Jerusalem News (14 December, 2014, 22 Kislev, 5775)
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Contents:
1. The term Palestine Was Not Arab
2. POLL: MOST PALESTINIAN ARABS SUPPORT RECENT TERROR WAVE
by Ben Ariel
3. Winston Churchill: Comment on Islam
4. Israel air strikes wiped out Russian hardware for thwarting US no-fly zone plan over Syria
5. Russia reaches out to Europe's far-right parties
6. Most Palestinians Believe Jews Intend to Build the Temple!
Palestinian Public Opinion Poll No (54) 9 December 2014
7. Jew-Hatred Increasing Amongst Youth in Australia!
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1. The term Palestine Was Not Arab
From: candace reagan
Subject: Links
Shalom! I ran across these two links- one you may have sent so sorry if it's a repeat (I lose track of who sends what), but I'm sure the other is new!
http://pamelageller.com/2014/11/the-flag-of-palestine-before-1948.html/
Extract:
After the Romans conquered the Jews in the Jewish-Roman wars, the Romans renamed Israel after the Jews' worst enemies, the Philistines, in order to further humiliate them. The term was first used to denote an official province in c.135 CE, when the Roman authorities, following the suppression of the [Jewish] Bar Kokhba Revolt, combined Iudaea Province with Galilee and the Paralia to form 'Syria Palaestina'. 'It was a Roman Emperor who first coined the name. In AD 135, the Emperor Hadrian blotted out the name 'Provincia Judea' and renamed it 'Provincia Syria Palaestina'. This was the Latin version of the Greek name and soon became a name to be used as an administrative unit. This name was shortened to Palaestina and the name 'Palestine' was derived from it as a modern and anglicized version. (more here) In other words, it was always Jewish. Leading up to Israel's independence in 1948, it was common for the international press to label Jews, not Arabs, living in the mandate as Palestinians. It was not until years after Israeli independence that the Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were called Palestinians. In fact, Arabs cannot even correctly pronounce the word Palestine in their native tongue, referring to area rather as  'Filastin.' The word Palestine or Filastin does not appear in the Koran. The term peleshet appears in the Jewish Tanakh no fewer than 250 times. (Jewish Virtual Library) - See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2014/11/the-flag-of-palestine-before-1948.html/#sthash.NKsc6bGQ.dpuf
http://www.factualisrael.com/moroccan-flag-nazis-rewrote-history/
Candace
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2. POLL: MOST PALESTINIAN ARABS SUPPORT RECENT TERROR WAVE
by Ben Ariel
http://warsclerotic.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/poll-most-palestinian-arabs-support-recent-terror-wave/
December 10, 2014
Extracts:
An overwhelming majority of Palestinian Arabs support the recent spate of terrorist attacks against Israelis, an opinion poll released Tuesday finds, according to The Associated Press (AP).
The poll also found that more than half of Palestinian Arabs support a new "intifada" (uprising) against Israel, and that Hamas would win presidential elections if they were held today.
Palestinian Arab pollster Khalil Shikaki said the results reflected anger over Israeli statements about Jerusalem, as well as a loss of hope following the collapse of U.S.-brokered peace talks and Israel's recent war with Hamas in Gaza.
Shikaki heads the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, which interviewed 1,270 people in the Palestinian Authority-assigned areas of Judea and Samaria and Gaza last week. The poll had an error margin of 3 percentage points.
There has been a spate of attacks in Jerusalem over the past month and a half, at a time of rising tensions over the Temple Mount. The wave of attacks has come to be known as the "silent intifada".
The poll found 86 percent of respondents believe the Al-Aqsa mosque is in "grave danger" from Israel. It said 80 percent supported individual attacks by Arabs who have stabbed Israelis or rammed cars into crowded train stations.
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3. Winston Churchill: Comment on Islam
As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns.
