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		<title>Prime Minister of Jordan Sends Condolence Letter to Murderers of 4 Rabbis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2014 00:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jordan is a "moderate" Muslim country.]]></description>
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<p>There&#8217;s a lot of emphasis on the supposed &#8220;universal&#8221; condemnations of the murder of 4 Rabbis in a synagogue. The reality is quite different.</p>
<p>Jordan, one of those officially moderate Muslim countries, held a prayer for the &#8220;spirits of the heroes&#8221; <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/jordanian-parliament-prays-for-spirits-of-heroes-who-murdered-4-rabbis/">responsible for the massacre in its parliament. </a></p>
<blockquote><p>In addition, MP Mohammed Al-Qatathh of the House of Representatives issued a statement to the assembly condemning the “Zionist attack on Jerusalem and its people” in the wake of “the heroic operation” on the synagogue in Har Nof.</p></blockquote>
<p>The heroic operation involved killing an old man with an axe from behind while he was praying.</p>
<p>Now the Prime Minister of Jordan<a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/11/1122-links-terror-enemy-of-palestinian.html#.VHEujYuooeU"> has thrown in his own two bloody cent</a>s.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Jordanian prime minister, Abdullah Ensour, sent a condolence letter to the families of the two Palestinian terrorists who killed five Israelis in a terror attack at a synagogue in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning.</p>
<p>“I ask God to envelope them with mercy and to grant you with patience, comfort and recovery from your grief,” Ensour wrote in the letter, according to Channel 10.</p></blockquote>
<p>Earlier Abdullah had claimed that Jews praying on the Temple Mount was a &#8220;stab wound to peace&#8221;. You know what a real stab wound to peace is? Stabbing someone.</p>
<p>Is the State Department going to condemn any of this? Fat chance. But if a Jew moves into a part of Jerusalem that Obama, Kerry and Psaki believe should remain Jew-Free, the condemnations will pour in.</p>
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		<title>Jordanian Parliament Prays for &#8220;Spirits of Heroes&#8221; Who Murdered 4 Rabbis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2014 03:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jordan is a moderate Muslim country. ]]></description>
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<p>Jordan is a moderate Muslim country.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s not exactly surprising. This would be the Jordanian parliament which fought any effort to criminalize honor killings and which called for the release of a <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/vast-majority-of-jordanian-parliament-calls-for-release-of-man-who-murdered-7-israeli-schoolgirls/">Jordanian soldier who murdered seven Israeli teenage girls</a>. With good reason. Jordan was the original &#8220;Palestine&#8221;.</p>
<p>After the brutal murder of four Rabbis, <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/11/exclusive-jordanian-parliament-recited.html#.VG1gSPmooeU">this story via Elder of Ziyon comes as no surprise</a> at all.</p>
<blockquote><p>On Wednesday, Jordan&#8217;s parliament offered a prayer in honor of the spirit of Ghassan Abu Jamal and Uday Abu Jamal &#8211; the terrorists who slaughtered five people.</p>
<p>The prayer was held as the House of representatives session opened.</p>
<p>MP Khalil Attieh requested his fellow representatives to recite the Fatiha for the &#8220;spirit of the heroes.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Fatiha is the first chapter of the Koran, recited on important occasions.</p>
<p>Attieh further declared that the murders were a &#8220;natural reaction to the occupation crimes against the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Palestinians.&#8221;</p>
<p>In addition, MP Mohammed Al-Qatathh of the House of Representatives issued a statement to the assembly condemning the &#8220;Zionist attack on Jerusalem and its people&#8221; in the wake of &#8220;the heroic operation&#8221; on the synagogue in Har Nof.</p></blockquote>
<p>By heroic operation, Mohammed means that two men with guns and butcher knives attacked a group of unarmed men praying from behind. They hacked to death a 59-year-old Rabbis and a number of other older Rabbis.</p>
<p>The world has not seen such heroism since Mohammed sent a blind man to murder a female poet while she was sleeping with her child.</p>
<p>Truly the Jordanian parliament was right to honor two lions of the Jihad so courageous that they dared attack an old man praying from behind. I&#8217;m sure Allah gave them double the virgins.</p>
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		<title>UN Appoints Great-Grandson of Caliph Who Opposes Free Speech as Human Rights Chief</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who better than a descendant of a Caliph to push for a global Islamic Caliphate.]]></description>
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<p>The UN is not just a joke. It&#8217;s also a really expensive waste of money. <a href="http://vladtepesblog.com/2014/06/19/sunni-muslim-is-next-united-nations-human-rights-chief/">But sometimes it can be hard to </a>remember that.</p>
<blockquote><p>Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al Hussein was officially appointed by the 193-Nation UN General Assembly to become the next United Nations human rights chief in Geneva.</p>
<p>“Prince Zeid’s work on sexual violence and his leadership on the international criminal court give a good foundation for this new role,” said Peggy Hicks, global advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.</p></blockquote>
<p>I bet.</p>
<blockquote><p>Jordanian law protects the perpetrators of honor crimes.</p>
<p>The section of the penal code most frequently invoked on behalf of perpetrators of “honor” killings is article 98. This statute mandates reduction of penalty for a perpetrator (of either gender) who commits a crime in a “state of great fury [or “fit of fury”] resulting from an unlawful and dangerous act on the part of the victim.</p>
<p>Moreover, courts may further halve the sentence if the victim’s family “waives” its right to file a complaint of the crime.</p>
<p>In murders for “honor,” given the family’s complicity in the crime, the family nearly always “waives” the right to file a complaint.66 Thus, “honor” killers may receive sentences of six months—and often do. If a killer has served that much time awaiting trial, the sentence may be commuted to time served and he may walk away a free man.</p>
<p>Article 98 was applied, for example, in a 2001 case in which the defendant had killed his sister “after seeing a man leave her house</p></blockquote>
<p>Prince Zeid&#8217;s work on sexual violence has obviously been exemplary.</p>
<p>So what are Zeid&#8217;s qualifications for the job? Well he is a cousin of the King of Jordan. As a result he&#8217;s been appointed to a variety of positions. He&#8217;s also a great-grandson of Caliph Hussein bin Ali, who claimed to rule all the Arabs, before he got taken down by the House of Saud.</p>
<p>(And if you think the Saudi gang still don&#8217;t resent all Europeans over it and want revenge, you don&#8217;t know the Middle East well.)</p>
<p>The UN has often been a joke, but appointing a member of an unelected monarchy (who is also a claimant for the thrones of Iraq and Syria, good luck with that) as human rights chief is a sublime gag.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like the UN is desperately trying to let us all in on on the joke.</p>
<blockquote><p>A strong advocate of international justice, Prince Zeid had extensive involvement in the creation of the International Criminal Court.</p></blockquote>
<p>I feel so much better now. But don&#8217;t get any ideas about the Prince. His <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/06/26/the_scandal_of_ambassador_zeid">royal highness remains a firm Cartoonophobe</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Jordan&#8217;s voting record on the highly divisive attempt to force U.N. states to criminalize the &#8220;defamation of religion&#8221; leaves a huge question mark about how aggressively Ambassador Zeid will defend free speech in the sphere of religion, where this right is constantly under attack at both the national and international level.</p>
<p>During both of Ambassador Zeid&#8217;s periods as Jordan&#8217;s ambassador to the U.N., Jordan voted in favor of these resolutions when they were introduced at the General Assembly.</p>
<p>Jordan&#8217;s voting record in the U.N. is consistent with the country&#8217;s domestic record on blasphemy. In 2006, two newspaper editors who reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad previously published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten were sentenced to two months of imprisonment. In 2011, Jordan initiated a trial in absentia against Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, the creator of the offending cartoon, as well as 19 Danish journalists and editors who had published the cartoon in various news outlets. In 2009, Jordanian poet Eslam Samhan was sentenced to imprisonment and a fine for blasphemy after having included Quranic verses in his poetry. It was developments such as these that the 2010 resolution on defamation of religion hailed and sought to enact at the international level, turning human rights into a weapon against religious dissent and nonconformism rather than principles protecting the freedom of conscience and pluralism.</p></blockquote>
<p>Who better than a descendant of a Caliph to push for a global Islamic Caliphate.</p>
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		<title>Jordan: &#8220;You are Palestinians, You Aren&#8217;t Allowed to Enter.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2014 17:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe Israel should adopt the enlightened policies of its Muslim neighbors.]]></description>
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<p>Maybe Israel should stop being a Zionist Imperialist Apartheid state and adopt the<a href="http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2014/08/human-rights-watch-wakes-up-blasts.html"> enlightened policies of its Muslim neighbors</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Jordan has officially banned entry to Palestinians from Syria since January 2013 and has forcibly deported over 100 who managed to enter the country since mid-2012, including women and children,&#8221; the report revealed.</p>
<p>The report quotes Basma, a Palestinian woman from Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria, who describes how the Jordanians turned her and others back. &#8220;They told us, &#8216;You are Palestinians, you aren&#8217;t allowed to enter,&#8217;&#8221; she recounted. &#8220;They took us in a bus and dropped us on the Syrian side of the border at 2 a.m.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another Palestinian refugee from Damascus, 47-year-old Abdullah, was quoted as saying: &#8220;As we were crossing, the Jordanian army started firing at us. We all laid down flat on the ground to avoid the gunfire. After some moments two trucks with army officers came to us, before we knew what was happening an army officer shot five of us in our legs. We weren&#8217;t trying to flee.&#8221;</p>
<p>During the past three years, Jordan has received millions of Syrian refugees. But when it comes to Palestinians, the story is different.</p>
<p>There is also no talk about transforming Jordan into a &#8220;Syrian state,&#8221; as opposed to calls for creating a homeland for the Palestinians in the kingdom.</p></blockquote>
<p>And why would that be? Because Jordan was the original Palestinian state before the Brits decided to hand it over to one of their pet Hashemite kings. The last one to manage to stay on the throne.</p>
<p>And he intends to stay there no matter how many Palestinian Arabs he has to shoot.</p>
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		<title>Jordan Oddly Unenthusiastic About Hosting Obama&#8217;s Terrorist Training Camps</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only ones enthusiastic about the plan are Obama and the terrorists. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_236612" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Barack-Obama-with-King-Ab-010.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-236612" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Barack-Obama-with-King-Ab-010-450x270.jpg" alt="Hussein &amp; Hussein" width="450" height="270" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Hussein &amp; Hussein</p></div>
