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A fitting place for him to fully express his anti-semitism, no?

So, why does he always surround himself with Jews?…

And…Hebron – The Second Holiest Place in Judaism…
It’s at the center of the storm today, as it was in Biblical Times…
Marty talks about Hebron in the Torah (Bible) and in the news today…

Plus…Arab vs. Jewish mothers in the Torah, Hagar, Ishmael, Abraham and Sarah…

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“In God We Trust”: Where in the World Can One Still Say That???…
In the U.S. and Israel, for sure!!!…Elsewhere, maybe not…

Also…Shocking Revelations of Desecration of the Holy Koran!!!…

Ohhh…Never Mind!!!

All this and MORE…

In God We Trust

Federal courts in the US have deemed it legal to proclaim, “In God We Trust”…

Marty Roberts contemplates where and for how long this will be true in today’s changing world…

Don’t Believe Everything You Read…Even If It’s Printed in “Newsweek”

Newsweek magazine’s revelations of systematic desecration of Islam’s holy book, the Koran, by US forces in Guantanamo Bay have led to massive street demonstrations around the world…

More than 15 people have died in these protests…

I guess that’s what apologies were made for…

Newsweek Magazine, “Desecration of the Holy Koran by US Forces in Guantanamo”

Newsweek magazine, “Never Mind!!!”…

“Sorry”…

Strides Towards Women’s Political Rights in Kuwait

But Not in Beersheba, Israel

There’s new legislation in Kuwait to give women equal rights in voting and running for political office…

As long as they follow Islamic religious law…

Marty Roberts explains…

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The Catholics Have a New Pope, Tel Aviv Has a New Chief Rabbi, Jerusalem is Losing a Fine Political Leader and English Rock Returns to Bloomfield

All this and MORE…
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Lovers of Peace…Be Careful What You Wish For!!…

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The Middle East..What You Think is Rarely True

Israel’s Arab neighbors are indifferent to the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran, right? WRONG!!…And they are ready to help arch-enemy ISRAEL stop the mullahs,,,
The palestinians are united in their desire for a new homeland…of course!!…Wrong again…Listen to the facts and the historical reasons why…
All of the nations of the Middle East (except Israel, of course) are united in their desire to support the palestinians and have them achieve their goal of an independent state…Well, right…except that NONE of them want it to happen!!!…Listen to understand why the Middle East countries would like nothing better that to NEVER see the creation of a palestinian state, Islamist or otherwise (with the possible exception of Syria, who simply could not care less one way or the other)
Finally, everyone would agree that the blockade on Gaza MUST be removed…Gaza MUST be opened up, correct?…Well, yes, everybody, that is, except for the countries in the MIddle East, like Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and, oh yeah, don’t forget the ruling palestinian Fatah Party themselves.

So, if you really want peace, if you really hate war…better be careful about your campaign to open up Gaza…Better be careful about allowing the current delicate balance of power in the Middle East to be upset…In short…Pray for Israel’s strength…

All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

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Bad for Israel, bad for the Arabs, bad for the Americans…Even bad for the palestinians…

Even Obama and Clinton seem to be finally getting the message, even backing off their previous stance of imposing an “agreement” on Israel, including retreat to the pre-1967 borders, division of Jerusalem and surrender of Israeli control of the Jordan Valley. Israelis and palestinians alike are massively against accepting the American initiative, obviously, for different reasons. And it’s a good thing, given America’s dismal past track-record of imposing defeat on Israel. The show explains just how terrible an American-imposed arrangement would be for everyone in the region…and just how terrible the outcome could be for the Americans…Plus…Why it is so strategically important to restore good relations between Israel and the U.S….Especially for the Americans…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

Even America Cannot Force Peace Without Two Partners

British officials, facing general elections soon, are willing to throw one of their close allies, Israel, under the bus. Word has it that the UK security agents are none too happy about interfering with cooperation with Israeli security when it comes to fighting world Islamic terrorism, a major threat to the Brits as well as the Israelis…

A photograph released by the Dubai police in February shows the British passport of one of the 26 suspects …

Gov’t kicks out Israeli diplomat in passport row


The government has kicked out an Israeli diplomat over the “intolerable” use of fake British passports in the killing of a Hamas chief, in a sharp escalation of tension over the murder.

Reprinted from AFP

Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said he was “very disappointed” by the expulsion on Tuesday, but a senior official said the Jewish state would not retaliate.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband said there were “compelling reasons” to suggest that Israel was behind the forgeries used by the team which killed Mahmud al-Mabhuh in Dubai in January.

“I’ve asked that a member of the embassy of Israel be withdrawn from the UK as a result of this affair and this is taking place,” he told lawmakers.

“There are compelling reasons to believe that Israel was responsible for the misuse of the British passports… The government takes this matter extremely seriously. Such misuse of British passports is intolerable.”

The foreign secretary declined to specify the position of the expelled diplomat, but reports in the Times and Telegraph said the individual was a senior Mossad agent, without citing sources.

The person was believed to be the Israeli spy agency’s station chief in London, said the papers.

A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office declined to comment on the reports.

