Netanyahu begging money to ward off Islam

23-10-2010

Al Qassam website- Extremist Isareli PM Benjamine Netanyahu has declared on Friday October 22nd that world Jews should pay their money to ward off Islam and whole challanges faced by what he called the state of Israel.

Netanyahu's speech in front of World Jewish leaders in occupied Jerusalem discussed certain issues related to Israel's brutal policy that refuted the idea that Israel is a democratic power.

Netanyahu addressed world Jewish leaders at the Israel Museum in occupied Jerusalem as part of the Jewish People Policy Institute's conference on the future of the Jewish people.

In the same context, Netanyahu has attacked the Islamic Republic of Iran for its support for the Palestinian people, Lebanon and Afghanistan.

"I don't think the Jewish people have a future without the State of Israel, but this future depends on Jews' level of commitment to Israel across the world. We were too optimistic thinking that the establishment of the Jewish state would help reduce anti-Semitism. The truth is that the Jews' return to the Land of Israel and the State's establishment did not make any difference in terms of anti-Semitism, but turned the hatred for Jews into a hatred for the State of Israel," Netanyahu ruled.

According to Netanyahu, "Israel must do all in its power to ward off the goals of Islam".

Source: Ezzedeen AL-Qassam Brigades - Information Office.
Link: http://www.qassam.ps/news-3647-Netanyahu_begging_money_to_ward_off_Islam.html.

Arrival of Lifeline 5 is a historic moment

23-10-2010

Al Qassam website-Gaza, Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya hailed the participants in the fifth aid convoy Lifeline for the risks they endured in order to arrive in the besieged Gaza Strip and described their arrival as a historic moment.

"This is a historic moment, and it will be recorded in the history that the [Palestinian] cause is strongly returning to the (Islamic) nation, and that the nation is strongly going back to the cause," Haneyya said in a ceremony held on Friday evening to honor participants of the convoy.

He stressed that the goal is not only to break the blockade but also to end the Israeli occupation because the essence of the Palestinian cause is to eliminate the occupation from Palestine.

The premier highlighted that such convoys are an extension to Al-Furqan victory which was achieved by the Palestinian resistance during the Israeli war on Gaza.

"In the name of the Palestinian people, the government and the resistance factions, we salute you, dear brothers and sisters in the fifth convoy Lifeline, and we express our great appreciation, thanks and pride to you as you continue this blessed march for the sake of Gaza, Jerusalem and Palestine," the premier said.

Earlier on the same day, premier Haneyya warned in a Friday Khutba (sermon) attended by Lifeline activists in Gaza of attempts to dwarf the Palestinian cause and taking it away from its Arab and Islamic depth.

The premier also reiterated his rejection to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, saying such recognition would eliminate the right of return and displace the Palestinians in the 1948 occupied lands.

He pointed, in another context, to the international conference on the issue of Palestinian prisoners to be held soon in Gaza and called for actively participating in it.

For his part, Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC), received yesterday Lifeline activists at the PLC headquarters in Gaza.

He hailed the efforts they made to break the political siege imposed on Gaza, and said their arrival reflected the Arab and Islamic depth of the Palestinian cause.

Source: Ezzedeen AL-Qassam Brigades - Information Office.
Link: http://www.qassam.ps/news-3648-Arrival_of_Lifeline_5_is_a_historic_moment.html.

Abbas should be stripped of powers

24-10-2010

Al Qassam website - Palestinian institutions in Europe said Palestinian de facto president Mahmoud Abbas should be stripped of his powers over statements he made on Israeli television announcing plans to back down on the historical rights of the Palestinians in return for a state based on 1967 borders.

A statement undersigned by 29 Palestinian foundations in the European continent said: “The surrender of any Palestinian figure to the aims of the Israeli occupation, in word or deed, calls for the stripping of all involved in such unprecedented positions of the positions and powers they occupy, and [such figures] should be held accountable without delay for continued infringements on the Palestinian people's inalienable rights.”

“Mahmoud Abbas and those with him forgot that no one is authorized to waive or can interfere with the rights of the Palestinian people. They are the legal rights over which our people have sacrificed for nearly a century,” the statement read.

