May 18, 2012
Palestinian leaders in Ramallah, including President Mahmoud Abbas, are deeply concerned that Rashid's revelations could expose their role in the embezzlement of public funds. They are also concerned that Rashid's revelations could prompt some Americans and Europeans to reconsider their decision to pour millions of dollars into the Palestinian Authority's coffers. What is needed is an independent Commission of Inquiry to restore pubic funds belonging to the Palestinian people. The Palestinians have many Mohammed Rashids...

Translated to english by Dafna O'Neill

Present-day Midgal is situated west of the Lake of Galilee, on the road leading south to Tiberias. Its population numbers approximately 1500 people.

THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD (538 BCE – 70 CE)
During the Second Temple Period there were many Jewish towns and villages along the shores of the Lake of Galilee. Fishing and farming were the main occupations.

The Persian Perios (538 – 333 BCE)

May 10, 2012
Considering Egypt's presidential elections take place later this month, last weekend's Islamist clash with the military could not have come at a worse time.

First, the story: due to overall impatience—and rage that the Salafi presidential candidate, Abu Ismail, was disqualified (several secular candidates were also disqualified)—emboldened Islamists began to gather around the Defense Ministry in Abbassia, Cairo, late last week, chanting jihadi slogans, and preparing for a "million man" protest for Friday, May 4th.

May 15 2012
Housebreaking the Watchdogs
Following my previous blog post about the hypocrisy of media freedom under the Palestinian Authority (PA), new reports reveal that an independent Palestinian television station is facing legal charges over an investigation into corruption allegations at a Palestinian university, after claims that a son of a senior PA official was accepted into the university despite having failed to meet the academic requirements arose.

May 17, 2012
When a delegation of Syrian Kurdish rebels recently visited Washington, D.C., the State Department met them to ask for a favor. What was it? The Obama administration urged them to join the Syrian National Council (SNC), the organization created by the U.S. government through Turkey to lead the opposition movement and receive Western aid for all Syrian opposition groups.

But the Turkish Islamist regime, which Obama put in charge of forming the SNC, put the Muslim Brotherhood in control, a fact I pointed out within hours of the announcement of the SNC leadership’s names.

May 17 2012
MEF Special Report: A Look Back at the 2012 'Palestine Liberation Week' at UCI
[Ed. note: the following report was submitted by Irvine resident and MEF correspondent Gary Fouse.]

Another University of California, Irvine (UCI) week of hate against the Jewish state of Israel has wrapped up, and I would like to add a few post-mortem thoughts.

May 17, 2012
Muslims cast the deciding voted that thrust Hollande into the Elysée Palace. He also pledged to change French electoral laws so that Muslim residents without French citizenship would be allowed to vote in municipal elections as of 2014, enabling the Socialist Party to tighten its grip on political power.

An analysis of the voting patterns that barrelled François Hollande to victory on May 6 as the first Socialist president of France since 1995 shows that this overthrow was due in large measure to Muslims, who voted for him in overwhelming numbers.

May 16 2012
People from around the world are traveling to Israel to learn from its innovation and economic success.

Israel lacks natural resources and is surrounded by hostile neighbours and yet it has generated a dynamic economy. The Israeli economy has been growing at more than 4 per cent a year for the past decade (4.8 per cent last year) and is set to grow at 3.2 per cent this year. Israel currently has almost 4,000 active technology start-ups - more than any other country outside the United States, and a flow of venture capital that amounted to US$884m in 2010 alone.

Apr 11 2012
Hypocrisy frequently rears its ugly head in the Middle East, but the Palestinian Authority (PA) has just succeeded in producing something close to a new examplar on the issue of media freedom. As a Jerusalem Post editorial ("Palestinian responsibility", 2/4/2012) has documented, the Palestinian Authority is intensifying an ongoing crackdown on journalists operating in the West Bank, while at the same time it's introducing a new award honouring press freedom.

INTRODUCTION
I am forwarding below an important letter to University of California Academic Senate Chair Robert Anderson, requesting that the UC Academic Senate clarify whether the UC rules of academic freedom protect a professor from using class resources to advance a political agenda, such as the academic boycott of Israel. The letter is signed by 36 University of California professors from 7 UC campuses, all of them voting members of the Academic Senate.