Sudan and Oldham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Sudan_and_Oldham
Churchill was transferred to Egypt in 1898. He visited Luxor before joining an attachment of the 21st Lancers serving in the Sudan under the command of General Herbert Kitchener. During this time he encountered two military officers with whom he would work during the First World War: Douglas Haig, then a captain, and David Beatty, then a gunboat lieutenant.[46] While in the Sudan, he participated in what has been described as the last meaningful British cavalry charge, at the Battle of Omdurman in September 1898.[47] He also worked as a war correspondent for the Morning Post. By October 1898, he had returned to Britain and begun his two-volume work, The River War, an account of the reconquest of the Sudan which was published the following year. In this work, Churchill warned against what he perceived to be the dangers of the influence of Islam:
"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step, and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it (Islam) has vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
http://www.allaboutmuhammad.com/winston-churchillrsquos-comments-on-islam.html
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, Â either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
Sir Winston Churchill; 'The River War', first edition, Volume II, pages 248-250, published by Longmans, Green & Company, 1899.Â
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4. Israel air strikes wiped out Russian hardware for thwarting US no-fly zone plan over Syria
http://warsclerotic.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/israel-air-strikes-wiped-out-russian-hardware-for-thwarting-us-no-fly-zone-plan-over-syria/
Israel air strikes wiped out Russian hardware for thwarting US no-fly zone plan over Syria, DEBKAfile, December 8, 2014
Extracts:
High-ranking American military sources revealed Monday, Dec. 8, that Israel's air strikes near Damascus the day before wiped out newly-arrived Russian hardware including missiles that were dispatched post haste to help Syria and Hizballah frustrate a US plan for a no-fly zone over northern Syria.
The advanced weapons were sent over, as DEBKAfile reported exclusively Sunday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin learned that the Obama administration and the Erdogan government were close to a final draft on a joint effort to activate a no-fly zone that would bar Syrian air force traffic over northern Syria.
The Kremlin has repeatedly warned  of late in strong messages through back channels. that the establishment of a no-fly or buffer zone in any part of Syria would be treated as direct American intervention in the Syria war and result in Russian military intervention for defending the Assad regime.
According to the US-Turkish draft, American warplanes would be allowed to take off from the Turkish airbase of Incirlik in the south for operations against Syrian warplanes, assault helicopters or drones entering the no-go zone. Thus far, Ankara has only permitted US surveillance aircraft and drones the use of Incirlik for tracking the movements of Islamic State fighters in northern Syria.
The Obama administration was long deterred from implementing a no-fly zone plan by the wish to avoid riling Moscow or facing the hazards of Syria's world-class air defense system.
But Washington was recently won over to the plan by a tacit deal with Damascus for American jets to be allowed entry to help Kurdish fighters defend their northern Syrian enclave of Kobani against capture by al Qaeda's IS invaders.
However, the US administration turned down a Turkish demand to extend the no-fly zone from their border as far as Aleppo, Syria's largest city, over which Syrian army forces are battling rebels and advancing slowly into the town.
The no-fly zone planned by US strategists would be narrow, Â between a kilometer and half a kilometer deep inside Syria. However Moscow is standing fast against any such plan and objects to US planes making free of Syrian airspace, a freedom they are now afforded over Kobani.
To drive this point home, the Russians delivered a supply of advanced anti-air missiles and radar, whose use by the Syrian army and transfer to Hizballah in Lebanon were thwarted by the Israeli air strikes Sunday.
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5. Russia reaches out to Europe's far-right parties
By GEORGE JAHN and ELAINE GANLEY
http://news.yahoo.com/russia-reaches-europes-far-parties-102508824.html
Extracts:
VIENNA (AP) Â
As the diplomatic chill over Ukraine deepens, the Kremlin seems keener than ever to enlist Europe's far-right parties in its campaign for influence in the West, seeking new relationships based largely on shared concern over the growing clout of the EU.
Russia fears that the EU and NATO could spread to countries it considers part of its sphere of influence. And it has repeatedly served notice that it will not tolerate that scenario, most recently with its Ukraine campaign.
Europe's right-wing and populist parties, meanwhile, see a robust EU as contrary to their vision of Europe as a loose union of strong national states. And some regard the EU as a toady to America.
The fact that many of Moscow's allies are right to far-right reflects the Kremlin's full turn. Under communism, xenophobic nationalist parties were shunned.
Now they are embraced as partners who can help further Russia's interests and who share key views, advocacy of traditional family values, belief in authoritarian leadership, a distrust of the U.S. and support for strong law-and-order measures.