<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s wrong. Maybe it&#8217;s the fact that Jordan&#8217;s king is barely clinging to power. It might be the threats from ISIS to overrun Jordan and kill the king. But King Hussein (the other one) seems unenthusiastic <a href="http://halalporkshop.blogspot.com/2014/07/fearing-retaliation-jordan-reluctant-to.html">about King Hussein&#8217;s plan to train terrorists in his country</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p> Jordan, where the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has been covertly training Syrian rebels for more than a year, is reluctant to host an expanded rebel instruction program, U.S. officials said.</p>
<p>Jordan&#8217;s reticence, confirmed by four U.S. officials, is a potentially serious setback for President Barack Obama’s proposed $500 million initiative, announced in June, to train and arm moderate rebels fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and al Qaeda-linked groups.</p></blockquote>
<p>So currently the only ones enthusiastic about the plan are Obama and the terrorists. And the moderate terrorists could take it or leave it.</p>
<blockquote><p>It could signal a larger challenge in finding suitable nations willing to host the U.S.-led training at a time of heightened tensions across much of the Middle East.</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama could try training them in Israel. I&#8217;m sure that would work out well. Or Iraq. Or Iran. Liberals keep talking about how we need to ally with Iran.</p>
<blockquote><p>While U.S. officials have not made a formal request to the Jordanian government, the country was widely considered a top choice to host the training due its close security relationship with Washington, proximity to neighboring Syria and pool of more than 600,000 Syrian refugees.</p></blockquote>
<p>Whom the Jordanians would like to get rid of, not arm with heavy weapons.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jordan told the U.S., &#8216;No boots on the ground&#8217;,&#8221; said one of the officials, who all requested anonymity because they were discussing sensitive U.S. military arrangements.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s okay. The terrorists will just wear sneakers. That&#8217;s how Obama did it in Libya and it worked out fine.</p>
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		<title>Israel Might Act to Safeguard Jordan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 04:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jordan’s stability is in Israel’s national interest, and Israel is ready to do whatever it takes to defend it.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Mideast-Jordan-Israel_Horo.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236233" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Mideast-Jordan-Israel_Horo-450x310.jpg" alt="Mideast-Jordan-Israel_Horo" width="242" height="167" /></a>With the Islamic State (formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or ISIS) knocking at the doorsteps of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and the Iraqi army withdrawing its troops from the only border crossing between Iraq and Jordan, Israel is beginning to feel the heat generated by the successful campaigns of the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq. Jordan has hitherto served as a crucial buffer shielding Israel from a spillover of mayhem created by the Sunni-Muslim extremist terrorist group, whose leader has proclaimed the new caliphate.</p>
<p><em>Al Jazeera </em>reported (June 30, 2014) that ISIS, which controls large areas of Iraq and Syria, has announced the establishment of a “caliphate” straddling the two countries, and urged other groups to pledge their allegiance. In an audio recording released earlier by ISIS, it declared its chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to be “the caliph” and the leader of Muslim believers everywhere.</p>
<p>In the meantime, supporters of ISIS are multiplying in the city of Maan, the capital of the southern region of Jordan. Maan is 104 kilometers (approximately 62 miles) away from Israel’s southern tip of Eilat and about 60 kilometers (36 miles) from the Arava Road (Highway 60) which connects Jerusalem and central Israel with Eilat.  The IS appears to have no active presence in this desert town south of the capital, Amman, but its image is growing, its ideology gaining traction, and its appeal extending beyond those who would take up arms and don suicide vests. The people here, especially the many unemployed young men, have celebrated the Islamic State victories.</p>
<p>Across the Arab world, the drive for democratic change has stalled, at least for now, and in its place we have seen a resurgence of strongmen such as Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and Islamic militants (IS), both selling the promise of stability and order as counterpoints to the tumult that followed the Arab Spring. In the Sunni-Muslim world moreover, the victories of the ISin Iraq against the Shiite-led Iraqi army, and the imagery of a rejuvenated caliphate is a formidable factor.</p>
<p>The threat to the Hashemite Kingdom is not only external, it is internal as well. The city of Maan is a case and point. Unemployment, police repression, and economic neglect have fueled resentment toward King Abdullah and the monarchy and, conversely, growing support for the Islamist IS. The Jordanian army has been deployed on three fronts. On the Jordanian-Syrian border, the Jordanian army is poised to push back a possible incursion of President Bashar Assad’s Syrian army. The Assad regime seeks to stop Jordanian support for Syrian rebels in southern Syria. The other front is the Jordanian-Iraqi border, where the Jordanian army is deployed to prevent the incursion of IS forces.</p>
<p>The third concentration of Jordanian forces is in the capital of Amman itself, where the Jordanian troops ring the city to protect the monarchy and the king. The fear in Amman as well as in Washington and Jerusalem is that support for the IS may spread to other cities across Jordan, and may eventually result in an internal armed uprising, which will necessitate either US or Israeli intervention to save King Abdullah’s pro-Western rule, and the peace between Jordan and Israel.</p>
<p>Precedents for the US and Israel coming to Jordan’s aid already exists. In September 1970, during King Hussein’s rule, the monarchy was in danger of collapsing under pressure from the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) which had built a virtual state within a state. The PLO hijacked several international flights and brought the passengers and planes to Dawson airfield in Jordan. On September 17, 1970, Hussein’s forces successfully suppressed the Palestinians, but it led to a Syrian invasion into northwestern Jordan on September 19, which threatened to reach Amman.  Hussein begged for a western bombing campaign against the invading Syrians. The US was, at the time, involved in the Vietnam War and had meager and insufficient forces in the Mediterranean region. The US then turned to Israel for a quick response, and Israel rushed large numbers of forces to the Golan and Beit Shaan Valley. The Israeli move deterred the Syrians from moving forward and they withdrew their forces from Jordan. The Syrians, recalling their defeat by Israel three years earlier, did not want to risk a confrontation with the IDF.</p>
<p><em>Al-Manar</em>, Hezbollah’s mouthpiece, reported on June 28, 2014 that “The <a href="http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?fromval=1&amp;cid=31&amp;frid=31&amp;eid=158750">Zionist entity</a>has said that it would be willing to take military action in neighboring Jordan to protect it from attacks by the so-called &#8216;Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorist group, dubbed as ISIS, which has been sweeping across northern parts of Iraq and Syria in a violent bid to create its unilaterally-declared own state<strong>.”</strong> According to the <em>Daily Beast</em>(<em>DB</em>) website (6/27/2014), “Obama administration officials told Senators in a classified briefing this week that the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) also has its eyes on <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/27/israel-could-get-dragged-into-isis-s-war-obama-admin-warns.html">Jordan</a>; in fact, its jihadists are already Tweeting out photos and messages claiming a key southern town (Maan) in Jordan already belongs to them.” The <em>DB</em> added, “The concern was that Jordan could not repel a full assault from ISIS on its own at this point, said one senator, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Another Senate staff member said the US officials who briefed the members responded to the question of what Jordan’s leaders would do if they faced a military onslaught from ISIS by saying: They will ask Israel and the United States for as much help as they can get.”</p>
<p>The US, Jordan and Israel already share military intelligence, and the US has also placed batteries of Patriot missiles as well as squadrons of F-16s in Jordan. Additionally, the US has a contingency force of US troops ready under the command of Brig. General Dennis McKean, also known as Centcom &#8211; Forward Jordan. Gen. McKean has been in direct contact with Israel’s Chief-of-Staff, Lt. General Benny Gantz and Israel’s Air Force commander, Gen. Amir Eshel.</p>
<p>Concerned with the gains made by ISIS/IS, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday (June 29, 2014) that Israel would maintain security in the Jordan Valley regardless of peace talks with the Palestinians. Netanyahu also announced that Israel plans to build a security barrier along the Jordanian border that would stretch from Eilat to the Golan Heights.  Following a meeting with German Foreign Minister Walter Steinmeier (6/30/2014), Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman declared that “Jordan’s stability is in Israel’s national interest, and Israel is ready to do whatever it takes to <a href="http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/diplomacy-defense/35889-140630-israel-to-build-security-fence-along-jordan-border">defend it</a>.”</p>
<p>Israel’s current military bout with Hamas in Gaza, notwithstanding, the Jewish state is determined to preserve the integrity of King Abdullah’s Jordanian monarchy. Jordan is the one Arab state that is moderate, pro-Western, and has solidly maintained the peace treaty with Israel.</p>
<p>It is clear that having a friendly state on its long and sensitive eastern border is critical for Israel, especially in view of the mounting threats from a resurgent ISIS/IS. Israel will therefore act when necessary to safeguard Jordan.</p>
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		<title>Vice Chairman of Jordanian Parliament Endorses Al Qaeda Killing of Saddam Judge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Khalil Attieh has been variously listed as the Deputy House Speaker and Vice Chairman of the Jordanian parliament. When the judge who sentenced Saddam to death was murdered by Al Qaeda in Iraq (because Al Qaeda and the Baath Party are allies), <a href="https://ar-ar.facebook.com/Khalil.H.Atieh/posts/733695856686893">he took to Facebook to express </a>his happiness.</p>
<p>&#8220;Iraqi rebels arrested him and sentenced him to death in retaliation for the death of the hero martyr Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid.&#8221;</p>
<p>Saddam Hussein was quite popular in Jordan, which despite its imported Hashemite monarchy, is one of the most anti-American places in the Middle East.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s saying a lot.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda was popular there until Zarqawi decided to bomb a hotel. Now Al Qaeda in Iraq might be regaining some of its popularity.</p>
<p>Jordanian Arabs are much the same people as the so-called Palestinian Arabs and all of them identify more with a Greater Syria than with Jordan, which is why ISIS&#8217; plans to go after the Jordanian monarchy have a great deal of potential.</p>
