Abbas: Hamas plot against PA threatens unity govt

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I would like to try and explain the very difficult situation in Gaza.

The morals, ethics, and values of the Israeli people in general, and of the physicians in particular, are no different than values of British doctors. To see civilians, women, and especially children, wounded or killed during the fighting breaks our hearts. No one owns the monopoly on these universal human values, including the biased, anti-Israel, authors1 and editors of The Lancet, and it is disgraceful to slander 95% of Israeli academics.

Where are your protests for an international investigation into the deaths of more than 170 000 Syrians by Syrians—most of them civilians. Where is your outcry to demand an end to the killing of innocent people in Iraq, to protest against the evil regime in Iran, against the massacre of Muslims in Burma, or Copts in Egypt; there are endless examples. And we search in vain for your expressions of outrage against Hamas leaders, who flagrantly violated the most basic human rights.

For an obscure reason, you gave a group of pro-Palestinians a platform to pour poisonous hatred on Israel. This is not the first time. It is an ongoing anti-Israeli and anti-semitic campaign, part of a well orchestrated struggle against Israeli physicians. Hamas, Al Qaeda, and other extreme Islamic fundamentalist organisations were declared by most democratic countries, including the UK, to be terrorist organisations. These groups' covenant exhort that Jews be killed, because they are Jews.

With regards to the number of Palestinian casualties, extremist groups such as Hamas do not seem to value civilian life. They intentionally position their headquarters beneath Shifa hospital and place weapons, rockets, and ammunition in schools, mosques, and shelters. UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) authorities discovered missiles in their schools in Gaza.2 3350 rockets fired so far on Israel were launched from populated areas. Those rockets were fired on Israeli villages and towns with the sole purpose of killing as many civilians as possible. Thanks to the development of the Iron Dome there were minimal casualties. We do not feel a need to apologise for the low number of Israelis killed.

The use of civilians, women, and children, as human shields is a crime against humanity that should be condemned by The Lancetand the international community. This is the main cause for the high number of innocent people who are being killed. The repeated violations of Hamas of the ceasefires offered by Israel again and again increases their own casualties. Instead of disproportionately blaming Israel, the right thing to do would be to call for an international tribunal to investigate Hamas' use of their own people as human shields in this war. Whereas Israel develops missiles to protect their children, Hamas uses their children to protect their missiles. The more civilians who are hit, the greater their illusion of victory.

As in operation Cast Lead, Israel established a field hospital on the border with Gaza to help wounded Palestinians. But again, very few patients arrived at this hospital. Hamas leaders prevent access to this medical facility,3 just as it prevented the evacuation of civilians when leaflets were dropped from Israeli planes to warn about areas that Israel planned to bomb.

There is unbearable suffering, civilian casualties, and children being wounded and killed, but there is no moral equivalence in this war. It is outrageous to blame Israel and shield Hamas with implausible excuses.

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)61310-6/fulltext

We, like the authors of the letter about Gaza,1 have spent our lives developing means to care for and protect health and lives.

To begin, we state categorically that we are deeply saddened by the death, destruction, and psychological and physical harm being wrought on innocent people in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel.

However, we want to denounce the falsehoods and inaccuracies in Paola Manduca and colleagues’ letter.1 Their unjustified claims do nothing to help the suffering but do serve to promulgate hatred.

The authors say they are “appalled by the military onslaught on civilians in Gaza under the guise of punishing terrorists”.1 Far from this, the Israeli forces have specifically targeted a terrorist force, Hamas, which rained rockets indiscriminately on Israel's civilian population, actions that the European Union Council called “criminal and unjustifiable acts”.2

The authors decry the deliberate destruction of infrastructure, but this is because Hamas caches their bombs, rockets, and military forces in schools, hospitals, mosques, and residential areas.3 Hamas’ callous strategy of using human shields seeks to capitalise on the inevitable deaths of innocent civilians for propaganda purposes. While Israel drops leaflets and makes telephone calls to residents of areas being targeted for attack, exhorting civilians to leave, Hamas leaders in Gaza instruct their citizens to ignore these warnings, exposing them to mortal risk.4 Yet, Manduca and colleagues are unconscionably silent on this issue.

Manduca and colleagues state that “building materials have been blockaded so that schools, homes, and institutions cannot be properly rebuilt”.1 But they ignore the discovery so far of 31 complex tunnels (with many more believed to exist) used by Hamas to send terrorists into Israel, using up to 500 tons of concrete per tunnel.5 How many kindergartens, schools, hospitals, residences, sewage treatment plants, and office buildings could Hamas have built or rebuilt instead?

According to Manduca and colleagues “medical stock items in Gaza were already at an all time low because of the blockade” but the cause has nothing to do with Israel. According to Physicians for Human Rights—Israel, all pharmaceutical drugs can and do enter Gaza. However, according to WHO, there has been a shortage of drugs and medical equipment in Gaza over the past years, as a result of debts owed by the Palestinian Authority to pharmaceutical importers and traders.6 Why did Hamas divert billions of dollars to the building of tunnels and the purchase of rockets and other weaponry? Why did they not buy medicine for the sick?

Rather than build a civil society, Hamas has taken all available resources to create a killing machine, whose single purpose is to attack and destroy Israel. The rationale for Hamas’ behaviour is rooted in its Charter,7 whose preamble quotes Imam Hasan al-Banna stating that “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it”, and which explains how and why Israel should be destroyed (exhorting that “Jews” be killed and stating that Jihad is the means to achieve these ends and that “initiatives [and] so-called peaceful solutions” are “in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement” [articles 7, 13, 14, and 15]).7 What society would, or can, tolerate a military force on its borders with such avowed genocidal intent and which has already fired thousands of rockets into its cities? In this context, it is chilling that Manduca and colleagues suggest without a shred of evidence that Israel used toxic gas against Gazans. This is sheer propaganda by innuendo and further undermines the letter's legitimacy.

Manduca and colleagues should have the moral integrity to assign responsibility squarely where it belongs—on a Gazan leadership that uses its own people as pawns.

History has taught repeatedly that one cannot deter murderers by appeasement. Let us focus on how to help the Gazans rid themselves of a malevolent leadership so that we stop the killing, heal the wounded, and ensure a lasting peace where both Palestinians and Israelis can enjoy the fruits of such an outcome.

We declare no competing interests.

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2961232-0/fulltext

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To the Editor of Lancet,

This is to express our collective outrage at your decision to publish what amountsto a compendium of

defamatory lies and distortions about the present crisis in Israel and Gaza. The “Open Letter for the

people of Gaza” is nothing but an unsubstantiated diatribe against the State of Israel which shamelessly

belies objective facts as to the sequence of events and thus cause ofthe humanitarian crisis you feel

compelled to highlight To allow the forum of a presumed prestigious peer-reviewed medical and

scientific journal to be a disseminator ofsuch a skewed version of reality eviscerates what one would

think is the Journal’s most valued attributes- its integrity and credibility. You appear to have learned

nothing from your publication of a like-minded article in your online journal in 2009 that claimed that

Israel used silent bombs to vaporize, without detection, all living things and objects.( See Abu Sittah G,

Ang 5, The Wounds of Gaza, Lancet Global Health Network,

www.thelncetgIobaInetwork.com/archives/6O8)).