The organizations also strongly denounced statements by senior PLO official Yasser Abedrabbo announcing the PA’s willingness to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, saying: “We condemn in the strongest terms irresponsible statements expressing names that have no legitimacy in the Palestinian arena, like what Yasser Abedrabbo recently said about serving the strategic goals of the Israeli occupation relating to what is termed the ‘Jewish state’ and prospects for a political solution.”

“It is a shame that such weak, irresponsible positions of political bankruptcy come while the Israeli occupation government steps up preparations aimed at perpetuating a new framework for an even more racist stage against the Palestinian people.”

“[Israel’s terms of recognition as a Jewish state] is an attempt to legitimatize the racist character of the occupation [force] and its country and a desperate effort to cut the road to the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their land and homes.”

“[Abbas’s positions] also aim to threaten our people inside 1948-occupied Palestine against their existence and stability, especially since they come in line with the package of new racist laws formulated by the extremist Israeli government, such as the oath to loyalty to a Jewish state law and the ban on all references to the Nakba (catastrophe).”

The groups stressed that the recent developments “form a situation to which the world today cannot turn a blind eye or respond with silence, as well as clearer expression of Israeli logic which deals with the so-called peace process as a framework to perpetuate the prolonged occupation and undermine or circumvent the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people.” Source:PIC

Source: Ezzedeen AL-Qassam Brigades - Information Office.
Link: http://www.qassam.ps/news-3650-Abbas_should_be_stripped_of_powers.html.

Singh: Strategic ties between India, Japan brings stability in Asia

Sun, 24 Oct 2010

New Delhi - The growing strategic partnership between India and Japan is a factor of peace, prosperity and stability in Asia and the world, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday.

Singh, before embarking on a three-nation tour which includes Malaysia and Vietnam, said India's trade and economic partnership with Tokyo was set to enter a new phase.

"Japan is a major economic partner of India. We have embarked upon mega infrastructure projects with Japanese assistance which have the potential of transforming our economy," Singh said.

The prime minister also said that he expected his trip to Malaysia to lead to greater integration of the two economies and cooperation in infrastructure development, railways, knowledge industries, energy and defense.

In Vietnam, Singh is scheduled to attend the India-ASEAN summit and the East Asia summit. The Indian premier said he would hold bilateral meetings on the margin of these summits with leaders of China, Australia, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/350108,japan-brings-stability-asia.html.

First spaceport runway opens in US

Space tourism moves closer to reality with completion of facility for world's first commercial passenger spacecraft.

24 Oct 2010

A new runway has been completed at the world's first spaceport in a remote region in the US state of New Mexico, pushing space tourism closer to becoming a reality.

Richard Branson, the British tycoon, opened the 3.2km-long main runway at Spaceport America near the town of Las Cruces on Friday.

Branson marked the event, which was attended by Bill Richardson, the New Mexico governor, saying it was "the beginning of the second space age".

"We are proud to have been supporters of this part of the story. From here we will see, perhaps daily flights into space, but also scientists, explorers of new opportunities beyond our planet," Branson said.

Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the moon, told the AFP news agency: "I am very happy that civilians will be able to reach space. I'd like to be one of the passengers on these flights, of course."

SpaceShipTwo, a six-seat craft scheduled to carry paying customers into sub-orbital space by early 2012, made its maiden flight above the Californian desert in March.

The aircraft - renamed the VSS Enterprise - flew high above the new 60-metre wide runway in tandem with its mothership, WhiteKightTwo or Eve.

The spaceship is 18 meters long and its cabin is similar in size to a Falcon 900 executive jet, "allowing maximum room for the astronauts to float in zero gravity", according to Virgin Galactic.

Space tourists

When it takes off, WhiteKnightTwo will carry SpaceShipTwo to an altitude of around 15km before dropping the smaller spaceship and allowing it to fire up its rocket motor to blast up to the brink of space.

Once it has reached sub-orbital space, SpaceShipTwo passengers will be able to view the Earth from portholes next to their seats, or unbuckle their seatbelts and float in zero gravity.

Guests for Friday's ceremony included people who have already paid deposits to go into space.

Branson said the company started taking deposits from people wanting to become astronauts in 2005, and has now collected $50m in deposits from more than 380 people willing to pay the $200,000 ticket price.

"Two hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money, but I think it's a fair price for this life experience," Devek Handley, 32, a New Zealand entrepreneur, said.