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		<title>Everyone in the Middle East Hates John Kerry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 01:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israelis, Palestinian Arabs, Egyptians, Jordanians and Syrians may not be able to agree on all that much&#8230; but they all agree on hating John Kerry.</p>
<p>Whether you&#8217;re Jewish, Christian or Muslim, the one thing that brings you together is hating John Kerry.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/B97153566Z.120130302191412000G752EB78.11.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-218980" alt="B97153566Z.120130302191412000G752EB78.11" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/B97153566Z.120130302191412000G752EB78.11-450x253.jpg" width="450" height="253" /></a></p>
<p>Here are Egyptians burning pictures of John Kerry depicted with a Muslim Brotherhood beard.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/MDF79343_199037_large.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-218981" alt="MDF79343_199037_large" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/MDF79343_199037_large.jpg" width="450" height="312" /></a></p>
<p>Here are Israelis <a href="http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2014/02/over-15000-rally-for-e1-building-east.html">protesting John Kerry&#8217;s pro-terrorist </a>policies.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/132867698_31n.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-218983" alt="132867698_31n" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/132867698_31n-450x300.jpg" width="450" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>And declaring him persona non-grata in Israel.</p>
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<p>Here are <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/jordanian-islamists-stage-mass-protest-of-kerry-deal/">Jordanians protesting</a> against Kerry. Ironically they&#8217;re from the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a group that Obama has recklessly pandered to.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Mideast-Jordan-US-Oba_Horo-e1392391761596-635x357.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-218984" alt="Mideast-Jordan-US-Oba_Horo-e1392391761596-635x357" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Mideast-Jordan-US-Oba_Horo-e1392391761596-635x357-450x252.jpg" width="450" height="252" /></a></p>
<p>And here are Palestinian Arabs protesting Kerry.</p>
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<p>Considering how recently Kerry took the job, it&#8217;s a real tribute to his diplomatic acumen that he has managed to alienate so many people and make so many sides in the Middle East hate him.</p>
<p>Perhaps Kerry really will bring peace as the different sides find a common point of agreement on opposing him.</p>
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		<title>The Politics of Subversion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2013 05:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whose interests are Israel's leftist politicians really fighting for? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212572" alt="ShowImage.ashx" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg" width="233" height="164" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=334125">Jerusalem Post</a>.</em></p>
<p>US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Israel on Wednesday to put additional pressure on Israel to make more concessions in land and political rights to the PLO in Judea and Samaria. To advance his current effort, Kerry brought along retired US Marine Gen. John Allen.</p>
<p>According to media reports, Allen presented a proposal to address Israel’s security concerns and so enabled the talks about Israeli land giveaways to proceed apace. The proposal involved, among other things, American security guarantees, a pledge to deploy US forces along the Jordan River and additional US military assistance to the IDF.</p>
<p>These Obama administration proposals are supposed to allay Israeli concerns that withdrawing Israeli forces from the Jordan Valley and the international border crossings with Jordan will invite foreign invasion and aggression, and increased Palestinian terrorism.</p>
<p>By controlling the Jordan Valley, (and the Samarian and Hebron mountain ranges), Israel is capable of defending the country from invasion from the east. It can also prevent penetration of irregular enemy forces, and on the other hand, maintain the stability of the Hashemite regime in Jordan. Without control over the areas, Israel can do none of these things.</p>
<p>Facing these undeniable facts, Kerry and his supporters have two main challenges. First they need to present themselves as credible actors.</p>
<p>And second they have to give Israel reason to trust the Palestinians. If Israel trusts the US, then it can consider allowing the US to defend it from foreign aggression. If the Palestinians are real peace partners, then Israel can surrender its ability to defend itself more easily, because it will face a benign neighbor along its indefensible border.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Israel cannot trust the US. Kerry and the Obama administration as a whole lost all credibility when they negotiated the deal with Iran last month.</p>
<p>After spending five years promising they had Israel’s back only to stab Israel in the back in relation to the most acute threat facing the Jewish state, nothing Kerry or US President Barack Obama says in relation to their commitment to Israel’s security can be trusted. The fact that Kerry had the nerve to show up here with “security guarantees” regarding the Palestinians two weeks after he agreed to effectively unravel the sanctions regime against Iran in exchange for no concrete Iranian concessions on its nuclear arms program shows that he holds Israel in contempt.</p>
<p>But then, even if Kerry had all the credibility in the world it wouldn’t make a difference. The real problem with the notion of an Israeli withdrawal to indefensible borders is that those indefensible borders will be insecure. Both the PLO and Hamas remain committed to Israel’s destruction.</p>
<p>They will never agree to Israel’s continued existence in any borders. So the whole peace process is doomed. Kerry’s attempt to dictate security arrangements is a waste of time.</p>
<p>This much was again made clear last Friday by the PLO’s chief negotiator Saeb Erekat. Speaking to foreign supporters, Erekat said that the Palestinians will never accept Israel’s right to exist.</p>
<p>Their entire existence as a people is predicated on denying Jewish rights and nationhood. And, as Erekat put it, “I cannot change my narrative.”</p>
<p>The people who should be most upset both about Obama and Kerry’s destruction of US strategic credibility and about the utter absence of Palestinian good faith should be the Israelis wedded to the two-state paradigm. Former prime minister Ehud Olmert, former Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Labor Party leader Issac Herzog among others, should be so vocal in their opposition to the deal with Iran that they make Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu look like a pushover.</p>
<p>It is they, not Netanyahu and his voters, who have insisted that Israel can make massive concessions to the PLO and sit on the sidelines with regard to Iran because the US will defend us. For the past generation it was they, not the political Right, that preached strategic dependency rather than strategic sovereignty.</p>
<p>These peaceniks, rather than Likud supporters should also be the ones leading the charge against PLO support for terrorism, incitement against Israel and rejection of Israel’s right to exist. The Right never wanted a Palestinian state to begin with. That’s the Left’s policy. If Netanyahu abandoned his support for Palestinian statehood, he would become more popular, not less so. And unless Palestinian society and the Palestinian leadership fundamentally transform their position on Israel, there is no way that Israel can be expected to surrender its ability to defend itself.</p>
<p>There is no way that Israel can consider the PLO’s territorial demands. And there is no way a Palestinian state can be established.</p>
<p>But the peaceniks don’t seem to care about these things.</p>
<p>Olmert uses every open microphone to attack Netanyahu.</p>
<p>Last week Olmert went so far as to say that Netanyahu, “declared war on the American government,” by openly criticizing the deal with Iran.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas didn’t even respond to Olmert’s peace offer in 2008, Olmert places all the blame for the absence of peace on Netanyahu and his government.</p>
<p>For his part, on the eve of Kerry’s visit Diskin launched an equally unhinged attack on the government.</p>
<p>Speaking to the European funded pro-Palestinian Geneva Initiative, Diskin claimed wildly that Israel is more at risk from not surrendering to PLO demands than from an Iranian nuclear arsenal.</p>
<p>Last month Livni attacked Netanyahu for criticizing Obama’s deal with Iran and then claimed vapidly that Israel will protect itself from Iran by giving away its land to the PLO. Ignoring the fact that the Arab world is already siding with Israel against Iran, Livni said, “Solving the conflict with the Palestinians would enable a united front with Arab countries against Iran.”</p>
<p>This week newly elected Labor Party chief Issac Herzog went to Ramallah and chastised the government.</p>
<p>Praising Abbas for his “real desire to achieve peace,” while remaining silent about Abbas’s daily statements in support of terrorism, Herzog pledged “to try to put pressure on the Israeli government to take brave positions to achieve peace and security for our children.”</p>
<p>As for the deal with Iran, shortly after his election to head the Labor Party last month, Herzog lashed out not at the deal, and not at Obama for betraying his pledge to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, but at Netanyahu. Netanyahu, he claimed, “has harmed our relations with the US and hasn’t brought about an improved agreement.”</p>
<p>Ignoring the fact that the Obama administration negotiated with Iran behind Israel’s back and then lied about the contents of what it had agreed to, Herzog seethed, Netanyahu “has created a total lack of trust between us and Obama rather than a trusting relationship.”</p>
<p>As polls taken over the past 20 years have shown, a majority of Israelis would be happy to make peace with the Palestinians, and pay a price in territory for doing so. But those polls have also shown that the public believes the Palestinians when they say they want to destroy the Jewish state. The Israeli public does not think people like Abbas, who praise mass murderers of Jews as national heroes, have “a real desire to achieve peace.”</p>
<p>And, as recent polls show, following the US deal with Iran, while the public continues to prize Israel’s alliance with the US, it no longer trusts the US government.</p>
<p>The fact that the likes of Olmert, Livni, Diskin and Herzog and their followers are not at the forefront pressuring the Palestinians to change their ways and demanding that the Obama administration demonstrate its trustworthiness, but rather have directed all their energies to attacking the government, indicates that peace with the Palestinians is not their primary concern.</p>
<p>Rather it would appear that their main concern is their personal power and prestige.</p>
<p>By siding with the Americans against the government, these senior figures seek to exploit the public’s support for the US. By presenting Netanyahu as anti-American, and claiming that he is responsible for Obama’s abusive behavior, they hope to convince the public to embrace them as guarantors of the strategic alliance. Certainly that is Olmert’s goal as he looks past his criminal prosecutions and begins to plot his course back to the center of power.</p>
<p>As for their support for the Palestinians against their government, here the motivation is external.</p>
<p>Israelis do not trust the Palestinians. And they certainly do not trust Abbas. But the Americans and Europeans have made Palestinian statehood the centerpiece of their foreign policies and view Abbas as the indispensable man.</p>
<p>Livni had no political future after she lost the Kadima party primary to Shaul Mofaz last year.</p>
<p>Her hopes of becoming prime minister had ended. But then she went to Washington, met with Hillary Clinton, and announced she was forming a new party and running on a pro-Palestinian, pro-Obama platform. She won a paltry six seats, which she took from other leftist parties.</p>