MAY 16 2012
Gobble Up the Middle East Makes Enemies of Everyone
“Countries may vary, but civilization is one, and for a nation to progress, it must take part in this one civilization. The decline of the Ottomans began when, proud of their triumphs over the West, they cut their ties with the European nations. This was a mistake which we will not repeat.” — Kemal Ataturk, 1924

MEF Special Report, UCI Under Siege: Amir Abdel Malik Ali Among Anti-Israel Speakers at University of California-Irvine May 7-10
May 7, 2012
Supporters of Hamas, Hezbollah, Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement to Speak at Muslim Student Union-Sponsored "Palestine Liberation Week"
Contact information for the administration of the University of California, Irvine:

Mark G. Yudof, president, University of California: President@ucop.edu

Michael Drake, chancellor, University of California, Irvine: chancellor@uci.edu

May 16, 2012
The Palestinian government is in fact lying when it talks about a financial crisis; its main goal is to get Western and Arab donors to channel more funds to Ramallah. "Corruption in the Palestinian Authority is more widespread than in the past." — Hasan Khreishah, Deputy Seaker, Palestinian Parliament.

04.30.12
Global pressure to strangle Israel revived, now focusing on Western Europe
In the aftermath of the Gulf War and the fall of the Soviet Moloch, the Arab boycott of Israel’s economy seemed on its way to extinction. Fifty years of boycott had cost the Jewish State a whopping $45 billion in lost trade and investment.

05/15/2012
Hamas, Fatah unite for rallies in commemoration of Palestinian "Day of Catastrophe" (64th anniversary of establishing Israel.)
Nakba Day protesters on Lebanon border Photo: Sharif Karim / Reuters

Palestinians are preparing to mark “Nakba Day,” or the Day of Catastrophe (the 64th anniversary of the establishment of Israel), with a series of demonstrations and rallies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as a number of neighboring Arab countries.

May 13, 2012
The port of Oktyabrsk is situated on the left bank of the Bug River, 58 km. north of the entry to the Black Sea. Close to the city of Nikolayev, this anonymous Ukrainian port could not seem further from the strife-torn Middle East.

Yet in the last year, Oktyabrsk has played a key role in the international structure that enables the survival of the Assad dictatorship in Syria. It is the main point from which ships bearing the Russian arms that underwrite the Assad regime’s survival set off undisturbed on their journey to the Syrian coast.

May 14, 2012
It is as if the U.S. were to renounce the dollar for the "amro," a common currency with countries as different as Mexico. Colombia, Brazil and Argentina. A documentary on German television last week revealed that the political class in Europe knew that the Greeks were cooking the books, but did not care. Extremist parties of the Left and the Right (all of them anti-Semitic) are rapidly gaining electoral support at the expense of mainstream parties....

Dr. Avi Beker
The Israeli New Historians have heavily influenced academic teaching about the Arab-Israeli conflict on campuses throughout the world.
The New Historians disregarded and omitted the two most critical features of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war: the religious-jihadi nature of the Arab campaign and Arab rejection of the UN partition resolution.

5.6.2012
Western universities becoming frightening bastions of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish hostility.
From the outside, Western faculties appear as genteel oases of wisdom and knowledge. In truth, institutions of higher education are becoming brutal offspring of anti-Jew hatred. Famous faculties that have been an historical cradle of European civilization are sacrificing freedom and Israel to barbarism and obscurantism.

I
The Delegitimization Process and the Boycott: Background and Context
The purpose of delegitimization on the international level is to isolate an intended
victim from the community of nations as a prelude to bringing about its downfall
or even destruction. This process denies the victim the rights and prerogatives
enjoyed by other members in good standing of the international community,
particularly the right to make one’s voice heard. The side that initiates a campaign
of delegitimization endeavors to obliterate the history, national identity, culture,

14 May 2012
Last week, Damascus was rocked by a bomb that left more than 50 dead and scores wounded in what was probably the worst terrorist attack since the beginning of the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime just over a year ago. The insurgents accused the regime of staging the horrifying massacre in order to stain the opposition’s reputation while the regime blamed the opposition and claimed that the insurgency has become an al-Qaeda tool bent on spreading jihadist values across the Middle East.

