama'apil; Sgt. Kobi Mizrahi, 20, of Moshav Mata; and Staff-Sgt. Eitan Newman, 21, of Jerusalem.

• May 12, 2004 - An IDF officer and four soldiers were killed, and three IDF soldiers were lightly injured, while preparing to detonate a weapon-smuggling tunnel on the Philadelphi Route near the Israeli-Egyptian border near Rafah. Their armored personnel carrier exploded, apparently after being his by an RPG anti-tank rocket.The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The soldiers killed: Cpl. Elad Cohen, 20, of Jerusalem; Sgt.-Maj. Aiman Ghadir, 24, of Bir Makhsur; Lt. Aviv Hakani, 23, of Ashdod; Sgt. Za'ur (Zohar) Smelev, 19, of Ofakim; and Sgt. Lior Vishinski, 20, of Ramat Gan.

• May 14, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Rotem Adam, 21, Rishon Lezion and Sgt. Alexei Hayat, 21, of Beer Sheva were killed and two soldiers moderately wounded by Palestinian sniper fire in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.

• May 29, 2004 - Maj. Shachar Ben-Yishai, 25, of Menahemia was killed by Palestinian gunfire following a search in the Balata camp near Nablus. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• June 21, 2004 - A foreign worker, Weerachai Wongput, 37, from the Nong Han District of the northeastern province of Udon Thani in Thailand, died after being hit by shrapnel from a mortar fired into greenhouses in Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip. The mortar was fired by Palestinians trying to divert attention from an attempt to infiltrate the settlement. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• June 27, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Roi Nissim, 20, of Rishon Lezion, was killed and five other soldiers were wounded when their outpost in the Gaza Strip was blown up by Hamas terrorists who tunneled under the position and detonated a massive explosive charge.

• June 28, 2004 - Mordechai Yosepov, 49, and Afik Zahavi, four, were killed when a Kassam rocket fired by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip struck near a nursery school in the northern Negev town of Sderot.

• June 29, 2004 - Moshe Yohai, 63, of Ashdod, was found shot to death in Beit Rima, a Palestinian Authority-controlled village near Ramallah, where he had apparently gone on business. The Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

• July 4, 2004 - Victor Kreiderman, 49, of Mevo Dotan, was ambushed and shot to death by Aksa Martyrs Brigades terrorists as he and his wife were driving near the village of Yabad. His wife, Emma, was lightly wounded.

• July 11, 2004 - Sgt. Ma'ayan Na'im, 19, of Bat Yam, was murdered and 33 others were wounded when a bomb exploded at a bus stop in downtown Tel Aviv at about 7 a.m. One person was critically wounded, four were moderately wounded, and the rest were lightly hurt.

• Aug 13, 2004 - Shlomo Miller, 50, of Itamar in Samaria was killed by a Palestinian terrorist who opened fire outside the settlement gate. The The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

• Aug 31, 2004 - Sixteen people were killed and 100 wounded in two suicide bombings within minutes of each other on two Beersheba city buses, on route nos. 6 and 12. The buses were traveling along Beersheba's main street, Rager Blvd, near the city hall. Hamas in Hebron claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims, all residents of Beersheba: Shoshana Amos, 64; Aviel Atash, 3; Vitaly Brodsky, 52; Tamara Dibrashvilli, 70; Raisa Forer, 55; Larisa Gomanenko, 48; Denise Hadad, 50; Tatiana Kortchenko, 49; Rosita Lehman, 45; Karine Malka, 23; Nargiz Ostrovsky, 54; Maria Sokolov, 57; Roman Sokolovsky, 53; Tekele Tiroyaient, 33; Eliyahu Uzan, 58; Emmanuel Yosef (Yosefov), 28.

• Sept 22, 2004 - Two Border Policemen - Lance Cpl. Menashe Komemi, 19, of Moshav Aminadav and Lance Cpl. Mamoya Tahio, 20, of Rehovot - were killed and 17 Israelis wounded in a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist at the French Hill junction hitchhiking post in northern Jerusalem. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Sept 23, 2004 - Capt. Tal Bardugo, 22, of Jerusalem, St.-Sgt. Nir Sami, 21, of Jerusalem, and St.-Sgt. Israel Lutati, 20, of Neve Dekalim were killed by several Palestinian terrorists, armed with AK-47 assault riffles and hand grenades, who infiltrated the military post near the community of Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Another soldier and a journalist were also wounded in the exchange of fire in which the terrorists were killed. Two Fatah-related terror groups and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Sept 24, 2004 - Tiferet Tratner, 24, of Jerusalem was killed in her home in Neve Dekalim by a mortar strike on the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip.

• Sept 29, 2004 - Dorit Aniso, 2, and Yuval Abebeh, 4, both of Sderot, were killed by a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza while playing in the street. Some 20 people were wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Sept 30, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Gilad Fisher, 22, of Mitzpeh Hoshaya, was killed before dawn when Hamas terrorists, under cover of heavy fog, attacked an IDF lookout post east of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip. Two other soldiers were wounded. The terrorists were killed.

• Sept 30, 2004 - Shlomit Batito, 36, of Nissanit, was shot and killed by Hamas terrorists while jogging on the road. Sgt. Victor Ariel, 20, of Kadima, a medic, was killed by a grenade thrown by one of the terrorists as he ran to aid Batito. The terrorists were killed by soldiers.

• Oct 6, 2004 - Pratheep Nanongkham, 24, a greenhouse worker from Maha Sarakham province in Thailand, was killed when armed terrorists infiltrated the hothouse area of Kfar Darom in the central Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Oct 7, 2004 - A total of 32 people were killed in terror bombings at two Sinai holiday resorts frequented by Israelis: 29 at the Taba Hilton and three at Ras a-Satan. Among the dead were 12 Israelis; over 120 were wounded. The Israeli victims at Taba: Assaf Greenwald, 27, of Ramat Gan; Hafez al-Hafi, 39, of Lod; Rotem Moriah, 27, of Tel Aviv; Tzila Niv, 43, and her two sons, Gilad, 11, and Lior, 3, of Rakefet; Oleg Paizakov, 32, and his wife Ludmilla, 30, of Bat Yam; and Khalil Zeitounya, 10, of Jaffa. The Israeli victims at Ras a-Satan: Michal Alexander, 27, of Ganei Tikva; Roy Avisaf, 28, of Kfar Sava; and Einat Naor, 27, of Kibbutz Zikim.

• Oct 19, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Yair Nisim Turgemann, 22, of Kiryat Arba, was killed at an IDF base near Mevo Dotan in Samaria when Palestinian gunmen opened fire from Palestinian territory west of the community. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Oct 21, 2004 - Sgt.-Maj. Moshe Almaliach, 35, of Dimona, a career NCO in the IDF engineering corps, was killed by a bomb explosion While conducting construction work on the Philadelphi road in the Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Oct 28, 2004 - Sgt. Michael Chizhik, 21, of Tiberias was killed and six other soldiers wounded in a mortar shell attack on an IDF outpost at Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Nov 1, 2004 - Three people were killed and over 30 wounded in a suicide bombing at the Carmel Market in central Tel Aviv. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Nablus claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out by Amar Alfar, 18, from Askar refugee camp in Nablus. The victims: Tatiana Ackerman, 32, of Tel Aviv; Leah Levine, 64, of Givatayim; and Shmuel Levy, 65, of Jaffa.

• Dec 7, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Nadav Kudinski, 20, of Kiryat Gat of the Oketz canine unit was killed by a bomb, along with his dog, when a booby-trapped chicken coup exploded northwest of the Karni Corssing in the Gaza Strip. Four soldiers were wounded in the exchange of fire while evacuating him. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Dec 12, 2004 - Five IDF soldiers were killed and five wounded when a tunnel filled with 1.5 tons of explosives were detonated under an IDF post at the Rafah crossing, followed by the infiltration of the post by two terrorists who opened fire and activated another explosive device. Hamas and the Fatah Hawks claimed responsibility for the attack. The soldiers killed: Sgt. Araf Azbarga, 19, of Kseifeh; Sgt. Sa'id Jahaja, 19, of Arara; Sgt. Hussein Abu Leil, 23, of Ein Mahal; Corp. Adham Shehada, 19, of Turan; and Sgt. Tarek al-Ziadne, 20, of Rahat.

• Dec 14, 2004 - Jitladda Tap-arsa, 19, a female agricultural worker from Udon Thani’s Nong Han district in northereastern Thailand, was killed and two other foreign workers from Thailand and Nepal were wounded by mortar shells fired at Ganei Tal in the Gush Katif settlement bloc from the Gaza Strip.

• Dec 21, 2004 - Ariella Fahima, 39, of Moshav Nehusha, south of Beit Shemesh, was stabbed to death at the door to her house, apparently by a terrorist who infiltrated the perimeter fence.

• Dec 22, 2004 - Salem (Sami) al-Kimlat, 28, a Bedouin from the town of Rahat employed as a security guard at the construction site of the security fence west of Hebron, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

2005:

• Jan 2, 2005 - Nissim Arbiv, 25, of Nissanit in the Gaza Strip was mortally wounded in a mortar shell attack while working in the Erez Industrial Zone. He died of his wounds on January 11. Two others were wounded in the attack, for which Hamas claimed responsibility.

• Jan 7, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Yosef (Yossi) Atia, 21, of Petah Tikva, was killed and three fellow off-duty soldiers were wounded when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on their car on the Trans-Samaria Highway. The Fatah al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Jan 12, 2005 - Gideon Rivlin, 50, of Ganei Tal was killed and three IDF soldiers were wounded when a bomb was detonated as a military vehicle patroled the route near Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Two terrorists were killed by IDF forces. The area was booby-trapped with explosive devices, in addition to the bomb that exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Jan 13, 2005 - On Thursday night, shortly before the closing of the Karni Crossing, terrorists activated an explosive device on the Palestinian side, blowing a hole in the door through which Palestinian terrorists infiltrated the Israeli side of the crossing and opened fire at Israeli civilians. As a result of the explosion and exchanges of fire, six Israeli civilians and three Palestinian terrorists were killed, and five Israeli civilians were wounded. Hamas and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsiblity for the attack. The victims: Dror Gizri, 30, of Sderot; Ibrahim Kahili, 46, of Umm al-Ghanem; Munam Abu Sabia, 33, of Daburiyeh; Ivan Shmilov, 53, of Sderot; Herzl Shlomo, 51, of Sderot; and Ofer Tiri, 23, of Ashkelon.

• Jan 15, 2005 - Ayala-Haya (Ella) Abukasis, 17, of Sderot was mortally wounded when a Qassam rocket landed near her and shrapnel penetrated her cerebellum, leaving her brain dead. She was struck while protecting her younger brother, who was lightly wounded. Kept on life support throughout the week, her parents agreed to stop treatment when doctors told them there was no chance of recovery. She died on January 21.

• Jan 18, 2005 - Oded Sharon, 36, from Gan Yavne, an ISA officer, was killed, an IDF officer seriously wounded, and four IDF soldiers and three members of the ISA were lightly wounded in a suicide bombing attack at the Gush Katif junction in the central Gaza Strip. While search procedures were being implemented at a post at the junction, the suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body detonated himself. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 25, 2005 - Five people were killed and 50 wounded Friday night, when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Stage club on the Tel Aviv promenade at around 11:20 P.M., on the corner of Herbert Samuel and Yonah Hanavi streets. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Yitzhak Buzaglo, 40, of Mishmar Hayarden; Aryeh Nagar, 37, of Kfar Sava; Yael Orbach, 28, of Rehovot; Ronen Ruevenov, 30, of Tel Aviv. Odelia Hubara, 26, of Jerusalem, died of her wounds on February 28.

• May 2, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Dan Talasnikov, 21, of Nir Galim was killed and another soldier lightly wounded in an exchange of fire during an operation to arrest wanted terrorists from the Islamic Jihad in the village of Saida, north of Tulkarem. One of the terrorists, responsible for the February 25 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, was killed. The second terrorist was apprehended.

• June 7, 2005 - Three workers were killed and five wounded when a Qassam rocket hit a packing shed in Ganei Tal, in the Gaza Strip, penetrating the building's roof and exploding indoors. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The Chinese worker killed has been identified as Bi Shude, 46, from Jilin province in northeastern China. The Palestinian workers killed were Salah Ayash Imran, 57, of Khan Yunis, married and the father of 8, and Muhammed Mahmoud Jaroun, of Khan Yunis.

• June 19, 2005 - IDF NCO Sgt.-Maj. Avi Karouchi, 25, of Beersheba was killed and two soldiers were wounded in a coordinated Palestinian attack in which RPG missiles and gunfire were fired at an IDF engineering force conducting construction work on the Philadelphi route along the Israeli-Egyptian border. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• June 20, 2005 - Yevgeny Reider, 28 of Hermesh was killed and a 16-year old teenager was wounded in a terrorist shooting attack in the village of Baka A-Sharkiya in the northern West Bank. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• June 24, 2005 - Avihai Levy, 17, of Beit Hagai was killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at a hitchhiking stop about 200 meters from the entrance to Beit Hagai, south of Hebron. Aviad Mansour, 16, of Otniel, fatally wounded in the attack, died on June 26. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• July 12, 2005 - Rachel Ben Abu, 16, of Tel Aviv; Nofar Horowitz, 16, of Tel Aviv; and Julia Voloshin, 31, of Netanya were killed and about 90 people were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside Hasharon Mall in Netanya. Anya Lifshitz, 50, of Netanya, who was mortally wounded, succumbed to her wounds on July 13. Cpl. Moshe Maor Jan, 21, of Netanya died of his wounds on July 14. The bomber was identified as Ahmed Abu Khalil, 18, from the West Bank village of Atil. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

• July 14, 2005 - Dana Gelkovitch, 22, of Kibbutz Bror Hayil, was killed by a Qassam rocket fired at Netiv Ha'asara in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah all claimed responsibility for the attack.

• July 23, 2005 - Dov, 58, and Rachel Kol, 53, of Jerusalem were killed late Saturday night near the Kissufim crossing in the southern Gaza Strip while returning home from visiting family in Gush Katif. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Aug 24, 2005 - Shmuel Mett, 21, of Britain, a Mir Yeshiva student, was returning from the Western Wall to the yeshiva in Jerusalem’s Beit Yisrael neighborhood when he was fatally stabbed near Jaffa Gate in the Old City. Two other students were wounded.

• Sept 21, 2005 - Sasson Nuriel, 55, of Jerusalem was kidnapped and slain by Palestinian terrorists. His body was found on Sept 26 in a garbage dump in the industrial zone of Bitunya, west of Ramallah. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Oct 16, 2005 - Matat (Rosenfeld) Adler, 21, and her cousin, Kineret Mandel, 23, both of Carmel, and Oz Ben-Meir, 15, of Maon were killed and three were wounded when Palestinians opened fire at the Gush Etzion junction south of Jerusalem. Another teenager was seriously shot and wounded near Eli, in Samaria. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for both attacks.

• Oct 26, 2005 - Michael Kaufman, 68, of Hadera, Pirhiya Machlouf, 53, of Hadera, Sabiha Nissim, 66, of Moshav Ahituv, Jamil Qa'adan, 48, of Baka al-Gharbiya, and Ya'acov Rahmani, 68, of Hadera were murdered by a suicide bomber who detonated himself at the Hadera open-air market. A sixth victim, Genia Poleis, 66, of Hadera, died of her wounds 11 days later, on Saturday, November 5. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the atrocity.

• Nov 2, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Yonatan Evron, 20, of Rishon Lezion, was mortally wounded in a gun battle with terrorists near the West Bank town of Jenin before dawn. Evron's unit was providing security for an overnight raid on a terrorist hideout in the village of Marka when terrorists opened fire from ambush at about 3 a.m., wounding him. He died while being evacuated to a hospital by helicopter.

• Nov 9, 2005 - Hussam Fathi Mahajna, 36, an Israeli Arab businessman from Umm al-Fahm, was among 57 people murdered and 300 wounded in simultaneous attacks by suicide bombers in Amman, Jordan at three luxury hotels. Mahajna was a guest at a wedding held at the Radisson Hotel, known to be popular with Israeli tourists. Al-Qaida claimed responsiblity for the attacks.

• Dec 5, 2005 - Five people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Sharon shopping mall in Netanya. The terrorist detonated the bomb when he was stopped by security guards, one of whom was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Haim Amram, 26, of Netanya, a security guard at the mall; Alexandra Garmitzky, 65, of Netanya; Daniel Golani, 45, of Nahariya; Elia Rosen, 38, of Bat Hefer; and Keinan Tsuami, 20, of Petah Tikva.

• Dec 8, 2005 - Sgt. Nir Kahane, 20, of Kiryat Tivon, was stabbed to death at the Kalandiya checkpoint, south of Ramallah. The assailant was apprehended.The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Dec 16, 2005 - Yosef (Yossi) Shok, 35, of Beit Hagai was killed in a shooting attack while driving home in the southern Hebron hills. Two passengers were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

• Dec 29, 2005 - Lt. Ori Binamo, 21, of Nesher was killed when a terrorist en route to carry out an attack in Israel detonated himself at a roadblock set up near Tulkarm following an intelligence tip. A second intended suicide terrorist was also killed in the blast as well as the taxi driver and a third passenger. Three soldiers and seven Palestinians were wounded.

2006:

• Feb 5, 2006 - Kinneret Ben Shalom Hajbi, 58, of Petah Tikva was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist while traveling on a number 51 service taxi to Tel Aviv. Five other passengers were wounded.

• Mar 1, 2006 - Eldar Abir, 48, of Migdalim was killed when two Palestinian shot him at point blank range at the gas station near Migdalim in the West Bank. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 30, 2006 - Rafi Halevy, 63, and his wife Helena, 58, of Kedumim, Re’ut Feldman, 20, of Herzliya, and Shaked Lasker, 16, of Kedumim were killed when a suicide bomber hitchhiker disguised as an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva student detonated his explosive device in a private vehicle near the entrance to Kedumim.

• Apr 17, 2006 - Eleven people were killed and over 60 wounded in a suicide bombing during the Passover holiday at the Rosh Ha'ir shawarma restaurant, near the old central bus station in Tel Aviv. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Philip Balhasan, 45, of Ashdod; Rozalia Beseneyi, 48, and Pirosca Boda 50, of Romania; Marcel Cohen, 73, of Nice, France; Ariel Darhi, 31, of Bat Yam; Victor Erez, 60, of Givatayim; Binyamin Haputa, 47, of Lod; David Shaulov, 29, of Holon; Lily Yunes, 42, of Oranit. Lior Anidzar, 26, of Tel Aviv died of his wounds on May 13. Daniel Wultz, 16, of Weston, Florida (USA) died on May 14.

• June 11, 2006 - Marwan Abed Shweika, 35, of the Abu Tor neighborhood in Jerusalem was killed and two other Arab Israelis were wounded in a shooting attack while driving late at night West Bank highway north of Jerusalem.

• June 25, 2006 - Lt. Hanan Barak, 20, of Arad and Staff-Sgt. Pavel Slutzker, 20, of Dimona were killed when terrorists from the Hamas and Popular Resistance Committees terror organizations infiltrated Israeli territory between the Kerem Shalom and Sufa crossings, by means of a tunnel dug from the Rafah area. Another soldier was abducted, and four others were wounded.

• June 25, 2006 - Eliyahu Pinhas Asheri, 18, of Itamar was kidnapped by terrorists from the Popular Resistance Committees while hitchhiking from Betar Illit, southwest of Bethlehem, to Neveh Tzuf, where he was studying. His body was found on June 29 in Ramallah. It is believed that he was murdered shortly after his kidnapping.

• July 17, 2006 - St.-Sgt. Osher Damari, 20, of Netanya was killed and six IDF soldiers wounded by an explosive device in Nablus as troops from the Haruv Battalion were engaged in anti-terrorist activity. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• July 27, 2006 - The burnt body of Dr. Daniel Yaakobi, 59, a doctor from Yakir in the West Bank, was found in the trunk of his car near Qalqilya. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Aug 10, 2006 - Angelo Frammartino, 24, of Monte Rotondo, Italy was stabbed to death by an Arab knifeman while walking with friends on Sultan Suleiman street in east Jerusalem. It is believed that the attack was a nationalistically motivated terror attack, and not an attempted robbery.

• Aug 19, 2006 - St.-Sgt. Ro'i Farjoun, 21, of Yehud was killed when a terrorist opened fire at the Bekaot chekpoint in the Jordan Valley. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Sept 12, 2006 - An IDF reserve Bedouin tracker, 44, was killed by sniper fire in the course of an army operation to uncover terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, near the Kissufim Crossing. The armed wing of Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility for the shooting.

• Nov 1, 2006 - Staff Sergeant Kiril Golenshein, 21, of Moshav Keshet, was killed by a sniper's bullet as his unit entered the town of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip in pursuit of terrorists firing Kassam rockets at Israel.

• Nov 15, 2006 - Fatima Slutsker, 57, of Sderot, was killed by a Kassam rocket fired into the town by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip. A barrage of six rockets hit Sderot at about 7 a.m., also seriously wounding a security guard for Defense Minister Amir Peretz.

• Nov 21, 2006 - Yaakov Yaakobov, 43, of Sderot, died following a day-long struggle by doctors to save his life, after he was mortally wounded by a Kassam rocket fired in the morning by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

2007:

• Jan 29, 2007 - Three people were killed in a suicide bombing in the southern city of Eilat. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, along with the unknown “Army of Believers.”

• Feb 25, 2007 - The body of Erez Levanon, 42, of Bat Ayin in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, killed by multiple stab wounds, was found near Beit Omar, north of Halhul. Security officials believe that the murder was terror-related.

• May 21, 2007 - Shirel Friedman, 32, of Sderot was killed when a Kassam rocket scored a direct hit on a car near the town's shopping center.

• May 27, 2007 - Oshri Oz, 36, of Hod Hasharon, was killed when a Kassam rocket landed near his car in Sderot. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• July 12, 2007 - Staff Sgt. Arbel Reich, 21, of Yuvalim was killed when Hamas terrorists ambushed IDF troops engaged in anti-terror activity in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The terrorists detonated previously planted explosive devices and then opened fire with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns.

• Sept 18, 2007 - St. Sgt. Ben-Zion Haneman, 21, of Moshav Nov in the Golan Heights, was killed in an exchange of fire with terrorists during IDF activity against a terror attack being jointly planned by operatives of the Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organizations in the Ein Beit Ilmeh refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus.

• Oct 17, 2007 - Sgt. Ben Kubani, 20, of Hadera, was killed in an exchange of fire with terrorists during IDF activity targeting the terror infrastructure near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

• Oct 29, 2007 - IDF reservist St.-Sgt. Maj. Ehud Efrati, 34, of Beit Yehoshua was killed in an exchange of fire with Palestinian terrorists in southern Gaza Strip, near the Sufa crossing.

• Nov 19, 2007 - Ido Zoldan, 29, of Shavei Shomron was killed in a shooting attack near Kedumim in the northern West Bank, when terrorists opened fire from a passing car at around 11:30 pm. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the terror attack as "an act of protest against the Annapolis conference."

• Dec 28, 2007 - Cpl. Ahikam Amihai (20) and Sgt. David Rubin (21), both of Kiryat Arba, were killed by Palestinian terrorists while hiking in the Hebron area. The two Palestinian terrorists turned themselves in to Palestinian General Intelligence in Hebron the same day in order to avoid being apprehended by Israeli security forces.

2008:

• Jan 15, 2008 - Carlos Andrés Mosquera Chávez, a 21-year-old volunteer from Quito, Ecuador, was killed by a Palestinian sniper from the Gaza Strip as he was working in the fields of Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha. The Hamas Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for the shooting.

• Jan 24, 2008 - Border Guard Lance Corporal Rami Zuari, 20, of Beersheva was shot and killed at a checkpoint at the northern entrance to Shuafat, north of Jerusalem. The Battalions of Struggle and Return, a previously anonymous offshoot of Fatah's Aksa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Feb 4, 2008 - Lyubov Razdolskaya, 73, of Dimona was killed and 38 wounded - Razdolskaya's husband critically - in a terror attack carried out by a suicide bomber at a shopping center in Dimona. A police officer shot and killed a second terrorist before he detonated his explosive belt. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack and praised it as an “heroic act.”