In your reply to an email from Bernard Gonik, MD challenging this decision, dated 7-30-14, you aver

two bases: 1) the right of concerned physicians to freely express their views on health and humanitarian

issues, even if politically divisive; and 2) the actual humanitarian suffering in Gaza, while placing primary

responsibility for that circumstance on Israel. . Lancet holds itself out as” an international general

medical journal that will consider any original contribution that advances or illuminates medical science

or practice, or that educates or entertains..” It is stringently edited and peer-reviewed to ensure the

scientific merit and clinical relevance of its diverse content...” ( See Lancet website) Consequently, there

purports to be a rigorous process to which ethical standardsfor editors, authors and reviewers are

subject. The language regarding stringent editing and peer-review appears after the presumed rubric of

“educates or entertains,” and thus applicable to even non — scientific articles. It is highly dubiousthat

the “Open Letter..” underwent any such process. Perhaps your procedures need tightening up to

preclude the editorial malpractice demonstrated in this case.

As to the “rights’ issue, you must agree that no rights are unfettered. The logic ofthis faux justification

would allow any physician to have any article published without regard to its content. Even you would

concede the oddity of the Lancet being used as a forum for such a blatantly politically charged issue. So

one hasto be skeptical ofthe motives. Assuming, you saw fit to give voice to the humanitarian crisis in

war zones, per Se, why not highlight the barbarism being played out a few kilometers from Gaza in Syria.

Over 150,000, mostly non-combatants have been slaughtered with not only indiscriminate regard for

civilians, but a government’s intentional use of conventional weapons being deliberately directed at its

own civilians. Could it be that when Arabs murder Arabs by an order of magnitude 150 times greater

than what is happening in Gaza, such is not worthy of your humanitarian barometer? Is it only when

Jews attempt to defend themselves against a rocket onslaught acrossthe breadth of its body politic with

unavoidable loss of innocent lives contiguous to those firing those rocketstriggers your humanitarian

{00051632}impulse. And of course there is the “disproportionality “ mantra- 1,000 plus Palestinians dead; 58 Israelis

— how unfair! It’s as if the world thinks it is unsportsmanlike that Israel has the Iron Dome without which

the terrorist rocket onslaught would result in hundreds to thousands of Israeli deaths as intended! It

appears the only way for Israel to win the PR war is for more Jews to die!! Well, been there; done that-

6,000,000 was enough!

As to the human tragedy in Gaza none would fail to feel compassion for the loss of innocent life, as in all

war zones around the world. But you clearly published the article because you sympathize with the

premise that the responsibility lay at the feet of Israel. You erroneously characterize Israel’s sole motive

for entering Gaza as eliminating the tunnels, which you assert can not justify the loss of life beyond that

objective. In doing so, you mimic the lie ofthe authors by omitting the sequence of events. This crisis

started with the murder ofthree Israeli teenagers. In response to the search for the murderers, Hamas

rained hundreds of rockets at Israel’s population centers with the deliberate intent of killing civilians- a

clear war crime. Israel attempted to stop these attacks at first by an air campaign. After a couple of

weeks, Egypt supported by the Arab League and the Palestinian Authority proposed a cease fire. Israel

accepted. Hamas rejected! This is all PRIOR to Israel’s entry into Gaza which wastriggered by a Hamas

operation emanating from tunnels into Israel intended to kill civilians. Thus all casualties ensuing must

be laid at the door of Hamas not Israel. Hamas has rejected every repeated cease fire proposal since. At

the time of this writing over 3,000 rockets have been fired at Israel! And terrorist attacks from the

tunnels continue. Israel has no interest in Gaza. There is NO occupation of Gaza which Israel evacuated 9

years ago! The embargo, which even the UN gave its legal imprimatur, was necessitated after Hamas

killed Fatah members, took control and began smuggling rockets into Gaza to fire at Israel. Israel’s sole

interest is to be left alone. Israeli military action in Gaza is purely defensive to deter or prevent Hamas

from killing its citizens. This is purely and simply textbook self-defense. A recognized terrorist

organization unabashedly is attacking a democracy to destroy it. Israel’s apparent crime is not going

along.

Just what would you have Israel do? You say it has the right to defend itself but apparently it must wave

some magic wand and avoid killing innocent lives in doing so. Such is impossible, so to advance that

proposition really arguesthat Israel should not defend itself. Unlike any country in the region when

fighting its own citizens, Israel has employed unprecedented measures to limit the so called “collateral

damage,” — leaflets warning of attacks, cell phone texts and calls, dud ordnance. In testimony before the

UN Human Rights Council, regarding the last war with Hamas, Colonel Richard Kemp CBE, Commander

of British Forces in Afghanistan testified that the IDF has done more to safeguard the rights of civilians in

combat zones than any other army in history of warfare,including the US and Britain. He further

documented Hamas’ use of civilians to assist and shield their operations.

The mindset which you reveal in your decision and platitudinousjustification for it, is at the heart ofthis

recurring cycle. It feeds the dynamic which Hamas engenders and relies upon to stay in power, i.e.

{00051632}defining success by a disproportionate body count and thus have world opinion pressure Israel to cease

defending itself by agreeing to cease firesthat insuresthe status quo ante. Hamas then uses the interim

to restock, buy more rockets with increasing range and lethality and build more tunnels to attack Israel.

Hamas is a terrorist organization .Its raison d’etre by its own charter and unapologetic statements is not

only the destruction of Israel but the killing of all Jews. It uses the monies given to them naively and

inexplicably by the UN and Europe and even the US ostensibly for humanitarian relief, and uses it to buy

more rockets and concrete. It doesn’t build schools, homes, hospitals- it builds terror tunnels. This is the

organization which you claim you do not support but enable its narrative to degrade the pages of your

Journal.

If your intent is to bring attention to the plight ofthe Gazans from a humanitarian standpoint, to the

exclusion of 80% ofthe Israeli population who have to run to bomb shelters within 90 seconds on a daily

basis, providing a mouthpiece for those who support a terrorist organization which is blatantly immune

to the cries of its own people’s loss of life, is a most dubious way to do so. The carnage unfolding is

solely due to the unprompted incessant rocket attacks into the heart of Israel and the now uncovered

labyrinth ofterrortunnelsfrom which Hamas launches attacks to murder Israelis. When Hamas stops

the rockets and the tunnels are eliminated, this war will end.

The fact that you are blind, ignorant or naïve to all of the above reveals either a bias or incompetence.

You have allowed this once prestigiousjournal to be hijacked by terrorist sympathizers. You have done

great damage to the integrity of Lancet. It is one ofthose gross errors ofjudgment which should prompt

a resignation.

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http://www.ngo-monitor.org/data/images/File/Rob%20Roth%20LTE.PDF

And two more:

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673614613039.pdf?id=aaa6fIfi9o34Mbs0ncWEu

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673614613015.pdf?id=aaa6fIfi9o34Mbs0ncWEu

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If your intent is to bring attention to the plight ofthe Gazans from a humanitarian standpoint, to the

exclusion of 80% ofthe Israeli population who have to run to bomb shelters within 90 seconds on a daily

basis, providing a mouthpiece for those who support a terrorist organization which is blatantly immune

to the cries of its own people’s loss of life, is a most dubious way to do so. The carnage unfolding is

solely due to the unprompted incessant rocket attacks into the heart of Israel and the now uncovered

labyrinth ofterrortunnelsfrom which Hamas launches attacks to murder Israelis. When Hamas stops

the rockets and the tunnels are eliminated, this war will end.