<p>But that was enough. Bowing to US pressure to prove he was serious about appeasing the Palestinians, Netanyahu appointed Livni justice minister and put her in charge of the talks with the PLO. If Livni had been less supportive of Obama or of the PLO, she would not be where she is today.</p>
<p>If the behavior of these people were just a matter of shameless jockeying for political power their actions would be bad enough. But they cause immeasurable damage to the country.</p>
<p>By accusing Netanyahu of blocking peace between Israel and the Palestinians, they embolden the Palestinians to escalate their political warfare against Israel, and maintain their steady anti-Semitic incitement. Indeed they lay the moral groundwork for justifying terrorism against Israel.</p>
<p>Livni, Olmert, Diskin, Herzog and their allies also give political cover to outside forces to adopt anti-Israel positions and policies. Why shouldn’t the European Union boycott Israeli goods when the former prime minister claims that Israel is the reason there is no peace? Why should Obama care what Netanyahu tells Congress when Olmert says Netanyahu is at war with the US? How can Israel justify attacking Iran’s nuclear installations when Olmert says it is strategically idiotic to even train for such an attack and Diskin says that we need a PLO state more than we need to block Iran’s nuclear ambitions? Diskin’s unhinged attack against Netanyahu on the eve of Kerry’s visit was hardly coincidental.</p>
<p>And we should expect more such displays as Obama becomes more open in his hostility towards Israel.</p>
<p>As long as we have a seemingly endless supply of senior officials willing to harm the country to advance their personal goals, domestic subversion will remain a key weapon in the international arsenal against us.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 04:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secular Palestinian leader Mudar Zahran tells a truth the western media won't utter. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Jordan.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210535" alt="Jordan" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Jordan-353x350.jpg" width="282" height="280" /></a>This week&#8217;s Glazov Gang was joined <strong>Mudar Zahran, </strong>the leader of Palestinians in Jordan who now resides in the U.K. as a political refugee. He discusses <em>The Palestinian Homeland in Jordan</em>. He also explains his support of Israel, denounces the Islamists and calls out the western media for being Israel haters and not caring about the Palestinians:</p>
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<p>He also shed light on <em>The Tragic Fate of American POWs in Russia, </em>unveiling a disturbing tale of how Putin blocked the search for U.S. prisoners of war in Russia under the guise of cooperation with the American government: <strong>[For more info, see Frontpage&#8217;s Symposiums: <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/jamie-glazov/symposium-why-we-left-our-pows-behind/">Why We Left Our POWs Behind </a>and <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6634">The POWs the Communists Kept</a>.]</strong></p>
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		<title>Jordanian Parliament Budget Dispute Ends with AK-47 Shooting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They keep saying democracy is the solution to the political problems of the Middle East.]]></description>
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<p>They keep saying democracy is the solution to the political problems of the Middle East. I<a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/09/10/Jordanian-MP-shoots-rifle-during-Parliament-session.html">f they think that&#8217;s the solution</a>, maybe they should reconsider<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/171766#.UjJfyT8xFfI"> the nature of the problem</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>An ongoing dispute between Jordanian parliamentarians resulted in one MP shooting an automatic rifle at a fellow lawmaker during a parliament session on Tuesday.</p>
<p>MP Talal al-Sharif pulled out an AK-47 rifle and shot at fellow MP Qusay Dmisa during a public session of Jordan’s Parliament, but did not manage to wound him.</p>
<p>Local websites showed video footage of Sharif shooting at Dmisa, who opposed him in a parliamentary dispute on Sunday.</p>
<p>This is the first time that guns have been fired in Jordan’s Parliament, although earlier this year MP Shadi al-Edwan attempted to pull out a pistol in the building during a bitter dispute over rising fuel prices.</p></blockquote>
<p>There are countries that go years without anyone pulling a gun in parliament. But that&#8217;s democracy in an honor-shame culture.</p>
<blockquote><p>The source said the shooting came after an argument broke out in parliament on Sunday between Damissi and another member, Yahia al-Saud.</p>
<p>Video footage emerged showing Damissi removing his shoes and Saud his belt during the dispute, which flared due to differences over parliamentary procedure, before they were separated.</p></blockquote>
<p>First the shoes come off. Then the belt. And then the assault rifles come out.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Jordanian Parliament adopted on Monday unprecedented measures to expel MP Talal Al-Sharif, who used a Kalashnikov rifle to shoot at MP Qusay Al-Demsi during a dispute. The Parliament also decided to freeze the membership of Al-Demsi for one year as a disciplinary punishment for his role in triggering the dispute.</p>
<p>Although Al-Demsi was the shooting target, the ad-hoc investigation committee found him guilty of inciting the action. The MPs said that Al-Sharif resorted to arms only after Al-Demsi slapped him while they were shaking hands in an effort to resolve their dispute.</p>
<p>Al-Sharif was so offended by the slap that he rushed to produce his machine gun from his car and started shooting.</p></blockquote>
<p>No seriously. This happened.</p>
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		<title>The Six-Day War &#8212; 46 Years Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 04:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel's great leap forward. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/flags_and_planes.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192624" alt="flags_and_planes" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/flags_and_planes-375x350.jpg" width="300" height="280" /></a>It is hard to believe that 46 years have passed since the Six-Day War of June, 1967. The world has changed a great deal since then. Technology has revolutionized communications and warfare. Instead of war between nations and world wars, most of today’s conflicts occur within states as witnessed in recent years in the Arab world. Facebook and Twitter broke the Arab governments’ monopoly over information, and enabled millions of Egyptians, Tunisians, Syrians, and now Turks to rally against their arbitrary and oppressive governments. Hostility towards the Jewish state did not, however, change much. Still, Israel today is much stronger vis-à-vis her enemies than in 1967.</p>
<p>The countries that played key roles in the Six-Day War drama have undergone changes, albeit not all of which bode well for the future. The Jordanian (monarchy) government made peace with Israel and is no longer an enemy of the Jewish State. Syria never made peace with Israel and is currently involved in a civil war that might spillover into a conflict with Israel. Egypt, Israel’s most serious protagonist, made peace with Israel, but its current Islamist (Muslim Brotherhood) government is hostile to Israel and major elements within the civilian leadership would very much like to abrogate the 1979 Peace Treaty and engage the Jewish state militarily. Non-Arab Iran, a friendly state led by the Shah that sold oil to Israel in 1967, is now ruled by a radical Islamist regime that poses an existential threat to the Jewish State.</p>
<p>Marked changes have also taken place in Israel &#8212; in its society, economy, political landscape, and demography. Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a small, intimate society governed by the paternalistic Mapai (Israel’s Labor party) elite. To a great extent, Israel was, at that time, an egalitarian society with few opportunities for conspicuous consumption or ostentatious living, as we see in Israel today. There were no shopping malls in every town. Most people did not own cars nor were there four lane super highways.</p>
<p>For decades before and during the Six Day War, Mapai was the dominant force in Israel’s political life. In control since the pre-State days, Mapai’s socialist economic orientation was responsible for jobs, housing, health-care, and other necessities of life. The non-socialist Likud party has been in power for many of the recent decades, as well as today, and has freed the Israeli economy from government-controlled enterprises by major privatization. Both the private sector and exports have grown enormously, especially in the high-tech sector. In 2010, Israel joined the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which brings together the wealthiest nations in the world.</p>
<p>Israel’s population in 1967 was <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_pop-people-population&amp;date=1967" target="_blank">2,745,000</a>, while, on the eve of 2013, Israel’s population stood on the cusp of 8 million (<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/on-eve-of-2013-israels-population-stands-at-cusp-of-8-million/" target="_blank">7,981,000</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;">)</span>. More than 1 million Jews (and non-Jewish relatives) arrived from the former Soviet Union, as well as over 100,000 from Ethiopia. Israel has become one of the few Western states with a healthy demographic growth of about 2% a year.</p>
<p>Poverty, lack of economic opportunity, political and social chaos, and frustration remain the reality in Egypt and Syria. Islamism has replaced Arab nationalism as the dominant ideology in the Arab world. In Syria, the Islamist opposition is fighting to topple the Baathist (Arab national-socialist) regime of Bashar Assad. The only significant growth that has occurred in Egypt and Syria is in population. Egypt’s population in 1967 was <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_pop-people-population&amp;date=1967" target="_blank">33,947,380</a>, Syria’s was <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_pop-people-population&amp;date=1967" target="_blank">5,771,876</a>. Today, Egypt has a population of <a href="http://countrymeters.info/en/Egypt/" target="_blank">85,668,335</a>, that it can barely feed, and Syria’s is <a href="http://countrymeters.info/en/Syria/" target="_blank">21,133,056</a>.<b> </b>Nearly 100,000 have been killed in the civil war, and millions have fled to other states.<b> </b></p>
<p>The events that led to the Six-Day War began with Egyptian President Abdul Nasser’s decision to expel United Nations troops from the Sinai Peninsula and blockade Israel&#8217;s port of Eilat. This action, according to international law, was a <i>casus belli</i> – an act of war. Nasser succumbed to belligerent Arab threats to destroy Israel. In addition, many of the provocative actions can be traced to Soviet meddling and misinformation, which escalated tension and skirmishes between Syrian and Israeli forces along their mutual border.</p>
<p>At the end of Day 1 of the war, June 5, 1967, the air forces of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq no longer existed. Israel’s pilots and ground crews helped the IDF demolish the armies of Egypt in the Sinai, capturing huge arsenals of Soviet armaments. On the third day of the war, Israeli troops reached the Suez Canal, and had most of the Sinai Peninsula under IDF control. Jordan, who entered the war in spite of the urging of Israel’s PM Levi Eshkol to stay out, lost the territory on the West Bank. Israel liberated its lost Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem, and reunited its capital. On the fifth day of the war, Israel battled the Syrians on the Golan Heights, capturing the entire Golan.</p>