National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen told The Associated Press this month that France and Russia "have a communality of interest." Daughter Marine Le Pen, party president and a strong contender for the French presidency in 2017, envisions a Europe stretching "from the Atlantic to the Urals" , a "pan-European union" that includes Russia and is supported by other right-wing parties.
Nationalist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban perceives prevailing winds as "blowing from the East" and sees in Russia an ideal political model for his concept of an "illiberal state."
The head of Britain's euroskeptic Independence Party, Nigel Farage, has said Putin is the world leader he most admires, "as an operator, but not as a human being."
Russia offers friendship with a world power. Le Pen and other party officials visit Moscow repeatedly, and Russian guests at the party's congress this month included Andrei Isayev, a deputy speaker of the Russian parliament's lower house.
Among other Moscow regulars from euroskeptic parties across Europe are members of Hungary's anti-Semitic Jobbik and Austria's Freedom Party.
Jobbik parliamentarian Bela Kovacs, his detractors call him "KGBela", is under investigation in Hungary for allegedly spying for Russia.
While in Moscow recently, Freedom Party firebrand Johann Gudenus accused the European Union of kowtowing to "NATO and America" and denounced the spreading influence of the "homosexual lobby" in Europe.
Financial rewards are also incentives. Orban [Hungary] just signed a nuclear-reactor deal with Moscow.
France is abuzz over the National Front's recent 9 million euro loan from a Russian bank owned by a reputed Putin confidant.
Of the 24 right-wing populist parties that took about a quarter of the European Parliament's seats in May elections, Political Capital lists 15 as "committed" to Russia.
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6. Most Palestinians Believe Jews Intend to Build the Temple!
Palestinian Public Opinion Poll No (54) 9 December 2014
 http://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/505
Four months after the Gaza War, optimism about national reconciliation decreases, popularity of Hamas and Ismail Haniyeh is higher than that of Fatah and Abbas, support for violence rises and extreme worry about Israel's agenda for al Haram al Sharif drives greater support for violence against Israelis T
This PSR Poll has been conducted with the support of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Ramallah. 3-6 December 2014
 These are the results of the latest poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip between 3-6 December 2014. ... Total size of the sample is 1270 adults interviewed face to face in 127 randomly selected locations. Margin of error is 3%.
... Hamas can easily win a new presidential election if one is held today. Hamas can also do better than Fatah in a new parliamentary election. Most Palestinians continue to believe that Hamas won the war.
Today, an overwhelming majority of Palestinians continues to support launching of rockets from the Gaza Strip if the blockade is not lifted.
(1) Al Haram al Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary): An overwhelming majority (86%) believes that al Haram al Sharif is in grave danger: 56% believe that Israel intends to destroy al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock and replace them with a Jewish temple; 21% believe that it intends to divide the plateau on which the two mosques sit so that Jews would have a synagogue alongside the Muslim holy places; and 9% believe that Israel intends to change the status quo prevailing in the plateau since 1967 by allowing Jews to pray there. Only 6% believe that Israel is interested in maintaining the status quo without change.
Half of the public believes that Israel will indeed succeed in implementing its plans for al Haram al Sharif.
(2) Presidential and Legislative Elections: If new presidential elections are held today and only two were nominated, Ismail Haniyeh and Mahmoud Abbas, the former would win a majority of 53% (compared to 55% three months ago) and the latter 42% (compared to 38% three months ago). In the Gaza Strip, Abbas receives 44% and Haniyeh 54%. In the West Bank, Abbas receives 41% and Haniyeh 53%.
 60% favor resort to popular non-violent resistance; 56% support return to an armed intifada, and 49% support dissolving the PA.
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7. Jew-Hatred Increasing Amongst Youth in Australia!
Dear Yair,
Even Australia is becoming frighteningly antisemitic, did you know? They are even holding annual international Neo-Nazi conferences on the Gold Coast [Queensland in northeast Australia] & for some reason, it is part of pop culture among youth movements to hate Israel .... J.
[J is a young non-Jewish woman and a reliable source concerning what sentiments prevail amongst young people.]