Mossad has been widely blamed for the assassination of the Hamas chief but Israel maintains there is no proof for this claim.

Hamas hailed the expulsion and said it hoped Israeli leaders would eventually be brought to trial over the case.

Dubai police in February released photographs and names of European passport holders alleged to have been members of the hit squad.

The suspects used the identities of 12 people from Britain, as well as people from Australia, France, Germany and Ireland. Interpol has issued arrest notices for 27 suspects wanted by Dubai in connection with the killing.

Also Tuesday, a French prosecutor announced an investigation into the use of four fake French passports in the Hamas hit.

And in Berlin, a spokesman from the federal prosecutor’s office said a probe had been launched more than a month ago into a fake German passport used in the murder.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spokesman said the Israeli diplomat had technically been “asked to withdraw” from Britain, adding that he had been given two weeks to leave.

The announcement came after Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor was called in again to the Foreign Office on Monday, and briefed on the results of an investigation by the Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA).

Miliband said SOCA had established that 12 British passport holders identified by Dubai police were “wholly innocent victims of identity theft”.

The passports were copied “when handed over for inspection to individuals linked to Israel, either in Israel or in other countries”, he said.

“Given that this was a very sophisticated operation in which high-quality forgeries were made, the government judges it is highly likely that the forgeries were made by a state intelligence service,” he said.

Miliband met Lieberman in Brussels on Monday and asked for a formal pledge that in future “the state of Israel would never be party to the misuse of British passports in such a way”, he said.

Lieberman said in a statement that while he wanted to maintain cordial relations with London, “no proof of Israeli involvement in this affair has been provided to us.”

Meanwhile a senior Israeli official told AFP that the priority was to “calm things down”.

“We have no intention of expelling a British diplomat in response to London’s decision,” the official said, asking not to be identified.

The Foreign Office has amended its official travel advice for Israel, warning British visitors about the risk to their passports and identities.

Relations between Britain and Israel were strained even before the passport row, notably after a London court issued an arrest warrant for former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni.

Livni reportedly cancelled a trip to Britain in December for fear of being arrested under the warrant, issued over her role in Israel’s 22-day war against the Hamas-rule Gaza Strip launched at the end of 2008.

Israel is also embroiled in a separate row with another ally, the US, after the Jewish state announced plans for the construction of settler homes in east Jerusalem while American Vice President Joe Biden was visiting the country.

What a cheap shot at vote-getting for the British elections…And what a sorry state of affairs it is that a candidate can garner votes in Great Britain, a Western democracy, by trying to humiliate Israel, another Western democracy and close ally.
The absurdity is heightened when you realize that if, indeed, it WAS Israel that eliminated the arch-terrorist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai, it ws probably almost as great a service for the Brits as the Israelis. They have relied upon cooperation with Israeli security agencies in the past in our mutual war on terror, and will continue to need Israeli cooperation in the future. This might be a classic “cut off your nose to spite your face” scenario for Great Britain.
By the way, the Mossad should be receiving an international award if they WERE the ones taking out the terrorist trash in Dubai…but we’ll never know now, will we?

Mr Miliband took the decision after an investigation by British Police

Britain to expel Mossad’s man in London over Dubai assassination


Mossad’s representative at the Israel embassy in London is being expelled over the use of cloned British passports in the killing of a senior Hamas commander in Dubai

Reprinted from Telegraph.co.uk Rosa Prince

A government official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment ahead of the statement, says Britain will expel one Israeli diplomat. Sources disclosed that the individual is Mossad’s London representative.

Ron Proser, the Israeli Ambassador to London, was summoned to the Foreign Office on Monday to be told the results of an inquiry into the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, whose body was discovered in a luxury Dubai hotel room on January 20.

Several members of the team suspected of killing him were found to be travelling on passports cloned from documents belonging to British citizens living in Israel. Other passports had been stolen from Irish, German, Australian and French citizens.

A senior Israeli diplomat would be expelled as a mark of the “anger” within the Government that British passport holders had been put at risk as a result of the operation.

Mr Miliband has pulled out of an event at the Israeli Embassy this afternoon, where he was due to be the guest of honour at a “housewarming party” to mark the the opening of its new building in Kensington, central London.

A ministerial statement to be made to Parliament on Tuesday will formally name the Israeli security services as responsible for the cloning of up to 15 British passports, which were copied after being taken away by airport officials.

The statement will say that it proved impossible to confirm definitively whether Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence service, was responsible for the operation, with suspicion also resting on the Military Intelligence Directorate.

But the probe had determined for certain that the passports were cloned when British citizens passed through airports on their way into Israel, with officials taking them away for “checks” which lasted around 20 minutes.

Foreign Office sources expressed frustration that there was little more that could be done to “punish” Israel over the affair.

A number of those whose passports were stolen had dual British and Israeli nationality.

They include Gabriella Barney, 23, and her father Michael, 54, along with Daniel Marc Schnur, 32, Roy Allan Cannon, 62, Stephen Keith Drake, 54, Mark Daniel Sklar, 30, and Philip Carr, 35.

