Benedict "should be removed from his position immediately for encouraging war and fanning hostility between various faiths" and "making insulting remarks" against Islam, said a joint statement issued by the clerics and scholars at the end of their one-day convention.Encouraging war.
Take a look at this dialog between Lebanese blogger Rania el-Masry and Israeli blogger Lisa Goldman (via Lisa). It is sponsored by the BBC. No doubt they picked Lisa because they know that she hails from the Israeli far left. Unfortunately for them, they didn't know that though she's a leftist, she's honest, and doesn't distort or overlook relevant facts. Notice how Rania's arguments sound convincing as long as you don't know the facts. After trying to avoid confrontation, Lisa gives it to her. Her response is so good that I can't let it lie in such an obscure location. I'm reproducing it here in full:You need to go read it, in full.
The gay pride parade will take place after the end of Ramadan, presumably so as not to attract the heightened Islamic wrath and violence that often accompany Ramadan.Orthodox Jews who are accused of being violent are arrested.
Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler quotes a senior IDF officer as threatening, "In the end, the terrorists will see that it wasn't worth it for them. The IDF won't hit only the rocket launchers, but also the vicinity around them in a way that no one will know what hit them."The difference between Palestinian and Israeli rhetoric:
a. WithdrawalTechnorati Tags: Israel and Palestinians and Kassams
b. Release of terrorists
c. Promises of more meetings with Abbas
d. Destruction of Jewish homes
e. All of the above
As long as the Hamas is in Gaza, and Islam is the rule there, there will only be more sectarian violence of this sort.And that could be a long, long time.
Israel offered an incentive to the Islamic militant group [Hamas] Monday, saying it will consider releasing millions of dollars and freeing Palestinian prisoners if the Palestinian government moderates itself and an Israeli soldier captured in June by Hamas-linked militants is freed.According to Haaretz:
Members of terror organizations who were released from Israeli custody after being defined as not having "blood on their hands" perpetrated 14 terror attacks in the past several years. In them, 132 Israeli civilians were killed and many others were injured, according to a report released over the weekend by the Almagor Terror Victims Association.At least Israel only said it "would consider" the release.
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