The fact that you are blind, ignorant or naïve to all of the above reveals either a bias or incompetence.

You have allowed this once prestigiousjournal to be hijacked by terrorist sympathizers. You have done

great damage to the integrity of Lancet. It is one ofthose gross errors ofjudgment which should prompt

a resignation.

http://www.ngo-monitor.org/data/images/File/Rob%20Roth%20LTE.PDF

And two more:

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673614613039.pdf?id=aaa6fIfi9o34Mbs0ncWEu

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673614613015.pdf?id=aaa6fIfi9o34Mbs0ncWEu

A portion of the world population has developed a sort of "Stockholm Syndrome" when it comes to the real and present horrors of Islamic terrorism. They are the generation of ignorants incapable of raising their eyes four-inches above their pseudo smart phone world.

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A portion of the world population has developed a sort of "Stockholm Syndrome" when it comes to the real and present horrors of Islamic terrorism. They are the generation of ignorants incapable of raising their eyes four-inches above their pseudo smart phone world.

You know it's sad cause they don't realize they are the ones literally giving their hand to the destruction of this world as we know it, and they are seriously oblivious to it, making fun of anyone who points it out...but history does tend to repeat itself, a hundred years from now they will be looked back at as the generation that let it all happen, due to their sheer ignorance and naivety.

Edited September 1, 2014 by OriZ

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Letter to the European Continent

Good morning Europe!

Hello dear continent. For a long time I wanted to write you a few words, as a close neighbor, here in the Middle East, as someone who loves to travel your beautiful sights, and as someone whose parents and all his roots his people's roots are planted somewhere on the continent.

Overall you were a home for us for thousands of years, and especially the past thousand years. We knew good days of good neighborliness, spiritual, cultural and economic prosperity, and sharing of our lives on the continent, as we also knew, oh how we knew, also times of hatred, expulsions, humiliation and libels.

Somehow we survived. You, and us. Unfortunately to your shame, our romance with you, dear continent, was terminated not by our choosing. We could have lived in good neighborly relations and cooperation for many years, but for reasons known only to you you chose to end and eliminate this partnership - literally.

The plan was hatched on your land, the camps were built on your land, the trains moved on your land, the graves were dug on your land, and in a short time you cut off a significant Jewish presence of a thousand years. Millions of loyal Jewish citizens eliminated and expelled out of you. Eliminated not only their lives, but all of their contributions to culture, economics, art, spirit, academia, literature, medicine, education, commerce, banking, and life in general.

In some European countries already fifty percent of births are Muslim. If we add to this the small birth rate of non Muslim Europeans and immigration data, not far away - some say in 10-20 years - you - the white and Christian Europe, will become a Muslim continent. True you are trying to fight a rearguard battle against the phenomenon - against mosques in Switzerland, against women's veils in France, anti-immigration, and all sorts of small things, but you know that this train can not be stopped. In Central London there was a plan to build the largest mosque in the world, and no one will be able to prevent Muslim women from wearing the veil. Women of liberal and enlightened Europe, bare and permissive, may well-know there may come a day when radical Islam will gain power and the party will be over.

Slowly dear continent, you start to understand with whom you are dealing. What religion and culture radical Islam brings. They might be a minority in the Muslim world, but they sure seem to be becoming plently all across the continent. Suddenly you discover what is hate and what is the culture of martyrs, what is intolerance and lack of openness, who is alienated to true democracy and human rights of women. Suddenly, radical Islam is stuck in the throat Europe. You can not vomit because it is racist and human rights and all the usual blah blah, but you can not swallow cause white, Democratic, Liberal Christian European culture can not contain such extreme elements of culture and religion. It will end in an explosion. Literally and figuratively.

Dear Continent, there is no vacuum in the world. You expelled and eliminated us, and received instead the Muslim world. At first it was nice for you, some Mediterranean atmosphere, a little oriental, oriental little breeze, but with that came too a radical Islamic storm that threatens to wash over you, our dear neighbor. Now you begin to eat up your own mess. Suddenly you find veiled women, zealous eyes and mosques and bigotry under every tree. Suddenly you have to deal with birth, a culture of extreme characteristics, terrorism and violence that you nurtured and ignored. You can not deny that for much longer. The conflict is here. We, unfortunately, have mastered it, although we do not lack the naive and self-righteous.

The first time when the Creator decided to destroy the world as a result of the conduct of his creatures, he agreed to give humanity another chance. He asked Noah to go into the Ark to try and create a new core and foundation for the world, one that might create a more worthy humanity. The ark was the prospect of the world, the receiver for a moment. Will you, dear Europe, succeed to prepare yourself ahead of time a physical and cultural Ark in order to survive and maintain yourself? Or will your aggressiveness, arrogance and hypocrisy not allow you to admit the disaster you instilled on yourself with your own hands, and are you actually a continent living on borrowed time?

Regards,

Your Middle Eastern Jewish neighbor

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ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ
via email | 2008 | Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez

Posted on 6/12/2012 9:21:33 AM by jsh3180

ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez

I walked down the street in Barcelona , and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz ... We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.

The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.

They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.

Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.

And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.

We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.

What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population. They have received the following NobelPrizes:

Literature: 1988 - Najib Mahfooz

Peace: 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat 1990 - Elias James Corey 1994 - Yaser Arafat: 1999 - Ahmed Zewai

Economics: (zero)

Physics: (zero)

Medicine: 1960 - Peter Brian Medawar 1998 - Ferid Mourad

TOTAL: 7 SEVEN

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature: 1910 - Paul Heyse 1927 - Henri Bergson 1958 - Boris Pasternak 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1966 - Nelly Sachs 1976 - Saul Bellow 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 1981 - Elias Canetti 1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1991 - Nadine Gordimer World

Peace: 1911 - Alfred Fried 1911 - Tobias Mi chae l Carel Asser 1968 - Rene Cassin 1973 - Henry Kissinger 1978 - Menachem Begin 1986 - Elie Wiesel 1994 - Shimon Peres 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Physics: 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer 1906 - Henri Moissan 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann 1910 - Otto Wallach 1915 - Richard Willstaetter 1918 - Fritz Haber 1921 - Albert Einstein 1922 - Niels Bohr 1925 - James Franck 1925 - Gustav Hertz 1943 - Gustav Stern 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi 1952 - Felix Bloch 1954 - Max Born 1958 - Igor Tamm 1959 - Emilio Segre 1960 - Donald A. Glaser 1961 - Robert Hofstadter 1961 - Melvin Calvin 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz 1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman 1965 - Julian Schwinger 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann 1971 - Dennis Gabor 1972 - William Howard Stein 1973 - Brian David Josephson 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson 1976 - Burton Richter 1977 - Ilya Prigogine 1978 - Arno Allan Penzias 1978 - Peter L Kapitza 1979 - Stephen Weinberg 1979 - Sheldon Glashow 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown 1980 - Paul Berg 1980 - Walter Gilbert 1981 - Roald Hoffmann 1982 - Aaron Klug 1985 - Albert A. Hauptman 1985 - Jerome Karle 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach 1988 - Robert Huber 1988 - Leon Lederman 1988 - Melvin Schwartz 1988 - Jack Steinberger 1989 - Sidney Altman 1990 - Jerome Friedman 1992 - Rudolph Marcus 1995 - Martin Perl 2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics: 1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson 1971 - Simon Kuznets 1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich 1976 - Milton Friedman 1978 - Herbert A. Simon 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein 1985 - Franco Modigliani 1987 - Robert M. Solow 1990 - Harry Markowitz 1990 - Merton Miller 1992 - Gary Becker 1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine: 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff 1908 - Paul Erlich 1914 - Robert Barany 1922 - Otto Meyerhof 1930 - Karl Landsteiner 1931 - Otto Warburg 1936 - Otto Loewi 1944 - Joseph Erlanger 1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein 1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman 1953 - Hans Krebs 1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann 1958 - Joshua Lederberg 1959 - Arthur Kornberg 1964 - Konrad Bloch 1965 - Francois Jacob 1965 - Andre Lwoff 1967 - George Wald 1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg 1969 - Salvador Luria 1970 - Julius Axelrod 1970 - Sir Bernard Katz 1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman 1975 - Howard Martin Temin 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg 1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow 1978 - Daniel Nathans 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf 1984 - Cesar Milstein 1985 - Mi chae l Stuart Brown 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein 1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] 1988 - Gertrude Elion 1989 - Harold Varmus 1991 - Erwin Neher 1991 - Bert Sakmann 1993 - Richard J. Roberts 1993 - Phillip Sharp 1994 - Alfred Gilman 1995 - Edward B. Lewis 1996- Lu RoseIacovino TOTAL: 129!