Igor Kutsenko, 36, a Russian advertising company boss, said he plans to go into space with his 57-year-old mother and 59-year-old father.

"We will travel together as soon as Virgin Galactic makes space travel a reality. This has been the dream of my life," Kutsenko said.

He said he had paid a deposit of $150,000 each.

Source: Al-Jazeera.
Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/10/2010102444613231313.html.

Haneyya: Prisoners issue must be made international

23/10/2010

GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya announced he will assume all expenses of an Arab-international tour by a delegation from the families of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention aimed at publicizing their cause to the world.

Speaking at the international Palestinian POW conference held by the “Innovation” foundation for consulting and training in part with the Palestinian prisoners ministry Saturday morning in Gaza, Haneyya called on Arabs to turn the prisoners issue from a Palestinian issue into an Arab, Islamic, and international issue.

Liberation is the goal

“All of the Palestinian factions work for one goal, which is to free the war prisoners in Israeli jails, and this conference comes in this context: to serve the cause and discuss all of the means to achieve this goal,” Haneyya said.

“It is true that we are looking for a decent life for prisoners and their families, but this is a secondary goal, and the major objective is to achieve freedom and liberation for these heroes,” he added.

“We cannot feel full freedom and dignity unless these heroes are freed,” he went on to say.

Political arrests in the West Bank

The Prime Minister said it is shameful that there are Palestinians imprisoned over politics, and resistance.

Haneyya called on the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to free political prisoners detained in their jurisdiction over politics or for affiliation with Palestinian resistance groups.

“It is a shame to talk about war prisoners in Israeli jails, while there are hundreds of them in the [Palestinian] Authority jails, among them women,” the Palestinian PM said.

“There must not remain any Palestinian person in any prison over his work for the sake of Palestinian liberation, especially since our security is part of Arab security, and we do not have any thought of meddling with Arab security.”

Internationalization of the issue

“Every delegation from Western countries who comes to Gaza talks about Shalit to resistance factions. In contrast, who speaks about the 8,000 Palestinian prisoners?”

“How can one captured soldier be given worldwide attention, and the issue of 8,000 prisoners be ignored?”

Haneyya said it his government’s responsibility to turn their issue into an issue of international concern.

He announced the government will assist travel of this delegation to other countries to clarify the war prisoners’ cause.

Release of prisoners

The Palestinian Prime Minister decided today to free a group of detainees in Gaza in honor of the Lifeline 5 humanitarian aid convoy that came to break the Gaza siege and take part in the international conference for war prisoners.

Palestinian Interior Ministry spokesman Ihab Al Ghusein told the PIC by phone that the Palestinian government in Gaza decided to free 20 prisoners in Gaza in honor of the convoy.

Ghusein said the government will hold a press conference at 3:00pm Saturday to implement the Prime Minister’s decision to the prisoners who served two-thirds of their full sentences.

“The government’s objective is only to detain people as much as would give them guidance and direction,” the interior spokesman said, expressing hope that the detainees have benefited from the time they served.

He assured that there are no political prisoners in Gaza jails, and that the prisoners who were released were detained for legal violations.

Source: The Palestinian Information Center.
Link: http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7Yu%2fab2VuxLUDrPRIhdUPg2ZRD8kvuNjFI%2f3V7%2fmS6QbTfs3mrrzkujXg5LSZ6mMe2pA6C4HIvrJ7dOEs%2bD4emipo7eEVv8yqYtQygKO5ylI%3d.

Suspected Indian rebels kill 6 police; security tightened in Bihar

Sat, 23 Oct 2010

New Delhi - Security was tightened across the eastern Indian state of Bihar Saturday after six policemen died in a blast triggered by suspected Maoist rebels, news reports said.

A hidden mine targeted a police vehicle over a small bridge in Bihar's Sheohar district, the IANS news agency reported.

The blast came two days after a six-phase, monthlong electoral process to choose the state legislative assembly began.

The second phase was due to be held Sunday, and security was increased across the state after the explosion, police said.

"Combing operations were intensified," Bihar's additional director general of police PK Thakur was quoted as saying. "Security has been tightened to give a sense of confidence among people a day ahead of polls following the Maoist strike."

More than one-third of India's 626 administrative districts are affected by the insurgency, which has left more than 990 people dead since January.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/350021,police-security-tightened-bihar.html.