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The Balfour Declaration and the Mandate Under the League of Nations

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:00:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ........The Jewish Connection To The Land......
We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time. We are connected with it by national, religious, linguistic, natural, economic, and geographical bonds."[10]

The purpose of post-World War I's League of Nations was to prepare those liberated from the Turks for independence. Once the indigenous populations demonstrated their ability to assume control, the mandates given to the war's victorious superpowers were supposed to be self-terminating. For the international community, justice for the Arabs meant guaranteeing their economic, civil, and religious rights. Awarding the Arabs any form of self-government within Palestine was precluded by British commitments to the Jews under the Balfour Declaration, which had been incorporated in the mandate of the League of Nations.[11]

Clip Source: globalpolitician.com

At this point in history, post-World War I, political pressure caused the international community to endorse the Jewish desire for national self-determination and acc epted that the Jewish people had a justifiable claim to return to their homeland. Significantly, in this recognition, the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate under the League of Nations make no mention of Palestinians as a separate and distinct people with their own national rights. The indigenous people were regarded as residents whose political identity was connected to the larger Arab nation.[9]

For the British, the matter was quite clear: Palestine was not a state but the name of a geographical area. This had been reinforced by the indigenous Arabs themselves.

When the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to select Palestinian Arab representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, they adopted the following resolution:

Arthur Balfour
British Foreign Secretary

Tags: israel, league of nations, balfour declaration, palestinians

"Dutch Intel:U.S. To Strike Iran"

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:06:31 GMT

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Clip Source: www.disinfo.com

Dutch Intel: U.S. To Strike Iran

According to The Jerusalem Post, the Dutch intelligence service (the AIVD) has called off an operation aimed at infiltrating and sabotaging Iran's weapons industry due to an assessment that a US attack on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program is imminent. Umm, let the October freedom-spreading commence.

Dead Sea Scrolls getting digitized

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:09:59 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- More than 2,000 years after they were written, the Dead Sea Scrolls are going digital

The high-tech initiative, announced Wednesday, will also reveal text that was not visible to the naked eye.

Over the next two years, the Israel Antiquities Authority will digitally photograph and scan every bit of crumbling parchment and papyrus that makes up the scrolls, which include the oldest written record of the Bible's Old Testament.

The images eventually will be posted on the Internet for anyone to see.

"These are the earliest copies of the Bible ever found," said Pnina Shor, head of treatment and conservation at the Antiquities Authority.

"Just by applying the latest infrared technologies and shooting at very high detail, lots of resolution, we are already opening up new characters from the scrolls that are either extremely indistinct or you just couldn't see them before," said Simon Tanner, director of King's Digital Consultancy Services.

Tags: dead see scrolls, archeology

Jerusalem dig uncovers ancient walls

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:33:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Jerusalem is an old city. For most of it to be uncovered they need to wait until the right scanners are developed, to scan it virtually. We only need to know what is there, so we can keep putting our past in a better context. We won't have to unearth it to know.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Israeli archaeologists say they have rediscovered rare remains of the wall that surrounded Jerusalem more than 2100 years ago after locating the site of a 19th century dig.

The wall, on Mount Zion at the southern edge of Jerusalem's Old City, dates back to the Second Jewish Temple, which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.

Built during the second century BC under the Hasmonean dynasty, the wall was not supported by mortar or other bonding material, and formed part of a 6 kilometre long fortification around the city.

The archaeologists say they also discovered at the same site a section of the city walls dating from the later Byzantine period between the 4th and 7th centuries AD.

The present wall around Jerusalem's Old City is 4 kilometres long in circumference.

The wall had disappeared from view by the time a similar stone barrier, also uncovered in the dig, was built at the site during the Byzantine period more than 250 years later.

US to strike Iran in coming weeks

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:22:41 GMT

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Clip Source: www.jpost.com

The Dutch intelligence service, the AIVD, has called off an operation aimed at infiltrating and sabotaging Iran's weapons industry due to an assessment that a US attack on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program is imminent, according to a report in the country's De Telegraaf newspaper on Friday.

