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July 2, 2009

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: The hallmark of a person

Abe Novick: Up, up, and aliya

July 1, 2009

Rabbi Avi Shafran: The Road Taken

The Kosher Gourmet by Marialisa Calta: Get into the holiday spirit with these Star-Spangled desserts

June 30, 2009

Rabbi Binyomin Ginsberg: What makes a great parent?

Caroline B. Glick: Ideologue-in-Chief

June 29, 2009

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Beware of 'Caveat Emptor'

Steven Emerson: ACLU pushing for more money for Hamas

June 26, 2009

Rabbi Yoni Posnick: Learn the secret to a healthy marriage from a scriptural villain

Caroline B. Glick: Barack Obama vs. International Law

June 25, 2009

Rabbi Shimon Apisdorf: The Absurd Power of Truth

Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkle's strip: Everything's Relative

June 24, 2009

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: Advancement of technology is a wake-up call for humanity

The Kosher Gourmet by Andrea Weigl: Summer on a stick: Making frozen treats can be easy, creative and fun

June 23, 2009

Martin M. Bodek: 'On Surnames': And so, We Begin

Caroline B. Glick: The Obama Effect

June 22, 2009

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Working for a corrupt firm

N. Richard Greenfield : Where are American Jews?

June 19, 2009

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: Emotion v. intellect

Caroline B. Glick: Israel's rare opportunity

June 18, 2009

Jonathan Rosenblum: Sometimes it is more essential to define the nature of evil than good

Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkle's strip: Everything's Relative

June 17, 2009

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: The Language of Confusion

The Kosher Gourmet by Linda Gassenheimer: Nothing pleases Dad more than a thick, juicy onion-smothered steak. Add home-Baked Potato Chips and …

June 16, 2009

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Career v. Careersism

Caroline B. Glick: Obama's losing streak and Israel

Richard Z. Chesnoff: ‘Palestinians’: Never Missing an Opportunity …

June 15, 2009

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu: How Judea and Samaria can become 'Palestine'

Daniel Pipes: Where Netanyahu's speech failed

June 12, 2009

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: Some big thoughts about not acting so big

Caroline B. Glick: Obama's High Commissioner

June 11, 2009

Victor Davis Hanson: Our historically challenged President

Mitch Albom: Beware the True Believers

Lewis Grossberger: What we learn from the new Hitler photos

June 10, 2009

Mort Zuckerman: What Obama and his advisors won't -- or refuse to -- grasp about Israel and the Muslim world

The Kosher Gourmet by Steve Petusevsky Lotsa pasta: Tips, techniques and (amazing) taste

June 9, 2009

Anne Bayefsky: Obama's stunning offense to Israel and the Jewish people

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: America's first Muslim president?

June 8, 2009

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Merchant must take responsibility for careless shopper?

Mark Steyn: A superpower that feeds on mediocrity cannot survive for long on leftovers from the past

Richard Z. Chesnoff: How do you say 'kumbaya' in Arabic?

June 5, 2009

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: In quest of spirituality

Caroline B. Glick: Obama's Arabian dreams

Charles Krauthammer: The Settlements Myth

June 4, 2009

Paul Greenberg: The War Comes to Little Rock

The Kosher Gourmet by Judy Hevrdejs: Splash it on! Tap your inner jazz musician and improvise when stirring up a vinaigrette

June 3, 2009

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Q. Should terrible teacher be exposed?

Jonathan Rosenblum: The Israel Lobby: Missing in Action

June 2, 2009

Dennis Prager: The Speech President Obama Won't Dare Give in Egypt

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Pressure on Israel raises war risk

Oct. 29, 2003
Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Graffiti On History's Walls (MUST-READ!)

Jewish World Review Sept. 1, 2004 / 27 Menachem-Av, 5765

Jewish Terrorists Misfire

By Julia Gorin


al-Reuters on the Arrested Jewish Gunman: No Immediate Claim of Responsibility for the Attack

Miami Beach-based Militant Zionist Octogenarian Terror Group Most Likely Responsible


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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Operating on the mistaken assumption that engaging in terrorism can win sympathy for Jews the way it does for Muslims, two Israeli men opened fire on Palestinian civilians in separate incidents last month. But even though attacking the World Trade Center and the Pentagon four years ago turned out to be the best public relations move for Muslims yet, the two Israeli settlers misfired in their petty, low-key attempts to duplicate that successful strategy.


Instead of a concerted campaign by various countries with Jewish populations to convince their respective citizens that Jews "aren't all like that" and "Judaism is a religion of peace," people could be heard muttering, "You see? You see how they are?!"


The Reuters Arab reporting on the second of the two shootings, in which a West Bank driver shot up his passengers and was arrested, included the sentence "There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack."


But those in the know speculate that a militant Zionist octogenarian terror group based in Miami Beach was most likely responsible.


Writing for al-Reuters, Wafa Amr  —  with additional reporting from dhimmis Corinne Heller, Dan Williams and two of their other masters Nidal al-Mughrabi and Mohammed Assadi  —  stated that Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas appealed to Palestinians to not respond to "provocations and not to provide any pretexts or excuses to those wishing to halt the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza" beyond any already scheduled suicide bombings.


According to the same British-Muslim news service, Islamic Jihad issued a statement giving assurances that any retaliatory strikes would take place in the West Bank or Israel, not Gaza.


Two weeks earlier, continued al-Reuters, "an ultranationalist Jew opposed to the Gaza withdrawal shot dead four Israeli Arabs aboard a bus in northern Israel. The gunman…was beaten to death by an angry mob." Palestinians called on the Israeli government to not pursue any routine investigations that a beating death typically calls for, saying that the incident doesn't compare to the many hate crimes which truly do call for investigation, such as when a Muslim perceives an insult or gets a dirty look. In contrast to such insolence, the Jew's lynching merely restores the yin and yang of the Muslim-Infidel relationship.

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Anyone in doubt should note that the number of Jewish terrorists can be counted on one hand with a missing digit, whereas a list of Muslim terrorist names would take as long to compile as it took Yad Vashem to compile the list of Holocaust victims. Indeed, a Muslim terrorist list would read like a Jewish Nobel laureate list, whereas the Jewish terrorist list reads like the Muslim Nobel laureate list.


In reporting on the two recent shootings by Israelis, the media community did not engage in any hand-wringing about using the label "terrorist," and applied the term quickly and liberally. The Jewish settler-assailants weren't even allotted one or two "revenge killings" that Balkans Muslims enjoy by the thousands. After all, a lone lunatic who snaps is nothing like a systematic strategy supported by millions. If it's out of character, it must be terrorism; if it's second nature, it must be something else.


That's why Hasan Akbar, the 101st Airborne Division soldier who opened fire on several fellow soldiers in 2003, was explained as being disgruntled for getting rebuked previously and being ornery in general. And in 2002, Egyptian California resident Hesham Hadayet's financial and psychological problems were blamed when he 'randomly' selected the El-Al counter at LAX to shoot up. During the hunt for the D.C. snipers the same year, police didn't put much stock in the possibility that they could be looking at Islamic motivations for the attacks. Europe, meanwhile, maintains diplomatic relations with Hamas.


Because Islamic terrorism is not as easy to recognize as Jewish terrorism  —  and envying the post-9/11 celebrity status of Muslims in general  —  a Jewish Gaza settler is seeking to become Palestinian. "I have met with Palestinians," Avi Farhan told al-Reuters. "I am willing to be a test case for peace and take up Palestinian citizenship." Farhan's two sons and six other Jewish settler families plan to follow suit.

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