<p>In the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day War, diplomatic outreach was the order of the day. However, the war had done little to bring the sides closer together, and at a summit in Khartoum, Sudan, Arab countries repudiated peace and reaffirmed their rejection of Israel. More diplomatic headway was made in the United Nations Security Council. After some wrangling, the international community agreed on several principles that would be the basis of a &#8220;just and lasting peace&#8221; in the Middle East. UN Security Council Resolution 242 called on the parties to make full peace in exchange for “territories,” but not all the territories that Israel captured. Israel was assured of secure and defensible borders.</p>
<p>The Six-Day War had many long term implications on the region. Israel came into control of a large number of Arab refugees, some of whom were among those displaced since 1948 and who were then able to return to the Israeli-controlled West Bank. They, along with their neighbors, witnessed unprecedented economic growth over the course of the next two decades. Israeli investment in the infrastructure of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, along with policies that allowed Arabs to move freely, increased the standard of living of Palestinians, who were now able to work both in Israel and in the oil rich countries of the Middle East.</p>
<p>The relative prosperity and peace in the West Bank and Gaza was broken by the first intifada of December 1987. Yasser Arafat’s PLO, operating from Tunis, opposed the continued occupation and simultaneously refused to establish a state alongside Israel (the PLO charter sought to replace Israel and erase the Jewish State). Arafat instigated terror and unrest in the territories, which in turn prompted Israel to increase its security measures.</p>
<p>The Six-Day War enabled Israel to reach a peace treaty with Egypt by returning the entire Sinai Peninsula, including the oil fields of Abu Rudeis and Ra’s Sudr. Israel subsequently (August 2005) withdrew from the Gaza Strip without a peace treaty &#8212; a move which failed to end violence against Israel from that territory.</p>
<p>The “occupation” mantra has been mischaracterized as the primary, if not the sole cause<i> </i>of the conflict, rather than an effect of it. Many journalists unfamiliar with the relevant facts and context mistakenly believe that the starting point of Mideast tensions is the ”occupation” rather than Arab and Islamic intolerance towards the existence of a Jewish State in their midst.</p>
<p>The Six-Day War gave Israel bargaining chips with their hostile Arab enemies. Land for peace has not made the Arab Palestinians more amenable to living side by side with Israel. Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, refuses to recognize Israel as a Jewish State. Nevertheless, the Six Day War fostered massive immigration and support for Israel, which made it stronger and a major regional player. And, while peace with the Palestinians remains elusive, it is no longer impossible.</p>
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		<title>Six Fateful Days that Shook the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 04:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remembering the Six-Day War -- and tiny Israel's triumph over the Arab Goliath.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tank_column_somewhere.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192351" alt="tank_column_somewhere" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tank_column_somewhere-450x313.jpg" width="270" height="188" /></a>June 5, 2013 marks the 46<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the Six-Day War. On the morning of June 5, 1967 at 7:45 a.m., Israeli Mirage III, Super Mystère and Vautour fighter-bombers swooped over the Mediterranean toward airbases in Egypt and in less than three hours, <a href="http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a328195.pdf">destroyed the bulk of the Egyptian air force</a>. A similar fate awaited the air forces of Jordan, Syria and Iraq.</p>
<p>In six glorious and decisive days, the Israel Defense Forces bested the might of the combined Arab nation and sent them scurrying with their tails between their legs. So overwhelming was Israel’s victory that the Arabs, shamed by their own ineptitude and cowardice, <a href="http://www.meforum.org/587/the-lie-that-wont-die-collusion-1967">attempted to concoct a story</a> claiming that Israel was assisted by U.S. and British offshore aircraft carriers. Israeli intelligence intercepted communications between Egypt’s Nasser and Jordan’s King Hussein whereby the two, almost comically, tried to coordinate their storylines. Naturally, once the Israelis published the scheming exchanges, the full thrust of Arab mendacity came to fore.</p>
<p>The Six-Day War was actually a continuation of the 1948 Israeli War of Independence. Israel decidedly won that war as well where the odds against her – 50 million versus 650,000 – were even more staggering than in 1967. Despite their <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Invade.html">overwhelming superiority in tanks, aircraft and artillery</a>, the Arabs could not “save Palestine,” a phrase commonly employed by Arabs when talking to Western audiences in an effort to couch genocide (against Jews) in more palatable terms.</p>
<p>Yet the Arabs, inspired by a hateful and deviant strain of Islam could not accept the infidel – Jews no less – in their midst. And so despite agreeing to an armistice with the Jewish State, the Arabs kept the proverbial pot simmering, adjusting the flames of hate higher or lower depending on their respective domestic situations. For the Arab governments of Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the rest of the sorry lot, the fictitious and self-perpetuating Palestinian “refugee crisis” proved useful in deflecting attention away from their own corruption and venality. As for the Palestinians, their intransigence surpassed all and their maximalist attitude is best summed up by PLO chief Ahmed Shukairy’s pre-Six-Day War boast, “We shall destroy Israel and its inhabitants and as for the survivors – if there are any – the boats are ready to deport them.”</p>
<p>There is nothing that unites the Arab world more than Jew-baiting. The Arab world with all of its internecine strife and political back-stabbing periodically takes a breather to focus their spent energies on the hated “Zionist entity” AKA, the Jews. This was the case in 1967. Yemen was in the midst of a vicious civil war with Egypt sending troops and military aid to one reactionary side while the Saudis, for some reason or another, supported the side that Egypt wasn’t supporting. The Syrian Baathists were busy trying to overthrow the Hashemites of Jordan, while the Iraqis were engaged in their own brand of usual mischief making.</p>
<p>But suddenly, the Arab world turned its head toward Israel and realized that while the Nasserites, the Baathists, the Hashemites, the Royalists, the revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries were killing each other off, the Israelis were busying themselves with building, creating and inventing. And so, on May 15, 1967 the Arabs, led by Egypt shifted gears to focus on those pesky Jews who had the temerity to create a thriving country in their ancestral land.</p>
<p>Most who are acquainted with military history are familiar with the provocative actions taken by the Arab nations in the three weeks leading up to the war – the massive Arab military deployments, the closure of an international waterway to Israeli shipping, Egypt’s expulsion of UN peacekeeping buffer troops from Sinai and the <a href="http://www.sixdaywar.org/content/threats.asp">blood-curdling rhetoric</a> that accompanied each successive Arab act of belligerency. The Arabs were hell-bent on going to war and finishing off what Hitler couldn’t and no act of diplomacy, capitulation or appeasement would have reversed their convoluted trajectory.</p>
<p>On June 5, 1967 Israel showed the world how a determined nation with just 2.5 million people could defeat in convincing fashion an aggressor forty-four times its size. For the Arabs, the Six-Day War is a sensitive issue, so sensitive in fact that they refuse to refer to it by that name, preferring instead to call it the June War, as if somehow that obfuscates the fact that they were defeated in a mere six days. However, for the civilized world, the Six-Day War will be remembered as a war where the few overcame the many and where civilization triumphed over those who still live in medieval backwardness.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The killer of more than half-a-dozen Israeli school girls may be released from prison for his "heroic" act. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/alan-m-dershowitz/as-israelis-mourn-jordanians-glorify-a-terrorist/attachment/4174056668/" rel="attachment wp-att-185917"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-185917" title="4174056668" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/4174056668-450x293.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="176" /></a>Israelis are now transitioning from their annual day of remembrance to the day they celebrate their independence.  But even in celebrating 65 years of statehood, Israel never forgets the sacrifices it has made over the course of its existence.</p>
<p>As Israelis mourn the 25,000 soldiers—young men and women—who have been killed in the course of defending the Jewish state against aggression and terrorism, Jordanian leaders (not including the King, at least thus far) are making a hero out of a Jordanian soldier who murdered 7 Israeli school girls and wounded 6 others during a peace program in 1997.  Ahmed Daqamseh, who expressed pride in his mass murder, was convicted of these crimes but spared the death penalty, despite the fact that Jordan executes large numbers of criminals for relatively trivial offenses.</p>
<p>Now after serving approximately 2 years for each of the murders, he is seeking his release and he has the support of a large majority of Jordanian parliamentarians, who regard him as a hero.  The very word “hero” was used by the Jordanian Justice Minister in joining the chorus calling for his release.</p>
<p>Daqamseh’s mother has said, “I am proud of my son and I hold my head high.  My son did a heroic deed and has pleased Allah and his own conscience.  My son lifts my head and the head of the entire Arab and Islamic nation.  I am proud of any Muslim who does what Ahmed did.”</p>
<p>Daqamseh himself has said, “I have no regrets.”  He continued, “The only thing I am angry about is the gun, which did not work properly.  Otherwise, I would have killed all of the [children].”  He also said he would do it again if given the opportunity.</p>
<p>The 13 school girls who were shot by the Jordanian soldier were on a peace mission at a place ironically called The Island of Peace.  It is the man who shot these 13 school girls, wishes he had killed more, and promises to do it again, who is being called a hero by Jordanian public officials.  The silence of King Abdullah speaks loudly about the widespread popular support that exists for this mass murderer of Jewish children.</p>
<p>In justifying his support for Daqamseh’s release, the Justice Minister said, “If a Jew murdered Arabs, [the Israelis] build him a statue.”  In fact precisely the opposite is true.  When a Jewish extremists (not a soldier) murdered Arabs at prayer, the Israeli government not only did not build him a statue, it forbade any statue from being built by private sources and has demonized the killer (who was himself killed), as a mass murderer deserving of no lionization.</p>
<p>Another indication of the widespread support is that 110 out of the 120 members of the lower house of Jordan’s parliament have called him a hero and demanded his release.  They are seeking “freedom for the soldier hero” and saying “we are all Ahmed Daqamseh.”  Leading this despicable effort to free a mass murderer is Ali Sneid, a man who claims to be of the left.</p>
<p>The effort to release Daqamseh has taken on elements of Islamic anti-Semitism by calling the continued imprisonment of this murderer “protection for the herds of the brothers of apes and pigs” and calling the victims of this mass murder by other anti-Semitic terms.</p>
<p>Nor is this hatred of Jews and the Jewish state by Jordanians limited to this particular case, despicable as that would be.  Among grass root Jordanians, particularly those of Palestinian background, there is widespread hatred of all things Jewish, Israeli and even American.  Islamic extremism is rampant in parts of Jordan, though suppressed by its King and his dictatorial minions.  Jordan is ripe for yet another Arab Spring turned winter.  All that stands between the current monarchy and an Islamic upheaval is massive American financial and military support for its charming King.  King Abdullah presents a far more beneficent face of despotism than did any of the other Arab despots who were toppled, or in the process of being toppled, by the Arab Spring turned Islamic extremist winter.  How long this situation will last is anyone’s guess.  But the possibility that before long Israel may have a neighbor to the east who is not as peaceful as the current Jordanian government, must be seriously considered.</p>