The report claimed that the Dutch operation had been "extremely successful," and had been stopped because the US military was planning to hit targets that were "connected with the Dutch espionage action."

The impending air-strike on Iran was to be carried out by unmanned aircraft "within weeks," the report claimed, quoting "well placed" sources.

According to the report, whether the United States and Western countries succeed in thwarting the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions diplomatically, through sanctions, or whether a US strike on Iran is eventually decided upon, Jerusalem has begun preparing for a separate, independent military strike.

Tags: nwo, iran, oil, zionism

Jerusalem's ancient walls unveiled

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:13:45 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have given a first glimpse of what they say is a newly-exposed section of the city walls built 2,100 years ago.

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Clip Source: www.antiquities.org.il

built by the Hasmonean kings and

destroyed during the Great Revolt

also the remains of a city wall from the Byzantine period (324-640 CE) which was built on top of it

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

The walls were first located through tunnels by 19th Century researchers, whose beer bottles were also found.

"The fact that after 2,100 years the remains of the wall were preserved to a height of three meters is amazing," he said.

The researchers believe the walls show the ancient city's boundaries when it was at its largest, with a circumference of 6km, compared to the 4km of walling surrounding what is now the Old City.

The researchers also found a range of artefacts from before and after the Second Temple period, including female fertility figures from the early Israelites who, according to the Bible, were prohibited from worshipping idols.

Palestinian Attack In Israel Part of God's Judgment, Said Recent Guest At Palin's Church

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:49:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Could you please stop blaming God for this stuff?

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

As the Huffington Post reported earlier Tuesday, Palin addressed a gathering at the Wasilla Assembly of God, asking them to pray for oil pipeline development and "God's will" in Iraq. Meanwhile, the Boston Herald and Newsweek have both identified Wasilla Bible Church as the Alaska Governor's most recent church. And it was at that Bible Church where a recent guest described a Palestinian attack on Israeli citizens as part of God's judgment coming to pass on Earth -- an analysis likely troubling both to Jews, as well as to mainstream foreign policy analysts.

Describing a trip by his son to Jerusalem, Jews for Jesus founder David Brickner described the a July Palestinian bulldozer attack against Israeli civilians as part of God's "judgment."

Tags: palin, alaska, church, israel, religion

Report: US about to strike Iran; Tehran warns of World War III

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:02:58 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.israeltoday.co.il

A major Dutch newspaper reported on Monday that the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD recently pulled all of its operatives out of Iran after learning that an American air strike on Iranian nuclear and missile production facilities is imminent.

Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported that AIVD had previously been conducting a very successful sabotage operation against Iran's production of medium and long-range missiles.

According to the report, AIVD pulled out of Iran after being warned that the country's missile factories would be among the targets hit by unmanned American bombers "within weeks."

Israel's Ma'ariv daily newspaper reported on Friday that Jerusalem had reached a strategic decision to deny Iran nuclear weapons at all costs and by any means.

Responding to the latest reports, the deputy chief of staff of the Iranian military, General Masoud Jazayeri, said on Saturday that any attack on his nation would result in World War III.

McCain, Palin and New Orleans

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:26:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: McCain's going to New Orleans: pure Machiavellianism.

Listen to the Palin video. Go to youtube if there is no sound. She is an effective propagandist for oil in the way she minimizes Anwar.

The majority of the American people want to drill. History show that the majority is often wrong.

Clip Source: www.juancole.com

McCain on Katrina

Forty Senators and 100 members of Congress visited New Orleans before he [McCain] did; he finally got there in March 2006

voted against appropriating $109 billion in supplemental emergency funding, including $28 billion for hurricane relief

he consistently voted against more funds for FEMA

against making it an independent agency as it had been in the 1990s, and even against the creation of a commission to investigate how the government failed after Katrina. That indifference to learning from experience and adjusting accordingly is a central characteristic of movement conservatism

McCain's initial response to Katrina was not exactly frantic.