• Feb 27, 2008 - Roni Yihye, 47, of Moshav Bitcha in southern Israel, a student at Sapir College, was killed Wednesday afternoon when a Kassam rocket exploded in a parking lot near the Sderot campus. He died shortly after sustaining massive wounds to his chest. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• Mar 1, 2008 - St. Sgt. Doron Asulin, 20, of Beersheba and St. Sgt. Eran Dan-Gur, 20, of Jerusalem were killed in an exchange of fire with Hamas terrorists during an IDF anti-terror operation in northern Gaza targeting rocket launchings. The gunmen reportedly fired mortar shells, antitank and RPG missiles at the soldiers.

• Mar 6, 2008 - An IDF soldier - a Bedouin tracker, 27 - was killed during a routine patrol along the security fence in the central Gaza Strip, near Kissufim, when Palestinian terrorists detonated an explosive device near the jeep in which he was driving. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. St.-Sgt. Liran Banai, 20, of Ashkelon, the critically wounded jeep driver, succumbed to his injuries on Sunday, March 9.

• Mar 6, 2008 - Eight students of the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem were killed when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle infiltrated the yeshiva and opened fire in the library where about 80 people were gathered, mostly teenagers. Eleven others were wounded, three critically. The terrorist, a resident of East Jerusalem, was killed by an IDF officer. The victims: Segev Peniel Avihail, 15, of Neve Daniel; Neria Cohen, 15, of Jerusalem; Yonatan Yitzhak Eldar, 16, of Shilo; Yehonadav Haim Hirschfeld, 19, of Kokhav Hashahar; Yohai Lifshitz, 18, of Jerusalem; Doron Meherete, 26, of Ashdod; Avraham David Moses, 16, of Efrat; and Ro'i Roth, 18, of Elkana.

• Apr 9, 2008 - St.-Sgt. Sayef Bisan, 21, of the Druze village of Jat in the western Galilee was killed in an exchange of fire with Palestinian terrorists in an overnight IDF operation against terror infrastructure in the southern Gaza Strip. Two soldiers were wounded.

• Apr 9, 2008 - Oleg Lipson, 37, and Lev Cherniak, 53, both of Beersheba, were killed when Palestinian terrorists, after firing a salvo of mortars at the Nahal Oz area, penetrated the fuel terminal and opened fire on the civilian employees.

• Apr 16, 2008 - Three IDF soldiers - Sgt. Menhash al-Banyat, 20, of the Bedouin community of Kseife in the Negev; Sgt. Matan Ovdati, 19, of Moshav Patish in the western Negev; and Sgt. David Papian, 21, of Tel Aviv - were killed in a confrontation with armed Palestinian gunmen approaching the Gaza security fence south of the Nahal Oz fuel terminal. Three other soldiers were wounded.

• April 25, 2008 - Two Israeli security guards, Shimon Mizrahi, 53 of Bat Hefer and Eli Wasserman, 51, of Alfei Menashe were in a shooting attack in the Nitzanei Shalom industrial park in central Israel. A terrorist managed to infiltrate into the area, opened fire at the guards at close range and fled. The Al-Quds Brigades of the Islamic JIhad organization and Izzadin al-Qassam of Hamas claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

• May 9, 2008 - Jimmy Kadoshim, 48, of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, was killed by mortar fire from the Gaza Strip while tending his garden.

• May 12, 2008 - Shuli Katz, 70, of Kibbutz Gevaram, was killed while visiting relatives at Moshav Yesha, some 15 kms (9 miles) from the Gaza Strip.

• June 5, 2008 - Amnon Rosenberg, 51, of Kibbutz Nirim was killed and four other employees were wounded when a mortar bomb fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip exploded outside the Nirlat paint factory in Kibbutz Nir-Oz. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• July 2, 2008 - Elizabeth (Lili) Goren-Friedman, 54; Batsheva Unterman, 33; and Jean Relevy, 68 - all of Jerusalem - were killed and over 50 wounded in a terror attack in Jerusalem. Driving a bulldozer on Jaffa Road between the Central Bus Station and the Mahane Yehuda market, the terrorist plowed into cars and pedestrians as well as two public buses (Egged buslines 13 and 60) carrying some 50 passengers. Police shot and killed the terrorist.

• July 11, 2008 - Border patrolman Lance Corporal David Chriqui, 19, of Rishon Lezion, critically wounded in a terrorist attack in the Old City of Jerusalem. He succumbed to his wounds on July 23.

• October 23, 2008 - Avraham Ozeri, 86, was stabbed to death near his home in Gilo, Jerusalem, by an Arab terrorist from the Arab village of Tekoa near Bethlehem.

• December 27, 2008 - Beber Vaknin, 58, of Netivot was killed when a rocket fired from Gaza hit an apartment building in Netivot.

• December 29, 2008 - Hani al-Mahdi, 27, of Aroar, a Beduin settlement in the Negev was killed when a Grad-type missile fired from Gaza exploded at a construction site in Ashkelon; 16 other workers were wounded. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• December 29, 2008 - Irit Sheetrit, 39, of Ashdod was killed and several wounded when a Grad rocket exploded in the center of Ashdod. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

• December 29, 2008 - Warrant Officer Lutfi Nasraladin, 38, of the Druze town of Daliat el-Carmel was killed by a mortar attack on a military base near Nahal Oz.
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Hanan, Jewish and an Israeli Zionist.

Dear Tun,

What a wonderful blog. The more I read, I gain much more knowledge. Hanan comments are very interesting. As I understood it and compare with your comments earlier, these people (Israel - Palestin) seems to know and understand what they are doing. They both know what is right or wrong. It doesn't bother me anymore, I lost my pity for them. I'll skip this topics because their not taking 'peace' seriously. Good luck to Hanan. Good luck to Hamas and Fatah.

My reply to "azienmat" and "Tubar" and "Hanan".

1. Please realise that Hamas is a legally elected govt. that WON the elections in 2006. Much of pro-Israel-corporate Media did NOT highlight this.

2. Please read the books:
1.THE NEW JERUSALEM, by Michael Collins Piper.
2. Hamas: Unwritten Chapters, by Azzam Tamimi.
3. Children Under Occupation, by Ibrahim Abu Al- Hayja'.

3. Please read the letter "The BALFOUR DECLARATION" which literally gives away someone's else land to a group of people, and the 2nd part of the letter was clearly breached by ZIONIST-ISRAEL from 1948 to this day.

DR. SHINAH
KUALA LUMPUR

Respectfully Tun,You said that the europeans transferred their Jewish problem to the Arabs. That is they took Arab kand and created Israel. Now where else could they have created Israel? I am being told that Jewish Israel is mentionred both in the bible and the Koran. Israel was a small state in 1949 - About the size of our Pahang. In 1967 Nasser 'irritated' Israel by closing the Gulf of Aqaba. That came in handy to the Israelis. They took over the Golan Heights, Gaza, Sinai, West bank etc. Around 1974 (?) Anwar Sadat tried to recapture the lost land of Sinai etc. He started off well but then he was outmanoeuvred. Anwar was sensible. He knew he could not defeat Israel at this point of time. He signed a peace treaty and got back almost all. Egypt got back what it lost by PEACEFUL means. Of course Anwar was not liked by some. They got rid of him. Yasser Arafat too decided to make some peace with the Israelis so that his peoples suffering will be lessened. Now Hamas has decided to catch the bull by its Horns. Hamas shoots a few tame rockets into Israel. It is looked up as Hero. In retaliation the Israelis Pound all and sundry in Gaza.. The people suffer. You know fire is hot - it is STUPID to to put your hands into it. The Arabs should wait for their time. They have immense wealth yet the fight among themselves. More Arabs have died in fighting each other than fighting Israel

to Abi Qalam

you asserted "legitimate holy war" on what ground you base it to be legitimate?
so many claimed their religions to be true, none really succeeded to prove it. including Islamic apologists. Koran contains erroneous details. contradictions and plagiarism.
with facts like that you're falsifies 'legitimacy' of 'Islamic holy war'.

Fedink'mLumut

you want to remind the public about baseless myths? isn't it according to Islamic myth i.e as written in Koran; jesus hadn't died? to which myths you're adhere to; Islamic or Christian?

Salam sejahtera TUN,

Hanan - "And don’t tell me that the Philistines are the Palestinians since this is a real joke!."

ADAKAH SUKU FILISTIN DAN SUKU PALESTINA SAMA?

Benarkah orang-orang Palestina yang sekarang tinggal di Gaza dan ”West Bank” adalah keturunan dari orang-orang atau suku Filistin sebagaimana banyak orang mengatakannya?

Untuk mengerti ini secara detil kita harus menyelidiki etimologi dari kata Filistin dan sejarahnya. Kata ”Palestinian” (orang Palestina) adalah bentuk kata Latin untuk ”Philistine” (Orang Filistine). Dalam bahasa Ibrani ”orang-orang Filistin” (jamak) adalah dipanggil ”Plishtim.” Ini bukanlah suatu bentuk Semantik, tetapi suatu bentuk yang berasal dari Yunani kuno untuk orang-orang Filistin yang adalah keturunan dari orang-orang Pelasgian. Suku Pelasgian ini kemungkinan adalah penduduk yang paling tua di Yunani, Epirus dan Makedonia (Rev. Connnop Thirlwall, History of Greece; p.44).

Dalam daftar bangsa-bangsa di Alkitab, nampak bahwa orang Filistin muncul dari keturunan Misraim anak Ham anak kedua dari Nuh (Kej 10:6,13), dan pada ayat 14 tertulis, “orang Patrusim, orang Kasluhim dan orang Kaftorim; dari mereka inilah berasal orang Filistin.” Orang Kaftorim ini berasala dari pulau Kreta, Yunani.

*Gaza didiami oleh orang Awi sebelum suku ini dipunahkan oleh orang Kaftor (Ul 2:23) dan
*Yeremia menubuatkan lenyapnya semua orang Kaftorim/Filistin di Gaza melalui tangan orang Mesir (47:1-4).

Ulangan 2:23 - Juga orang Awi yang diam di kampung-kampung sampai Gaza, dipunahkan oleh orang Kaftor yang berasal dari Kaftor, lalu orang Kaftor itu menetap di sana menggantikan mereka.

Yeremia 47:1,4 - Firman YAHWEH yang datang kepada nabi Yeremia mengenai orang Filistin, sebelum Firaun mengalahkan Gaza. Sungguh, YAHWEH akan membinasakan orang Filistin, yakni sisa orang yang datang dari pulau Kaftor.

Karananya, orang-orang Filistin bukanlah keturunan Abraham. Dan karena orang Filistin bukanlah suatu suku Semetik/Semetic race, (akar kata dari Sem, anak Nuh yang pertama) maka mereka bukanlah keturunan Ismail atau juga Esau.

Tahun 1250 BC, orang Filistin imigran dari Kreta ke Mesir. Orang Mesir memanggil mereka Pulister (atau Peleset atau Purasati) artinya “orang-orang tidak bersih” (the unclean ones). Dan tahun 1176 BC, Ramses Firaun III mengusir mereka dari Mesir ke seberang Wadi El Arish dan ke tempat yang dikenal sekarang sebagai Garis Gaza.

Alkitab juga mereferensikan orang Filistin sebagai orang Kreti/ Cherethies (1 Sam 30:14), yang Alkitab Septuagin (terjemahan tertua berbahasa Yunani untuk Perjanjian Lama) telah menterjemahkannya sebagai Kreta ini merefer ke operasi militer raja Daud: Kami telah menyerbu Tanah Negeb orang Kreti dan daerah Yehuda dan Tanah Negeb Kaleb. Daud tidak pernah ke pulau Kreta, ini merefer kepada Gaza yang didiami oleh orang Kreti/ Kreta/ Filistin

Filistin menguasai lima kota tepi pantai: Gaza, Askelon, Asdod, Ekron dan Gad (Yoshua 13:3). Ini menyangkal claim orang Palestina yang mengatakan
1. mereka adalah keturunan orang Filistin dan
2. penduduk asli tanah Israel, sebab kenyataanya adalah orang-orang Kanaan hidup di tanah yang sekarang negara Israel ada.

Suku-suku asli yang tinggal di Kanaan pada jaman Yosua boleh dilihat pada “Tanah Kanaan … milik siapa sebenarnya? yang sudah saya pos sebelum ini.

Oleh karena orang Filistin membalaskan dendam kesumat dan di dalam kegembiraannya atas kecelakaan Israel melakukan pembalasan dengan melakukan pembinasaan karena rasa permusuhan yang turun-temurun, oleh sebab itu, beginilah firman Adonai YAHWEH: Sungguh, Aku akan mengacungkan tangan-Ku melawan orang Filistin dan melenyapkan orang Kreta dan membinasakan yang lain-lain di tepi pantai laut [Gaza].” (Yeh 25:15-16)Di ayat inipun juga terdapat dua terminology: orang Filistin dan orang Kreta. Raksasa Goliat berasal dari suku ini

Dari ayat ini kita bisa menghitung berapa lama orang Kreta/ Filistin ini berada di Gaza dan sekitarnya saat nubuatan ini disampaikan oleh nabi. Yehezkiel hidup di awal abad ke 6 BC, dari 1176 ke 600 BC = sedikitnya 576 tahun.

Karena orang Filistin adalah musuh bebuyutan orang Israel, Hadrian, pemimpin Kerajaan Romawi merubah nama Israel menjadi Syria Palestina di tahun 135 AD. Ini adalah caranya Hadrian membalas dendam kepada Israel setelah 69 tahun perlawanan orang Israel terhadap Roma (66-135 AD). Sampai tahun 1948, Israel dikenal sebagai Palestina, meskipun tidak pernah ada sebuah negara dipanggil ”Palestina” di dalam perbatasan Tanah Perjanjian.

Ketika Gaza dikuasai oleh Alexsander Agung/theGreat pada 332 BC, itu ditandai akhir dari ’kerajaan’ Filistin dan orang-orangnya.

Konsep modern ”orang-orang Palestina” menggunakan akar kata yang sama seperti orang-orang Filistin muncul pertama kali tahun 1964. Itu diciptakan oleh pemimpin PLO Yasser Arafat, yang mencari kesatuan dari macam-macam kelompok terroris dibawah nama tertentu untuk melawan Israel.

Alkitab membuktikan bahwa klaim Yasser Arafat ini (orang Palestina adalah keturunan Filistin) adalah tidak benar bisa dilihat pada ayat-ayat ini;

*Pada suatu hari Yonatan bin Saul berkata kepada bujang pembawa senjatanya: “Mari kita menyeberang ke dekat pasukan pengawal orang Filistin yang di sebelah sana… orang-orang yang tidak bersunat ini.” (1Sam14:1,6).
*Perkelahian Daud dengan Goliat: Lalu berkatalah Daud kepada orang-orang yang berdiri di dekatnya: “Siapakah orang Filistin yang tak bersunat ini, sampai ia berani mencemuhkan barisan dari pada Elohim yang hidup? (1Sam17:26b).

“Orang-orang Palestina tidak ada. Penciptaan suatu negara Palestina hanyalah sebuah arti untuk meneruskan perjuangan kami melawan negara Israel untuk kesatuan Arab kami…. Hanya untuk alasan-alasan politik dan taktik kami bicara …keberadaan masyarakat orang Palestina…,” kata Zahir Muhsein, seorang anggota komisi eksekutif PLO, dalam sebuah wawancara dengan koran Belanda Trouw yang terbit 31 March 1977.

Joseph Farah, seorang reporter senior Arab-Amerika dari WorldNet Daily.com pada tulisannya tertanggal 11 Oktober 2000 berkata, “Tidakkah itu menarik bahwa priode perang Arab-Israel 1967, tidak ada gerakan yang serius untuk sebuah tanah air orang Palestina? Pada Perang Enam Hari, Israel merebut Yudea, Samaria dan Yerusalem Timur. Tetapi mereka tidak merebut daerah-daerah ini dari Yasser Arafat. Mereka merebut itu semua dari Raja Hussien Yordania. [Dan Jalur Gaza dari tangan Mesir]. Saya tidak dapat menolong tetapi heran tahu megapa semua orang Palestina ini tiba-tiba menemukan indentiti negaranya setelah Israel memenangkan perang.

Bagaimanapun, orang-orang Palestina yang sekarang adalah bukan keturunan orang-orang Filistin, tetapi campuran keturunan. Nama-nama mereka menyatakan bahwa mereka imigran dari Timur Tengah. Arus pengungsi besar-besaran dari Irak, Mesir, Syria dan Yordan yang paling tertua tertulis pada 2 Raja-raja 17: 24. Itu terjadi saat Kerajaan Israel Utara berdosa menyembah berhala sehingga dibuang oleh YAHWEH untuk sementara waktu ke negeri Asyur. Penyembahan kepada Salib pada paragraf ”Latar belakang sejarah” menerangkat ayat 2 Raja-raja ini.

Setidaknya, mereka yang dipanggil ”orang-orang Palestina” memiliki
suatu janji, sebab Elohim selalu bekerja pada realiti masa kini: ”…kebanggaan orang Filistin akan Kulenyapkan. Aku akan melenyapkan darah dari mulutnya dan kejijikan dari antara giginya, dan yang tinggal dari mereka pun akan menjadi kepunyaan Elohim kita. Mereka akan dianggap seperti suatu kaum di Yehuda, dan orang Ekron seperti orang Yebus [penduduk Yerusalem yang asli]” Zak 9:6,7).

Ini adalah pemecahan dari Bapa Surgawi untuk konfik orang Israel dan orang Palestina. Bapa cinta semua suku dan bahasa, termasuk orang-orang Palestina.

Zakharia 9:8 - Aku berkemah dekat rumah-Ku sebagai pengawal terhadap mereka yang lalu-lalang; tidak akan ada lagi penindas mendatanginya, sebab sekarang Aku sendiri telah mengindahkannya. (9) - Bersorak-soraklah dengan nyaring, hai puteri Zion, bersorak-sorailah, hai puteri Yerusalem! Lihat, rajamu datang kepadamu; ia adil dan jaya. Ia lemah lembut dan mengendarai seekor keledai, seekor keledai beban yang muda.

Ayat sembilan telah tergenapi (Yoh 12:14-16), dan ayat kedelapan pun pasti akan tergenapi, karena Firman YAHWEH adalah Ya, Benar dan Amin!

Yahshua Messias adalah Firman Elohim yang menjadi manusia, dua dari nama-nama Yahshua lainnya (sebagaimana Ia mengatakannya sendiri) ialah Benar dan Amin (Wah 3:7,14).

What means Zionism, Judaism? Why I feel a Zionist, as some of you asked.

Just one comment prior reading the whole Zionist related issues, I think many of you didn't got my intention of my previous message. I'll leave the interpretation of it to your self intellectual understanding.

1. Zion:
A hill in Jerusalem, which, after the capture of that city by the Israelites, became the royal residence of David and his successors. To simplify, it is another name of Jerusalem.

2. Zionism, the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland (Eretz Israel, means the Land of Israel) and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel, advocated, from its inception, tangible as well as spiritual aims. Jews of all persuasions, left and right, religious and secular, joined to form the Zionist movement and worked together toward these goals. Disagreements led to rifts, but ultimately, the common goal of a Jewish state in its ancient homeland was attained. The term “Zionism” was coined in 1890 by Nathan Birnbaum.

3. Judaism can be thought of as being simultaneously a religion, a nationality and a culture.

Throughout the Middle Ages and into the 20th century, most of the European world agreed that Jews constituted a distinct nation. This concept of nation does not require that a nation have neither a territory nor a government, but rather, it identifies, as a nation any distinct group of people with a common language and culture. Only in the 19th century did it become common to assume that each nation should have its own distinct government; this is the political philosophy of nationalism. In fact, Jews had a remarkable degree of self-government until the 19th century. So long as Jews lived in their ghettos, they were allowed to collect their own taxes, run their own courts, and otherwise behave as citizens of a landless and distinctly second-class Jewish nation.

Of course, Judaism is a religion, and it is this religion that forms the central element of the Jewish culture that binds Jews together as a nation. It is the religion that defines foods as being kosher and non-kosher, and this underlies Jewish cuisine. It is the religion that sets the calendar of Jewish feast and fast days, and it is the religion that has preserved the Hebrew language.

Is Judaism ethnicity? In short, not any more. Although Judaism arose out of a single ethnicity in the Middle East, there have always been conversions into and out of the religion. Thus, there are those who may have been ethnically part of the original group who are no longer part of Judaism, and those of other ethnic groups who have converted into Judaism.

If you are referring to a nation in the sense of race, Judaism is not a nation. People are free to convert into Judaism; once converted, they are considered the same as if they were born Jewish. This is not true for a race.

4. Excerpts from Herzl’s The Jewish State:
"The idea I have developed in this pamphlet is an ancient one: It is the restoration of the Jewish State. . . The decisive factor is our propelling force. And what is that force? The plight of the Jews. . . I am profoundly convinced that I am right, though I doubt whether I shall live to see myself proved so. Those who today inaugurate this movement are unlikely to live to see its glorious culmination. But the very inauguration is enough to inspire in them a high pride and the joy of an inner liberation of their existence. . .

The plan would seem mad enough if a single individual were to undertake it; but if many Jews simultaneously agree on it, it is entirely reasonable, and its achievement presents no difficulties worth mentioning. The idea depends only on the number of its adherents. Perhaps our ambitious young men, to whom every road of advancement is now closed, and for whom the Jewish state throws open a bright prospect of freedom, happiness, and honor ­ perhaps they will see to it that this idea is spread. . .

It depends on the Jews themselves whether this political document remains for the present a political romance. If this generation is too dull to understand it rightly, a future, finer, more advanced generation will arise to comprehend it. The Jews who will try it shall achieve their State; and they will deserve it. . .

I consider the Jewish question neither a social nor a religious one, even though it sometimes takes these and other forms. It is a national question, and to solve it we must first of all establish it as an international political problem to be discussed and settled by the civilized nations of the world in council.

We are a people — one people.

We have sincerely tried everywhere to merge with the national communities in which we live, seeking only to preserve the faith of our fathers. It is not permitted us. In vain are we loyal patriots, sometimes super loyal; in vain do we make the same sacrifices of life and property as our fellow citizens; in vain do we strive to enhance the fame of our native lands in the arts and sciences, or her wealth by trade and commerce. In our native lands where we have lived for centuries we are still decried as aliens, often by men whose ancestors had not yet come at a time when Jewish sighs had long been heard in the country. . .

Oppression and persecution cannot exterminate us. No nation on earth has endured such struggles and sufferings as we have. Jew-baiting has merely winnowed out our weaklings; the strong among us defiantly return to their own whenever persecution breaks out. . . Wherever we remain politically secure for any length of time, we assimilate. I think this is not praiseworthy. . .

Palestine is our unforgettable historic homeland. . . Let me repeat once more my opening words: The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own homes peacefully die. The world will be liberated by our freedom, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness. And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind."

5. The Return to Zion:
In the late 19th century, the rise of religious and racist anti-Semitism led to a resurgence of pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe, shattering promises of equality and tolerance. This stimulated Jewish immigration to Palestine from Europe.

Simultaneously, a wave of Jews immigrated to Palestine from Yemen, Morocco, Iraq and Turkey. These Jews were unaware of Theodor Herzl's political Zionism or of European pogroms. They were motivated by the centuries old dream of the "Return to Zion" and a fear of intolerance. Upon hearing that the gates of Palestine were open, they braved the hardships of travel and went to the "Land of Israel."