The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims. The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants.

The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.

Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.

Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them.

General Eisenhower warned us it is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken , and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.

He did this because he said in words to this effect:

'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history someone will get up and say that this never happened'

Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the, 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated' while the German people looked the other way.

Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.

How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim in the United States ?

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This is from a M.D. at Hadassah Hospital in Israel, Dr. Arieh Eldad: A very short read......



It is really hard for western society to understand this kind of thinking. It is counter to civilized understanding.

I was instrumental in establishing the Israeli National Skin Bank, which is the largest in the world.

The National Skin Bank stores skin for every day needs as well as for war time or mass casualty situations. The skin bank is hosted at the HadassahEin Kerem University hospital in Jerusalem where I was the Chairman of plastic surgery.

This is how I was asked to supply skin for an (Muslim) Arab woman from Gaza, who was hospitalized in Soroka Hospital in Beersheva, after her family burned her. Usually, such atrocities happen among (Muslim) Arab families when the women are suspected of having an affair.

We supplied all the needed Homograft for her treatment. She was successfully treated by my friend and colleague, Prof. Lior Rosenberg and discharged to return to Gaza. She was invited for regular follow-up visits to the outpatient clinic in Beersheva.

One day she was caught at a border crossing wearing a suicide belt. Her mission was to explode herself in the outpatient clinic of the hospital where they saved her life. It seems that her family promised her that if she did that, they would forgive her.

This is only one example of the war between Jews and Muslims in the Land of Israel. It is not a territorial conflict. This is a civilizational conflict.

Dr. Arieh Eldad

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But hey, lets not dwell on the past or present. What can be done in the future?

Here is an interesting interview from this week with Shimon Peres. No one can say this man does not want peace as much as pretty much anyone in the world(well, I'm sure you can find a few on this forum).

Peres' post-presidency vision: Hamas-free Gaza, peaceful Israel

After almost 70 years of public service, Peres has left the president's official residence in Jerusalem and moved into an apartment in Tel Aviv; he hosted Yedioth for a series of special conversations on war, peace, his late wife Sonia and his plans for the future at the age of 91.

Avner and Reli Avrahami

Published: 08.31.14, 10:32 / Israel News

Due to the war: The initial idea was to meet newly retired president Shimon Peres ahead of the end of his term, as he bids farewell to the President's Residence and ends his political life. A sort of informal summing-up meeting about 70 years of vigorous public activity.

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That's how it began. And then a war broke out and the mood changed and the losses became heavier and the honorable president was asked to button up his suit and draft answer to questions, as he has become accustomed to doing – and first of all, what were we pursuing?

Protective Edge Peres: Give Gaza back to Abbas, end the war / Ilana Curiel

Former president has emotional visit with wounded soldiers in Soroka: 'This is a true story of bravery.'

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The goal: "To stop the lawlessness of the killing and the acts of terror from Gaza. Why this entire weapons arsenal has one goal – to commit a mass massacre against civilians. At the end, I hope, the Gaza Strip's residents will be well aware of the fact that there is one element causing them damage and leading to bloodshed and seriously hurting innocent people, as well as preventing an economic bloom and prosperity, and that is Hamas. It is disastrous for them."

Political goal: "I hope that the time will come when the Palestinian people free themselves from their real oppressors, the terrorists. I hope that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who is showing responsibility and moderation and working, in my opinion, in the best interest of his people, will eventually enter Gaza and work to make it progress and prosper, and that eventually a peace process will be completed for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip."

Destruction in Gaza. 'I hope that the time will come when the Palestinian people free themselves from their real oppressors, the terrorists' (Photo: AFP)

Negotiations with Hamas: "We must always remember that Hamas in its current format is a murderous terror organization, and that there will be no negotiations with a terror organization. But it can make a strategic decision that will change its ways. It can completely renounce terror, honor past agreements and recognize Israel. I am surprised by this question, because Hamas is the one refusing to talk about peace and about the three Quartet conditions, not us."

Abbas is no partner: "I completely disagree with this statement. Fortunately, there are many people, both in the defense establishment and in Israel's political system, who understand very well that we won't have a better partner than Abbas.

"I have no doubt that Abbas is a partner for peace. He proves his earnestness and leadership. Senior military official stress how just how extensive his activity is in preventing terror and escalation in the West Bank, and I believe that many citizens appreciate the fact that he sat with the Arab League and spoke clearly against the terrorists who kidnapped three of our teens, condemned terrorism and called on them to return the boys to their families.

"His clear and brave statement, 'I was born in Safed and I know I will not return to Safed,' is very important and demonstrates that there is a future and ability to solve the differences between the sides. As a person familiar with the depths of the negotiations, I can say loud and clear that the gaps are bridgeable.

"A leader must be judged by his actions. I expect us all to judge Abbas by his actual deeds."

With Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. 'We have no better partner' (Photo: Reuters)

An anti-Israel world: "There isn't a more ethical response than a nation defending itself. I can say loud and clear: The IDF is the most moral army in the world. There isn't a single leader in Europe or a single citizen or even a single protestor who would tolerate missiles being fired at their cities and tunnels of death towards their homes.

"The protests were hypocritical and the result of the difficult images pouring in from Gaza. But I say to all the leaders who meet with me and in all the interviews I give to the international press that these images were not created by Israel and were not created by the media. Hamas created these images with its own hands."

Facing killed Gazan children: "I say loud and clear that the IDF commanders and soldiers are extremely strict about not hurting innocent civilians. It's part of the fighters' ethical and moral code. The harsh reality we see in Gaza was created by Hamas. It is the one who should be defending children rather than firing at them. Unfortunately, Hamas sends its children to serve as its human shield. This is a serious matter like no other."

Anti-Israel demonstration in Mexico. 'Hypocritical protests' (Photo: AFP)

Peace: "I have no doubt that there will be peace eventually. The grandeur of leaders is not giving in to crises, working to prevent war, leading the people and creating opportunities for reconciliation. No one believed that Israel would live in peace with Egypt and that Sadat would visit Israel's Knesset. No one believed that there would be peace with Jordan either and that a peace camp would be established among the Palestinians.