<p>If Daqamseh is released and treated as a hero, that unconscionable decision will tell us much about the direction of the Jordanian street.  So next time you see the smiling face of King Abdullah on television speaking about peace, remember that many of his subjects regard the cold-blooded mass murderer of Jewish children as an Islamic hero.</p>
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		<title>Vast Majority of Jordanian Parliament Calls for Release of Man Who Murdered 7 Israeli Schoolgirls</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>This is yet another reminder that meaningful peace of any kind is utterly impossible. The issue isn&#8217;t territory. It&#8217;s bone deep hatred to a degree that is inconceivable among normal human beings.</p>
<p>Peace is impossible.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Island of Peace massacre was a Mass murder attack that occurred at the Island of Peace site in Naharayim on March 13, 1997 in which Ahmed Daqamseh, a Jordanian soldier opened fire at a large group of Israeli schoolgirls from the AMIT Fuerst School in Beit Shemesh who were on a class field trip, killing seven of them and injuring six others.</p>
<p>The shooter, who expressed pride for his actions, was imprisoned by Jordanian authorities, but was later called a &#8220;hero&#8221; by the Jordanian Justice Minister and Parliament, who called for his release.</p>
<p>Speaking on Al Jazeera in May 2001, Ahmed Daqamseh&#8217;s mother said, &#8220;I am proud of my son, and I hold my head high. My son did a heroic deed and has pleased Allah and his own conscience. My son lifts my head and the head of the entire Arab and Islamic nation. I am proud of any Muslim who does what Ahmad did.</p>
<p>&#8220;When my son went to prison, they asked him: &#8216;Ahmad, do you regret it?&#8217; He answered: &#8216;I have no regrets.&#8217; He treated everyone to coffee, honored all the other prisoners, and said: The only thing that I am angry about is the gun, which did not work properly. Otherwise I would have killed all of the passengers on the bus.&#8221;</p>
<p>In an interview Daqamseh gave in 2004 to Jordanian weekly a-Shahed, he expressed pride in his actions and said that &#8220;if I could return to that moment, I&#8217;d behave exactly the same way. Every day that passes, I grow stronger in the belief that what I did was my duty.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>But that&#8217;s just the killer and his mother talking. They <a href="http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2013/04/110-of-120-members-of-jordanian.html">don&#8217;t represent a larger segment of </a>Jordanian society. Right? Wrong.</p>
<blockquote><p>In February 2011, Jordanian Justice Minister Hussein Mjali, who previously served as Daqamseh&#8217;s defense lawyer during the 1997 trial, called Ahmed Daqamseh a hero and added that &#8220;if a Jew murdered Arabs, they&#8217;d [the Israelis] build him a statue.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4367293,00.html">An overwhelming</a> 110 members of the Jordanian House of Representatives signed a petition demanding a pardon for a Jordanian soldier who shot and killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in 1997.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s 110 out of 120. As close to unanimous as you can get in <a href="http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleNO=20576">the lower house of Jordan&#8217;s parliament</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The parliamentary memo described Dagamseh as a &#8220;hero,&#8221; calling for a special pardon to release him.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.talabanews.net/content/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%A9">Maxims added by the MPs</a> themselves included &#8220;We are all Ahmed Daqamseh&#8221;, &#8220;pardon based on justice&#8221; and &#8220;freedom for the soldier hero.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<p>The effort is led by Ali Sneid, briefly a leftist hero.</p>
<p>Statements like these give some of the flavor of the political rhetoric by Islamists in Jordan.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Not only does the Jordanian regime protect the Jewish entity usurper and maintains it by making our sons in the military border guards for this entity artificially on the land of Muslims, but beyond that to provide full protection for the herds of the brothers of apes and pigs that roam our land.</p>
<p>&#8220;Making of your sons the servants and guardians of those who humiliated Allah who created the Jews as brothers of monkeys, makes the blood of your sons worthless.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have described the outrage previously done by the (king) to the soldier-hero Ahmed Daqamseh that and disgrace to the Jordanian Armed Forces by kneeling on his knees at the feet Jews (the families of the murdered girls), comforting and apologizing, and then sentenced that hero to life imprisonment.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Peace. Impossible.</p>
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		<title>King Abdullah&#8217;s Wish List</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-puder/king-abdullahs-wish-list/ap-us-obama-mideast-jordan-4_3_r536_c534/" rel="attachment wp-att-182929"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-182929" title="ap-us-obama-mideast-jordan-4_3_r536_c534" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ap-us-obama-mideast-jordan-4_3_r536_c534-450x337.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="202" /></a>His majesty, King Abdullah II of Jordan, hosted U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama on Friday, March 22, 2013, following Obama’s visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.  According to the Jordan Times (March 18, 2013) the Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications and government spokesperson Samih Maaytah expressed hope that Obama’s visit “would give real <a title="http://jordantimes.com/jordan-hopeful-obama-visit-would-boost-peace-push" href="http://jordantimes.com/jordan-hopeful-obama-visit-would-boost-peace-push" target="_blank">momentum</a> to the Palestinian peace process, noting that a just, viable and comprehensive peace, based on international resolutions is important for the Palestinians and the Israelis, as well as the entire region.”</p>
<p>For King Abdullah, however, troubles to his north in Syria represents a more pressing matter.  Jordan has absorbed more than 455,000 Syrians since the onset of the Syrian conflict in March, 2011, and the number is expected to surpass one million before the end of this year.  King Abdullah is hoping that the Obama administration will push for a political solution that ends the crisis in Syria.  At the same time though, he is expecting the U.S. to increase its aid to Jordan, in order to enable the Kingdom to deal with the economic challenges caused by the recent influx of Syrians and previously, by Iraqi refugees.</p>
<p>Jordan and Israel share a common security concern regarding the flow of Syrian chemical weapons to terrorists, and the spillover of the Syrian chaos into their countries.  The chemical weapons issue will undoubtedly be raised by Abdullah in his meeting with Obama.  In an interview with AP, Abdullah pointed out that the most worrisome factors in the Syrian conflict relate to the spread of chemical weapons, and the emergence of a <a title="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/20/ap-interview-jordan-king-warns-syria-could-become-jihadi-state-says-assad-days/" href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/20/ap-interview-jordan-king-warns-syria-could-become-jihadi-state-says-assad-days/" target="_blank">Jihadist</a> state in Syria.</p>
<p>Thus far, Jordan’s leader has been spared the fate of those of other regimes, who have fallen victim to the so-called “Arab Spring.”  Notable among them are Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, who held power for 30-years (1981-2011), Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia, having ruled in Tunis for 24-years (1987-2011) and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, not exactly pro-western, ran Libya for 42 years (1969-2011).  Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen was another casualty of the “Arab Spring.”  Although he did not have to escape the wrath of his people like Ben Ali, nor was he humiliated the way Mubarak was, or murdered as Gaddafi was, Saleh had to step down and pave the way for his Vice President to take over after 34-years in power (1978-1990 as president of North Yemen, and from 1990 after unification with South Yemen as President of Yemen until 2012.)</p>
<p>Bashar Assad and King Abdullah succeeded their fathers as rulers of their respective countries (Syria and Jordan) almost at the same time.  Abdullah ascended to the throne in 1999 and Basher took over the presidency in 2000.  Both were thought to be young reformers given their long exposure to the West (Assad in Britain, and Abdullah in the U.S.).  Soon however it became clear that Bashar Assad, (a member of the Alawite minority despised by the Sunni majority) reverted to his father repressive ways.  Jordan’s Hashemite rulers, on the other hand, were respected by the majority of Jordanians, and especially the East Bank Bedouin tribesmen, as descendants of the Prophet Muhammad.</p>
<p>The current U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the Obama administration in general, heaped praise on Bashar Assad as a “<a title="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/12/16/generous-remember-john-kerrys-praise-of-syrian-dictator-assad/" href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/12/16/generous-remember-john-kerrys-praise-of-syrian-dictator-assad/" target="_blank">generous man</a>,” and as a reformer. Yet, Syria’s human rights record has been abysmal, and its economy was stagnant long before the current civil war began.</p>
<p>Although both Bashar Assad and King Abdullah had to deal with the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), there has been a marked difference in their approach, and in the apparent results.  The elder Assad (Hafez) bombed the Muslim Brotherhood stronghold in Hama and killed <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2011/aug/01/hama-syria-massacre-1982-archive" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2011/aug/01/hama-syria-massacre-1982-archive" target="_blank">20,000</a>.  Bashar, fighting the Syrian opposition (comprised of a great many MB members) has killed an even greater number, but is now facing an uncertain end.  Conversely, King Abdullah outmaneuvered the MB and scored a tactical victory over the most serious political challenge to his rule – doing so without firing a shot.</p>
<p>Prior to the January, 2013, elections for the lower house of Parliament, the MB and its affiliates fomented protests against the monarchy.  Jordanian voters nevertheless ignored the MB call for an election boycott.  The outcome was a clear victory for Abdullah.  Unlike Assad, Abdullah is committed to reforming the political system in Jordan, hoping to enfranchise evermore Jordanian-Palestinians, including women.  He is also encouraging the creation of genuine secular and democratic political parties with serious platforms for change.  The high participation (<a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/world/middleeast/in-jordan-progress-in-small-steps.html?_r=0" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/world/middleeast/in-jordan-progress-in-small-steps.html?_r=0" target="_blank">56%</a>) in the elections was followed by Abdullah’s promise to consult Parliament in choosing a new prime minister.  Jordanians hope that this will lead to a more open political system.</p>