The Zionist ideal of a return to Israel has profound religious roots. Many Jewish prayers speak of Jerusalem, Zion and the Land of Israel. The injunction not to forget Jerusalem, the site of the Temple, is a major tenet of Judaism. The Hebrew language, the Torah, laws in the Talmud, the Jewish calendar and Jewish holidays and festivals such as Shavuot all originated in Israel and revolves around its seasons and conditions. Jews pray toward Jerusalem and recite the words "next year in Jerusalem" every Passover. Jewish religion, culture and history make clear that it is only in the land of Israel that the Jewish commonwealth can be built.

In 1897, Jewish leaders formally organized the Zionist movement, calling for the restoration of the Jewish national home in Palestine, where Jews could find sanctuary and self-determination, and work for the renascence of their civilization and culture.

6. Zionism Is Not Racism:
In 1975, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution slandering Zionism by equating it with racism. In his spirited response to the resolution, Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Chaim Herzog noted the irony of the timing, the vote coming exactly 37 years after Kristallnacht (Crystal Night in the Nazi Germany).

Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, which holds that Jews, like any other nation, are entitled to a homeland.

History has demonstrated the need to ensure Jewish security through a national homeland. Zionism recognizes that being Jewish is defined by shared origin, religion, culture and history.

The realization of the Zionist dream is exemplified by more than four million Jews, from more than 100 countries, including dark-skinned Jews from Ethiopia, Yemen and India, who are Israeli citizens. Approximately 1,000,000 Muslim and Christian Arabs, Druze, Baha'is, Circassians and other ethnic groups also are represented in Israel's population.

Many Christians have traditionally supported the goals and ideals of Zionism. Israel's open and democratic character and its scrupulous protection of the religious and political rights of Christians and Muslims rebut the charge of exclusivity.

The Arab states define citizenship strictly by native parentage. It is almost impossible to become a naturalized citizen in many Arab states, especially Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Several Arab nations have laws that facilitate the naturalization of foreign Arabs, with the specific exception of Palestinians. Jordan, on the other hand, instituted its own "law of return" in 1954, according citizenship to all former residents of Palestine, except for Jews.

The presence of thousands of black Jews in Israel is the best refutation of the calumny against Zionism. In a series of historic airlifts, labeled Moses (1984), Joshua (1985) and Solomon (1991), Israel rescued almost 42,000 members of the ancient Ethiopian Jewish community.

To single out Jewish self-determination for condemnation is itself a form of racism. "A world that closed its doors to Jews who sought escape from Hitler's ovens lacks the moral standing to complain about Israel's giving preference to Jews," wrote noted civil rights lawyer Alan Dershowitz.

When approached by a student who attacked Zionism, Martin Luther King responded: "When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You're talking anti-Semitism."

The 1975 UN resolution was part of the Soviet-Arab Cold War anti-Israel campaign. Almost all the former non-Arab supporters of the resolution have apologized and changed their positions. When the General Assembly voted to repeal the resolution in 1991, only some Arab and Muslim states, as well as Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam were opposed.

7. World Zionist Organization (WZO):
The Zionist Organization was founded by Theodor Herzl at the First Zionist Congress in Basle in 1897; it was renamed the World Zionist Organization in 1960. Its goals were set forth in the Basle Program: "Zionism seeks to establish a home for the Jewish people in Palestine, secured under public law." The right of membership in the ZO was given to anyone who accepted the Basle Program and purchased the Zionist shekel (dues). The first constitution was passed by the Third Congress in 1899 and amended over the years.

At the First Zionist Congress, the Zionist movement organized itself as a worldwide organization with permanent institutions. The supreme institution was, and still is, the Zionist Congress. The elected institutions that function between congresses are the Zionist General Council and the Zionist Executive; the latter carries out the movement's policies. The Zionist Congress also elects a law court, an attorney and a comptroller. The Zionist Executive is headed by its chairman, who is also the president of the ZO.

Since its foundation, the ZO has established companies and institutions to carry out its policies; these include Keren Hayesod, the Jewish National Fund, the Jewish Colonial Trust, and the Jewish Colonial Trust's subsidiary, the Anglo-Palestine Bank.

The Mandate for Palestine accorded Great Britain by the League of Nations called for the establishment of a Jewish Agency to represent the Jewish people vis-a-vis the Mandatory government and to cooperate with it in establishing the national home. The Zionist Organization was initially given the status of a Jewish Agency.

In 1929, an expanded agency was established as a partnership between the ZO and non-Zionist, public Jewish groups. At the founding conference in Zurich in 1929, half the delegates were representatives of the ZO, and half represented the non-Zionist organizations. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the ZO, was elected president of the newly founded Jewish Agency.

The Jewish Agency was viewed as a tool for the involvement of the entire Jewish people in the building of the land. It was also hoped that inclusion of the non-Zionist organizations would boost the financial resources available to the Zionist movement, something which did not occur, partly because of the worldwide economic crisis of 1929. The principle of equal representation in the Jewish Agency leadership was also gradually breached. After several years, the Executive of the Jewish Agency became identical with that of the Zionist Organization.

In the pre-state period, the Jewish Agency was an "almost-government" which dealt with organizing immigration - including illegal immigration - and absorbing the immigrants in Palestine. It founded Youth Aliya, maintained labor, settlement and industry departments, and was a senior partner in the establishment of the yishuv's (residence places) defense force and of the stockade and watchtower settlements. David Ben-Gurion served as chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive from 1935 to 1948, while Moshe Shertok (later Sharett) headed the Political Department.

The goals of the ZO and the Jewish Agency did not change until after the establishment of the State of Israel, when their status was redefined. On November 24, 1952, the Knesset passed the "Zionist Organization - Jewish Agency for Israel Status Law", and later a covenant was signed between the government of Israel and the Zionist Executive, according to which the organizations' main areas of responsibility remained those related to aliya, immigrant absorption and settlement.

In August 1970, an agreement was signed modifying the structure and functions of the Jewish Agency and the WZO. Half the members of the Assembly of the expanded Jewish Agency are representatives of the WZO; 30 percent represent the UJC (U.S.); and 20 percent represent organizations affiliated with Keren Hayesod in the rest of the world. With regard to immigration, the following division was set forth: the Jewish Agency would deal with immigration from countries of persecution and the WZO would deal with immigration from affluent countries. The Jewish Agency and the WZO signed two new covenants with the government of Israel in June 1979. The Jewish Agency retained its responsibility for initial absorption of the immigrants in Israel; support for educational activities and work with youth; immigrant absorption in rural settlements; immigrant housing; and welfare services. The WZO concentrates on work in the Diaspora and that relating to Diaspora Jewry: Jewish education, work with youth and so forth.

8. Why am I a Zionist?
I feel as person who fulfilled his self independence in my homeland after my fathers and grand fathers were expelled by force from their homes and assets.
This has nothing to do with the rights of Palestinians to live on the same soil. We can live here side by side and flourish. It is just dependent on both sides good will to make it.

Hanan, Jewish and an Israeli Zionist.

I find it odd when human want to advocate peace but on one hand hates one of the groups.If you want to find a permanent solution you need to love all whether Hamas, Jews , American or others.What do you expect when you support palestine and hate Israel? More Hatred and nothing else.Furhermore there is no point talking about the past as the past is gone , look at the present time and find a solution for both parties. Human are intelligent but it directed towards selfish pursuits in the areas of wealth , pride , defender of world peace and knower of the universal truth.What is missing? Person with wisdom and compassionate.Where to find them? In your hearts.Forget about facts as it distorts the peace process.Why blame Israel ? Look at our members of parlimens and they are the same rogue as the Israel member of parlimen but in our case they rob the country resource , commit crime , tell lies and hamba kepada wang.To change others please change ourselves in the first place.

We second it.
Criminalise war is definitely one quick, immediate step for peace. It is obvious we may have different opinions than Tun M but for this point, we agree.

However, bear in mind, humans will always find better, creative and cunning ways to hurt others and for selfish gains that over-rides the purpose of greater good (sake of the whole). Humans need to learn that we can never bring wealth to our tomb. What are we leaving behind that can be beneficial to our next generation? Hatred, resentment, greed?

We have once heard the city flooded with books and business seminars that touch on re-engineering our corporate and workforce. Ultimately, the message should be re-engineering ourselves with good universal values. Then only we have hope in our next generation of leaders. If the society or politics keep on promoting racial based agendas, there will never be any common ground for coming together for mutual prosperity.
The world seriously needs to re-engineer itself with leaders embedded with peace values.

Dear All,

All the religion in this world taught us to uphold peace and treat each other with respect. I believe Tun Dr. Mahathir put a great deal of effort to emphasise this by pointing out, in plain and simple English, that the Arab - Israel war is actually about land and not religion.

However, it is sad to see most of the comments posted failed to realise this and as usual it becomes "Israel bashing" session. Come on guys, we can do better than this.

To Tun. Dr Mahathir and all peace loving Palestinians, Israelis and citizens of the world, I wish everyone regardless of their religion or race...."Happy Valentine".

http://freespirit2020.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/palestine-and-israel/#more-27

-Palestin tidak akan berdaulat selagi diperintah parti berjenama islam seperti Hamas.
-Lebih 50 tahun mereka menuntut hak daerah mereka, tiada nampak jalan bagaimana mereka nak menang.
-Rakyat mereka telah diperintah dan dikuasai pemikiran Hamas maka sukar untuk mereka mencari rundingan damai yang itu sajalah opsyen yang ada.
-Malaysia telah merdeka 50 tahun dulu waktu parti islam belum kuat lagi, Kalau politik yang ada hari ni ialah tahun 50an belum tentu akan merdeka kita hingga hari ini.
-Setahu saya tiada negara yang merdeka dari penjajah di pimpin oleh parti islam (kalau ada tolong betulkan).
-Rakyat Palestin lemah, tiada kuasa untuk berperang, tak pandai langsung nak berunding & bawa berbincang, dipenuhi bermacam jenis emosi. Sampaikan walau setiap hari ada yang gugur tapi menangisnya mengalahkan orang yang mati kat M'sia (Jangan marah ya Palestinie).
-Pejuang Islam apa ni?
-Mungkin orang luar yang akan tolong memerdekakan negara ini.
-Mungkin Israel tergerak dan lembut hati 'melepaskan' Palestin dan rela hati memberi semula tanah yang dirampas itu.
-Entahlah.

Salam sejahtera TUN,

Dibawah ini saya ada mencatat serba sedikit yang saya tahu dari pada Buku yang tertua sekali didunia kenapa Hanan bergitu yakin...

Keyakinan Hanan -- "Therefore the land was belonging to Jews prior any Muslim was even born including Prophet Muhammad. …And don’t tell me that the Philistines are the Palestinians since this is a real joke."

TANAH KANAAN/ISREAL/PALESTIN DAN KOTA YERUSALEM MILIK SIAPA SEBENARNYA?

Akulah YAHWEH, Elohimmu, yang membawa kamu keluar dari tanah Mesir, untuk memberikan kepadamu tanah Kanaan, supaya Aku menjadi Elohimmu. (Imam 25:38)

Abraham dijanjikan tanah Kanaan

Berfirmanlah YAHWEH kepada Abram: “Pergilah dari negerimu dan dari sanak saudaramu dan dari rumah bapamu ini ke negeri yang akan Kutunjukkan kepadamu; (Kej 12:1). Ia berumur 75 tahun ketika meninggalkan Haran (4). Abram berjalan melalui negeri itu sampai ke suatu tempat dekat Sikhem, …Waktu itu orang Kanaan diam di negeri itu. Ketika itu YAHWEH menampakkan diri kepada Abram dan berfirman: “Aku akan memberikan negeri ini kepada keturunanmu.” … (Kej 12.6-7). Daerah orang Kanaan adalah dari Sidon ke arah Gerar sampai ke Gaza, ke arah Sodom, Gomora, Adma dan Zeboim sampai ke Lasa. (Kej 10:19). Abram menetap di tanah Kanaan… Setelah Lot berpisah dari pada Abram, berfirmanlah YAHWEH kepada Abram: “Pandanglah sekelilingmu dan lihatlah dari tempat engkau berdiri itu ke timur dan barat, utara dan selatan, (15) sebab seluruh negeri yang kaulihat itu akan Kuberikan kepadamu dan kepada keturunanmu untuk selama-lamanya. (Kej 13:13-15)

Beginilah firman Adonai YAHWEH kepada Yerusalem: Asalmu dan kelahiranmu ialah dari tanah Kanaan; ayahmu ialah orang Amori (dipunahkan Yosua; Yos 24:8) dan ibumu orang Heti. (Yehz 16:3). Pada jaman Yosua, orang Yebus tinggal di kota Yerusalem (Yos 15:63).

Nubuatan tanah Kanaan, mulai dari sungai Mesir sampai ke sungai yang besar itu, sungai Efrat, jadi milik keturunan Abraham: (Kej 15:13-21)

*“Ketahuilah dengan sesungguhnya bahwa keturunanmu akan menjadi orang asing dalam suatu negeri, yang bukan kepunyaan mereka,

*mereka akan diperbudak dan dianiaya, empat ratus tahun lamanya.

*keturunan yang keempat akan kembali ke sini, sebab sebelum itu kedurjanaan orang Amori [yaitu daerah Galilea] itu belum genap.”

YAHWEH tidak menyerahkan tanah itu sebelum dosa penghuni-lama penuh, itu sebabnya Abraham membeli ladang di Hebron (Kiryat-Arba) dari suku Het (Hittites) (Kej 23)

Abraham, Ishak dan Ismael.
Abraham (2009-2184 BC; 175 tahun) meminta Elohim untuk menjadikan Ismael (ibunya Hagar, orang Mesir, budak Sarah) sebagai pewaris kekal, saat Ismael berumur tiga tahun (16:1,16; 17:1,18), Elohim menolak proposal Abraham, kata-Nya, ”Tetapi Elohim berfirman: “Tidak, melainkan isterimu Saralah yang akan melahirkan anak laki-laki bagimu, dan engkau akan menamai dia Ishak, dan Aku akan mengadakan perjanjian-Ku dengan dia menjadi perjanjian yang kekal untuk keturunannya. (Kej 17:19). Adapun Abraham berumur seratus tahun, ketika Ishak, anaknya, lahir baginya. (Kej 21:5). Ishak lahir satu tahun kemudian setelah IA menolak proposal Abraham tersebut. Ishak melahirkan Yakub dan YAHWEH merubah nama Yakub menjadi Israel (25:26;32:38). Keturunan Ismael dan daerah tinggal mereka bisa dibaca di Kej 25:12-18.

Dialah YAHWEH, Elohim kita, di seluruh bumi berlaku penghukuman-Nya. Ia ingat untuk selama-lamanya akan perjanjian-Nya, firman yang diperintahkan-Nya kepada seribu angkatan, yang diikat-Nya dengan Abraham, dan akan sumpah-Nya kepada Ishak; diadakan-Nya hal itu menjadi ketetapan bagi Yakub, menjadi perjanjian kekal bagi Israel, firman-Nya: “Kepadamu akan Kuberikan tanah Kanaan, sebagai milik pusaka yang ditentukan bagimu.” (Maz 105:7-11)

YAHWEH memberikan tanah Kanaan kepada Israel

Setelah 400 tahun masa perbudakan selesai, Musa memimpin orang Israel keluar dari Mesir.Yosua memimpin orang Israel masuk ke tanah Kanaan. Saat itu ada 7 kerajaan yang dominan tinggal di sana.

Ketika kejahatan raja-raja di tanah Kanaan / Israel / Palestina sudah mencapai batasnya; [B]erfirmanlah YAHWEH kepada Yosua bin Nun, abdi Musa itu, demikian: “Hamba-Ku Musa telah mati; … seberangilah sungai Yordan ini, engkau dan seluruh bangsa ini, menuju negeri yang akan Kuberikan kepada mereka, kepada orang Israel itu. Setiap tempat yang akan diinjak oleh telapak kakimu Kuberikan kepada kamu, seperti yang telah Kujanjikan kepada Musa. Dari padang gurun dan gunung Libanon yang sebelah sana itu sampai ke sungai besar, yakni sungai Efrat [yaitu bagian barat Syria sekarang], seluruh tanah orang Het [yaitu barat daya Laut Mati ], sampai ke Laut Besar di sebelah matahari terbenam, semuanya itu akan menjadi daerahmu. (Yos 1:1-4). Ada 31 raja di tanah Kanaan dikalahkan oleh Yosua (Yosua 12). Daud merebut Yerusalem, dikenal juga sebagai Sion, dari orang Yebus dan menjadikan itu ibu-kota kerajaannya (2Sam 5:6-9; 1Taw 11:5). Bagaimanapun juga Daud membeli tanah untuk dipakai sebagai mezbah YAHWEH dari Ornan, orang Yebus. Dikemudian hari anaknya Salomo mendirikan tempat ibadah yang megah ditanah tersebut, dikenal sebagai Bait Elohim (1Taw 21:25). Dimana mesjid Al Aqsa berada.

Lamanya Kanaan dipercayakan kepada Israel: 869 tahun (1455–586 BC). Daerah utara (Samaria) sudah diambil oleh Asyur sejak 721 BC.

YAHWEH membersihkan tanah Israel dari berhala-berhala

Hosea anak Ela, raja Israel Utara (di Samaria) jahat di mata YAHWEH, Salmanaser, raja Asyur menawan dan membuang mereka ke Gozan dan kota-kota orang Madai (2 Raja 17), sekitar 721 BC. Awal orang Arab berhijrah besar-besaran ke samaria.

Kaum Yehuda dan penduduk Yerusalem (Kerajaan Israel Selatan) perintah-Nya. Yesaya menubuatkan 70 tahun pembuangan ke Babilonia: Maka seluruh negeri ini akan menjadi reruntuhan dan ketandusan, dan bangsa-bangsa ini akan menjadi hamba kepada raja Babel tujuh puluh tahun lamanya. (Yer 25:11) Nubuatan ini tergenapi pada 604 BC, Daniel dan 3 rekannya termasuk pemuda-pemuda yang diangkut ke Babilonia, pasal 52:31. Yerusalem jatuh ketangan Nebukadnezar pada tahun 586 BC. Bait Elohim I dihancurkan. (2 Raja 25:8-9)

Janji Elohim untuk memulihkan Israel dan tinggal bersama umat-Nya: Beginilah firman YAHWEH semesta alam, Elohim Israel: Perbaikilah tingkah langkahmu dan perbuatanmu, maka Aku mau diam bersama-sama kamu di tempat ini. melainkan jika kamu sungguh-sungguh memperbaiki tingkah langkahmu dan perbuatanmu, jika kamu sungguh-sungguh melaksanakan keadilan di antara kamu masing-masing, tidak menindas orang asing, yatim dan janda, tidak menumpahkan darah orang yang tak bersalah di tempat ini dan tidak mengikuti elohim lain, yang menjadi kemalanganmu sendiri, maka Aku mau diam bersama-sama kamu di tempat ini, di tanah yang telah Kuberikan kepada nenek moyangmu, dari dahulu kala sampai selama-lamanya. (Yer 7:3, 5-7)

Penguasa tanah Israel berganti-ganti tangan, sebagian umat-Nya kembali

Setelah genap 70 tahun lamanya di pembuangan, YAHWEH memakai raja Koresh II (dari kata Ibrani) atau Cyrus II, raja negeri Persia menghancurkan kerajaan Babilonia. Tanah Israel beralih dari Babilonia ke Medi-Parsi. Raja Koresh atas kehendak YAHWEH mengijinkan orang-orang Israel kembali membangun kota-kota mereka.

*Sehingga genaplah nubuatan Yesaya yang ia katakan, hampir 200 tahun sebelum ia [Koresh] lahir (John Gill’s Exposition), ”Akulah yang berkata tentang Koresh: Dia gembala-Ku; segala kehendak-Ku akan digenapinya dengan mengatakan tentang Yerusalem: Baiklah ia dibangun! dan tentang Bait Suci: Baiklah diletakkan dasarnya!” (Yes 44:28) Akulah yang menggerakkan Koresh untuk maksud penyelamatan, dan Aku akan meratakan segala jalannya; dialah yang akan membangun kota-Ku dan yang akan melepaskan orang-orang-Ku yang ada dalam pembuangan, tanpa bayaran dan tanpa suap,” firman YAHWEH semesta alam. (Yes 45:13)

*Sehingga genaplah double-nubuatan Yeremia,
1. “Sebab beginilah firman YAHWEH: Apabila telah genap tujuh puluh tahun bagi Babel, barulah Aku memperhatikan kamu. Aku akan menepati janji-Ku itu kepadamu dengan mengembalikan kamu ke tempat ini. (Yer 29:10). Nabi Ezra mencatat siap-siapa yang kembali (Ezra 1-3) 2. “Kemudian sesudah genap ketujuh puluh tahun itu, demikianlah firman YAHWEH, maka Aku akan melakukan pembalasan kepada raja Babel dan kepada bangsa itu oleh karena kesalahan mereka, juga kepada negeri orang-orang Kasdim, dengan membuatnya menjadi tempat-tempat yang tandus untuk selama-lamanya. Aku akan menimpakan … segala apa yang tertulis dalam kitab ini seperti yang telah dinubuatkan Yeremia tentang segala bangsa itu. (Yer 25:12-13)

Kerajaan Medi-Parsi dikalahkan oleh Alexander Agung / Alexander III (Yunani) tahun 330 BC, lalu Yunani digantikan oleh Romawi (Dan 8:20-25). Kerajaan Romawi mulai berdiri (27 BC) di bawah kepemimpinan Kaisar Augustus (63 BC – 14 AD). Kekuasaan kerajaan Romawi di daerah Yudea (secara administrasi) dipegang oleh Herodes Agung (73BC - 4 AD). Raja Agripa sampai 44 AD. Banyak ahli Alkitab memperkirakan Yahshua lahir pada 5 BC. Yahshua menubuatkan kehancuran Bait Elohim II (Mat 23:37; 24:1-2; Mark 13:1-2). Tepat 40 tahun setelah nubuatan Yahshua ini tentara Romawi dibawah pimpinan Jendral Titus meratakan Bait tersebut. Sepanjang jaman Perjanjian Baru (abad 1 AD) tanah Israel tetap terjajah oleh Kerajaan Romawi

Tanah Kanaan setelah periode Perjanjian Baru (691-1948)

Yerusalem jatuh ketangan orang Arab (Kerajaan Umayyad, Damaskus ibukotanya) tahun 638 AD, lalu Umayyad digantikan oleh kerajaan Abbasid, ibukotanya berpindah ke Bagdad. Pembangunan mesjid Al-Aqsa (the Dome of the Rock) mulai dibangun di tahun 691. Islam semakin kuat dan menguasai beberapa wilayah Romawi: Spanyol (1000-1453), Italy dan Sisilia (1061) yang menimbulkan gelombang-gelombang Crusade (Perang Salib). (Kehidupan para pengikut Yahshua semakin sukar pada periode Arab dan Cursade ini). 1517 Yerusalem dikuasai kerajaan Ottoman (Turky). Ottoman runtuh 1917. Tentara Inggris di bawah pimpian Jenderal Allenby mengusai Yerusalem tahun 1917. Dari 1922 ke 1948 the League of Nations menyerahkan tanah Israel (Palestina) ke bawah Inggris adminstrasi.