May 11 2012
Egyptian presidential hopefuls Amr Moussa and Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh held a televised debate on Thursday, but when it came to Israel, the candidates had little to argue about.

Both pledged to review the 1979 peace treaty Egypt had signed with Israel, while trying to outdo each other's antagonism towards Israel: Abol Fotouh termed Israel an enemy, while Moussa called it an adversary.

May 13, 2012
Polling stations for the Syrian “Peoples’ Assembly” election opened at 7 a.m. on Monday. Information Minister Dr. Adnan Mahmoud said the elections would be held in “an atmosphere of democracy and pluralism,” according to the SANA state news agency.

Opposition activists dispute the claim, saying that the current polls are the latest episode in an ongoing regime campaign of window-dressing, of fiddling while the country burns.

05.10.12
While fences exist worldwide, only Israel's life-saving barriers face harsh condemnations
Today there are some 50 barriers and fences in the world. Bill Clinton, who came to power promising “a bridge to the 21st century,” gave the US the wall with Mexico; Spain built fences to keep out Moroccans; India is walling off Kashmir and Bangladesh; South and North Korea share the most heavily fortified border in the world.

04.16.12
Many Europeans believe Israel is illegitimate, must be removed from Middle East.
After the massacre of Jews in Toulouse, many people cried when seeing Miriam Monsonego’s little body wrapped in a white shroud. But most Europeans looked the other way, and the United Nations, EU and the chattering classes all washed their hands of the Jewish blood.

Europe has already forsaken the Jews. The same process can be seen in respect to Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize laureate who published an anti-Israel poem in European newspapers.

Mountain out of Molehill?

Part Two

Palestinian leader cooperated with Hitler on the FINAL SOLUTION

Haj Amin El Husseini, the leader of Palestinian Arabs, supported the Nazis during Second World War. He met Hitler on November 28, 1941 and they came to an agreement that the "national Home for Jews" should be eliminated, and the "Final Solution" should include the Jews of Palestine. El Husseini promised Hitler full cooperation from the Arab population of Palestine. El Husseini received from Nazi Germany 50,000 riichesmarks plus 25,000 in foreign currency, monthly.

The "Final Solution" of the Jews of Palestine

Part 0ne

Every year, on the day Israeli – Jews celebrate Israel's Independence Day, Arab – Israeli leaders organize a Nakba demonstration, under the slogan that Israeli Arabs and Palestinian refugees are victims of Israel's policy of "ethnic cleansing."

People around the world who are not familiar with the history of the Arab – Jewish conflict from 1917 to 1948, accept the "Invented history" by Palestinians as historical fact and accuse Israel for its treatment of Palestinian – Arabs.

Historical facts, however, are entirely different.

May 10 2012
Norwegian professor Johan Galtung, an "off-site lecturer" at the University of Sydney's "Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies" (CPACS), has recently emerged from the chorus of those who irrationally criticise Israel and exposed himself as one who irrationally criticises Jews. Galtung's previous commentary on Israel was indistinguishable from the general line followed by CPACS and other academics in the dubious "peace and conflict studies" discipline that he is credited with founding.

May 11, 2012
Yes, friends, it’s once again time for that exciting game of Spin the Polls by the Pew Foundation. Here are the rules:

Rule 1: Pew does a good job on the poll itself.

Rule 2: The Pew analysis ignores or misunderstands the implications of the poll.
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Rule 3: The Western media and government misread the poll, often misinterpreting the results into the exact opposite of what they actually mean. They then adopt the wrong policies.

Rule 4: If correctly interpreted the polls are a gold mine that can help us comprehend the present and predict the future.

May 10 2012
Excruciating details emerge on 1,100-plus Jewish ghettos detailed by US researchers.Despite all the Holocaust writings, more news is emerging about 1,000 Nazi-run ghettos that left millions of Jews dead. “Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume II” is a global effort that documents every site of organized Nazi atrocities.