"I believe that in the future there will be peace with all the Palestinians. I say that the gaps are bridgeable and that the Palestinian Authority is led today by a man, Mahmoud Abbas, who is showing responsibility and moderation, and he is definitely a leader we can reach a peace agreement with. His actions prove it.

"It's also important to see the opportunities opening up in the Arab world. Many Arab states see the terror organizations as their enemy and an identity of interests is now being created between us and them, an identity which could help advance the process while influencing the state of our relations with the entire Arab world."

A new Middle East: "It's a simple matter. There is a new world, and the Arab world is in a transition period into it from the previous world. There are 350 million Arabs in the Middle East, 60% of them are under the age of 25 and 100 million are connected to the Internet. They are the ones who created the Arab Spring, brought about elections, but were not organized enough to win. The battle will go. Fundamentalism has no future."

Mr. President, if you will, some thoughts about the disengagement from Gaza in retrospect.

The disengagement: "It wasn't complete, but it wasn't a mistake. Imagine what would have happened if we had remained with 22 communities in Gaza. They would have been Hamas' main target."

We remind him that we could have stayed and controlled the territory.

Controlling Gaza: "When we were in that territory, 26 people were killed in Netzarim alone. And I don't remember the numbers in other communities. The IDF and the communities would have turned into a permanent target, and as Hamas' weapons would have improved, the danger could have been greater."

The disengagement from Gaza. 'It wasn't a mistake' (Photo: AP)

2050: "I have no doubt Israel will live in peace by then, and that I will even be able to enjoy its fruits that year. Just kidding."

Planting a tree with Pope Francis at the President's residence (Photo: Amit Shabi)

The farewell: After seven years of serving as president, 48 years of being a Knesset member (from 1959), two terms as prime minister (1984-1986 in rotation with Yitzhak Shamir, and 1995-1996 after the Rabin murder), serving as minister in 12 governments and losing five elections (four for prime minister, one for president), 91-year-old Peres (born August 2) has gone home. Is he really?

Really? Not really. "I am moving from one human period to another human period," Peres says, adding that he is excited by the departure. "The President's Residence, people say, is a gilded cage. If you like gold, you'll stay here. The happiness is in flying forward."

Later on, he says, he'll settle at the Peres Center for Peace in Jaffa and focus on scientific campaigns he has been interested in for a long time now – nanotechnology and brain research. "My job is to raise money, but not to hand it out," he clarifies, lowering expectations.

In addition, he reveals, he is opening an economic company together with his son Chemi and his close staff from the President's Residence, which he says will advance peace and democratization in the Middle East and in the entire world through investments in education, medicine, technology, water and agriculture ("for example, a long-distance hospital").

Residence: "I sold the apartment on Oppenheimer Street in Ramat Aviv and I will live in Tel Aviv, on the beach, at the Ne'eman Towers. I bought a three-room apartment there," he clarifies.

Content: He only took books with him to Tel Aviv. "I have many books signed by the authors – (Charles) de Gaulle, Diana, (Nathan) Alterman, Oz, Yizhar and David Grossman."

Diana: "The princess."

Wrinkles: Peres describes his personality as "mature" from an early age. "At the age of 11 I was already living a political life. One aunt was the head of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement in the city and another uncle was the head of the Beitar movement. In such a house one only hears politics."

Childhood: He was born in 1923 in Wiszniew, a town near Minsk, which belonged to Poland at the time and is today part of of Belarus, on the Lithuanian border. His mother, Sara, was a librarian and a Russian teacher. His father, Yitzhak, was a lumber merchant, an offspring of Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, founder of the Volozhin Yeshiva ("the mother of all yeshivot"), and the house, he says, was traditional-secular.

When he was four years old, he recalls, he received a longevity blessing from the "Chafetz Chaim" (Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan), who resided in the nearby township of Raduń, and his cultural world was shaped by his paternal grandfather, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Meltzer, who introduced to the world of Talmud studies, alongside secular reading of Hebrew and global literature.

In 1934, when he was 11 years old, on his way to Israel with his family, his grandfather gave him a hug at the railway station and said to him, "Son, be Jewish."

God: "I believe," Peres states firmly, but "not in the afterlife and things like that." According to him, choosing faith is basically choosing responsibility. He says that until he immigrated to Israel he used to wear a cap; then he took it off.

"The moment I got off the ship I said to myself that I don't need it anymore," he says. "I went from a grey sky to a blue country, that's what I remember. Tanned people appealed to me."

He continued his elementary studies at the Balfour School in Tel Aviv, and then moved to the boarding school at the Ben Shemen Youth Village.

Ben Shemen: When he was 14, he was admitted to the boarding school as part of the allocation of spots for different youth movements. As a member of Hanoar Haoved ("the working youth"), he was sent to the boarding school with his good friend, Mula Cohen.

Visiting Ben Shemen as president (Photo: Avi Ohayon, GPO)

Crisis with the parents: "What crisis? I was independent from the day I was born, a sort of whiz kid. I just informed my parent that I was going. No one tried to stop me and no one asked why."

In the boarding school he met Moshe Tehilimzeigger, who later became known as journalist and author Dahn Ben-Amotz and was one year younger than him.

Dahn Ben-Amotz: "You'll be surprised. He was the symbol of the Diaspora and was the main social person, the one who organized the Hanoar Haoved branch in the boarding school, which wasn't legal by the way. I always talked and was elected to the class committee."

Ben-Amotz, he says, went through his Sabra metamorphosis after the Ben Shemen era and strangely adopted the name "Ben-Amotz" as his surname, although it was the name Shimon Peres had chosen to use in articles he wrote for the boarding school's bulletin. "I really wasn't annoyed by it," he says about Tehilimzeigger's choice, "and I'll tell you why."

Story: "We had a Hebrew teacher, whose name was Grynszpan and who came from Vilnius, and he was one of those people who use rhymes when they speak. He would say, for example, 'A table without olives ('zeitim') is like a cemetery without dead people ('metim').' One day we conducted a public trial. The subject was Baruch of Magenza (from Shaul Tchernichovsky's poem, a Jew who converted to Christianity during the riots against the Jews of Mainz in 1096). I, 15 years old at the time, was the defense counsel, and he, Grynszpan the teacher, was the prosecutor. I had a lot of chutzpah at the time, and as things heated up, he said to me, 'Shimon Ben-Amotz, who jumped in the mud ('botz') and a got a thorn ('kotz') stuck in his nose.' That day I gave up on the Ben-Amotz."

From Perski to Peres: "One day our group members decided to choose Hebrew names. I chose Ben-Amotz, until in 1944, during a 21-day Hanoar Haoved trip from Revivim to Eilat, we were 12 guys with seven Palmach members and 14 camels. Suddenly we were stopped in the Arava by our guide, Prof. Heinrich Mendelssohn, who pointed at a large bird rising up from an acacia tree and said: 'That's a Peres (bearded vulture).' I decided to climb up to the nest, and when I came down everyone was already calling me Peres. And you should know that at a zoo in Argentina they called two bearded vultures Shimon and Sonia."