Negara Israel lahir kembali (1948 sampai sekarang)

YAHWEH menggembalikan tanah Israel sepenuhnya kepada umat-Nya pada 15 May 1948, setelah terbuang dan tidak memiliki negara selama 1878 tahun lamanya. Sehingga genaplah nubuatan nabi-nabi, “Sebab, sesungguhnya, waktunya akan datang, demikianlah firman YAHWEH, bahwa Aku akan memulihkan keadaan umat-Ku Israel dan Yehuda–firman YAHWEH–dan Aku akan mengembalikan mereka ke negeri yang telah Kuberikan kepada nenek moyang mereka, dan mereka akan memilikinya.” (Yer 30:3) Beginilah firman Adonai YAHWEH: Sungguh, Aku menjemput orang Israel dari tengah bangsa-bangsa, ke mana mereka pergi; Aku akan mengumpulkan mereka dari segala penjuru dan akan membawa mereka ke tanah mereka. (Yehz 37:21)

*Nabi Yesaya 49: dikumpulkan-Nya (5,12), jadi makmur dan banyak (9-11, 19-20), jadi terang bagi dunia (6), pembesar-pembesar dunia akan melayani Israel (22-23), musuhnya akan dihukum (26)
*Nabi Yeremia 30: dikembalikan (3, 10; 46:27-28), disembuhkan dari hinaan dunia: makmur dan banyak lagi (17-19), musuh-musuhnya akan dihukum (16,20-24). Israel dibenarkan oleh YAHWEH (30:11; 46:28b)
*Nabi Yehezkiel 37: dikumpulkan (21) kerajaan Yehuda dan Israel disatukan (16-19), Yahshua Ha Massiah akan jadi raja mereka selama-lamanya (25)
*Nabi Amos: ”Maka Aku akan menanam mereka di tanah mereka, dan mereka tidak akan dicabut lagi dari tanah yang telah Kuberikan kepada mereka,” firman YAHWEH, Elohimmu.(Amo 9:15)

Aku akan mengadakan perjanjian damai dengan mereka, dan itu akan menjadi perjanjian yang kekal dengan mereka. Aku akan memberkati mereka dan membuat mereka banyak dan memberikan tempat kudus-Ku di tengah-tengah mereka untuk selama-lamanya. Tempat kediaman-Kupun akan ada pada mereka dan Aku akan menjadi Elohim mereka dan mereka akan menjadi umat-Ku. Maka bangsa-bangsa akan mengetahui bahwa Aku, YAHWEH, menguduskan Israel, pada waktu tempat kudus-Ku berada di tengah-tengah mereka untuk selama-lamanya.” (Yehz 37:26-28)

Nubuatan bagi para pembenci Israel

Sesungguhnya, akan datang hari yang ditetapkan YAHWEH…Maka YAHWEH akan menjadi Raja atas seluruh bumi; pada waktu itu YAHWEH adalah satu-satunya dan nama-Nya satu-satunya. Maka semua orang yang tinggal dari segala bangsa yang telah menyerang Yerusalem, akan datang tahun demi tahun untuk sujud menyembah kepada Raja, YAHWEH semesta alam, dan untuk merayakan hari raya Pondok Daun. Tetapi bila mereka dari kaum-kaum di bumi tidak datang ke Yerusalem untuk sujud menyembah kepada Raja, YAHWEH semesta alam, maka kepada mereka tidak akan turun hujan. Dan jika kaum Mesir tidak datang dan tidak masuk menghadap, maka kepada mereka akan turun tulah yang ditimpakan YAHWEH kepada bangsa-bangsa yang tidak datang untuk merayakan hari raya Pondok Daun. Itulah hukuman dosa Mesir dan hukuman dosa segala bangsa yang tidak datang untuk merayakan hari raya Pondok Daun. (Zekharia 14:1,9,16-19)

Pemilik tanah Kanaan dan seisi dunia adalah YAHWEH, Elohim Pencipta alam jagat ini. IA telah berjanji memberikan tanah Kanaan kepada orang Israel dan Yerusalem sebagai ibu-kotanya.

Untuk negara yang tidak setuju atas keputusan Pemilik dunia ini silahkan ambil pelajaran dari negara Tirus (Amos 1:9-10, Yehz 26:3,12; Yoel 3:4-7). Singkat kata:

*“Maka kamu akan mengetahui bahwa Aku, YAHWEH, adalah Elohimmu, yang diam di Sion, gunung-Ku yang kudus. Dan Yerusalem akan menjadi kudus, dan orang-orang luar tidak akan melintasinya lagi.” (Yoel 3:17)
*Semua orang yang membenci Sion akan mendapat malu dan akan mundur. (Maz 129:5)
*Yahshua berkata, “Siapa tidak bersama Aku, ia melawan Aku dan siapa tidak mengumpulkan bersama Aku, ia mencerai-beraikan.” (Mat 12:30, Luk 11:23)

Lebih baik berdamai dengan YAHWEH dan umat-Nya sebelum terlambat.

Catatan: Sion / Zion adalah secara fisik indentik dengan kota Yerusalem. Sion juga panggilan untuk negara Israel (Zak 9:9, Yoh 12:15). YAHWEH menjadikan kota Sion sebagai pusat pemerintah-Nya (Roma 9:33, 1Pet 2:6, Ibr 12:22, Wah 14:1). Kata ”Sion” ada 164 diseluruh Alkitab; 38 kali di kitab Mazmur, 81 kali dari kitab Yesaya, 16 kali di Yeremia.

Why the press keeps on emphasising that Hamas took control over Gaza through violence? I thought Hamas won the elections, in 2006, right?

Isn't that democracy???

There is no doubt that the Zionists are in complete control over the media. News that we all have known about the conflict are mostly lies, sided with Israel. This is saddening.

Dear Hannan,

Do you know that not all Jews are supporting Zionist to establish Israel state in Arab land. Do you know about it? For your information it is Jews sins what make God put all the Jews were scatered all over the world. Once Jews redeemed their sin, then God will send a Messiah to lead Jews back to Israel. Clearly, a Messiah is someone choosen by God which is clearly not organisation who is using certain parts of your Torah quotes to justifiy of Jews to so called reclaimed back your holy land. From your quoting here it showed to me that are actually driven by your personal hatred toward muslim in order to justify your facts.

My question to you, does Judiasm promoting killing to justify your needs? Dont use certain baits of Quran to justify your argument, we also can use that by using certain Toran baits to justify our needs.

Please open your mind, there also certain Jews are against Zionist, Zionist is secular Jews organisation who using certain part of Torah teaching to justify their political agenda. Clearly, this against the whole concept of Judiasm right?

Don't confined your mind based on your feeling and heart (as you told Dr. M to start listen Jews point of view anyway).

Again, I beg you........ please to listen to others point of view with free of mind without any prejudice whatsoever in order to avoid bias towards your feeling and judgement.

BUSTANUL BISTARI BEY

Hanan always states as a Jewish and an Israeli Zionist. The word of Zionist make me wondering what Zionism is. Is it a religious or a nation or a race? Wondering whether all Jewish or Israeli are Israeli Zionists.

US keep supporting Israel by supplying money and weapons. Why does US keep supporting Israel while US knows that Israel keep occupying the Palestinians land, keep developing the settlement for the Jewish or Israeli or Israeli Zionists, keep expelling the Palestinians? Does US support Jewish or Israeli Zionists? Doubted US supports Jewish because most of Americans are Christians, besides, it’s not a religious war. Also doubted US supports Israeli Zionists since none of American has ever said he/she’s US Zionist as Hanan always does. Or maybe there are US Zionists but they’re prefer not to state or admit it. If so, are they the ones who supporting Israeli Zionists by supplying money and weapons because both are Zionists? It seems impossible, because it requires a lot of money and power to supply money and weapons..... but still possible if they may corrupt the powerful body in the US with their money.....

Hanan should have known better about Zionism and appreciated if he may explain it honestly to us as part of the input for having sustainable peace in the Middle East. Otherwise, the war will never end and Jewish, Israeli, Israeli Zionists, Palestinians will always be the victims.

Hanan,since you're quoting Qur'an, would please quote us Torah saying about Zionism? And what is Talmud Hanan?

Dear Tun,

What is your opinion on the matter of "DOING THE RIGHT THING AGAINST DOING THE THING RIGHT" on these issues of Palestine and recent domestic Political Turmoil ?

Historical, religious belief, humanitarian, legal, etc as basis of argument lead to conflicting conclusion but the reality of "EHSAN " to all mankind seems to be neglected.

Regards

Salam....
Pada pendapat saya isu Palestine ini akan selesai jika

1.Puak Hamas & Fatah bersatu menentang Israel
2.Semua negara Arab bersatu menentang Israel
3.Semua orang Islam bersatu menentang Israel
4.Semua manusia bersatu menentang orang Israel

Kesimpulannya " BERSATU "

Bersatu kita bersatu
Dengan setia berganding bahu
Jiwa teguh berpadu
Kita "Anak" Melayu
(pinjam sikit)

Oleh itu
"Bersatu" lah untuk kita jadi "Beribu"
"Bersatu" lah untuk kita jadi "Berbatu"
"Bersatu" lah untuk kita jadi "Begitu"

terima kasih

Dear Tun,

What you said makes alot of sense. However, when humans are overwhelmed with emotion we tend to lose our sense of logical and factual thinking.

Emotions are very important to us cause that is what makes us humans, have compassion, zeal and happy. But emotion when misguided can being distruction on us.

This is what is happening to us.

Therefore it falls on the people given Authority to act Responsibily - weighing the good sense that leaders must have. Drawing on the positive emotions and not succumbimg to the distruction emotions.

Leaders like Obama, Hamaas, Brown, Ahmadenijad, Sakozi, Putin, Hu Jintou, etc... to take it upon themselves to work towards the objective as outlines by Tun in the above posting.

We need leaders who dare to the buck the trend and work for peace.

No man is an Island, No nation the world.

We are the world. We have to leave together and make it work.

Our vision and objectives must be clear on this.

Well hanan is back. it just a matter of time anyway.
just want to write something,hehe
i remember reading the reply that hanan post on HANAN topic. at that time his comment were very long and detail, showing that this dude is something. he try to show that he is not driven by anger and religious hatred.
suddenly his recent post here are full of emotional, showing his true nature. he keep blaming the Hamas 100%. he even ridiculously try to justify the used of forforus bomb, which is funny and damn hypocrite. keep on mentioning about the hamas rocket and lets us forget the whole battalion of ruthless Zionist army with all their fire power blowing countless Palestinian in residential city, because 8 year of rocket rain on the border of Israel is far more serious, eh hanan?
reading your comment, it show that you are the one who is hypocrisy at the highest level.

Dear Tun,
When I read about your speech not too long ago about 'The Jews rule the world by proxy', I didn't think it was such a good idea to say it at that time. But that's just me. Maybe you knew the publicity that it would attract and get the world to realize it. Brilliant!
But I think much of the world is still oblivious to that fact.

http://www.daily.pk/world/americas/9334-israeli-spokesman-says-we-control-stupid-americans.html

I applaud your unrelenting effort towards the betterment of all humanity.

Cheers

Salaam Tun.

Zionist-Israel has been breaking the International Law COUNTLESS times for YEARS. Never trust the MAINSTREAM media. The MAINSTREAM media never highlights this important fact and also falsifies information, and spreads lies. ...Iraq, Saddam Hussein and WMD that was never there, Sept-11 "attack", blah blah blah.And now Iran. Predictable.

Please go the following website and make your own conclusions and furher research.

1. http://vodpod.com/watch/1264582-israel-attacks-gaza-silence-from-mainstream-media-about-israeli-violations-of-international-law

2. http://vodpod.com/watch/1341520-warmongers-who-sold-you-the-iraq-war-are-pushing-for-a-war-with-iran-?mp=19&pod=dandelionsalad

If you have information (outside the mainstream media) such as above, please forward to as many peopkl around the world, so that they all wake up to the TRUTH and JUSTICE......and stop the WARMONGERS attacking Iran, and ...your country next...

SHINAH @ Kuala Lumpur

Salam Tun, hope you are in good health and in Allah's Grace and Mercy.

I want to share with you and with KLFCW on a few video evidences of the chemicals and weapons used by Zionist-Israel on Palestinian civilians.

1. http://vodpod.com/watch/1283147-willie-pete-went-to-gaza-white-phosphorus-shells

2. http://vodpod.com/tag/white+phosphorus

Thank you all.
May justice and morality prevail.
Norshinah

Assalamualaikum Tun,

I think this is the first time I wrote twice in one of your postings. This comment is particularly about Hanan's writing. If I am not mistaken Hanan is a Jew. He may not present the views of all Jews or Israel but at least we can see what the other side is thinking.

From simple fact of view, Israel is killing a lot of innocent people. Anyone who tries to argue their way to justify what Israel is doing is simply wrong, wrong and wrong.

It seems Hanan think highly of you Tun as a leader of the Muslim world. Well, he is right on that and if its anyone that can lead and influence the Muslims, its Tun Dr. Mahathir.

Tun, you have wrote one article specifically to reply to Hanan. What you wrote may be right, even your posting titled "Palestine" is correct.

However, remember in history and the early days of Islam, there are bound to be people who are blinded to the truth. Remember, the pharaoh who proclaimed himself as god? Remember Abu Lahab and Abu Jahal during the days of the prophet? And many others who have been shown the truth that there is one and only one god and that is Allah. But what do these people do? They continue to disobey and refuse to accept the truth even though truth was facing right in front of them.

Therefore, in this world, it must be accepted there will always be people who does not want to see truth. They will always try to argue and justify what they did is right when plainly it is wrong for all to see.

This is the first time I hear using phosphorus bomb to detect traps. The affects of phosphorus on humans is known to the military. To use it on a densely populated area like Gaza? Whatever the intention be? I wonder....

I do not want to be drawn in an argument with Hanan as I think it is futile. Others who may want, may do so.

I think the Muslims and are other non-Muslims who are sympathetic to the Palestinians have made known their stand. And people like Hanan has also made their stand. So, our stand is ours as their stand is theirs.

Maybe it will take people like Hanan another 100 years to see that killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians is simply wrong. Do we have time to wait until they change?

Salam,

Very true Tun. Most people already forget the real cause, or they simple don't try to understand and see the past.

No offend, but I think both party are using religion issue to seek support. Anybody who want to try to settle this problem should put aside the 'hate' factor, or else... nothing good will be achieved.

We Muslim support Palestinian not just because of brotherhood spirit and Muslim unity, but also because we believe Palestinian freedom is being denied and their land being taken away illegally.

Dear Sir,

Can we open a branch of PAS in Gaza??? After all, they call themselves "pembela islam"....he he he

It is better to send PAS to Gaza than to bring Gaza to Malaysia.

Thank You Sir, keep on writing!!!

http://freespirit2020.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/palestine-and-israel/#more-27

Dear Tun,

As a Muslim, I understand the Palestine's problem from a Muslim's from of view.

As a Human, I understand the Palestine's problem from a Human's from of view.

But blah blah blah...

Americans (not the people, and definitely not the governmnt as a whole) do not kill people just because...

But like I said before... blah blah blah....

Palestine/Jews will always be a neverending story, ain't it...

It never started as a religious war. I still pray it is not one now... But damn nobody knows the future...

Happy greetings Tun,

Both sides, Israel and Palestine possess too much baggage accumulated over decades of prolonged war to be able to stop this act of inhumanity against mankind, with each side acussing the other of provocation thereby warranting counter-attacks, much to the dire detriment of its civilian population, especially the Gazans.

Even the UN`s meek and belated intervention has proven to be futile in the face of Israel`s total rejection and continuing brutal aggression against helpless civilians without any punity by the world body and/or any country for that matter. Only the US has the clout to intervene (if it choses to) or help stop this lop-sided war.

Unless there is a concerted and genuine effort by neutral counries or personalities who profess unmasked unbiasness can any peace negotiations be ironed out between the warring states. No amount of sanctions, boycots or calls to criminalise Zoinist leaders for war crimes at the World Court will stop Israel into thinking that there is no place for them in the Middle East. Patience, understanding, compromise and compassion are needed to overcome this gargantuan hurdle with a view to seek permanent peace for all.

Thank you. Regards.

Dear Tun

Thank you for sharing what has transpired at the forum. For those who might have missed it, I would like to highlight that in a newspaper report recently, RM2.7 million was collected at masjid throughout the country during 3 consecutive jumaat prayers to be donated to the people of Palestine. That is what rm1, rm2 contribution can achieve when the number contributing is big. Never underestimate the power we actually have.

So, going back to your post on BOYCOTT, i believe it is worth the effort so long that everyone do their bit. I believe that as Muslims, we will be asked - 'when your brothers and sisters are being annihilated in Palestine, what did you do?' I hope when the time comes I am able to answer that I sent them my prayers and that i reduced or better still stop spending the 'rezeki' bestowed on me on products produced by the very people who support the killings, directly or indirectly and hope that Allah has mercy on me for doing so little.

You mentioned in your post about pictures presented at the forum. Is there a website where we can view these pictures? So far, i have only come across one good site that have pictures of what is happening in Palestine. I read some of the comments here and your previous posts on Palestine/israel. Some gave extremely good feed backs while some others just twist and turn your words and waltz their way through trying to defend what is clearly wrong in the eyes of many throughout the world.

Should anyone feel the need to convince themselves that the boycott is necessary, i urge you to view the slide show below. Pay close attention to pic 20 where a boy no more than 5 years old with a bullet wound in the chest. Collateral damage? i doubt it.

http://www.slide.com/r/Ww-_8t1U6D_ztx8IHcQ5t248CkSFmqIw?previous_view=TICKER&previous_action=TICKER_ITEM_CLICK&ciid=72057594261479938

Salam kasih dan hormat Ayahanda Tun

"By Hanan on January 30, 2009 6:46 AM"

Saya baca balik posting terawal Hanan macam yang link diatas tu. Cuba Tun tengok sekali lalu, apa yang Berita RTM siar dan tak siar pun dia boleh tahu. Hairan kan? Sebab setahu saya di Malaysia RTM belum lagi buat digital sequence programming format untuk siaran RTM. Makna tak boleh lagi streaming Berita RTM kat internet macam TV3. Jadi macam mana Hanan boleh tahu dari Israel? Dan dalam komen ketiga Hanan, dia ada sebut “universal network” dia. Tu Sayan lah. Bukan tendency to exaggerate keadaan, tapi semua koleksi fakta pinpoint macam tu lah nampaknya Tun. Bahawa: Sayanem Israel dah pantau Berita RTM TV1 atau TV2 dan report balik ke Israel. Sampai boleh cukup dan lengkap continuous information feed back pada si Hanan, sampai dia boleh form opinion mengatakan yang RTM biased reporting. Apa lagi yang dipantau mereka agaknya? Hai tu lah putaq belit Yahudi. Tuhan pun boleh fed-up dan reject depa. Tapi hairan ada juga Melayu yang sanggup cium bontot depa lagi. This is very serious matter.

Hanan's taking advantage..... but not smart enough..... still meaningless!

Salam Dr. M...

May you give me a permission to answer some points raised by Hanan..

Shalom Hanan..nice to hear some POV from a Zionist like you...

Therefore the land was belonging to Jews prior any Muslim was even born including Prophet Muhammad. …And don’t tell me that the Philistines are the Palestinians since this is a real joke.

If you're resorting to this reasoning, then the land should be handed down to Canaanites...but where're they today?.. when Muslims came to 'the promised land', they'd setteled down and intermaried with the indigenous people...many had converted to Islam too...that land is their homeland...the good news is, we're not rejecting any historical part that Jews are also have their share to that piece of land...

no one is arguing whether Jews shouldn't go back to Canaan(the ancient name for the land that spread including Israel, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan) or not... but how they're coming back, and that my friend, isn't the best part of the history of mankind..

The European’s did what it was the proper thing to do. Since Europe is not the Jews homeland and they understood well that the Biblical Land of Israel is the only homeland for Jews, they helped the Jews to return home. They didn’t transfer the problem to the Arabs. It is the Arabs who created it as a problem. Everyone has the right to return to his homeland and we returned. What do you think, expelling someone from his home by force means erasing its homeland roots?

Mahatma Gandhi had a good idea about this...
“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French...What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct...If they [the Jews] must look to the Palestine of geography as their national home, it is wrong to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb. They can settle in Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs... As it is, they are co-sharers with the British in despoiling a people who have done no wrong to them. I am not defending the Arab excesses. I wish they had chosen the way of non-violence in resisting what they rightly regard as an unacceptable encroachment upon their country. But according to the accepted canons of right and wrong, nothing can be said against the Arab resistance in the face of overwhelming odds.”

I agree that it is a real tragedy that happened to the Palestinian people in Gaza. Every innocent who is killed is like killing an entire world. Dr. Mahathir and those forum participants – where have you been when rockets killed Israeli Jews and non Jewish during 8 years? No sympathy? Jews lives are not as valuable as the Palestinians lives? Hypocrisy is the definition of that forum.

8 years are nothing compared to 60 years of tears...don't get me wrong...I'm not supporting any principle which goes by the line "fight fire with fire"...I'm merely stating what the Zionist knows best, but maybe from your point of view, what Palestinians know best which is: "they killed us, we kill them with 100 fold"...for how long this should be happened?...

this what the forum is...the West are splashed with the news of what Hamas is doing to Israelis...how about we talk something from the other side of the fence...isn't fair?..

What about the carnage of Jews by suicide bombers exploding in busses, streets and malls? Where were those two Jordanian doctors? Every one pains his relatives’ pain. Jews are crying for Jews and Muslims are crying for Muslims. Violence is not one sided but Muslim hypocrisy is one sided. No Muslim said even “I’m sorry about lost innocent Jews lives” while the Zionist Israel is regretting for innocent killed Palestinians that were used as human shields by the charity organization of Hamas.

they're desperate people, what do you think?...
while the Zionists are showing their regrets on how those Palestinians were killed, how about doing something different..try to stop using all sort of weapons of mass destruction...that's what those civillians really need...sorry won't do them any better...
let's suppose there're hostages in a building...should we bomb the building to get rid off the culprits...any sane people wouldn't agree such inhuman tactic...

Yes, this is really a horrible view. But who are the culprits? Isn’t it the Hamas with their daily rocket launching for eight years? Dear Dr. Mahathir, what would you do if KL is bombed the same for eight years? Would you extend your other cheek to be slammed? Hamas is the culprit for all that suffering of innocent people on both sides.

blaming each other...that's the fuel of any lengthy war...
but if i could use the same reasoning as yours, i'd say: Hamas is the product of the Zionist's terror...they won't get any support if the Zionist haven't came and start to rob as many land as they could...
we could go on like this for years...but nothing will happen except more blood will be spilled...on both sides...

That Arab is so right – the war is really a religious from the Muslims perspective, including you Dr. Mahathir. But you are trying to camouflage it as a territorial one. That Arab means a Jihad like is written in the Quran:

I don't think quoting from the Holy Quran with 2 verses(with no context whatsoever) will do you any wonder...
will you happy when I take 2 verses from the Torah and show to the world how Israel was formed from the blood of innocent children, women, and even livestocks?...without any given context...I wouldn't be fair right?...

and I'm sure Dr. Mahathir is honest on this matter...this is a territorial war..

This is true. I’m also depressed about such attitudes just because we are angry on each other. We must find a solution to avoid anger and hatred. We must think differently. I’ve already wrote it in my last letter to you. We must open a new page between the religions and between the Israelis and Palestinians.

I'm totally agree...nothing is nice compared to peace and tranquilty in any region...

Why do you think that only a war is the only solution? The historic seizure of the Land of Israel was by Muslims during their expansion from the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabian tribes are the Palestinians of today and that land is not belonging to them. It is a stolen Jewish land by Arabs.

so war is the only solution?...how about the historic seizure of the Land of Canaan by Moses, David, Solomon, etc that formed the historical Land of Israel?...come on...we're not living in historical dream anymore don't you think?...

Dear Dr. Mahathir, I think it is an excellent initiative. Let’s see what can be done. I think you can surprise us with more ideas. Since Malaysia is a kind of a far country from the conflict, I think it may play a very good role to contribute peace. There is just one big obstacle on that path and I’m sure you know it well.

I couldn't agree more...but maybe most people in charge from the West would have something in their mind...Dr. Mahathir was known, and is still known as a person who dare to challenge the West...and I don't think they're happy with that...we Malaysians will always support him in this cause...may Allah give him the srength to bring the tears of joy to the land...

Salam tu you, Sir.

Got an email from a friend regarding "Mengapa Yahudi Bijak?". Since your blog is very popular, would like to share with other readers.

Thesis by Dr. Stephen Carr Leon. Malay Translation.