<p>In an address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in mid-January, Abdullah, according to the NY Times (January 30, 2013), “promised to <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/world/middleeast/in-jordan-progress-in-small-steps.html?_r=0" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/world/middleeast/in-jordan-progress-in-small-steps.html?_r=0" target="_blank">reach out</a> to the MB in Jordan” suggesting that the MB was “not a serious problem, and had the weakest standing of any other MB organization in the Middle East.” While Jordan is not currently faced with a civil war or violent disturbances like those in Egypt under MB President Muhammad Morsi, it is facing a budget deficit projected to reach about $3 billion.  This would require austerity measures and price increases that might cause upheaval in the Kingdom with unknown consequences.  In addition, the influx of Syrian refugees has further strained Jordan’s limited resources, and might aggravate the already high youth unemployment estimated to be about 26%.</p>
<p>The domestic economic situation and trouble on its northern border with Syria notwithstanding, Jordan’s other concern is uncertainty on its western border with Israel.  It is a peaceful and productive border by all measures but Abdullah wants more.  In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic (March 18, 2013), Abdullah said, “I don’t want a government to come in and say, ‘We <a title="http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/monarch-in-the-middle/309270/?single_page=true" href="http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/monarch-in-the-middle/309270/?single_page=true" target="_blank">repudiate</a> the peace treaty with Israel ” (referring to the peace treaty signed in 1994 between King Hussein and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin). “ Israel,” writes Goldberg, “is Jordan’s most important ally.” Asked about whether he believed Obama wants to work on a Middle East peace, Abdullah answered, “That is the million-dollar question,” but he was certain that John Kerry does.  Abdullah said that only a second term president has the maneuverability and the experience to oversee an effective peace process.  For Abdullah, a two-state solution is still the best hope.</p>
<p>It remains to be seen whether Obama will implement what he has heard in Jerusalem and Amman.  For King Abdullah II, however, increased American aid to Jordan to save it from financial catastrophe, along with a thoughtful American peace initiative on a two-state solution, and the U.S. preventing a jihadist state in Damascus will be the ultimate answer to his wishes.</p>
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		<title>The Selling of Syria’s Refugee Child Brides</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 04:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frank Crimi]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frank-crimi/the-selling-of-syrias-refugee-child-brides/syria-9/" rel="attachment wp-att-175740"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-175740" title="syria" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/syria-450x347.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="208" /></a>A growing legion of Muslim men from the Mideast and Europe are scouring Syrian refugee camps in order to purchase underage girls, some as young as 12, as child brides, many of whom end up being <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9821946/Syrian-girls-sold-into-force-marriages.html">sold</a> for use in temporary “pleasure marriages.”</p>
<p>For most of the Syrian women and girls who have fled the genocidal horrors of Syria’s civil war, rape &#8212; whether by pro-government or rebel forces – has been <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-syria-refugees-rape-20130114,0,7106644.story">identified</a> as one of the primary reasons for their exodus from that war-torn country.</p>
<p>Now, having supposedly escaped that nightmarish reality, Syrian girls are being subjected to a new horror, being auctioned off by their families to unknown Muslim men for use as sexual toys in coerced and forced early marriages.</p>
<p>These pleasure marriages, also known as “misyar” marriages, are legally nonbinding marital contracts which have long been used in Islamic countries to give religiously legitimate cover to a sexual relationship, especially those relationships involving underage girls.</p>
<p>In fact, so popular are temporary misyar marriages among upscale Muslim men that a cottage industry has sprung up in Egypt among Arab sex tourists looking to circumvent Egypt’s ban on pre-marital sex by purchasing underage Egyptian girls for pleasure marriages.</p>
<p>Now that deviant practice is being introduced into Syrian refugee camps. There newly purchased child brides are taken to rented houses outside the camps by their “husbands.” After having their fill of sex, the men will quickly divorce the girls, in many cases often only days and even hours after the nuptials.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9821946/Syrian-girls-sold-into-force-marriages.html">According</a> to an official with a charity that works with Syrian refugees, “Many Syrian girls have been impregnated and abandoned in this way.”</p>
<p>The growing sale of these Syrian girl refugees is being fueled by the crushing poverty and harsh living conditions faced by Syrian families living in refugee camps scattered throughout Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey.</p>
<p>That bruising reality has led a growing number of Syrian parents to sell their young daughters into early marriages as a way to alleviate the family’s financial stress as well as to spare their daughters from the brutal dangers of life in refugee camps.</p>
<p>As Um Sarah, a Syrian refugee mother who arranged marriages for her 14 and 15-year old daughters, <a href="http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95902/JORDAN-Early-marriage-a-coping-mechanism-for-Syrian-refugees">said</a>, “As a single mother, I cannot support them. I cannot feed them. I wanted to make sure they are OK.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of Syria’s 650,000 refugees are women and children, making them especially vulnerable to the dangers of trafficking, exploitation, and sexual abuse.</p>
<p>That exploitation has found its form in the booming Muslim male interest in securing the services of young Syrian girls, interest that includes the establishment of agencies offering to <a href="http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/taking-a-syrian-bride-patriotic-duty-or-abuse">arrange</a> marriages for would-be grooms to Arabic <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/online-trafficking-of-syrian-women-shames-all-involved">online</a> forums for men “seeking marriage from Syrian girls.”</p>
<p>Disturbingly, in most all these cases, the younger the girl, the more desirable she is in the eyes of the intended pedophilic groom.</p>
<p>Of course, that underage prerequisite is not surprising given the deep-rooted Islamic attachment to prepubescent marriage, one which allows religious leaders to approve informal marriages for girls 13 and under, thus enabling Muslim men to skirt a country’s minimum age laws for marriage.</p>
<p>Given that, it’s not surprising to hear a number of Muslim religious scholars and clerics heartily <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3339/syrian-refugees">encouraging</a> through fatwas the purchase of these Syrian girls, with some explaining the purchase to be an act of charity that extricates the girls and their families from their misery.</p>
<p>As one Syrian woman refugee with two daughters <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9821946/Syrian-girls-sold-into-force-marriages.html">said</a>, “Men are coming here to take young girls as second wives. It is under the pretext of being charitable, of helping us.”</p>
<p>It should be noted, however, that for Muslim men interested in seeking a child wife, that charitable assistance comes at a bargain price.</p>
<p>Specifically, Syrian girls can now be purchased as temporary child brides for just a few hundred dollars, a reduced price tag that proves an attractive enticement for Muslim men unable to afford the high dowry’s required to marry a girl from their own country.</p>
<p>As one Jordanian man <a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/11993">said</a>, “Marrying a Syrian refugee girl is cheaper than marrying a Jordanian girl,” one with an added prestige factor given “it makes the groom feel like he is somehow a participant in the Syrian revolution, which is very popular in Jordan.”</p>
<p>In fact, Jordan&#8211; where 75 percent of its 150,000 Syrian refugees are women and children &#8212; is home to most of the child bride transactions. That popularity led one Jordanian reporter to write, “People do not talk about anything else these days but about Syrian girls you could marry for one or two hundred dollars.”</p>
<p>Yet, while child marriage may be religiously sanctioned by Islam, for most the arrangement is little more than dressed-up prostitution.</p>
<p>That feeling has been echoed by Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of the pan-Arab Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, who <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3339/syrian-refugees">said</a>, “Exploiting the conditions of the girls in the refugee camps by marrying them temporarily is a form of rape that must stop immediately. Those responsible for this crime should be brought to trial.”</p>
<p>Syrian journalist Adnan Azrouni has written, “There needs to be a huge outcry from inside and outside the camps: No to clerical interference in the issue of female refugees; No to the crisis-merchants; No to making Syrian women victims twice over.”</p>
<p>Yet sadly, while these temporary marriages may be nothing more than licensed rape, they don’t appear in jeopardy of ending anytime soon. As one Arab man <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/online-trafficking-of-syrian-women-shames-all-involved">wrote</a> on an online forum dedicated to finding Syrian brides, “This is not a question of exploitation. It is a question of supply and demand.”</p>
<p>Tragically, it’s a growing supply that continues to be fed by an insatiable Muslim demand.</p>
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		<title>Syria Kills 885 Palestinian Arabs that Palestinian Authority, Hamas and Jordan Refuse to Take In</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>During Israel&#8217;s recent Pillar of Defense, Palestinian Arab combatant and non-combatant casualties totaled about 150. Naturally we had to read 40,000 more articles about Gaza being an open-air concentration camp with luxury hotels, mansions and the iPhone 5.</p>
<p>Meanwhile both sides in the Syrian civil war have racked<a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=299309"> up a score of 885 Palestinian Arabs</a> dead and the world hasn&#8217;t paid any attention.</p>
<p>Everyone who claims to care about Palestinian Arabs immediately sprang into action. Including Palestinian leaders.</p>
<p>Hamas told the UNRWA that <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/hamas-refuses-to-accept-palestinian-refugees-from-syria-to-spite-israel/">they will not accept Palestinian Arab refugees</a> from Syria because it will undermine their political case against Israel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/01/11/abbas-let-palestinians-die-in-syria-rather-than-give-up-%E2%80%98right-of-return%E2%80%99/">President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority</a> agreed, saying, &#8220;It’s better they die in Syria than give up their right of return.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jordan has announced that it won&#8217;t take their Palestinian Arab &#8220;brethren&#8221; <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2013/01/jordan-tells-syrian-palestinians-to.html">because&#8230; it&#8217;s Israel fault</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Jordan is not the place to solve Israel’s problems. Jordan has taken a sovereign and explicit decision not to allow Palestinians carrying Syrian [travel] documents to enter Jordan,” Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour said. “Receiving these brethren is a red line for us, because it will be a prelude for another wave of deportation, which is what the Israeli government wants. Our Palestinian brothers in Syria have rights in their country of origin, and they should remain there until the crisis is over.”</p></blockquote>
<p>About the only sense that can be made of this is that</p>
<p>1. Jordan will not take in Palestinian Arab refugees, even though the country was carved out of the Palestine Mandate and already consists heavily of a Palestinian Arab population</p>