Shimon and Sonia Peres on their honeymoon. 'I fell in love with her at first sight' (Photo: Yedioth Ahronoth Archive)

Sonia: She was the daughter of Yaakov Gelman, the boarding school's carpentry teacher. "I met her when I was a post commander," says Shimon, "in a sort of small pillbox for two, near their home. When I would come down in the morning from the watch, I would see her watering the lawn, and I fell in love with her at first sight."

And she: "She didn't fall in love with me at first sight," he recounts. "But I was 16 and I courted her. I read her Karl Marx and I can't say that she was excited. So I read her poem by Moshe'le Tabenkin, who wrote wonderful love songs, and of course Alterman." He says it took him a year to convince her.

The turning point: "When we went out together to water the cucumber plot, the ice broke. You should know that young cucumber have a special scent. So we talked and we got closer, and five years later there was a wedding. Two weddings, actually."

First wedding: May 1, 1945, on Lag B'Omer, in Kibbutz Alumot, which he was a member of and one of the founders. "I wore flannel pants and a black battledress," says Peres, "clothes which belonged to everyone and were given to whoever had a festive event."

Second wedding: "The next day, in Ben Shemen, at the swimming pool. There was a swimming pool, but it was emptied out. People sat on the edges and danced below."

The honeymoon: "The friends from Alumot arranged a hammock for us between two Eucalyptuses near Lower Bitania, and Sonia and I would go down to the Jordan River in the morning to swim. I had a big Triumph motorcycle at the time which I received from Hanoar Haoved. After the swim we would go for a ride."

Diaspora image: "I was never interested in socializing. I started my own bonfires. There was actually a conflict. I was a man of Ben-Gurion, who saw the Bible's prophets as the most important thing, and they were people of (Yitzhak) Tabenkin (one of the founders of the Kibbutz Movement), Marxists. In addition, they were maximalists, in favor of the land's integrity. Ben-Gurion was in favor of dividing the land in order to fulfill the vision of the Jewish state in a practical manner."

Palmach: "I didn't go to the Palmach, because I was in the Haganah from age 16 and was in the Ben Shemen 'patrol car" and carried a gun, like in the Palmach. So all the years I was defamed for being a man of Ben-Gurion, while they went with Siyah Bet (of the Mapai party), Ahdut Ha'avoda."

He says they didn’t forgive him for being elected one day to the Hanoar Haoved leadership, and when he saw that he couldn't pass any decisions ("I was 16 year old"), he went with a friend (Amos Degani) to the movement's branches, organized trips and gained power.

"They didn't forgive me. I was considered the man who stole Hanoar Haoved from Tabenkin for Ben-Gurion. They didn't forgive me. Starting with Tabenkin, (Aharon) Zisling, Yigal Allon and even Yisrael Galili. They didn't like me. I was different. They were Palmach and I was Haganah."

He rejects the idea that it all stemmed from the fact that they had a forelock and he combed his hair backwards.

Climbing up: One day, in 1947, while he was part of the Hanoar Haoved leadership, a member of Kibbutz Alumot, Ben-Gurion summoned him to the Haganah headquarters at the "Red House" on Yarkon Street in Tel Aviv.

"He showed me a paper and said, 'We don't have weapons, a war is about to break out soon, take care of the arms issue." At the time, he says, Yisrael Galili, who was head of the Haganah headquarters, rebelled, and Ben-Gurion decided to hand all his authorities over to Levi Eshkol. The trouble was that Eshkol filled several other positions at the time (for instance, secretary of the Tel Aviv Labor Council), and Peres was asked to help him carry the burden.

"Eshkol said to me, 'Come here, Youngerman, work with me." When he arrived there was no place for him to sit, and Haganah secretary Yosef Yizraeli of Afikim got him a chair. "He said, 'Shimon, listen, Yaakov Dori, the head of the General Staff, is sick. Take his place.' And so I, a 24-year-old, sat at the chief of staff's desk and started working from there."

English: "I couldn't speak a word. After the War of Independence I traveled to America, bought a dictionary and studied on the plane. I didn't become Shakespeare, but that's how I learned French too."

We move on to the events of the 1950s.

The Sinai War (a question): In retrospect, 58 years later, weren't we wrong when we chose to establish an alliance with France and Britain, two crumbling colonialist powers, instead of trying to join the Non-Aligned Movement, the Third World states?

"There wasn't such an option," says Peres. "The entire new world went against us, we didn't go against it. Ben-Gurion attempted to establish a dialogue with Abdel Nasser. He sent messengers to him on four different occasions, and Nasser refused to talk to him,. Nasser said, 'I will be killed within an hour.'

"Ben-Gurion asked Tito (Yugoslavia's leader) to mediate between us. The letter to Tito was transferred by Mossad official Shaike Dan, who was in touch with the veteran partisans in Yugoslavia. Ben-Gurion suggested that Tito arrange a meeting between him and Nasser on the island of Brijuni in Croatia, where he had a dacha. Nasser refused."

A nuclear Israel: "I was about 30 years old, the acting Defense Ministry director-general, and there were constant talks that Israel was in need of nuclear energy for water desalination, and Ben-Gurion received all kinds of offers. They said energy could be produced from the hot springs of Tiberias."

According to Peres, Prof. Ernst David Bergmann (one of the founders of the Weizmann Institute of Science and the science corps) was the only expert who agreed to get involved. Everyone else refused ("they were afraid of damaging their reputation. They were willing to study about nukes, but not to get involved in them.")

What could we do? "As we had no one to work because the experts refused, I went to the Technion and recruited students, and we sent them to France to study the subject."

Prof. Bergmann: "He was a scientist who provided scientific support. At the time he was a Weizmann man who became a Ben-Gurion man."

Bergmann, says Peres, was clueless about engineering and most of the practical work was conducted by engineer Emmanuel (Mannes) Prat. Peres describes Prat as a prodigy in his field. "I said to him, come work with me on the reactor. He was a great engineer and he is the person who did it."

Dimona: "Dimona? Be'er Sheva was a desert at the time. There was a problem. The experts didn't want to go there, so I sat with the women and their friends. I had to go right down to all the details, take care of their residence, education, as well as boutiques and restaurants. I took all this upon myself and built Neighborhood D in Be'er Sheva. The French engineers were here for almost two years and nothing got out."

Ambiguity: "Still needed. The entire world agreed, apart from a few Israelis."

An important question: In a nuclear reality, why concentrate all the Jews in one target – the State of Israel? "A nuclear bomb destroys less than concentration camps," says Peres. "Tens of thousands of people were killed in Hiroshima. Millions were killed in Hitler's camps."

The Rafi party: "I didn’t want to quit (Mapai). Even then I thought it was a mistake, but Ben-Gurion came to me and said that he had decided to quit and start a list, not a party, and that he could not do it unless Moshe (Dayan) and I joined him. I realized that it would be a political suicide for me. I was the deputy defense minister at the time and I quit. Dayan, by the way, was in Ethiopia at the time."

David Ben-Gurion. 'The best statesman Israel ever had' (Photo: AFP)

The 1967 national unity government, according to Peres: "There were three of us. (Menachem) Begin, Haim-Moshe Shapira (leader of the National Religious Party) and myself. We decided to try to establish a unity government, with Ben-Gurion's consent. He (Ben-Gurion) agreed as long as it would not be led by Eshkol. Begin asked me if Ben-Gurion wanted to be prime minister and if he was capable of it. I said he was capable, but I didn't know if he wanted to.