Setelah berada 3 tahun di Israel kerana menjalani housemanship dibeberapa disana, ada beberapa perkara yang menarik dapat saya perhatikan untuk dijadikan tesis ini, iaitu "Mengapa Yahudi Bijak?". Memang tidak dapat dinafikan ramai cendikiawan berbangsa Yahudi, dari segala bidang,Engineering, musik, saintis dan yang paling hebat ialah bidang perniagaan,dimana ia memang paling tersohor. Hampir 70% perniagaan didunia dikuasai oleh kaum Yahudi, dari kosmetik, pakaian, pemakanan,senjata, perhotelan,perfileman di Hollywood dan sebagainya.Ketika tahun kedua, akhir bulan December 1980 dan sedang saya menghitung hari untuk pulang ke California saya terfikir apakah sebab nya kaum Yahudi begitu pintar? Kenapa tuhan memberi kelebihan kepada mereka? Apakah ini suatu kebetulan? Atau olah manusia sendiri? Adakah bijak boleh dijana? Seperti kilang pengeluaran? Maka saya pun tergerak membuat tesis untuk Phd saya,disamping kebaikan untuk umat sejagat dan dapat hidup secara harmoni...

Untuk pengetahuan anda tesis yang saya lakukan ini mengambil masa hampir lapan tahun, ini kerana untuk mengumpulkan data-data yang setepat mungkin.Antara data-data yang saya kumpulkan ialah pemakanan, adat resam, agama, persiapan awal untuk melahirkan zuriat dan sebagainya dan data-data tadi saya cuba bandingkan dengan bangsa dan kaum-kaum lain.Marilah kita mulakan dengan persiapan awal melahirkan zuriat. Di Israel,setelah mengetahui yang sang ibu sedang mengandung, pertama kali saya perhatikan ialah, sang ibu akan sering menyanyi dan bermain piano dan si ibu dan bapa akan membeli buku metamatik dan menyelesaikanmasalah metamatik bersama suami, saya sungguh hairan kerana teman saya yang mengandung sering membawa buku metamatik dan bertanya kepada saya beberapa soalan yang beliau tak dapat selesaikanya, oleh kerana saya memang minat tentang metamatik,tentu saja dengan senang saya membantu beliau. Saya bertanya kepada beliau,adakah ini untuk anak kamu? Beliau menjawab, "ya, ini untuk anak saya yang masih di dalam kandungan, saya sedang melatih otaknya, semoga ia menjadi genius apabila dewasa kelak" Perkara ini membuat saya tertarik untuk mengikuti perkembangan beliau seterusnya. Berbalik kepada metamatik tadi, tanpa merasa jenuh beliau membuat latihan matematik sehingga beliau melahirkan anak.

Seperkara lagi yang saya perhatikan ialah pemakanan beliau, sejak awal mengandung beliau gemar sekali memakan kacang badam dan kurma bersama susu,dan untuk tengah hari makanan utama beliau ialah roti dan ikan tanpa kepala bersama salad yang digaul dengan badam dan berbagai jenis kekacang, menuru beliau daging ikan sungguh baik untuk perkembangan otak dan kepala ikan mengandungi kimia yang tidak baik yang dapat merosakkan pengembangan dan penumbuhan otak anak di dalam kandungan. Menurut beliau ini adalah adat orang-orang yahudi ketika mengandung dan ianya menjadi semacam kewajipan untuk ibu-ibu yang sedang mengandung mengambil pil minyak ikan.

Ketika saya diundang untuk makan malam bersama orang-orang Yahudi, perkara pertama yang saya perhatikan ialah menu mereka. Setiap undangan yg sama perhatikan ialah mereka gemar sekali memakan ikan (hanya isi atau fillet) dan biasanya daging tidak akan ada bersama di meja jika ada ikan, menurut mereka, campuran daging dan ikan tak elok dimakan bersama. Salad dan kacang adalah suatu kemestian, terutama badam. Seperkara yang pelik ialah mereka akan memakan buah buahan dahulu sebelum memakan hidangan utama. Jangan terperanjat jika anda diundang kerumah Yahudi anda akan dihidangkan buah buahan dahulu. Menurut mereka,dengan memakan hidangan karbohidrat (nasi atau roti) dahulu kemudian buah-buahan, ini akan menyebabkan kita merasa ngantuk dan lemah dan payah untuk memahami pelajaran di sekolah.

Di Israel, merokok adalah taboo, apabila anda diundang makan dirumah Yahudi,jangan sekali-kali merokok, dan tanpa malu mereka akan menyuruh anda keluar dari rumah mereka dan merokok di luar rumah mereka. Menurut saintis di Universiti Israel , siasatan menunjukkan nikotin dapat merosakkan sel utama pada otak manusia dan akan melekat pada genes, ini bermakna keturunan perokok bakal membawa generasi yg cacat otak (bodoh atau lembab). Suatu penemuan yg dahsyat ditemui oleh saintis yg mendalami bidang genes dan DNA... Para perokok harap ambil perhatian. (Ironi nya,pemilik pengeluar rokok terbesar adalah ...... tekalah sendiri..!)

Perhatian saya selanjutnya ialah melawati tadika mereka.Pemakanan anak-anak tadi cukup dikawal, makanan awal ialah buah-buahan bersama kacang badam,diikuti dengan menelan pil minyak ikan (code oil lever).Dalam pengamatan saya, kanak-kanak Yahudi sungguh bijak dan rata-rata mereka memahami 3 bahasa iaitu Hebrew, Arab dan Inggeris dan sedari awal lagi mereka telah dilatih bermain piano dan violin, ini adalah suatu kewajipan. Menurut mereka bermain musik dan memahami nota-notanya dapat meningkatkan lagi IQ kanak-kanak dan sudah tentu bakal menjadikan budak itu bijak.

Ini menurut saintis Yahudi, gegaran musik dapat stimulate(semacam senaman untuk otak) maka itu terdapat ramai sekali genius musik terdiri dari kaum Yahudi.Seterusnya ke darjah 1 hingga 6, anak-anak Yahudi akan diajar matematik berkonsepkan perniagaan dan pelajaran sains amatlah diberi keutamaan. Di dalam perhatian peribadi saya, perbandingan dengan anak-anak di California ianya jauh berbeza tentang IQ dan boleh saya katakan 6 tahun kebelakang!!!Segala pelajaran akan dengan mudah ditangkap oleh anakYahudi. Selain dari pelajaran tadi sukan juga menjadi kewajipan bagi mereka dan sukan yg diberi keutamaan ialah memanah, menembak dan berlari, menurut teman saya ini memanah dan menembak dapat melatih otak memfokus sesuatu perkara disampingmempermudahkan persiapan untuk perhidmatan negara.

Selanjutnya pemerhatian saya menuju ke sekolah tinggi(menengah) disini murid-murid ditekankan dengan pelajaran sains dan mereka digalakkan mencipta produk, segala projek mereka walaupun kadangkala kelihatannya lucu dan mengarut, tetap diteliti dengan serius apatah lagi ianya berupa senjata, perubatan dan engineering, idea itu akan dibawa ke institute tinggi di Politeknik dan Universiti.

Satu lagi yg diberi keutamaan ialah fakulti perniagaan.Saya sungguh
terperanjat melihat mereka begitu agresif dan seriusnya mereka tentang perniagaan. Di akhir tahun di universiti, para penuntut di
bidang niaga dikehendaki melakukan projek dan mempraktikkanya dan anda hanya akan lulus jika kumpulan anda(10 pelajar setiap kumpulan) dapat keuntungan sebanyak $US1juta! Anda terperanjat? Itulah kenyataan, dengan rangkaian seluruh dunia dan ditaja sepenuhnya oleh syarikat milik Yahudi, maka tidak hairanlah mereka dapat menguasai ½ perniagaan di dunia! Siapakah yg mencipta design Levis yg terkini? Ianya dicipta di Universiti Israel oleh fakulti bisnes dan fesyen.

Pernahkah anda melihat cara orang Yahudi melakukan ibadah mereka? Salah satu caranya ialah dengan menggoyangkan kepala mereka, menurut
mereka ini dapat mengaktifkan otak mereka dan menambahkan oksigen di kepala,banyak agama lain di Timur Tengah, seperti Islam juga ada menyuruh umatnya menunduk atau menggoyangkan kepala, ini guna dapat mensimulasikan otak kita supaya bertambah aktif. Lihat orang-orang Jepun, mereka sering menunduk-nundukkan kepala dan ianya sebagai adat. Ramai orang-orang Jepun yg pandai? Adakah ianya sebagai kebetulan? Kegemaran mereka ialah sushi (ikan mentah).. Adakah
ini kebetulan? Fikirkanlah!

Berpusat di New York, Dewan perniagaan Yahudi bersedia membantu mereka yg berminat untuk melakukan bisnes (sudah tentu untuk Yahudi
sahaja) jika mereka ada idea yg bernas, jawatankuasa akan me mberipinjaman tanpa faedah dan pentadbir dari jawatankuasa tadi akan bekerjasama dengan anda untuk memastikan yg perniagaan mereka menurut landasan yg betul.Maka itu lahirlah Starbuck, Dell comptr, Cocacola, DKNY, Oracle, Perfileman di Hollywood,Levis, Dunkin Donut dan ada beratus kedai ternama di bawah naungan dewan perniagaan Yahudi di New York. Graduan Yahudi dari fakulti perubatan New York akan disarankan untuk mendaftar di persatuan ini dan digalakkan memulakan klinik mereka sendiri dengan bantuan wang tanpa faedah, barulah saya tahu mengapa hospital di New York dan California
sentiasa kekurangan doktor pakar.

Kesimpulanya, pada teori saya, melahirkan anak dan keturunan yg bijak boleh dilaksanakan dan tentunya bukan semalaman, ianya memerlukan masa, beberapa generasi mungkin? Persiapan awal adalah ketika sang ibu mengandung,galakkanlah si ibu melakukan latihan matematik yg mudah tetapi konsisten disamping mendengar musik klasik. Seterusnya ubahlah cara pemakanan, makanlah makanan yg elok dan berhasiat yg baik untuk otak,menghayati musik sejak kecil adalah baik sekali untuk penumbuhan otak kanak kanak,dengan bermain
piano dan violin sudah tentu dapat melatih anak anak mencerdaskan otak mereka demikian juga sukan yg memerlukan konsentrasi yg tinggi, seperti memanah, bola keranjang, dart dan menembak.Merokok menjanjikan generasi yg moron (goblok) dan sudah tentu genes bodoh akan mengikut ke generasi si perokok..

Lawatan saya ke Singapore pada tahu 2005 amat memeranjatkan sekali, di sini perokok seperti dianak tirikan dan begitu susah sekali untuk perokok dan anda tahu berapa harga sekotak rokok? US$ 7 !!! ini bersamaan perbelanjaan sehari untuk makan anda!! Saya puji sekali sikap pemerintah Singapore dan menkjubkan sekali!!!dan seperti Israel ianya begitu taboo dan cara pentadbiran dan segi pembelajaran mereka hampir serupa dengan Israel , maka itu saya lihat banyak institusi pelajaran mereka bertaraf dunia walaupun hakikatnya negeri Singapore hanyalah sebuah pulau sebesar Manhattan !!

Anda mungkin musykil, benarkah merokok dapat melahirkan generasi goblok, saya telah menemui beberapa bukti menyokong teori ini.Lihat saja Indonesia,jika anda ke Jakarta, di mana saja anda berada, dari
restoran, teater, kebun bunga hingga ke muzium hidung anda akan segera terbau asak rokok! Dan harga rokok? Cuma US$ .70cts !!! dan hasilnya? Dengan penduduknya berjumlah jutaan orang berapa banyak kah universiti terdapat disana? Hasil apakah yg dapat dibanggakan? Teknologi? Jauh sekali. Adakah mereka dapat berbahasa selain dari bahasa mereka sendiri? Mengapa mereka begitu sukar sekali menguasai
bahasa Inggeris? Ditangga berapakah kedudukan mereka di pertandingan
matematik sedunia? Adakah ini bukan akibat merokok? Anda fikirlah sendiri.

Di tesis saya ini, saya tidak akan menimbulkan soal agama atau bangsa, adakah Yahudi itu zalim sehingga diusir semenjak zaman Paraoh hingga ke Hitler, bagi saya itu isu politik dan survival, yg ingin saya ketengahkan ialah, mampukah kita dapat melahirkan generasi yg bijak seperti Yahudi? Jawapannya ialah mungkin dan tidak mustahil dan ianya memerlukan perubahan,dari segi pemakanan dan cara mendididik anak dan saya kira hanya memerlukan 3 generasi sahaja. Ini dapat saya lihat sendiri tentang cucu saya, ini setelah saya mengajar anak saya melalui program yg telah saya nyatakan di
atas tadi, pada umur 9 tahun (cucu saya) dia dapat menulis karangan sepanjang 5 muka surat penuh. Karangannya hanyalah mengenai Mengapa Saya Gemarkan Tomato!

Selamat sejahtera dan semoga kita dapat melahirkan manusia yg bijak dan bersifat mulia untuk kebaikan manusia sejagat tanpa mengenal batasan bangsa dan agama.

cheers

Salam kasih dan hormat Ayahanda Tun. Saya rasa kurang senang bila blog Tun ini pun juga dipantau oleh Sayanem Yahudi. Sedih jugak Tun sebab sebenarnya, kelemahan Melayu yang memberikan mereka ruang ini. Saya harap sesiapa Melayu yang sokong PKR dengan DAP - sudah lah. Sedar lah sikit apa yang sedang diperjudikan. Tentang PAS, saya tak yakin PAS akan dapat bertahan lama dalam Pakatan Rakyat pun. Sayanem, Sayanem - Sayanem! Memang bahaya Yahudi ni!
Wassalam Ayahanda Tun.

Hanan the...

what ever u said... aku tetap benci yahudi.. yes i'm anti-sematic

Salam kasih Ayahanda Tun. Tun ada perasan tak si Hanan ni? Bila Tun tulis pasal Mozzarella dia tak komen, dia diam. Pasal Airport Kali di Labu pun dia diam. Tapi bila Tun tulis saja pasal Yahudi, choih dia sampai. - Ada Tun perasan dak? Sayanem? Sure punya Tun. Tu atas tu, sepupu sama kala dengan Sammy Davis Jr, Joshua Kumar - tu tak Sayanem? Tinted glass punya Sayanem. Tu dia lah Melayu, mai kita cekik sama sendiri. Hang sepak pungkok aku, aku tendang pungkok hang. Anwar? Jangan libatkan dia hal macam ni. Bahaya. Tapi kita tak sedaq sedaq lagi, sama kita punya channel pun dah di bolos Sayanem network depa. Hebat noo. Tu la, duk kata dah. Hanya dengan 26 abjad, satu dunia depa putaq belit yang kata Yahudi ni.
Wassalam Ayahanda Tun.

Dear Tun,

I would like to reply to the comment made by Hanan.

Dear Hanan,

I appreciate your effort to explain the major points regarding this matter. Somehow you must also understand that the action taken by the HAMAS or Israelis army are both wrong and should be condemned. There is not one religion in this world including Islam, Christian, Judaism or Buddha or any other that teach the people to kill another human being. It shows that you are very arrogant and ignorant person who thinks that killing one another is fine. You call yourself to be a Jew but I am sure that your religion does not teach you to kill others.

I also need to remind you that the blockaded done by the Israelis army on Palestinians people from getting good supply and other supply has caused to all this problem. If they allow the Palestinians to live their lives without any sanction on them, they will not be getting any rocket attack from the HAMAS. I am sure of that. The Zionist continue doing so because they want to have a valid reason to retaliate by killing more Palestinians so they will be perished from this earth. That is your Zionist ambition. I know you know this very well. Since you yourself claimed to be a Zionist.

You can go on and say whatever you want about this whole issue. But for me and I think for most of the people in this world, they do not like you the ZIONIST. It is not because you are an Israelis but it is because you are ZIONIST. I have a good friend of mine who happen to be an American Jew. But he lives his life simple and do business as usual without any problem here in Kuala Lumpur. And I am sure that there are many more of them who are good Jews around the world. Same as muslim. We also have the good muslim around the world who follow the God's revelation which is the Koran. But somehow we also have the bad Muslim around the world who commit suicide bombing in the name of Allah.

And the Palestinians are very stubborn and they will do whatever it takes to win. Same goes to your people of Israel. They will do what it takes to win too. So you tell me Hanan, do you want this to continue? Do you want to see people living side by side without any problem or living side by side but killing each other and make each others life hard enough that the kids can't go to school, no food to eat, no proper education, no places safe to go and live their life like 1000 years ago with no electricity, no internet connection.

If you choose to see them living that sort of life then I must say that all your argument earlier was for nothing. Because you are just as arrogant as the Palestinians Arab. You are very selfish person who only think for yourself and your people only. You are very stubborn who does not want to listen to any other voice around the world that condemned the killing of innocent people of Palestine.

Do you remember what you did before to people of Jenin? People of Gaza? Other top leaders of the Islamic ruling party? You do not care because their blood is nothing compare to your people. The Hamas kill your people not more than 20 people in the recent attack but the Israelis army killed more than 1500 of innocent people. So you tell me, is there any fairness in your attack? Is there any logic to your killings? Come on Hanan. I am sure you have a good brain to think for yourself. Maybe you should take a bit of time to think about it. But maybe also you do not have a good heart so you will take as many minutes as possible but you will never understand it. You will not get what I am saying and the world is demanding. Because you are just as bad as the Arabs who are stubborn and ignorant towards another people's point of view.

We are living in 20th century now and we still killing one another just to fulfill our lust and to be in power.

Now in Israel they are having an election to elect a new Prime Minister. I pray to Allah that the new leader will be a good leader who has a good heart and who will not kill the innocent people like the previous leader of Israel. But I doubt it though because as long as the Zionist mentality is still in power, they will continue killing people for no reason.

I hope that all Arabs in the middle east get up and fight the Israelis. They are very small country will less than 4 million people. The Arab Gulf combined will get more than 100 people. I am sure the Arab will win anytime by just fighting one on one. There should be easy. But it is not as simple as that. Because the Arab leaders are coward. They do not want to risk their fortune by involving in the war between the Palestine and Israel. They rather spend their money on sleeping with as many girls as possible and buying alcohol to make them drunk all the times and splashing the money on building their mansion and buying sport cars as many as the one in the car dealer show room.

You may argue with the best brain in the world Hanan but you will never change your mentality about this war. You have something that is blocking your brain from receiving information clearly just like the Palestinians being blocked from getting food from Israelis. That is why both of you are acting like animals because you can;t get what you want. You just acting like animals who only think to fulfill their lust and wish list.

thank you

aziz

Dear Dr M ,

Sir, in my opinion, I feel that you have not understood the basics of the conflict in Israeli-Palestinian unrest.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is based on History, Religion and Sentiments. One has to know the history of Israel. How it existed and where it all began.

One must also understand that Islam began after Judiasm and Christianity existed. 600 plus years later than Christianity was practiced as a faith and religion. But Israel existed way beyond 1300BC during the time of Abraham.

Abraham had 2 sons , Ishmael and Issac. And Issac had 2 sons Jacob and Esau. In Judaism and Bibilical text of faith , God changed Jacob's name to Israel and he had 12 sons who later became the 12 tribes of Israel till today.

We also see the Isralites went to Egypt in serach of food and settled in Egypt as became as slaves there. Egypt was not a Muslim nation then.

Moses led them to the Land of Israel, that is cited as the promised land by God to the decendants of the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Israel (Jacob), which is the current place where both the Israelis and Palestinians exist.

The Rule of Israelites in the land of Israel starts with the conquests of Joshua (1250 BC).

In 587 BC, Babylonian's Nebuchadnezzar's arm captured Jersusalem , destoyed the Temple of the Israelities and exiled the Jews to Babylon (modern day Iraq) fom their homeland.

The year 587 BC marks a turning point in the history of the region. From this year onwards, the region was ruled or controlled by a succession of suerpower, empires of the time in the follwing order:

Foreign Empires that ruled in Israel Period Empire Major Events

587 BCE - Babylonian
Destruction of the first Temple.

538-333 BCE - Persian
Return of the exiled Jews from Babylon and construction of the second Temple (520-515 BCE).

333-63 BCE - Hellenistic
Conquest of the region by the army of Alexander the Great (333 BCE). The Greeks generally allowed the Jews to run their state. But, during the rule of the king Antiochus IV, the Temple was desecrated. This brought about the revolt of the Maccabees, who established an independent rule. The related events are celebrated during the Hanukah holiday.

63 BCE-313 CE - Roman
The Roman army led by Titus conquered Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple at 70 CE. Jewish people were then exiled and dispersed to the Diaspora. In 132, Bar Kokhba organized a revolt against Roman rule, but was killed in a battle in Bethar in Judean Hills. Subsequently the Romans decimated the Jewish community, renamed Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina and Judea as Palaestina to obliterate Jewish identification with the Land of Israel (the word Palestine, and the Arabic word Filastin originate from this Latin name).

The remaining Jewish community moved to northern towns in the Galilee. Around 200 CE the Sanhedrin was moved to Tsippori (Zippori, Sepphoris). The Head of Sanhedrin, Rabbi Yehuda HaNassi (Judah the Prince), compiled the Jewish oral law, Mishna.

313-636 - Byzantine

636-1099 - Arab
Dome of the Rock was built by Caliph Abd el-Malik on the grounds of the destroyed Jewish Temple.

1099-1291 - Crusaders The crusaders came from Europe to capture the Holy Land following an appeal by Pope Urban II, and massacred the non-Christian population. Later Jewish community in Jerusalem expanded by immigration of Jews from Europe.

1291-1516 - Mamluk

1516-1918 - Ottoman
During the reign of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566) the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem were rebuilt. Population of the Jewish community in Jerusalem increased.

1917-1948 - British
Great Britain recognized the rights of the Jewish people to establish a "national home in Palestine". Yet they greatly curtailed entry of Jewish refugees into Israel even after World War II. They split Palestine mandate into an Arab state which has become the modern day Jordan, and Israel.

So, we see, Israel had been invaded by many empires and were driven out of their homeland which was theirs. These had been also been prophecied by prophets of then, that they will go into such ordeal.

So, whats wrong in Israel occupying their own land and are actually accomodating the Palestinians. The land originally belongs to Israel. Also God Almighty is with them, they cannot be shaken after so many wars with them by the neighbouring countries.

Salam kasih dan hormat Ayahanda Tun.

:) Tu yang saya tulis dalam bahasa Melayu tu. Tak mau duk sangkut dengan Yahudi putaq alam macam ni la. Bagi dia 26 abjad Rumi, dia putaq alam satu denia Tun :) Kalah sapa spin doctor di KL tu...apa nama dia? eish tak ingat..duk jual surat khabaq dengak kata...:)

Dear Dr. Mahathir,
May Allah bless you.
I’m providing my comments attached to the line items as you posted them.
You and all the fans here should interpret my comments somehow as “extreme” just to emphasize the Israeli and Jewish point of view (as I understand it). It is not in order to pour any provocation or humiliation to anyone personally or as a group. My intention is to provide the different perspective as I see it.
My intention is opposed to war – it is to create peace. It is just to show you that there is no other option to end the bloody war – just compromising and good will. If our intention is not that, then probably the war will exist forever. Is this what we want?
Dear Dr. Mahathir, you still have the power to “move mountains” because people are listening to you and respecting you. Your word is very well listened in the Islamic world. You are a potential lever for peace and I’m personally expecting and hoping for it. War is enough… and enough is enough! Let us cherish peace rather the anger of war. Everyone must sacrifice some personal honor, admit mistakes. This is the only way we can start a new beginning.
I’m not intending to continue any arguments with other people in that blog since it will not gain the expected result. The reason is not because I don’t want to have arguments. It is because this is consuming a lot of time resources for me to answer everyone and this is not my main job in life, however it is very important.
If you feel free to argue or even humiliate me, I’ll know exactly how to filter out what is relevant and what nonsense are. I’m always taking some lessons from what you say here and I hope it is a mutual thing.

BTW, I found an interesting blog spot (not mine) that is collecting interesting information you may explore. It includes some of my comments.