<p>2.  It&#8217;s Israel&#8217;s fault</p>
<p>3. The Syrian Palestinian Arabs should stay in Syria&#8230; or perhaps Israel. Or something.</p>
<p>But remember, everyone in the Muslim world only hates Israel because of the plight of the Palestinians. The moment that Israel finally makes a final deal, then they will love Israel because that is how much they care about the Palestinians.</p>
<p>They care so much about them that they kept them in refugee camps for generations to use as an army against Israel. They care so much about them that not even their own leaders will take them in.</p>
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		<title>Apartheid Jordan Accepts Syrian Refugees, Turns Back Syrian Palestinians at Border</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With his four-year-old son in his lap, Daloul said he’s happy to be in Jordan, away from the fighting in Syria. But he says it’s also frustrating. Daloul is registered as a Palestinian refugee, even though he was born in Syria. So are his kids. But his wife is registered as Syrian. Now, she’s staying with relatives elsewhere in Jordan, while Daloul and the children live in this single room. They are not allowed to leave the camp for any length of time, he said. And his wife cannot move in with them permanently.]]></description>
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<p>The Muslim world keeps shrieking that it really cares about Palestinian Arabs. It only supports terrorism because of how deeply it cares. And as a sign of that caring, no Muslim country actually wants to take them in.</p>
<p>Not even Hamas in Gaza, which claims to be <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/hamas-refuses-to-accept-palestinian-refugees-from-syria-to-spite-israel/">the legal representative of the Palestinian Arabs</a> wants to take in Palestinian refugees from Syria.</p>
<p>And Jordan, the original Palestine, whose territory forms the majority of the Palestine Mandate is taking Syrian refugees, <a href="http://www.pri.org/stories/world/middle-east/syrian-war-refugees-not-all-equally-welcome-in-jordan-12562.html">but not Syrian Palestinians</a>.</p>
<p>Can you say Apartheid State?</p>
<blockquote><p>As the civil war intensifies in Syria, more refugees are trying to escape the conflict. Some have crossed into Turkey. Others have gone to Lebanon. But the biggest refugee camp for Syrian refugees is in the neighboring Kingdom of Jordan. But not all refugees are allowed in.</p>
<p>Speaking in an immaculately clean tent over coffee and endless cigarettes, a 23-year-old construction worker who would only give his name as Mohamed said he left the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, where many Palestinians live, about two months ago. The place was getting violent and food was hard to find, he said.</p>
<p>The young man said his mother is Syrian, but his father is Palestinian. Mohamed said the Jordanians are turning people back at the border if they have ID cards that say they’re Palestinian. Lucky for him, he has a Syrian ID.</p>
<p>Mohamed’s uncle, he said, is a Palestinian from Damascus who has been turned away at the Jordan border five times.</p>
<p>With his four-year-old son in his lap, Daloul said he’s happy to be in Jordan, away from the fighting in Syria. But he says it’s also frustrating. Daloul is registered as a Palestinian refugee, even though he was born in Syria. So are his kids. But his wife is registered as Syrian. Now, she’s staying with relatives elsewhere in Jordan, while Daloul and the children live in this single room. They are not allowed to leave the camp for any length of time, he said. And his wife cannot move in with them permanently.</p>
<p>“It’s a difficult situation,” he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Daloul is 55 years old. He was born in Syria. His kids were born in Syria. If he goes back, his grandchildren will be born in Syria. But he&#8217;s not considered Syrian by the Syrian government, even though his wife is, and since his children have their father&#8217;s status, they&#8217;re also considered Palestinian. Since he&#8217;s Palestinian, none of the Muslim countries who support Palestinian terrorism want him, because</p>
<p>A. Those countries want to use Palestinian Arabs as a terrorist army against Israel</p>
<p>B. Since they were turned into a terrorist army and are led by terrorists, Palestinian populations cause trouble</p>
<p>There are no Palestinian refugees really. Just Syrians, Jordanians, Kuwaitis and Iraqis who are denied citizenship and statehood.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[P. David Hornik]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/davidhornik/west-longs-for-jew-free-zones-in-jerusalem/jerusalem-panorama-500/" rel="attachment wp-att-171106"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-171106" title="jerusalem-panorama-500" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/jerusalem-panorama-500-450x314.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="188" /></a>Israel plans to step up the building of residences within the settlement blocs and—drawing particular ire—in parts of Jerusalem that were under Jordanian occupation from 1949 to 1967. The Jerusalem plans include housing for both Jews and Arabs.</p>
<p>In this holiday season, those plans should be cause for rejoicing instead of heightened rebukes. The city’s status as a hub of three religions, and also of tolerance, pluralism, and across-the-board demographic growth, is being strengthened.</p>
<p>Instead, official Western reactions have been harshly critical (reports <a href="http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=296506">here</a>, <a href="http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=296634">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=296844">here</a>).</p>
<p>U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said: “We are deeply disappointed that Israel insists on continuing this pattern of provocative action.” The French Foreign Ministry called the building plans “a provocation that further undermines…trust…and leads us to question Israel’s commitment to the two-state solution.” British foreign secretary William Hague called the plans “a serious provocation and an obstacle to peace.”</p>
<p>EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton even hinted at repercussions, saying the EU would “closely monitor the situation…and act accordingly.”</p>
<p>And 14 of the 15 countries on the UN Security Council—with the U.S. as the only exception—issued condemnations as well. Four of them—Britain, France, Germany, and Portugal—said in a joint statement that they were “extremely concerned by, and strongly opposed, the plans…all settlement activity, including in east Jerusalem, must cease immediately.”</p>
<p>It should be noted that, except the U.S., all of the abovementioned countries either voted aye or abstained in last month’s <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/davidhornik/u-n-says-aye-to-palestinian-terror-state/">UN General Assembly vote</a> conferring a watered-down form of statehood on the Palestinian Authority. It was partly in reaction to the Palestinians’ move, which <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4321400,00.html">blatantly violated</a> the Israeli-Palestinian Oslo Accords that the EU once sanctioned, that Israel announced the new building plans.</p>
<p>Israel, though, couldn’t win. It couldn’t persuade the European states to oppose the Palestinian move; and once it reacted to the move, it was roundly condemned.</p>
<p>Israel was particularly disappointed by Germany’s abstention in the UN vote, after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government had seemed to be intending to vote nay. Germany, as already mentioned, then joined three other countries in demanding that even “East Jerusalem”—where 200,000 Jews now live, 40 percent of Jerusalem’s total Jewish population—be treated as a Jew-free zone.</p>
<p>Beyond these specific points, though, stands the ongoing spectacle of the world’s leading Western powers seeming to pine for a redivided Jerusalem, this time with the Palestinians ruling the Jew-free part. Even if a Palestinian sovereign entity were to arise in the West Bank, “Ramallah,” as David Solway notes in his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=david%20solway%20the%20boxthorn%20tree">new book</a>, “…is a good enough Palestinian capital.” Why, then, the insistence on East Jerusalem?</p>
<p>It doesn’t seem reasonable that Washington, London, Paris, Berlin et al. would be nostalgic for the previous period of Muslim Arab rule over that part of the city. The Jordanian occupation was particularly hard on Jews, who were denied all access to their holy sites while Jordanian snipers fired repeatedly into the Jewish part of the city. But the Christians under Jordan’s control suffered as well, their number dwindling from 25,000 in 1949 to 10,000 in 1967 as they were given only paltry access to their holy sites and forced to teach the Koran in their church schools (accounts <a href="http://www.theettingerreport.com/Jerusalem-Cloakroom/Jerusalem/The-Land-of-Israel-%E2%80%93-Cradle-of-Jewish-History.aspx">here</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem">here</a>).</p>
<p>Would it be better under the Palestinians? Not if one takes Bethlehem—where the Palestinian Authority has wielded autonomy since late 1995—as a test case. Palestinian Muslim control there has caused ongoing steep demographic decline for the town’s Christians as they suffer from terror, intimidation, land theft, sexual assault, forced marriages, and the like (accounts <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=3107">here</a>, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11000">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/501/the-beleaguered-christians-in-bethlehem">here</a>)—not surprisingly in light of the continuing <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9762745/Christianity-close-to-extinction-in-Middle-East.html">severe persecution</a> of Christians throughout the region.</p>
<p>Indeed, however eager the West is for Palestinian rule in East Jerusalem, it turns out that even the predominantly Muslim Palestinians there don’t want it. As Evelyn Gordon <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/12/21/un-return-golan-residents-to-syrian-slaughterhouse-forthwith/">notes</a>, the numbers of these Palestinians requesting Israeli citizenship has <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/3-374-east-jerusalem-residents-received-full-israeli-citizenship-in-past-decade.premium-1.471189">dramatically climbed</a> in recent years. Polls find that, <em>even if the Palestinian state was established</em>, most East Jerusalem Palestinians would <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/02/02/palestinians-divided-jerusalem/">prefer to remain Israeli</a>.</p>
<p>Considering that the Palestinians’ supposed desire to shake off Israeli rule is a shibboleth of Western diplomacy, one might ask why that would be so. But anyone who has been both to Israel and the Palestinian Authority—one is tempted to say, anyone but Western diplomats—knows that the former is an island of Western democracy, prosperity, tolerance, and pluralism in a harsh region. Jerusalem Palestinians, exposed to those upsides since Israel reunited the city in 1967, have come to know their worth.</p>
<p>As Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat put it in a recent <em>Wall Street Journal</em> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324024004578170023901240846.html">op-ed</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>Since [1967] the city has maintained freedom of access, movement and religion. Peace-seeking pilgrims of all faiths can again visit the holy places without limitation or restriction. Tourism to Jerusalem is thriving, as is the city’s economy, and its per capita crime rate is among the world’s lowest….</p>
<p>Isn’t it ironic that many in Europe who recently celebrated 25 years of the reunification of Berlin are at the same time calling for the division of another capital on another continent?</p></blockquote>
<p>And as Barkat went on to ask: “By 2030, the city’s population will expand to one million residents from 800,000 today (33% Muslim, 2% Christian and 65% Jewish). Where does the world suggest we put these extra 200,000 residents?”</p>
<p>If the answer is, “Put them where you want, but make sure you keep some parts off-limits to Jews,” Israel’s answer is: no.</p>
<p>Peace and goodwill to all.</p>
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