"In short, Begin went to Eshkol and suggested a government with Ben-Gurion. Eshkol said, 'These two horses cannot pull the cart in the same direction,' but he agreed that Rafi would join.

"In the evening, Ben-Gurion convened the Rafi members and that's where I told him, 'You, Ben-Gurion, said that if we put all the problems on the scale against the security needs, the security needs would tilt the balance.' He hugged me and said, 'I have known many people in my life, but I have only known one who is capable of taking care of everyone but himself. His name is Shimon.'" Ben-Gurion gave his consent, but he had a condition.

The condition: "That I must tell Eshkol, on behalf of Rafi, that he is not fit to be prime minister." It was difficult, Peres recounts. "I asked Yitzhak Navon to come with me. We went into Eshkol's office and I said to him that I wanted to tell him something in private. Navon left. The two of us sat down and he saw that I was sweating, and I told him, and Eshkol said, 'Youngerman, I understand.'

"I suggested that he reconcile with Ben-Gurion, that he would send him to the United States to get it to stand by our side, and Eshkol said, 'I don't agree.'"

"Better Sharm el-Sheikh without peace": Peres says he never agreed with Moshe Dayan's famous statement after the Six-Day War. But even Dayan himself, he says, only said it as a trick. "In a private conversation he told me the opposite, "It's better to have an open Suez Canal and a closed conflict than an open conflict and a closed Suez Canal."

Sebastia: In Hanukkah of 1975, as defense minister in the Rabin government, Peres let 30 families from the Gush Emunim right-wing movement settle in the old Ottoman railway station in Sebastia, Samaria. The Elon Moreh pioneer settlement developed there, leading to the settlement enterprise. Many in the peace camp argue that by doing so, Israel missed the opportunity to negotiate with the Palestinians on the "two states for two people" solution.

"I think that's a wrong description," says Peres. "I came to Sebastia and was received with applause, but I had actually come to demand that they leave the place, and then they began tearing their clothes (as a sign of mourning). Then negotiations began with the government in Jerusalem, and the entire government agreed that they would stay there for three months. When we left the government (after losing the 1977 elections), there were only 6,000 settlers. If they had listened to me, the Jordanian option and the London Agreement would have been accepted."

"An indefatigable subversive," "the son of an Arab mother," "a loser," "an Oslo criminal": "I was offended by everything, but nothing hurt me. I always believed that I had taken the right road. Many people who look back can compare the accusation to reality."

The Iraqi reactor: Peres was against bombing it in June 1981. "I was right," he says. "The Iraqi reactor was of an outdated type and the enriched uranium was supposed to arrive from France in two deliveries. In the middle there were elections in France, and (then-French President François) Mitterrand told me he would not send the other half, and he didn't. The reactor was in fact futile.

"Later on, when the United States invaded Iraq for the first time, it was clear that Saddam Hussein had begun producing a nuclear weapon at an advanced reactor relying on centrifuges. Not a reactor of the type that was bombed. And I know something about this."

The Oslo process: "We should have moved faster and further, give them (the Palestinians) control of both Gaza and Judea and Samaria already then. But there were different opinions and I had to compromise too. We would have saved time and turned the situation into something different."

With Rabin and Arafat. 'We should have moved faster' (Photo: Gettyimages)

The most functioning government: "The Ben-Gurion government, when I was deputy defense minister. I began working with him (Ben-Gurion) in 1947, and from the very first day it felt like something bigger than nature. The best statesman Israel ever had."

Drama: "The night we waited for the planes to return from Entebbe. I was almost alone in the struggle to approve and execute the operation. There was heavy tension."

Satire shows "Shlosha Besira Achat," "Nikui Rosh," "Eretz Nehederet": "'Eretz Nehederet' is the best of all."

A journalist I value: "I won't say." Asked how Gideon Levy, a journalist with a different agenda than his who was one of his three assistants from 1978 to 1982, he says: "I am strongly against the opinions he publishes while our soldiers are deep in Gaza. I think he is inflicting damage on the State of Israel."

Same-sex marriages: "Every person is entitled to fulfill his love and live his own way."

Reality shows: "I hardly watch television. I don't have time. I'm a man of books."

Loneliness: "After Sonia's death I definitely feel lonely, but in the meantime there is family and news friends."

Alone in a big house: "In the President's Residence I didn’t live in a big house but in one room, and when there were no guests I wouldn't walk about from one room to another."

With Sonia. 'I feel lonely after her death' (Photo: Nati Hernik, GPO)

A dog: "I haven't had one. It wasn't appropriate. I couldn’t devote time to things which didn't focus on what I was doing."

New love: "I have no plans of the kind."

A dish I yearn for: "The kibbutz eggplant. It was our main food component."

Nights: "I don't go to sleep before 11 pm. I'm not sleepless, unless there are troubling events, and in recent days there have been many of those."

Pill: "I take one to fall asleep, a regular one."

A person I miss: "Sonia."

Death: "I'm not afraid. I tell my acquaintances not to worry. I will die one day."

Inscription on tombstone: "Was a loyal citizen to his people and country."

Happiness (on a scale of one to 10): Peres refuses to rate. "Just write that I am generally a happy person. Happy with his lot."

One last thing:"I have been visiting the families of soldiers killed in Gaza. I sit with teary eyes in front of the mother and father, sometimes in front of the small children the officer left behind, and I am so proud of our soldiers, of our sons, who were the first to volunteer to save the southern residents and stand in the line of fire and eventually lost their lives.

"The generation hasn't diminished. The soldiers of 2014 are a remarkable generation. It may not be a generation that talks a lot, but it's a generation of dedicated volunteers, filled with love for the people and State of Israel."

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ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ

via email | 2008 | Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez

Posted on 6/12/2012 9:21:33 AM by jsh3180

ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez

I walked down the street in Barcelona , and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz ... We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.

The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.

They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.

Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.

And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.

We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.

What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population. They have received the following NobelPrizes:

Literature: 1988 - Najib Mahfooz

Peace: 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat 1990 - Elias James Corey 1994 - Yaser Arafat: 1999 - Ahmed Zewai

Economics: (zero)

Physics: (zero)

Medicine: 1960 - Peter Brian Medawar 1998 - Ferid Mourad

TOTAL: 7 SEVEN

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature: 1910 - Paul Heyse 1927 - Henri Bergson 1958 - Boris Pasternak 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1966 - Nelly Sachs 1976 - Saul Bellow 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 1981 - Elias Canetti 1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1991 - Nadine Gordimer World