Other side of a coin...
http://fencemind.blogspot.com/

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1. The Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War (KLFCW) held a special forum on Palestine.
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2. In my opening speech I stressed that the war in Palestine is not a religious war between Islam and Judaism. It is a territorial war resulting from the European powers carving out a slice of Palestinian land in order to create the State of Israel.
---Hanan:
This is a war from both aspects. It is absolutely a territorial war which its background is religious. The Jews are claiming that land as their homeland and the Palestinians are claiming it as an Islamic Waqf asset.
Palestinians are not the genuine natives of that land. They are the posterity of Arab tribes that invaded to the empty land of Israel from the Arabian Peninsula during the spreading of Islam.
Malays are Muslims (the majority). What is their language? Is it Arabic or Malay? Turks are Muslims. What is their language? Is it Arabic or Turkish? The same is with other Muslim countries except those are surrounding the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa which was the initial Muslim world. So was Palestine. All those speaking Arabic countries were influenced by the invading tribes from the Arabian Peninsula.
What language was spoken in the Land of Israel prior the Islamic invasion of Arab tribes from the Arabic Peninsula? Let me remind you. When Jews lived there, before they have been expelled by the Romans, they spoke Hebrew. Hebrew was their Biblical language and during all their kingdoms of Israel and Yehuda.
Now, Jews everywhere in the world have their fundamental knowledge of Hebrew and the language of the place where they live. Why are their basic roots in the Hebrew language? Because they bear it from their day one when Judaism was established and they got the Torah which its genuine language is Hebrew. Jews spoke many languages in their Diaspora times where they lived but never forgot their native language which is chained to the Land of Israel. Hebrew is the language Jews are praying wherever they are. Have you asked yourself why? To which geographical part is Hebrew chained? English is chained to England, French to France, the Palestinians are speaking Arabic because their genuine roots are the Arabic Peninsula. Malays speak Malay because their roots are in Malaya. Muslims are praying in Arabic because the roots of Islam are in the Arabian Peninsula. Jews are praying in Hebrew because their roots of Judaism are in the Land of Israel.
Therefore the land was belonging to Jews prior any Muslim was even born including Prophet Muhammad. …And don’t tell me that the Philistines are the Palestinians since this is a real joke.
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3. It is grossly unjust for the Europeans to solve their Jewish problem by taking land belonging to the Arab Palestinian to give to the Jews for their homeland. It is grossly unfair that they should transfer their problem to the Arabs.
---Hanan:
The European’s did what it was the proper thing to do. Since Europe is not the Jews homeland and they understood well that the Biblical Land of Israel is the only homeland for Jews, they helped the Jews to return home. They didn’t transfer the problem to the Arabs. It is the Arabs who created it as a problem. Everyone has the right to return to his homeland and we returned. What do you think, expelling someone from his home by force means erasing its homeland roots? Now, I know that many of you will jump and raise the issue of the Palestinian refugees. Since Those Palestinians roots are Arabic roots, they should be settled back in any Arab country. But if it will be a two country solution they may live in the Palestinian state.
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4. The participants at the forum represented all races, belonging to all religions. There were ethnic European Christians, Chinese Catholics, Hindus, Sikhs, Malay Muslims, Arab Muslims, Chinese Buddhists and many others.
---Hanan:
Was there any Jewish representative? Dr. Mahathir, you said that it is a territorial conflict and now you are emphasizing about religious representatives. If it is a territorial conflict then, who represented the Zionist side? Was it a one sided forum? Was it a forum of the saint people against the monsters without letting even a single monster to be there? Who are many others? Can you specify particularly? “Many others” is a blur definition.
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5. They came together because they were moved by the human tragedy that is happening in Gaza, Palestine. That the Palestinian Arabs are mostly Muslims did not lessen the feeling of sympathy felt by the participants.
---Hanan:
I agree that it is a real tragedy that happened to the Palestinian people in Gaza. Every innocent who is killed is like killing an entire world. Dr. Mahathir and those forum participants – where have you been when rockets killed Israeli Jews and non Jewish during 8 years? No sympathy? Jews lives are not as valuable as the Palestinians lives? Hypocrisy is the definition of that forum.
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6. Two doctors from Jordan were present. They had gone to Gaza to show their sympathy and brotherhood and to help treat the casualties. They were not prepared to see the carnage caused by Israeli attacks.
---Hanan:
What about the carnage of Jews by suicide bombers exploding in busses, streets and malls? Where were those two Jordanian doctors? Every one pains his relatives’ pain. Jews are crying for Jews and Muslims are crying for Muslims. Violence is not one sided but Muslim hypocrisy is one sided. No Muslim said even “I’m sorry about lost innocent Jews lives” while the Zionist Israel is regretting for innocent killed Palestinians that were used as human shields by the charity organization of Hamas.
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7. The Israeli forces appeared to be using new kinds of shells and bombs which exploded after bouncing off the ground hurling sharp metal shrapnel which cut deep into the bodies of the victims.
---Hanan:
Dear Dr. Mahathir, have you asked yourself or anyone else what is the content of a Grad or Qasam rocket? May it be full of candies? The Hamas rockets contain even more painful shrapnel as small steel balls from dismantled ball bearings - thousands of them. They contain nails, screws, nuts and metal debris. Isn’t it killing people - But cuts in Muslim flesh pains more than cuts in Jews flesh? That forum of hypocrisy is a double standard.
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8. Many had their arms and legs severed by the shrapnel, while others died when the shrapnel cut deep into their bodies and organs.
---Hanan:
The Jewish children who were killed from the Qasam rockets died just in their sleep, dreaming about the candy container of that rocket. Did they die in their sweet dreams?
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9. One man was saved because the shrapnel cut into a small Quran he had in his pocket but stopped short of his chest.
---Hanan:
If that man would be a Jew and in his pocket was the Psalms Book which was saving his life, would any Muslim mention it? It is really a miracle and may God bless that saved man to have long life. There is a Jewish proverb: “Who saves a single life is as he saved the whole universe”.
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10. Phosphorus bombs scattered white phosphorus all over the victims. The phosphorus sticks to the body and burn as long as there is oxygen in the air. It burns through the skin, through the muscles and through the bones. It is impossible to remove the phosphorus without cutting deep into the tissues and bones.
---Hanan:
In Gaza was a volunteer Italian doctor working in one of the hospitals. He wanted to see those special burns or phosphorus burns of the wounded, but he was refused. Why?
Yes, Israel used phosphorous bombs, but complying with the international law used in open areas to neutralize explosive traps. It was not against humans. This is another lie from the pro Palestinian/Muslim media.
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11. The pictures of decapitated bodies, shrapnel severed arms and legs were horrifying. The surgeons had to operate on stretchers with several operations going on in one room at the same time. There was blood everywhere and yet there was no blood for transfusion.
---Hanan:
Yes, this is really a horrible view. But who are the culprits? Isn’t it the Hamas with their daily rocket launching for eight years? Dear Dr. Mahathir, what would you do if KL is bombed the same for eight years? Would you extend your other cheek to be slammed? Hamas is the culprit for all that suffering of innocent people on both sides.
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12. The video also showed Israeli men and women being interviewed. They were quite hysterical, shouting and demanding that the Palestinian children should be killed as they, the Israeli women had lost their children because of rocket attacks by Hamas.
---Hanan:
Why you aren’t so shocked about all Muslims shouting in the streets “Itbakh al Yahood” (slaughter the Jews)? Why aren’t you shocked when a suicide bomber is killing 20 Jews in a bus and the Palestinians are celebrating like barbarians in Gaza streets and donating candies to everyone? This is the Muslims hypocrisy. The Muslims lives are saint and Jews lives=zero. Jews are apes and swine, even not an animal classification for Muslims.
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13. The Gaza attacks exposed the horror of modern warfare. No one is spared. The town of Gaza is reduced to rubble and bodies were strewn everywhere. Children were buried under the rubble of fallen buildings, with only their dead heads visible. There were burnt bodies of babies.
---Hanan:
Dear Dr. Mahathir, let me ask you honestly. Do you think if the situation was opposite and we lose the war, our cities would look differently? Would a single tear drop drip from your eyes? All Malays would have a carnival, dancing and screaming as barbarians “Allah hu Akbar”. Jewish women would be raped and the remaining men and children would be slaughtered.
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14. Professor Gurdial Singh spoke about how Israel could be tried by an International War Crimes Court.
---Hanan:
Let’s see what will happen with that. Hamas will face the same tribunal soon.
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15. Then it was question time. An Englishman voiced his anger that the pictures of the atrocities were not made public in the United Kingdom. He wished that the Jordanian doctors could give their briefings together with the pictures in London.
---Hanan:
It would be interesting initiative, but to confront the case with the other side as well.
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16. Responding to the remarks, Professor Michel Chossudovsky pointed out that the Western media is owned by a small number of people and they control the news contents. They were obviously pro-Israel and their policy is to promote the Israeli cause against Palestine and Muslims in general.
---Hanan:
The Al-Jazeerah, BBC, SKY, CNN, French TV are almost Zionist media but always show the Palestinians side much more than the Israeli side. This is called promoting Israel. It is interesting how you saw in Malaysia all those brutal activities of the Zionists. Does RTM have a representative journalist in Israel (may be, but I don’t know)? Al-Jazeerah is funded by Qatar Zionists Jews, isn’t it?
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17. Many of the questions asked showed strong sympathy for the Palestinians. The questions were from all races and religions.
---Hanan:
Was it just sympathy for the Palestinians lost lives and wounded? No one asked questions about the minor lives of the Israelis during eight years of rockets? Aren’t you a humanitarian forum based on a non religious approach? Oh, it is usual in Islam that the Jews worthless people should be the major victims, but now it is not meeting the expectations. That’s bad, very bad.
Do you have the list of races and religions represented in that forum? Who was the representing Jew there? Again, you are talking about a forum of religions while you claim a territorial conflict. Isn’t it a mismatch of definition?
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18. Then a young Arab man took the floor. The first thing he said was to emphasise that the Palestinian war is a religious war. Muslims must support the Palestinians because of their faith. There can be no two ways. The Arabs must fight a holy war against the Jews. They must fight because the Jews are the enemies of the Muslims, of the Arabs.
---Hanan:
That Arab is so right – the war is really a religious from the Muslims perspective, including you Dr. Mahathir. But you are trying to camouflage it as a territorial one. That Arab means a Jihad like is written in the Quran:
• Al-Ma'idah (The Table Spread) - (Arabic)
5:82 Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews and Pagans; and nearest among them in love to the believers wilt thou find those who say, "We are Christians": because amongst these are men devoted to learning and men who have renounced the world, and they are not arrogant.
لَتَجِدَنَّ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَدَاوَةً لِّلَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ الْيَهُودَ وَالَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُواْ وَلَتَجِدَنَّ أَقْرَبَهُمْ مَّوَدَّةً لِّلَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ الَّذِينَ قَالُوَاْ إِنَّا نَصَارَى ذَلِكَ بِأَنَّ مِنْهُمْ قِسِّيسِينَ وَرُهْبَانًا وَأَنَّهُمْ لاَ يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ
• Al-Ahzab (The Confederates) - (Arabic)
33:26 And those of the People of the Book who aided them - Allah did take them down from their strongholds and cast terror into their hearts. (So that) some ye slew, and some ye made prisoners.
وَأَنزَلَ الَّذِينَ ظَاهَرُوهُم مِّنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ مِن صَيَاصِيهِمْ وَقَذَفَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمُ الرُّعْبَ فَرِيقًا تَقْتُلُونَ وَتَأْسِرُونَ فَرِيقًا

Or like Hamas wrote it in its charter:
• Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).

• "The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgment Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. "

• "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."

• "The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim).
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19. I felt uncomfortable, as there were many non-Muslim supporters of the Palestinians in the audience. Making the Palestinian war as a religious war seem to reject the sympathy and support of the non-Muslims.
---Hanan:
So finally it is a religious war but you put on the mask of the territorial conflict just to find the sympathy of the non-Muslims supporters. Isn’t this hypocrisy? When you among Muslims it is a war of Muslims against the Jews and when in the audience there are some non-Muslim you are doing it in a more gentle manner and defining the war as territorial. To which of your sides should I believe?
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20. A Chinese Catholic got up to reply that he has full sympathy for the Palestinians who had lost their land, who had been driven out of their country to live as refugees. He thought that the Palestinians were unjustly treated and the Israeli killings of the Palestinians were against all humanitarian values. He did not see it as a religious war but a war against injustice and oppression.
---Hanan:
I respect his opinion. I have in my “arsenal” another Chinese Catholic which says the opposite. What is this proving? Is that Chinese Catholic or that I know, masters of judges? Can they judge what is justified or not? What would he say if he was living for one day in Sderot or surviving a bus explosion by a Hamas suicide bomber? Any violence and killing is against humanitarian values. He doesn’t see this war as religious because he is not involved in it and because you said in your preface that it is a territorial one. If he would be thinking more deeply he would acknowledge that it is a religious war of Muslims against the sinners, where the Jews are chapter one and the crusaders (Catholic and Christians) are chapter two according the Quran commandment. Not mentioning the pagans in the queue of the jihad.
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21. I was depressed by the attitude of the young Arab. It seems he was moved only by the hatred of the Jews. On the other hand the demand of the Israeli woman to have Palestinian children killed also exposes her bitter hatred of the Palestinians.
---Hanan:
This is true. I’m also depressed about such attitudes just because we are angry on each other. We must find a solution to avoid anger and hatred. We must think differently. I’ve already wrote it in my last letter to you. We must open a new page between the religions and between the Israelis and Palestinians.
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22. This is wrong. Of course enemies must hate each other. But that must not be the reason for the war. Actually it is a product of the war.
---Hanan:
Dear Dr. Mahathir, you are so right. Yes, that hate is now sprouting new generations with greater hate. You, as a father and grandfather of children and grandchildren, me as a father of two sons – what are we doing to raise our children to avoid hatred? We must change our education for compassion among humans without any differences of races or religion. This will avoid war.
Hatred and anger brings more hatred and anger. Love and compassion brings more love and compassion. Unfortunately the second option is much more difficult to achieve. That spinning wheel of hatred is spinning faster and faster. We must stop it. Each and every one of us should step a small step forward. The first step is to be equal with our mercy on people, Palestinians, Israelis, Malays, Bosnians, Africans, no matter who they are or their faith. It is unfair to kill innocent Palestinians but in the same time it is not fair to kill Israelis. We don’t need to measure the casualties as numbers since everyone who is killed is an entire world.
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23. The real reason for the war is the seizure of Palestinian land to create the state of Israel. The objective of the Palestinians should be the re-conquest of the lost land, including removal of the settlements set up by the Jews. The whole war must be directed with this objective.
---Hanan:
Why do you think that only a war is the only solution? The historic seizure of the Land of Israel was by Muslims during their expansion from the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabian tribes are the Palestinians of today and that land is not belonging to them. It is a stolen Jewish land by Arabs.
The objective should not be a war but a solution for two states for both peoples. An organization like Hamas is not a partner since they are not recognizing the rights of Israel to exist and Jews to live in Israel. Once they accept the existence of an Israeli state – they are partners.
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24. What I realised when the young Arab vehemently declared that the war is a religious war was that the war would have no end. The objective was to kill Jews because of their religion.
---Hanan:
I think that the young Arab understood very well the situation. Dear Dr. Mahathir, I believe you are thinking as same as that young Arab (maybe I’m wrong; and if I’m wrong I apologize) but you felt non comfortable just because of the non-Muslim guests. That young Arab is just following the commandment of the Quran about the Jews (refer the verses above).
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25. On the Jewish side it is the same. They want to kill and destroy the Arabs because they hate the Arabs. That explains their brutality, their targeting schoolchildren, babies and old people. That also explains the diabolical weapons that they use, not just to kill but to cause as much pain and disfigurement as possible.
---Hanan:
I think that this assumption of you is wrong. We don’t hate the Arabs. If we would hate the Arabs would we allow the remaining Arabs live among us in the borders of Israel? If we hate the Arab children, would we treat them in our Zionist hospitals? If we hate the Arabs, would the hospital in my hometown (a Zionist hospital funded and built from Zionists organizations donations) allow Muslims to establish a Mosque as same we have a there a Synagogue? We don’t hate the Arabs. We don’t want to kill anyone who is innocent. But we kill those terrorists who want to kill us. We are not killing intentionally innocent people but the terrorists (you call them freedom fighters) are killing innocent people intentionally by rockets and suicide bombers in our busses and malls. As far as I know and everyone knows, busses and malls are not military camps.
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26. The Israeli leaders, especially the military are said to welcome Hamas rockets. To provoke Hamas into firing their rockets the Israelis blockaded Gaza.
---Hanan:
Dear Dr. Mahathir, I really cannot understand how low you can go. On the other side I say Hamas is launching rockets just to make Israel angry and hardly react while Hamas is using their own innocent civilians as human shields. Hamas is not recognizing the existence of Israel and strives to destroy Israel. Why should we give them all privileges as a normal entity? When they keep silent there is no blockade and humanitarian supply is entering to Gaza. Once they fire again we close the borders. I don’t understand your logic. The people of Gaza elected Hamas and Hamas is caring how to destroy Israel. Why should we help our bloody enemy and let all borders be open like nothing happened. Only an idiot would do it. Assume Singapore wants to destroy Malaysia would you provide them any agriculture supply or drinking water? I know what the MAF would do. They would wipe Singapore off the Map and get back once and forever the “stolen” Island from great Malaysia.
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27. When Hamas fired the rockets, Israelis would condemn the deaths, especially of children. The people were angered by the death and demanded retaliation, which the military duly obliged with massive attacks out of all proportion to the damage done by the unsophisticated Hamas rockets.
---Hanan:
Dear Dr. Mahathir. Whatever you say, any death is not justified but war is not a kind of fair play. Everyone is fighting with its most sophisticated weapons. As funny as it is, the Qasam rockets are still not beatable and no one has an anti weapon. Should we train Hamas how to produce more precise rockets to equalize the equation? War is not a proportional business since one side loses and the other wins, but I think no one is winning in a war. What would you say if Hamas had that sophisticated weapons and the Israelis would have 1300 killed people? Was it then a fair play?
I just can tell you one thing and remember it as long as you live as well as everyone in this blog. The Arabs may lose many wars but the Jews have no option to lose a single war… and you all know it very well as we know it.
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28. For their part the Palestinians would show the effects of Israeli brutality, the destruction of the towns and the deaths of innocent children. The hatred against the Jews was fanned to red heat, and Palestinians would become ready to kill the Jews in any way they can. They would fire more rockets and the Jews would retaliate with even greater force and brutality.
---Hanan:
Right again. That’s why we must stop all that at once. Dear Dr. Mahathir, I think I proposed you a good solution in my private letter. Why not to give it a try? May be everyone can open his heart and use his brain to establish something different. May be we can establish a better future to our suffering world. Let’s try that and if we fail there will be always the option of war which all of us dislike.
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29. Both sides have now forgotten the reasons for their war. It is like the clan war of old, when for generations the hatred would be kept alive and both sides would want to go on fighting and killing each other.
---Hanan:
I think both sides are now behaving like a snow ball that rolls down the slope of the hill. There must be reasons for that war. Each side has its reasons. If each side entrenches in its stronghold without looking outside for a better horizon, the killing will continue. Let’s stop this now before it will be too late. It is almost the last chance since the future is uncertain. It is in the power of all of us to stop it if we just want to.
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30. The Palestinians are getting the worse deal in this "I kill your people, you kill my people," fighting.
---Hanan:
I have nothing to say here since it is repeating issues above.
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31. I was asked by the Jordanian doctor, when will this war end. I think it will have no end because it has degenerated into feuds of old, when Semitic tribes fight each other for generations simply because they were traditional enemies. The original reason for the enmity has long been forgotten.
---Hanan:
Dear Dr. Mahathir, I beg you, since you are an educated and wise man, since you are a known Muslim leader - you have the power to contribute to stop that bloody war. I think all of us would like to see the children of both sides playing in the same playing courts, getting their education in the same schools and universities, cooperating in business and science. This is in your power more than in my power (you are famous and I’m just a negligible private person). I think you just need to be willing. It is transforming the anger to good will. I’m sure you are using your brain and you must have love in your heart. Just give it a try, there is nothing to lose – but a win- win solution. If you can do that you are more than worthy a Nobel Award for peace!!!
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32. If the war is going to be terminated both sides must try to remember the original cause and negotiate for peace. The backers of the contestants should cease providing money and weapons so they will continue to fight. Instead they should urge both sides to discuss a peace not based on who is more powerful but on justice.
---Hanan:
Dear Dr. Mahathir, I think it is an excellent initiative. Let’s see what can be done. I think you can surprise us with more ideas. Since Malaysia is a kind of a far country from the conflict, I think it may play a very good role to contribute peace. There is just one big obstacle on that path and I’m sure you know it well.

Hanan, Jewish and an Israeli Zionist.

maybe they need to attack Palestine to get more and more benefits? otherwise they didn't have target at all?

A;kum Tun,

I am very proud of you of what you had done so far on this issue. But let's not be forgotten that the Arabs themselves do not want to improve their well being. So as long as they have this ego in their mindset, they will always be acting and behaving the same way.

I'm very upset with the Muslim around the world because they choose to kill and call it as a JIHAD when Allah clearly said in the Koran that no one is allowed to kill another human being. If you kill one person is like you kill all mankind. So what are they point of killing? Allah already made it clear. But because of ego and of course some hatred feeling towards the Jews, this has made situation worse.

I agree with you Tun that this war is not about ISLAM or JUDAISM or religious war but its about territorial war. Somehow the MUSLIM do not understand it. They insist on killing them back. So this war will go on forever.

That is why Allah send our last Prophet to be an Arab because Allah knows what type of people they are.They are stubborn and egoistic people. They do not care about what happen to the children, women, and the old people of Palestine who suffered the most from the rocket attack. They want to accomplish their mission of getting to kill as many Jews as possible but they know they will not succeed in doing so. Yet they continue sending rockets over to the Israelis territory. They get even greater attack from the Israelis army with more than 1000 people killed for nothing. Just because of egoistic? Come on. This world is too good for us to die for nothing and claiming it to be a SYAHID when Allah already said you do not kill another mankind.

For your effort and hard work, I thank you and I salute you for that. I agree with some people saying that they want you to be the middle person to handle this case and get it done over with. I am sure you are more than capable of doing it. But again, as long as the Arabs do not want to change their destiny, they will be among the losers. Even in the Koran also Allah mentioned about it.

I am MUSLIM myself but I pity ISLAM as a religion because of all this ARABS who claimed them to be the chosen one or to fight in the name of ALLAH and all sorts of other claims. That is why the western people or any other people in the world hate ISLAM. So sad that they hate ISLAM because of the behavior of the MUSLIMS. Only if they understand the meaning of ISLAM which is only to Submit to God alone and no others.

For the Arabs around the world, wake up people before it' s too late.

thank you

aziz

one must find the root of problem to tackle the problem itself. the root is too deep to be found while the problem is growing.

as we malaysian, we also like to overreact to certain issues without seeing the situation from outside the box. please see things thoroughly before making any assumption or judgement. sometimes what we see is just the tip of the iceberg.

God gives us mind to think rationally. At this time around, most people around the Gaza strip do not use their mind effectively. How many distruption, disaster, killings must occur to win a war that they themselves do not know the reason and cause of the war?

I feel pity for the victims. They died longing for peace and freedom in the own homeland.

Near Total Zionist Jewish Control Of The British Media:

http://www.rense.com/general38/brits.htm

After television news, daily newspapers are the most influential information medium in America. Sixty million of them are sold (and presumably read) each day. These millions are divided among some 1,600 different publications.

One might conclude that the sheer number of different newspapers across America would provide a safeguard against minority control and distortion. Alas, such is not the case. There is less independence, less competition, and must less representation of majority interests than a casual observer would think.

The days when most cities and even towns had several independently owned newspaper published by local people with close ties to the community are gone. Most of them were bought out or driven out of business by the mid-1970s. Today most "local" newspapers are owned by a rather small number of large companies controlled by executives who live and work hundreds or even thousands of miles away.