A number of the innocent passport holders have expressed concern and upset that their identities were used for the assassination of a senior Hamas commander, which was carried out by a team of at least 23 operatives.

Israel has refused to confirm or deny any involvement in the audacious murder, insisting that it has a “policy of ambiguity”.

The suspects, including a number of women, were filmed on security cameras strolling through hotel lobbies disguised as tourists wearing tennis clothes.

They followed al-Mabhouh to his hotel room, where he was found suffocated hours later.

Oh, yeah…Dubai is a country that I REALLY want to visit, quite the vacation destination, it seems.
Not that they would even let me in, anyway, being Jewish and a citizen of Israel and all. I COULD always use my US passport. Those ads on CNN make it look Oh, so inviting…
I think that I could abstain from having sex in public for the duration of my visit, but I don’t know about not drinking any alcohol. One month in jail for the public kiss, but I guess the moonshine is a lesser charge.
I wonder if it was really the Israeli Mossad kissing in public…in disguise, of course…

British kissing couple awaits jail verdict in Dubai


A British couple accused of kissing in public in the Muslim emirate of Dubai will find out next month if an appeals court will uphold their one-month prison sentence, their lawyer said on Sunday.

Reprinted from Google.com News

The couple is accused of “committing a sexual act (by) kissing on the lips and touching,” lawyer Khalaf al-Hosani told AFP. “A final verdict will be reached on April 4,” by the Misdemeanours Appeals Court, he said.

The two, named by the press as Ayman Najafi, 24, a British expat in Dubai, and British tourist Charlotte Lewis, 25, were arrested in November, after an Emirati woman accused them of kissing in a restaurant in the trendy Jumeirah Beach Residence neighbourhood.

They are also accused of consuming alcohol, a charge to which they pleaded guilty, but said they only kissed on the cheek.

They were convicted in January and sentenced to one month in prison. But they have been on bail since their arrest, with their passports held by the authorities, Hosani said.

The lawyer said he told court that the only witness, a 38-year-old Emirati woman, has presented different statements.

“She told the police that she saw them kissing, while she told the prosecution that her children saw them,” he said, adding that the defence is arguing that the couple only kissed on the cheek “as a greeting” which is allowed.

British embassy spokesman, Simon Goldsmith, said the UK mission was “aware of the arrest of a British national on November 27,” and that “consular assistance was provided at the time,” but declined to provide further details.

Dubai is a popular destination for British tourists. Around 1.1 million British nationals visited the United Arab Emirates in 2009, but the city state still adheres to certain strict Islamic rules, and bans sex outside marriage.

More than 100,000 British nationals live in the UAE.

From Dubai, of all places…
Kind of ironic..Dubai/UAE STILL does not recognize the State of Israel even exists…But I SURE seem to be hearing an awful lot of Dubai stuff in the news these days…
BTW…Just one more blow to those claiming apartheid exists in Israel…Sure doesn’t look like it from this, does it?…

Israeli cricket wins Dubai prize

Israel Cricket Association cited for cross-border program bringing together Jews, Bedouins

Reprinted from YNet News Anat Shalev

The Dubai-based International Cricket Council has awarded the Israel Cricket Association with a prize for a cross-border initiative bringing together Jews and Bedouins in the southern Negev desert.

The winning project was initiated by Stanley Perlman, the Israel Cricket Association’s chairman.

The Association’s director, Naor Gudker, who is also an international umpire, told Ynet that cricket is among the top three sports in Asia and in many Arab states, including Pakistan and Dubai.

“A very high percentage of the managers, players, and coaches in global cricket are Muslims,” he said. “We do not feel that we are met with revulsion in Muslim states, such as Malaysia, where we played in 1997.”

Gudker expressed his excitement over the latest award, which joins a similar prize won by the Israeli association in 2001.

“It’s a huge achievement. It’s a project we promoted that was warmly received across the world,” he said. “This award in general and the project in particular are a good example of how cricket can bridge, bring compromise, and teach us to accept others.”

The next move is to make cricket accessible to Arab Israelis in Israel’s north, he said.

Gudker used the opportunity to criticize authorities for failing to offer cricket the support it deserves.

“Cricket is rather developed in Israel – there are 21 teams, school leagues, and youth leagues…in Beersheba, 2,000 kids are involved in projects related to the sports. Yet nonetheless, the State is unwilling to build a central cricket stadium and upgrade the sports to an international level,” he said.

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What do Shahar Pe’er and the Israelis have to do with it?…Young female Israeli tennis sensation Shahar Peer is “killing” them all on the courts at the Dubai tennis open…She’s already made it to the quarter-finals…Ironic, after the UAE refused to even let her in to the country last year…They don’t recognize that Israel even exists!!!…The assassination of Hamas commander-terrorist Mahmoud Mahbouh in a Dubai luxury hotel last month is another story…Everyone cries “Mossad”, but mum’s the word from Israel…The incredible story of this successful assassination as the revelations get weirder and weirder…

Plus…Israeli Deputy Prime minister Danny Ayalon refuses to meet with the anti-Israel lobby “J” Street and the US congressmen they have brought to the Middle East…What’s THAT all about?…

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