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

Clip Source: www.juancole.com

Sarah Palin does not think global warming is man-made! But then she thinks we should indoctrinate our children in the theory that Jesus rode a small dinosaur into Jerusalem

she is in favor of drilling pristine lands in Alaska (her husband works for British Petroleum)

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McCain falsely claimed that oil rigs can withstand hurricanes.

Israel to Display the Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:01:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

JERUSALEM — In a crowded laboratory painted in gray and cooled like a cave, half a dozen specialists embarked this week on a historic undertaking: digitally photographing every one of the thousands of fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the entire file — among the most sought-after and examined documents on earth — available to all on the Internet.

The scrolls’ contemporary history has been something of a tortured one because they are among the most important sources of information on Jewish and early Christian life. After their initial discovery they were tightly held by a small circle of scholars. In the last 20 years access has improved significantly, and in 2001 they were published in their entirety. But debate over them seems only to grow.

Tags: scripture

Baldwin II to Fulk d'Anjou

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:49:32 GMT

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Clip Source: 209.85.141.104

The intended connection may lie with Henry’s grandfather, Fulk of Anjou, who years before Henry’s time had left Europe and his family to go on crusade, and ended up married to the daughter of Baldwin II, the King of Jerusalem. Baldwin had no son, and so his daughter’s husband became the King of Jerusalem after him, and their descendants – Fulk’s second family – have either sat on or claimed the throne of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem ever since. Hence the Kings of Jerusalem were close cousins to the Angevins in Europe. And their other close European relatives, descending from the family of Godfrey de Boullion, were found in the Duchy of Brabant.

Tags: baldwin, fulk, anjou, melusine, templar, bloodline

Your WTF of the Day, or, The Neo-Cons Aren't Dead

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:02:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Comments from the troops with links to site info will follow.

Clip Source: www.vetvoice.com

by: C76

Wed Aug 27

This is from today's Denver Post:

A new U.S. poll being released now finds 63 percent of voters support military action against Iran if diplomacy fails. The poll commissioned by the Israel Project, a group based in Washington D.C. with an office in Jerusalem, found Americans across the political spectrum see the Iranian regime as a threat to the United States - 85 percent among Democrats and 97 percent among Republicans.

Does anyone know who the Israel Project is and where I can get some of what they've been smoking? At first, I thought that I'd fallen into a timewarp back to 2002, but the current national numbers on Iraq and foreign intervention don't jive with this information. Does anyone have any details about this organization? Please tell me that this poll is bogus because I would hate to think that 62% of the American people have all come down with Down's Syndrome (AKA Neocon's disease).

Your WTF of the Day, or, The Neo-Cons Aren't Dead.

Tags: iran, israel, poll

Dead Sea Scrolls go from parchment to the Internet

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:07:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- More than 2,000 years after they were written, the Dead Sea Scrolls are going digital as part of an effort to better preserve the ancient texts and let more people see them than ever before.

The high-tech initiative, announced Wednesday, will also reveal text that was not visible to the naked eye.

The images eventually will be posted on the Internet for anyone to see.

Tags: bible, internet

News Middle East Israel 'doubling' settlement growth

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:26:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: While Israel has been bullying the surrounding countries, this has received little coverage.

Clip Source: english.aljazeera.net

Israel has nearly doubled settlement construction activity in the occupied West Bank since 2007, a report by the rights group Peace Now says.

The report on settlement expansion coincided with the 18th visit by Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, to the Middle East, on Tuesday.

Rice urged Israel to stop expanding settlements, deemed illegal under international law, arguing that they were not helpful to the peace process.

"The settlement activity is not conducive to creating an environment for negotiations," Rice said at a news conference with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Earlier in Jerusalem, after talks with Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister, Rice referred to settlements, saying "anything that undermines confidence between the parties ought to be avoided".

A US-backed "road map" for peace calls on Israel to halt all settlement activity in the West Bank and for Palestinians to rein in armed groups.

Israel to Show Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:49:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Tags: digitized ancient texts history documents