Peace: 1911 - Alfred Fried 1911 - Tobias Mi chae l Carel Asser 1968 - Rene Cassin 1973 - Henry Kissinger 1978 - Menachem Begin 1986 - Elie Wiesel 1994 - Shimon Peres 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Physics: 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer 1906 - Henri Moissan 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann 1910 - Otto Wallach 1915 - Richard Willstaetter 1918 - Fritz Haber 1921 - Albert Einstein 1922 - Niels Bohr 1925 - James Franck 1925 - Gustav Hertz 1943 - Gustav Stern 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi 1952 - Felix Bloch 1954 - Max Born 1958 - Igor Tamm 1959 - Emilio Segre 1960 - Donald A. Glaser 1961 - Robert Hofstadter 1961 - Melvin Calvin 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz 1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman 1965 - Julian Schwinger 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann 1971 - Dennis Gabor 1972 - William Howard Stein 1973 - Brian David Josephson 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson 1976 - Burton Richter 1977 - Ilya Prigogine 1978 - Arno Allan Penzias 1978 - Peter L Kapitza 1979 - Stephen Weinberg 1979 - Sheldon Glashow 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown 1980 - Paul Berg 1980 - Walter Gilbert 1981 - Roald Hoffmann 1982 - Aaron Klug 1985 - Albert A. Hauptman 1985 - Jerome Karle 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach 1988 - Robert Huber 1988 - Leon Lederman 1988 - Melvin Schwartz 1988 - Jack Steinberger 1989 - Sidney Altman 1990 - Jerome Friedman 1992 - Rudolph Marcus 1995 - Martin Perl 2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics: 1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson 1971 - Simon Kuznets 1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich 1976 - Milton Friedman 1978 - Herbert A. Simon 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein 1985 - Franco Modigliani 1987 - Robert M. Solow 1990 - Harry Markowitz 1990 - Merton Miller 1992 - Gary Becker 1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine: 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff 1908 - Paul Erlich 1914 - Robert Barany 1922 - Otto Meyerhof 1930 - Karl Landsteiner 1931 - Otto Warburg 1936 - Otto Loewi 1944 - Joseph Erlanger 1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein 1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman 1953 - Hans Krebs 1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann 1958 - Joshua Lederberg 1959 - Arthur Kornberg 1964 - Konrad Bloch 1965 - Francois Jacob 1965 - Andre Lwoff 1967 - George Wald 1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg 1969 - Salvador Luria 1970 - Julius Axelrod 1970 - Sir Bernard Katz 1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman 1975 - Howard Martin Temin 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg 1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow 1978 - Daniel Nathans 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf 1984 - Cesar Milstein 1985 - Mi chae l Stuart Brown 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein 1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] 1988 - Gertrude Elion 1989 - Harold Varmus 1991 - Erwin Neher 1991 - Bert Sakmann 1993 - Richard J. Roberts 1993 - Phillip Sharp 1994 - Alfred Gilman 1995 - Edward B. Lewis 1996- Lu RoseIacovino TOTAL: 129!

The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims. The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants.

The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.

Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.

Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them.

General Eisenhower warned us it is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken , and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.

He did this because he said in words to this effect:

'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history someone will get up and say that this never happened'

Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the, 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated' while the German people looked the other way.

Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.

How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim in the United States ?

This is actually very bigoted.

[OriZ 3,157]

Israeli children from Sderot and Gaza-border communities came together with Palestinian kids from the West Bank on Monday for the opening ceremony of the Peres Center for Peace's annual after-school soccer program.

"You will spread word of the games, of peace instead of confrontations," said former president Shimon Peres. "Everyone loves to play soccer, regardless of religion or nationality. You need peace, and you will carry the message of peace."

Israeli and Palestinian kids hold hands (Photo: Roi Idan)

Some 80 students, Israelis and Palestinians, arrived for the season's first training session – after the end of the 50-day-long Operation Protective Edge, when the kids of Sderot and other southern communities were forced to either stay near shelter or leave to other parts of the country.

Peres blows the opening whistle (Photo: Roi Idan)

They were met by Palestinian children from Jerico and Yatta, south of Mt. Hebron. The Twinned Peace Sports Schools (TPSS) soccer program includes boys and girls age nine to 12.

Former president Shimon Peres at ceremony (Photo: Roi Idan)

The coach of the Yatta squad, Ahmed al-Jericho, said: "Our children think only of soccer, they love to play soccer – they don't care if it is with Jews or non-Jews. They are kids and all they care about is leaving together in peace, that's what they want."

The young soccer players in action (Photo: Roi Idan)

The Palestinian coach emphasized that "they love to meet Israeli children. It challenges them to play against them, and there is something very special, very heart-warming, about this – especially now, after everything Israel has been through."

Peres meeting the program's participants (Photo: Roi Idan)

Roi, one of the kids from Sderot said he was a long-time participant of the program. "I have been taking part in this project for a while and I love playing with Palestinian kids who are soccer fiends just like us, it creates a bond between us."

The director-general of the Peres Center, Efrat Duvdevani, said that the center "sees the importance of strengthening and encouraging the message of peace through sports. Sport is a common language the bridges gaps and lowers barriers."

Alon Shuster, the head of the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council, participated in the ceremony for the first training session, along with the Israeli and Palestinian coaches.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4566485,00.html

[OriZ 3,157]

This is actually very bigoted.

I didn't write it, a Spanish journalist did, nor do I claim to agree with every word in it(it's rare that I agree with every single word in anything that's being copied and pasted, but the general idea is enough, I'm not going to sit there and edit parts I disagree with). Once you decide you don't want to just look at how everything said here that's not against Jews is bigoted but actually look at the bigger picture, you might see why I posted it. If you have not told Expat at least 5 times by now his posts are bigoted, you definitely have it backwards.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I didn't write it, a Spanish journalist did, nor do I claim to agree with every word in it(it's rare that I agree with every single word in anything that's being copied and pasted, but the general idea is enough, I'm not going to sit there and edit parts I disagree with). Once you decide you don't want to just look at how everything said here that's not against Jews is bigoted but actually look at the bigger picture, you might see why I posted it. If you have not told Expat at least 5 times by now his posts are bigoted, you definitely have it backwards.

I see, because I skimmed the article and not the others then I too must be bigoted against Jews.

You posted this, it *is* bigotred . It doesn't matter who wrote it.

[Karee 4,191]

This is actually very bigoted.

I can't believe you actually read it all. Kudos. You have more patience than I do for 50 paragraph propaganda in 1 point font.

[OriZ 3,157]

There is nothing bigoted about the whole thing. The only thing bigoted is the insinuation which I'm opposed to that ALL 20 million Muslims are responsible for that.

Is it bigoted to say that there is religious extremism and lack of tolerance among some of them in Europe? Only in the self righteous' world.

Is it bigoted to say they blew up trains?

Is it bigoted to say a portion of them is sitting planning the next attack?

Only those who refuse to wake up, will claim that is bigoted.

Edited September 2, 2014 by OriZ

[Karee 4,191]

There is nothing bigoted about the whole thing. The only thing bigoted is the insinuation which I'm opposed to that ALL 20 million Muslims are responsible for that.

Is it bigoted to say that there is religious extremism and lack of tolerance among some of them in Europe? Only in the self righteous' world.

Is it bigoted to say they blew up trains?

Is it bigoted to say a portion of them is sitting planning the next attack?

Only those who refuse to wake up, will claim that is bigoted.

An email hoax from 2007.

Claim: Schools in the UK no longer teach about the Holocaust for fear of offending Muslim students.

FALSE

Example: [Collected via e-mail, April 2007]

In Memoriam

Recently, this week, UK removed The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it "offended" the Moslem population which claims it never occurred.

This is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.

This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russia peoples looking the other way!

Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be "a myth," it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets. This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide!

Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world.

Please send this message to all people you know and ask them to continue the memorial chain.

Please don't just delete it. It will only take you a minute to pass this along - Thanks!

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/holocaust.asp#TCXyDSE2eECSOxbC.99

Surely you can come up better evidence than spam emails. I'm losing faith in you.

Edit. I see you edited that our pretty quick. Nice try though, I saw it.

Edited September 2, 2014 by Karee