The fact is that only about 20 percent of the country’s 1,600 papers are independently owned; the rest belong to multi-newspaper chains. Only 104 of the total number have circulations of more then 100,000. Only a handful are large enough to maintain independent reporting staffs outside their own communities; the rest must depend on these few for all of their national and international news.

In only 47 cities in America are there more than one daily newspaper, and competition is frequently nominal even among them, as between morning and afternoon editions under the same ownership. Examples of this are:

the Huntsville, Alabama, morning News and afternoon Times;

the Birmingham, Alabama, morning Post Herald and afternoon News;

the Mobile, Alabama, morning Register and afternoon Press;

the Springfield, Massachusetts, morning Union, afternoon News, and Sunday-only Republican;

the Syracuse, New York, morning Post-Standard and afternoon Herald-Journal — all owned by the Jewish Newhouse brothers through their holding company, Advance Publications.

The Newhouse media empire provides an example of more than the lack of real competition among America’s daily newspapers: it also illustrates the insatiable appetite Jews have shown for all the organs of opinion control on which they could fasten their grip.

The Newhouses own:

26 daily newspapers, including several large and important ones, such as the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Newark Star-Ledger, and the New Orleans Times-Picayune;

Newhouse Broadcasting, consisting of 12 television broadcasting stations and 87 cable-TV systems, including some of the country’s largest cable networks;

the Sunday supplement Parade, with a circulation of more than 22 million copies per week;

some two dozen major magazines, including the New Yorker, Vogue, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Bride’s, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Self, House & Garden, and all the other magazines of the wholly owned Conde Nast group.

This Jewish media empire was founded by the late Samuel Newhouse, an immigrant from Russia. When he died in 1979 at the age of 84, he bequeathed media holdings worth an estimated $1.3 billion to his two sons, Samuel and Donald. With a number of further acquisitions, the net worth of Advance Publications has grown to more than $8 billion today.

The gobbling up of so many newspapers by the Newhouse family was in large degree made possible by the fact that newspapers are not supported by their subscribers, but by their advertisers. It is advertising revenue — not the small change collected from a newspaper’s readers — that largely pays the editor’s salary and yields the owner’s profit.

Whenever the large advertisers in a city choose to favor one newspaper over another with their business, the favored newspaper will flourish while its competitor dies.

Since the beginning of this century, when Jewish mercantile power in America became a dominant economic force, there has been a steady rise in the number of American newspapers in Jewish hands, accompanied by a steady decline in the number of competing Gentile newspapers — primarily as a result of selective advertising policies by Jewish merchants.

Furthermore, even those newspapers still under Gentile ownership and management are so thoroughly dependent upon Jewish advertising revenue that their editorial and news reporting policies are largely constrained by Jewish likes and dislikes. It holds true in the newspaper business, as elsewhere, that he who pays the piper calls the tune.

Three Jewish Newspapers

The suppression of competition and the establishment of local monopolies on the dissemination of news and opinion have characterized the rise of Jewish control over America’s newspapers. The resulting ability of Jews to use the press as an unopposed instrument of Jewish policy could hardly be better illustrated than by the examples of the nation’s three most prestigious and influential newspapers: the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.

These three, dominating America’s financial and political capitals, are the newspapers which set the trends and the guidelines for nearly all the others. They are the ones which decide what is news and what isn’t, at the national and international levels. They originate the news; the others merely copy it. And all three newspapers are in Jewish hands.

The New York Times, with a September 1998 circulation of 1,067,000, is the unofficial social, fashion, entertainment, political, and cultural guide of the nation. It tells America’s "smart set" which books to buy and which films to see; which opinions are in style at the moment; which politicians, educators, spiritual leaders, artists, and businessmen are the real comers. And for a few decades in the last century it was a genuinely American newspaper.

The New York Times was founded in 1851 by two Gentiles, Henry J. Raymond and George Jones. After their deaths, it was purchased in 1896 from Jones’s estate by a wealthy Jewish publisher, Adolph Ochs. His great-grandson, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., is the paper’s current publisher and the chairman of the New York Times Co. The executive editor is Joseph Lelyveld, also a Jew and a rabbi's son.

The Sulzberger family also owns, through the New York Times Co.:

33 other newspapers, including the Boston Globe, purchased in June 1993 for $1.1 billion;

twelve magazines, including McCall’s and Family Circle with circulations of more than 5 million each;

seven radio and TV broadcasting stations;

a cable-TV system; and

three book publishing companies.

The New York Times News Service transmits news stories, features, and photographs from the New York Times by wire to 506 other newspapers, news agencies, and magazines.

Of similar national importance is the Washington Post, which, by establishing its "leaks" throughout government agencies in Washington, has an inside track on news involving the Federal government.

The Washington Post, like the New York Times, had a non-Jewish origin. It was established in 1877 by Stilson Hutchins, purchased from him in 1905 by John R. McLean, and later inherited by Edward B. McLean.

In June 1933, however, at the height of the Great Depression, the newspaper was forced into bankruptcy. It was purchased at a bankruptcy auction by Eugene Meyer, a Jewish financier and former partner of the infamous Bernard Baruch, the industry czar in America during the First World War.

The Washington Post is now run by Katherine Meyer Graham, Eugene Meyer’s daughter. She is the principal stockholder and board chairman of the Washington Post Co. In 1979, she appointed her son Donald publisher of the paper. He now also holds the posts of president and CEO of the Washington Post Co. The newspaper has a daily circulation of 810,000 and its Sunday edition sells 1.1 million copies.

The Washington Post Co. has a number of other media holdings in newspapers (the Gazette Newspapers, including 11 military publications), in television (WDIV in Detroit, KPRC in Houston, WPLG in Miami, WKMG in Orlando, KSAT in San Antonio, WJXT in Jacksonville), and in magazines, most notably the nation’s number-two weekly newsmagazine, Newsweek. The Washington Post's various television ventures reach a total of about 7 million homes, and its cable TV service, Cable One, has 635,000 subscribers.

In a joint venture with the New York Times, the Post publishes the International Herald Tribune, the most widely distributed English language daily in the world.

The Wall Street Journal, which sells 1.8 million copies each weekday, is the nation’s largest-circulation daily newspaper. It is owned by Dow Jones & Company, Inc., a New York corporation which also publishes 24 other daily newspapers and the weekly financial tabloid Barron’s, among other things. The chairman and CEO of Dow Jones is Peter R. Kann, who is a Jew. Kann also holds the posts of chairman and publisher of the Wall Street Journal.

Most of New York’s other major newspapers are in no better hands than the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. In January 1993, the New York Daily News was bought from the estate of the late Jewish media mogul Robert Maxwell (born Ludvik Hoch) by Jewish real-estate developer Mortimer B. Zukerman. The Village Voice is the personal property of Leonard Stern, the billionaire Jewish owner of the Hartz Mountain pet supply firm. And as mentioned above, the New York Post is owned by News Corporation under the Jew Peter Chernin..

News Magazines

The story is pretty much the same for other media as it is for television, radio and newspapers. Consider, for example, newsmagazines. There are only three of any note published in the United States: Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report.

Time, with a weekly circulation of 4.1 million, is published by a subsidiary of Time Warner Communications, the new media conglomerate formed by the 1989 merger of Time, Inc., with Warner Communications. The CEO of Time Warner Communications, as mentioned above, is Gerald Levin, a Jew.

Newsweek, as mentioned above, is published by the Washington Post Company, under the Jewess Katherine Meyer Graham. Its weekly circulation is 3.2 million.

U.S. News & World Report, with a circulation of 2.3 million, is owned and published by the aforementioned Mortimer B. Zuckerman, who has taken the position of editor-in-chief of the magazine for himself. Zuckerman also owns the Atlantic Monthly and New York’s tabloid newspaper, the Daily News, which is the sixth-largest paper in the country.

Here is how the Zionist Jews control Western media:

http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-controlledpress-folder.html

Electronic News & Entertainment Media

Continuing government deregulation of the telecommunications industry has resulted, not in the touted increased competition, but rather in an accelerating wave of corporate mergers and acquisitions that have produced a handful of multi-billion-dollar media conglomerates.

Whenever you watch television, whether from a local broadcasting station or via a cable or satellite dish; whenever you see a feature film in a theater or at home; whenever you listen to the radio or recorded music, whenever you read a newspaper, book, or magazine — it is very likely that the information or entertainment you receive was produced and/or distributed by one of these megamedia companies.

The largest media conglomerate today is AOL, which bought out Time Warner for $160 billion early in 2000. The merger brought together Steve Case, a Gentile, as Chairman of the new AOL, and Gerald Levin, a Jew, as the CEO. Although AOL isn't (yet) run entirely by Jews, the effect of this blend of leadership between a white capitalist whose biggest concern is money and a racially conscious Jew will be gradually to increase the Jewish influence within AOL. Steve Case won't complain when Gerald Levin begins hiring mostly Jews to fill key positions beneath him because Case's own profits won't be affected. After Case dies or retires, the Jews will have complete control at AOL.

Before the merger, AOL was the largest Internet service provider in America, and it will now be used as an online platform for the Jewish content from Time Warner.

Time Warner Inc, with 1997 revenues of more that $13 billion, was the second largest of the international media leviathans when it was bought by AOL. Levin, chairman and CEO of Time Warner, had bought Turner Broadcasting System in 1996 from Ted Turner, who had been one of the few Gentile entrepreneurs in the media business. Ted Turner, as the company president, is the number three man at the new AOL, after Case and Levin.

When Ted Turner media maverick, made a bid to buy CBS in 1985, there was a panic in media boardrooms across the nation. Turner had made a fortune in advertising and then had built a successful cable-TV news network, CNN, with over 70 million subscribers.

Although Turner employed a number of Jews in key executive positions in CNN and had never taken public positions contrary to Jewish interests, he is a man with a large ego and a strong personality and was regarded by Chairman William Paley and the other Jews at CBS as uncontrollable: a loose cannon who might at some time in the future turn against them.

Furthermore, Jewish newsman Daniel Schorr, who had worked for Turner, publicly charged that his former boss held a personal dislike for Jews.

To block Turner’s bid CBS executives invited billionaire Jewish theater, hotel, insurance, and cigarette magnate Laurence Tisch to launch a "friendly" takeover of the company, and from 1986 till 1995 Tisch was the chairman and CEO of CBS, removing any threat of non-Jewish influence there. Subsequent efforts by Turner to acquire a major network have been obstructed by Levin’s Time Warner, which owns nearly 20 percent of CBS stock and has veto power over major deals. When his fellow Jew Sumner Redstone offered to buy CBS for $34.8 billion on September 7, 1999, Levin had no objection.

Thus, despite being an innovator and garnering headlines, Turner never commanded the "connections" necessary for being a true media master. He finally decided if you can't lick 'em, join 'em, and he sold out to Levin. Ted Turner is in one respect a reflection of Steve Case. Both of these men are capitalists with no discernible degree of racial consciousness or responsibility.

Time Warner's subsidiary HBO is the country's largest pay-TV cable network. Until the purchase in May 1998 of PolyGram by Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music was America's largest record company, with 50 labels, the biggest of which is Warner Brothers Records.

Warner Music was n early promoter of "gangsta rap". Through its involvement with Interscope Records (prior to Interscope's acquisition by MCA), it helped to popularize a genre whose graphic lyrics explicitly urge blacks to commit acts of violence against whites.

In addition to cable and music, Time Warner is heavily involved in the production of feature films (Warner Brothers Studio, Castle Rock Entertainment, and New Line Cinema) and in publishing.

Time Warner's publishing division (editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstine, a Jew) is the largest magazine publisher in the country... Time, Sports Illustrated, People, Fortune.

AOL has absorbed Time Warner financially, but ideologically it is Time Warner that has infected AOL. Levin has lost none of his ability to pervert our culture. Steve Case certainly will not interfere with whatever plans Levin has in that respect, since money is what he cares about. If he can get richer by letting Levin promote anti-white music on the Internet while keeping white patriots out of AOL chatrooms, it's all the same to him.

THe second-largest media conglomerate today, with 1997 revenues of $23 billion, is the Walt Disney Company, whose chairman and CEO, Michael Eisner, is a Jew.

The Disney empire, headed by a man described by one media analyst as "a control freak," includes several television production companies (Walt Disney Television, Touchstone Television, Buena Vista Television), its own cable network with more than 100 million subscribers altogether.

As for feature films, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, under Walt Disney Studios, headed by Joseph E. Roth (also a Jew), includes Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, and Caravan Pictures. Roth founded Caravan Pictures in January 1993, and it is now headed by his fellow Jew, Roger Birnbaum. Disney also owns Miramax Films, run by the Weinstein brothers, who have produced such ultra-raunchy movies such as The Crying Game, Priests, and Kids.

When the Disney Company was run by the Gentile Disney family prior to its takeover by Eisner in 1984, it epitomized wholesome, family entertainment. While it still holds the rights to Snow White, under Eisner the company has expanded into the production of a great deal of so-called "adult" material.

In August 1995, Eisner acquired Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., which owns the ABC Television Network, which in turn owns ten TV stations outright in such big markets as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Houston. In addition, it has 225 affiliated stations in the United States and is part owner of several European TV companies..

ABC’s cable subsidiary, ESPN, is headed by president and CEO Steven Bornstein, who is a Jew. The corporation also has a controlling share of Lifetime Television and the Arts & Entertainment Network cable companies with 67 million subscribers each. ABC Radio Network owns 26 AM and FM stations, again in major cities such as New York, Washington, and Los Angeles, and has over 3,400 affiliates.

Although primarily a telecommunications company, Capital Cities/ABC earned over $1 billion in publishing in 1997. It owns seven daily newspapers, Fairchild Publications (Women’s Wear Daily), Chilton Publications (automotive manuals), and the Diversified Publishing group.

Number three on the list, with 1997 revenues of just over $13 billion, is Viacom, Inc. headed by Sumner Redstone (born Murray Rothstein). Viacom, which produces and distributes TV programs for the three largest networks, owns 13 television stations and 12 radio stations. It produces feature films through Paramount Pictures, headed by Jewess Sherry Lansing. Redstone acquired CBS following the December 1999 stockholders' votes at CBS and Viacom.

Its publishing division includes Simon & Schuster, Scribner, The Free Press, and Pocket Books. It distributes videos through over 4,000 Blockbuster stores. It is also involved in satellite broadcasting, theme parks, and video games.

Viacom’s chief claim to fame, however, is as the world’s largest provider of cable programming, through its Showtime, MTV, Nickelodeon, and other networks.

Since 1989, MTV and Nickelodeon have acquired larger and larger shares of the juvenile television audience. Redstone, who actually owns 76 percent of the shares of Viacom, until recently offered Beavis and Butthead as teen role models and is the largest single purveyor of race-mixing propaganda to white teenagers and sub-teens in America and Europe.

MTV pumps its racially mixed rock and rap videos into 210 million homes in 71 countries and is the dominant cultural influence on white teenagers around the world.

Nickelodeon, with about 65 million subscribers, has by far the largest share of the four-to-11-year-old TV audience in America and also is expanding rapidly into Europe. Most of its shows do not yet display the blatant degeneracy which is MTV’s trademark, but Redstone is gradually nudging the fare presented to his kiddie viewers toward the same poison purveyed by MTV.

The new boy on the megamedia block is Edgar Bronfman, Jr. president and CEO of Seagram Company, Ltd., the liquor giant. His father, Edgar Bronfman, SR., is president of the World Jewish Congress. Seagram owns two large production companies, MCA and Universal Pictures (now merged under the name Universal Studios). Among its many other properties, MCA owns Interscope Records, the foremost promoter of "gangsta rap".

Bronfman became the biggest man in the record business in May 1998 when he also acquired control of PolyGram, the European record giant, by paying $10.6 billion to the Dutch electronics manufacturer Philips. With the expected revenue from PolyGram added to that from MCA and Universal, Bronfman will have the fourth largest media empire, with annual revenues around $12 billion. One especially unfortunate aspect of the PolyGram acquisition is that it gives Bronfman control of the world's largest producer of classical music CDs: PolyGram owns the Deutsche Grammophon, Decca-London, and Philips record companies.

With three of the top four media conglomerates in the hands of Jews, and with a Jew in executive charge of the remaining one, it is difficult to believe that such an overwhelming degree of control came about without a deliberate, concerted effort on their part.

What about the other big media companies?

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, which owns Fox Television Network, 20th Century Fox Films, and Fox 2000, is the fifth largest megamedia corporation in the country, with 1997 revenues of over $11 billion. It is the only other media company which comes even close to the top four. Murdoch is a Gentile Australian, but Peter Chernin, who is president and CEO of Fox Group, which includes all of News Corporation's film, television, and publishing operations in the United States, is a Jew.

Under Chernin, as president of 20th Century Fox, is Laura Ziskin, a Jewess who formerly headed Fox 2000. Jew Peter Roth works under Chernin as president of Fox Entertainment. News Corporation also owns the New York Post and TV Guide, and they are published under Chernin's supervision. Murdoch told Newsweek magazine (July 12, 1999 that he would probably elevate Chernin to CEO of News Corporation, rather than allow the company to fall into the hands of his own children, none of whom are younger than their late twenties.

It is hard to imagine a Jew giving a major media corporation to a Gentile underling when he has children waiting in the wings. For his part, Chernin was quite candid. "I get to control moves seen all over the world... what could be more fun?"

Most of the television and movie production companies that are not owned by the largest corporations are also controlled by Jews. For example, New World Entertainment, proclaimed by one media analyst as "the premier independent TV program producer in the United States", is owned by Ronald Perelman, a Jew who also owns Revlon cosmetics and offered a job to Monica Lewinsky when Bill Clinton was trying to keep her quiet.

The best known of the smaller media companies, Dream Works SKG, is a strictly kosher affair. Dream Works was formed in 1994 amid great media hype by recording industry mogul David Geffen, former Disney Pictures chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, and film director Steven Spielberg, all three of whom are Jews. The company produces movies animated films, television programs, and recorded music. Considering the cash and connection that Geffen, Katzenberg, and Spielberg have, Dream Works may soon be in the same league as the big four.

It is well known that Jews have controlled most of the production and distribution of films since shortly after the inception of the movie industry in the early decades of this century. When Walt Disney died in 1966, the last barrier to the total Jewish domination of Hollywood was gone, and Jews were able to grab ownership of the company that Walt built. Since then they have had everything their way in the movie industry.

Films produced by just the four largest motion picture companies mentioned above -- Disney, Warner Brothers, Paramount (Viacom), and Universal (Seagram) -- accounted for two-thirds of the total box-office receipts for the year 1997.

The big three in television network broadcasting used to be ABC, CBS, and NBC. With the consolidation of the media empires, these three are no longer independent entities. While they were independent, however, each was controlled by a Jew since its inception: ABC by Leonard Goldenson; NBC first by David Sarnoff and then by his son Robert; and CBS first by William Paley and then by Laurence Tisch.

Over periods of several decades these networks were staffed from top to bottom with Jews, and the essential Jewishness of network television did not change when the networks were absorbed by other corporations. The Jewish presence in television news remains particularly strong.

For example, the executive producers of two of the three main network news programs are Jews. The executive producer of ABC/s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings is Paul Friedman. The executive producer of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw is Neal Shapiro. Until recently, the executive producer of CBS Evening News with Dan Rather was Al Ortiz, also a Jew. Or if you get your news from CNN, the boss there is Rick Kaplan, also a Jew.

Dear Dr,

It has been quite sometimes since my last comment. Anyway, let me first congratulate you for having more than 10 mil visitors into yr site. I recalled making a challenge to you before but you did very well!

Also, tahniah for your unstoppable efforts in making sure that Pak Lah, the worst Prime Minister this country has ever had, coming to his senses and agreeing to resign next month. Actually, he should have resigned long time ago. This country has suffered enough due to his many 'flip flop' actions. I hope Najib will take immediate corrective actions to put this country back to where we were before.

Now back to Palestinians issue. I have seen plenty of charity events being organised in Malaysia to collect donations for the Palestinian cause and I feel it is very UNFAIR. Money collected are to be given to Palestinians to reduce their suffering, develop their infrastructure and rebuild their future. This is all done just because the Jewish regime had bombed their land, destroyed their life and killed their children. And now we are made to pay for the actions of this bloody regime. To me, the regime must be brought to the war criminal court and made to pay and compensate for what they had done to the Palestinians.

At the same time, I would like to suggest to you that whenever you have the opportunity to speak at the OIC forum (to all leaders of the Islamic nations), please get all the leaders present except the Arab leaders, to strongly condemn the Arabs for what actually happened to the Palestinians. To me, nobody should be blamed for this problem except the Arabs. With the money that they have, they never put it to good cause; for good knowledge and research; to develop high technology; to build sophisticated weapons; etc.

Instead, they use the money to satisfy their lust and grediness. When we really think about it, they deserve what they get and perhaps, Allah may want to test them until they realise the real purpose of their existance on this 'muka bumi'. Until then, Arabs will always be Arabs, fighting each other, never bother of their own blood and not wanting to unite as one strong and solid ummah who could rule the world like before.

To you Dr, stay healthy as Malaysians still need you!

Brgds,
ABSH

ASSALAMUAILKUM...

Realitinya, kisah Palestin ini adalah kisah manusia yang telah mendedahkan realiti kepalsuan atas nama "sokongan hak kemanusian". Ia juga memaparkan kezaliman yang bermaharajalela dalam "new world order'. Adalah menakjubkan mereka telah mempertahankan hak binatang dan menghalang manusia dari menyakitinya sedangkan mereka telah menzalimi manusia yang hidup dalam keadaan yang menyeksakan dan ketakutan akibat serangan mereka yang bertali arus. Pendudukan zionis ini adalah contoh penjajahan barat yang berlaku sehingga saat ini tapi dalam pelbagai bentuk kepalsuan.

Saya percaya, tidak lama lagi Allah akan membalas kezaliman Israel di "negara" mereka sendiri. Bila dan bagaimana, hanya Allah yang tentukan. Tahniah di ucapkan pada rakyat malaysia yang memboikot, menderma dan berusaha bermacam cara menyedarkan semua berkaitan isu ini. Tapi persoalannya, sampai bila?

Sepatutnya dari dahulu lagi umat islam pertahankan empayar dan mengukuhkan kekuatan selepas Salehuddin al-Ayubi berjaya merebut Jurusalem. Ya, memang kita berjaya mencipta ilmu dan di sanjung tinggi masa itu kerana umatnya teguh iman dan aman damai berbilang agama. Tetapi Israel bukan begitu. Mereka jijik melihat islam berada di tengah tengahnya. Apabila nanti al-Aqsa roboh kerana yahudi menggali terowong di bawahnya, apakah kita tidak menyalahkan mereka? Apakah kita bersetuju jika Israel mengatakan al-Aqsa roboh dengan sendirinya? Ada juga sesetengah pemimpin arab berkata perlukan strategik untuk bertindak, tetapi dari 1948 hingga sekarang, tidak jumpa lagikah strategiknya? Israel tiada kelemahan atau umat islam itu sendiri yang lemah?

Semua ini berpunca dari pemimpin pemimpin Arab itu sendiri. Tidak keterlaluan jika saya kata, MEMERANGI PEMIMPIN ARAB LEBIH BAIK DARI MEMERANGI ISRAEL. Dengan sikap pentingkan diri dan berkecuali mereka, terlalu menjengkelkan. Pada mereka, minyak lebih berharga dari isu Palestin. Pada mereka, berkelahi sesama sendiri lebih baik dari bersatu. Pada mereka, kepentingan politik mereka lebih penting dari tuntutan agama. CELAKALAH KAMU WAHAI PEMIMPIN ARAB. Mereka ini sebenarnya lebih zalim dari zionis.

Sejauh mana umat islam sekarang boleh mengajar pemimpin arab itu? Jika Arab henti keluarkan minyak dengan niat kerana Palestin, DEMI ALLAH saya sanggup berjalan kaki kemana saja. Adakah Petronas, Brunei dan lain lain pengeluar minyak islam sanggup?

Tidakkah kita berasa malu hidup di zaman umat islam yang penuh dengan sifat bakhil dan banyak angan angan? Tidakkah kita berasa malu hidup di zaman umat islam yang lebih cintakan dunia daripada mati? Ke mana kita hendak pergi sebenarnya? Hidup pun tiada jasa pada saudara seagama, mati pula di soal Allah mengapa tidak menolong mereka. Umat islam percaya pada rukun iman, percaya Allah itu maha adil, tetapi jika solat lima waktu pun kadang kadang kita sendiri terlepas, layakkah kita mengharap keadilan itu pulang kepada kita?

Tun,

I'm a free thinker but i don't know much about Palestinians and Jewish so called religious war. The actual problem is from the leader of both country. It's useless that talk about how violent the war is or whose fault is it. Can the people in the war or even the leader now see what had happened before and they just fight for a reason which they don't see at all. It's not the citizen fault if there's war in their country maybe they were uneducated but the leader should be blame.

The leader want to fight, just fight to each other themselve not sacrified the innocent citizen who just follow order. If they willing to peace they just need to brain wash the next generation using the Emperor QI( 1st emperor of China who united the whole china). They can delete everything they knew about the unreasonable war to next generation. Moral education is the the thing both country lack of. The people need to know in every circumstances there's always consequences. I can't see what good consequences they can see in this endless war. Is it they love to see their people die for some reason they believe but never know why? Is it worth to die that way?(I'm sure they were given another reason that they can't see, sound like a good reason but it's not because they were lack of knowledge)

Tun, if they really want talk about justice all this won't happen. I don't look up on them for brave fighting in war because it's stupid but sympathy them for their life who live for a war where it will continue. Their leader make the citizen live like a bugs where it they do the same thing as the last generation and pass to the next generation and so on. Even bugs know when to defend themselve when it needed. I know all these word won't heard by any of them eventhought it really get to them, they won't understand. The mistake of the whole thing it's both country choose a wrong leader. It's just they are living way too far behind any country who have little of knowledge. 'Everyone have their own dream to live, not to live for someone dream'

Hi Tun,

Pada pendapat saya, selagi Negara2 Islam terutamanya Negara2 Arab selagi itulah rakyat Palestine akan menderita....
Hulur duit sahaja tidak mencukupi mungkin akan mengurangkan beban rakyat palestine tetapi sampai bila...

Assalamualaikum Tun, The history of war which is now referred as Palestian-Israel war, is a very big history indeed. It is a history of war as long as mankind itself. So to say that it is because of the European, or Israel, or Palestian, or the Arabs, is not leading to anywhere. In other words, by involving all human races or religions, in Palestinian cause, will lead to nowhere, and on the contrary, it will only lead to more intense arguments, debate, polemics or whatever.

The only way is to focus on amicable solution, even if it only involve a segment of the land, the people, or whatever. Manking must made headway, even if it is only a step forward.

Those Palestinians and Israelis, who are adaptable enough to live side by side, must be promoted and make known of their achievements, so as to see that lights of peaceful living do exist amongst the Palestinians and/or Israelis.

salam Tun,

my friend Matahari,

you said you like to look at things objectively,but I think you were deceptively misled by cunning indoctrination through western media.

This is twisted logic at its best.If the jews were the original inhabitants then they would have named it otherwise,not Palestine as it is known today.
As it is Palestine were named after the original inhabitants,the Philistines!

Open up your eyes and see.Another cunning deception the western media is trying to impose on the world now is the image of The Dome of The Rock (Masjidil AL-Aqsa)in Baitulmaqdis.

The image they want the world to see is the one with the golden dome,right?It is actually the image of another mosque nearby,built in the 15th century.Dome of the Rock is actually an old building nearby.

Why you asked?Because when the jews get to actually demolish the Dome,they will still be able to fool the world by showing the image of the mosque nearby!

How long were the jews actually in Palestine before they were dispersed thousands of years ago?You'd be shocked!

ONLY A MERE 70 YEARS.

Now if we were to follow the Zionist jews twisted logic,the world's maps would be turned upside down.The White Americans should be evacuated out to make way for the Red Indians,so do their cousins in Australia and New Zealand!

Please try to be really objective next time!If you were to be really objective,then you will find that you do not have a choice but to symphatise with the plight of the Palestinians.

To PAL,

good of you to ask Tun to read the Holy Bible,but which version,may I ask?
And may I suggest that you also try to read the Holy Quran?Don't worry,there is and always will be only one version.Not even a single word can be taken out or put in.

Oh yes,and try to be REALLY OBJECTIVE when studying the Holy Quran as many people (especially white folks!) who are interested in finding REAL truth are beginning to discover for themselves.

Why it may even be life-changing!

Jeng3

Salam kasih dan hormat Ayahanda Tun.

Tzipi Livni (99% Bakal PM Israel yang baru) adalah bekas agen risikan Mossad Israel dan juga bekas ahli kepada pertubuhan yang menamakan diri mereka Irgun – sebuah pertubuhan yang bergerak aktif semenjak tahun 1931 lagi. Irgun juga adalah merupakan pihak ketenteraan pertama Israel yang menyerang dan menakluk tanah Arab pada tahun 1946-1948. Polisi Irgun adalah 1) Bangsa Yahudi adalah mempunyai hak mutlak untuk mengambil mana-mana tanah Arab sekeliling Jerusalem, 2) Kuasa ketenteraan sahaja yang mampu memelihara Israel (tanpa perlu ada diplomasi). Pergerakan Irgun adalah merupakan tulang belakang kepada permulaan Zionisma global. Walaupun Irgun tidak lagi bergerak menggunakan nama Irgun pada hari ini, namun ianya tetap menapak sebagai parti politik Likud naungan Benyamin Nethanyahu. Walaupun parti Livni adalah Kadima, namun keluarga Livni adalah merupakah mentor kepada Irgun dan seterusnya Likud. Apa pun parti yang naik, pergerakan Zionisma Israel tetap akan memegang kuasa secara terus atau proksi. Inilah juga yang telah dilakukan kepada Amerika, Britain, France dan di rantau ini – Singapura. Adakah kita seterusnya?

Apakah cara Israel bergerak? Saya sebenarnya tidak berapa mahir tentang ini, tetapi jika mengikut apa yang saya telah perhatikan, ianya begini: Kepercayaan Yahudi memang banyak kepada perikatan persaudaraan sesama mereka. Perkataan yang digunapakai adalah Sayanem (Sayan). Setiap seorang Yahudi adalah dianggap Sayanem (singkat nya Sayan). Sayanem bermakna “angkatan persaudaraan atau juga rangkaian inteligensia”. Kumpulan yang bertindak sebagai ketua kepada Sayanem (dalam bentuk kumpulan pakar pemikir dan strategis – think tank) adalah para Rabbi Orthodox di serata dunia dan juga di Jerusalem Israel. Tak kira siapakah jua Yahudi berkenaan, baik dari tukang gunting rambut hingga ke CEO Apple Inc. adalah dianggap sebagai golongan “Ashkenazim” (ada juga pegangan bahawa Ashkenazim adalah juga merupakan cabang mazhab mereka) – ataupun para Sayanem – para pekerja kepada fahaman Sayanem tadi.

Jika mana-mana Yahudi terasa terancam ataupun ditekan, maka ahli Sayanem adalah diizinkan mengikut kepercayaan Ashkenazim atau Shepardi mereka untuk menggunakan sebarang bentuk penyelesaian kepada krisis berkenaan – termasuklah mengugut, membunuh, memboikot ataupun melakukan gerakan espionage – apa sahaja demi kesinambungan Sayanem, adalah dalam keizinan fahaman mereka. Sayanem bergerak dengan memegang fahaman bahawa seluruh dunia adalah musuh Yahudi dan puak Yahudi mesti bersatu dalam angkatan perpaduan mereka. Di dalam sistem Sayanem dan prinsip Ashkenazim tadi, tidak ada seorang Sayanem pun yang lebih warak daripada yang lain. Tidak di-izinkan sesama mereka untuk mengadili ataupun mengkategorikan tahap kewarakan seseorang daripada mereka dengan yang lain. Mereka digalakkan untuk senantiasa bersaudara dalam kasih dan sayang sesama Sayanem mereka.

Orang bukan Yahudi, adalah dianggap kasta rendah dan di label kan sebagai “Kesidrah” ataupun Regular – biasa, juga gelaran “Goy” (kemudian di pendekan kepada guy dalam bahasa Inggeris moden). Saya, anda - adalah Goy kepada mereka. Mereka adalah Sayanem, Orthodox, dan tertinggi Rabbi. Cara Sayanem berfungsi adalah 100% kekuatan dan kemuafakatan kerana mereka tidak akan sesekali cuba menjadi pakar dalam bidang ugama mereka, mereka hanya akan bekerja. Mereka tidak diizinkan (sekeras-kerasnya) untuk cuba mengadili siapa lebih warak, siapa masuk syurga atau sebaliknya. Oleh sebab itu, Sayanem bergerak dengan licik tanpa ada rasa ego untuk membuntukan pergerakan ataupun juga tanpa rasa belas kasihan terhadapa mana-mana Goy.

Saya sendiri telah mempelajari secara dekat keberkesanan sistem Sayanem ini. Sebagai contoh, jika saya pakai kad kredit dan tertera nama saya yang ada Ahmad – Kamal Ahmad Yahya, maka jurujual tadi akan notakan bahawa seorang Muslim baru saja guna kad kredit untuk membeli 2 kotak Tamar dan 10 telur itik masin untuk Ramadhan. Maka Sayanem tadi akan terus memberikan maklumat tadi kepada Sayanem kedua (mungkin kerja bank tempat kad kredit saya dikeluarkan), dan ketiga dan seterusnya – bahawa di pekan kita ada seorang Muslim yang mengamalkan amalan berpuasa dan Sayanem seterusnya pula akan tambah (ikut bidang kepakarannya), bahwa saya adalah seorang practicing Moslem (berpotensi ancaman kepada mereka) dan seterusnya. Dan kita hanya perlu berikan mereka sedikit masa dan ruang, informasi tadi akan sampai kepada ketua Rabbi Negeri/Daerah atau juga Negara berkenaan dan jika perlu, Rabbi Orthodox tadi akan hantar mesej berkenaan kepada Ketua Rabbi Ashekenazim atau pun Ketua Rabbi Shepardi (Sheppard) di Jerusalem.

(Mazhab) Ashkenazim dan (Mazhab) Shepardi Yahudi adalah merupakan saluran laporan Sayanem global mereka. Av Beth Din (ABD) adalah gelaran bagi ketua Rabbi mereka serata dunia, dan Yahudi hanya menggangap secara Rasmi, iaitu ketua ugama Yahudi di mana-mana Negara berkenaan adalah sebagai wakil kepada Negara berkenaan. Maksudnya, jika mana-mana Negara hendak mengadakan hubunggan diplomatik dengan Tel Aviv, maka perlu diadakan seorang wakil bagi Yahudi di Negara berkenaan, dan kemudiannya, wakil ini akan diberikan saluran sama ada Ashkenazim atau Shepardi. Hebat sekali cara mereka beroperasi. Sangat teliti, effisyen dan tanpa ego (sesama mereka). Pegangan ini telah dimulakan semenjak tahun 1911 lagi, dan ini adalah salah suatu sebab mengapa ekonomi Jerman didominasi mereka sebelum kebangkitan Hitler pada tahun 1938. Glassnacht (pembersihan Yahudi oleh kaum Aryan Jerman) bermula daripada sebab tidak puas hati pembolotan ekonomi oleh Yahudi.

Sebenarnya ini semua ada dalam minda saya semenjak di bangku sekolah tinggi (sistem mereka) dahulu lagi. Seperti yang pernah saya perkatakan, maklumat dan informasi ini dibenamkan kedalam minda dari muda lagi. Supaya juga akan akhirnya menjadi barua kepada sistem Sayanem (secara sedar atau tidak) dan kemudiannya, mungkin terus jadi Yahudi. Mossad Israel hanya lah rubber stamp kepada sistem Sayanem ini. Saya tak nak sentuh tentang krisis di Timur Tengah. Sebabnya saya rasa saya faham cara kerangka kerja dan minda Yahudi, dan saya nampak jelas yang sebenarnya kelemahan memang pada pihak Negara Islam dan golongan Muslim global – kita senantiasa berbalah dan berpecah sesama sendiri. Kita sering mempunyai sikap ke-egoan dalam semua hal termasuk amalan kita. Kenapa kita selalu mempertikaikan kualiti amalan atau iman seseorang yang lain? Ambil saja para fanatik PAS – siapa yang bukan PAS adalah Kaffir bagi sesetengah mereka. Siapa yang bukan PAS masuk neraka, Undi PAS masuk syurga -seperti para lebai yang baring depan kereta diRaja Perak? Sampai bila kita nak kuat secara global kalau macam ni hati perut jiwa kita? Mengadai hak Melayu (Melayu adalah Islam di Malaysia ini) kepada DAP? DAP adalah cabang PAP Singapura. Lim Kit Siang pernah berkhidmat sebagai pembantu politik Lee Kuan Yew dahulu.

Sebenarnya sistem Sayanem diasaskan pada tahun 1910 bagi tujuan untuk menghancurkan satu lagi sistem yang telah beratus tahun wujud, dan sistem ini adalah di panggil sistem Ummah. Setiap Sayanem, adalah bertanggungjawab untuk Sayanem seterusnya dan di sekelilingnya, untuk melindungi, menolong – apa saja yang diperlukan. Tidak ada tembok pemisah kerana tidak ada kedapatan ruang untuk apa jua ego bermanifestasi. Setiap saluran “network” Sayanem terbuka luas hingga ke Jerusalem.

Saudara Saudari saya yang saya hormati sekelian, apa mampukah kita mengembalikan nilai sebenar Ummah ini yang begitu ditakuti oleh Yahudi? Malaysia Boleh? Perasaan dengki, ego dan “aku warak lebih dari engkau” adalah merupakan tembok penghalang kepada kekuatan Ummah sebenarnya. Dan jika diizinkan Allah, biarlah kekuatan ini bermula semula di Malaysia. Kita mampu sebenarnya sebab kita adalah masyarakat Melayu beradat resam dan berbudaya tinggi.Insyallah. Seperti biasa, sesama kita Melayu, pandangan saya ini akan dikecam dan dikritik. Semua post YABhg. Tun si Kamal ni masuk komen berjala – banyak free time ke? tahu lebih sangat ke? – maafkan saya jika begitu, dan saya tak kisah. Tapi hanya ingat ini : Sayanem. Dan ingat juga bahawa Sayanem telah diasaskan untuk melemahkan sistem Ummah yang telah wujud beratus tahun lebih awal daripadanya. Dan sistem Ummah adalah hadiah Rasullulah s.a.w kepada kita semua- beliau lebih jauh pemandangannya dari semua kita disini dan para lebai fanatik PAS (tak kesemua – Saudara Husam Musa pada saya amat elok tauladan dan kepimpinannya). Maaf juga jika ada tersinggung atau termarah. Bolehkan UMNO dan PAS bersatu di Perak demi untuk Melayu dan Islam seperti saranan Datuk Mukhriz? Jika ada kesedaran pada pihak PAS untuk tujuan penyatuan ini, insyallah.

Buat rujukan kita bersama:
http://www.whitenationalism.com/rj/rj-26.htm
http://www.davidduke.com/general/another-jewish-sayanim-has-been-arrested-and-charged-as-a-nuclear-spy-for-israel_3739.html
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message504976/pg1
http://www.topix.com/forum/county/brevard-fl/TB3EUMMMJU8H6Q58D
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.culture.iranian/2006-05/msg00246.html
http://www.nsm88.org/articles/mossad%20spy%20tony%20resnick.html

Dan banyak lagi http link lain, sama-samalah kita ambil sedikit masa dan mengetahui, dan memahami sistem Sayanem (juga di sebut Sayanim) ini. Agar kita dapat 100% pengajaran daripadanya. Terima kasih Tun, dan saya memohon maaf kepada Tun dan pembaca sebab komen saya ni panjang meleret.

I am wondering what will Hanan say about this....
http://fencemind.blogspot.com/

Assalamu Alaikum Tun,

A big question on these middle east perenial problems are who should be a trusted mediator that can guanratee fair treatment especially to the Paletinians. All United Nations appointed peace brokers so far seem like siding Israel. So is there any hope for justice solution for the Palestinian?

For T,
By T on February 10, 2009 1:54 PM
It is grossly unfair for the British to give Sabah and Sarawak to Malaya...

....fact ignorant jerk
..and yet,the 'owner'had to have passport to enter the 'given states'

What peace when the government of Livni which launched the attack on Gaza is being voted back to power? No parties advocating peace were voted into power in yesterday's elections. The media in Israel is also under the control of elites bent on war and carnage.

The voices of protest and dissent with Israel's policy have been there right from its inception or even before it. Martin Buber, a Jewish theologian didn't think the solution to the Jews' problems was a physical state anywhere, but renewal of the Jewish mind. So your comment somewhere why not a state of Israel in the US brings home the point.

The state of Israel was set up by religous fanatics, with the backing of the US whose policies in the region have suppressed all voices of moderation.

Perhaps a new generation exposed to the internet and the sordid truth, and the movements to criminalise war are our only hopes of peace again and a Palestine where both Jews and Arabs can live together with dignity.

Tun

what baffles me is that all throughout your 22 years of administration, you've been openly opposed to the Israeli administration. Now, your tune seems to have changed - you say you're personally not against them, just their intention to expand their landmass.

You're criticism of their type of personalities being the cause of Asian economic crisis, your continued criticism of their political ideologies being the cause of the continued disruption of peace in the Middle East Region, and your lack of direct initiatives to broker any peace deals between the Arab & Isreali nation.

Malaysia is positioned to be an ideal infrastructure to bridge the gap between the Arab Muslim and Jewish fabric. Yet, Malaysia under you was all about hatred for the Israeli administration, not about finding the compromise. Malaysia allowed US and Britain to form such platforms, and when things didnt work out, criticise those very countries who for 1/have major issues ironing out the differences between the conflict nations 2/with most of their internal politics influenced by their Israeli descendent citizens.

What do you expect - you can't be inciting hate in one end, and then "faking concern" in another.

Either you really want peace in that region - and if you really are sincere, set up a true committee to engineer the peace.

The fact you set up a foundation to criminalise WAR, and not a foundation to foster peace is you realise, it's easier to point fingers...but a lot harder to work towards success!

So, sir, I humbly ask of you - You can still run the foundation to criminalise War - there will always be those hard nuts. But be sincere and set up a sister foundation to "Foster Peace in the world".

(Ravi)
"Don't be afraid of success!"

Al-Fatihah buat semua rakyat palestin yang rebah dibumi sendiri..terlalu sedih bila menatap mayat-mayat anak kecil yang tak mengerti apa-apa tetapi telah menerima azab sedemikian rupa..
terkenang baby kecil dirumah,kalau boleh seekor nyamuk pun tak nak hinggap menggigit badan dia..inikan pula luka,berdarah,hancur & ntah ape lagi yang patut ditulis kat sini bagi menggambarkan betapa seksanya mereka dibedil,dibunuh sedemikian rupa..Ye,mereka mati Syahid..terlepas dari segala azab kubur..cuma naluri seorang ibu terlalu sedih melihat semua itu.Semoga Allah melindungi bumi Palestin dari terus direjam dengan begitu kejam sekali..

Bersyukur..Malaysia dijauhkan dengan semua itu. Namun tidak terkecuali sekiranya kita sendiri menjemput kesengsaraan tersebut muncul dalam kehidupan kita satu hari nanti..Na'uzubillah..

buat Ayahanda Tun M..jaga kesihatan ye.. :)

Wassalam..

Salam Tun,

Susah Tun kalau kita cuba pisahkan perang ini dari perang agama. Saya difahamkan, objektif sebenar Zionis adalah untuk "Greater Israel" yang lebih luas dari tanah jajahan sekarang. Dan mereka akan runtuhkan Masjid Al-Aqsa bagi membina Haikal Sulaiman. Itu idaman mereka. Tindakan ini juga mendapat sokongan daripada pihak Kristian Protestant kerana mereka percaya salah satu tanda akhir zaman atau "Armageddon" adalah terbentuknya negara Israel, terbinanya Haikal Sulaiman dan "Jesus Christ" akan turun semula di bumi setelah siapnya Haikal Sulaiman. "Jesus Christ" akan memimpin semua Yahudi dan Kristian ke Armaggedon untuk melawan tentera "Anti-Christ". Siapakah golongan Anti-Christ yang terbasar? Saya rasa jawapannya seluruh umat Islam.

Saya sudah boleh faham siapa Yahudi dan siapa Zionis. Saya baca melalui internet bahawa ada segilintir Yahudi yang tidak bersetuju dengan apa pemimpin mereka lakukan. Ada yang menentang Zionis melalui "pashkavil". Ada juga NGO "Naturei Karta" yang menentang pembentukan negara Israel.

Walaupun Zionis diertikan sebagai ideologi dan sekular, tetapi pada saya ia tidak lari dari perjuangan agama. Ada golongan berhaluan kanan yang mahukan orang Arab dihalau dari tanah jajahan Israel. Di Amerika memang diketahui umum majoriti golongan elit "neo-con" adalah pro Zionis dan ada dua kerakyatan, AS dan Israel. Golongan ini juga yang menjadi "penasihat" kepada Presiden AS dan golongan ini juga adalah anggota AIPAC. Saya dapat menonton sedutan persidangan AIPAC melalui youtube yang mana seorang "Reverand" dari Kristian Protestant berikrar bahawa 15 juta tentera salib akan membantu Zionis menentang musuh pada Armageddon nanti.

Mungkin pemuda Arab itu terlalu emosi dengan dunia kerana tidak berbuat apa-apa terhadap pemimpin Zionis dari tahun 1948 hinggalah sekarang. Dan dia juga emosi kerana ada segolongan pemimpin Arab juga bersekongkol denga Zionis dan Amerika. Andaikata nenek moyang kaum Arab tidak memberontak dan bersekongkol dengan Barat menjatuhkan Kerajaan Uthmaniyyah, mungkin keadaan sekarang berbeza. Saya juga berpendapat dia bercakap berpandukan Al-Quran yang cukup banyak menceritakan keburukan Yahudi dan Nasrani. Tiga agama ini, Judaism, Kristian dan Islam memang banyak sejarah dan konflik. Bagi golongan agama lain, mereka perlu faham sejarah ketiga agama ini.

Minta Tun betulkan saya andai saya ada tersalah fakta. Sekian, terima kasih.

Salam Tun,

Actions must also be taken against the people who created the weapons used to kill in the Yahudi - Palestinian war. This can be done even during peace time. Each weapon is made by certain parties and sold for money. When their weapons are used to kill innocent people, the weapon maker should be made responsible for the death or else they should never produce the weapons in the first place.

This is just like taxing the cigarettes manufacturer and purchaser for the smoke emitted from the smoking. Smoking is bad for health, so claim the non-smokers and the healthcare fraternity. So makers and smokers are made to pay more for the cigarettes. Weapons kill innocent people. So, only naturaly for the weapon maker and user to pay for the result of their making.

Wassalam.

Dear Tun,

The conflict were started long before the Holy Bibles being writen and they will only end it until no fathers, brothers, uncles, nephews.... to fight. Who to be blame? One Tun Mahathir or two nor three can't make them forget the word 'hatred and revenge' from their mind. He kill my father, I kill his, he bombed my house, I bombed his, they shot my sisters, I shot his.... So, My children will kill theirs, if they kill me, and my great grand children will, and my great great grandchildren will and next generations. Very extraordinary selfish nation. God Damn Israel and Palestine for being so stupid. God Damn everyone who support violence. God Damn the balfour declaration.

I'm sorry formy harsh words.

This war will not end. It has indeed turned into a religious war that started from a territorial one. IT will be an ongoing war like in most part of africa. There can be peace among tribes but carnage could easily be started, for example Kenya.

But first, does the terrorist group in Palestine really want peace, are they working towards it. IS th