Excerpted from Optimism about Confronting Israel Growing among Arab Moderates after Lebanon War: Israel’s war with Hizballah in Lebanon has aroused great hope in the Arab world – that Israel can be defeated. “We had given up on the military option,” said Hani Hourani, director general of the Al-Urdun Al-Jadid (“New Jordan”) Research Center. “By taking the initiative, Hizballah created a new way of thinking about the whole conflict in the region.” “Even people like me, the moderate people, who never liked or supported Hizballah, we began to think twice about how we were wrong,” Hourani said. Renewed optimism about
Read More +From MEMRI: Special Dispatch-Egypt/Lebanon/Jihad & Terrorism Studies ProjectSeptember 1, 2006No. 1276 Egyptian Weekly on Hizbullah’s Armed Children’s Militias: Over 2,000 Children Aged 10-15 Serving In its August 18, 2006 edition, the Egyptian weekly Roz Al-Yusuf featured an investigative article by Mirfat Al-Hakim titled “Hizbullah’s Children’s Militias.” The article reveals that Hizbullah has recruited over 2,000 children aged 10-15 to serve in armed militias, and that the Hizbullah-affiliated Mahdi Scouts youth organization is training them to become martyrs. The article is accompanied by a photo, which can be viewed in the HTML version of this Special Dispatch and at http://www.memri.org/images/uploaded/sd_127606_1.jpg .(1)
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An excerpt from Ahmadinejad’s Apocalyptic Faith: Ahmadinejad’s worldview is shaped by the radical Hojjatieh Shiism that is best represented by Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, the Iranian President’s ideological mentor and marja-e taqlid (object of emulation), of the popular Haqqani religious school located in Qom. The affection seems to be mutual: in the 2005 Iranian presidential campaign, Ayatollah Yazdi issued a fatwa calling on his supporters to vote for Ahmadinejad. The Hojjatieh movement is considered to be so radical that it was banned in 1983 by the Ayatollah Khomeini and is still opposed by the majority of the Iranian clerics, including the
Read More +More on August 22. Dr. Muhammed Al-Huni, A Libyan intellectual and author who resides in Italy ( and is close to Sayf Al-Islam, the son of Libyan leader Mu’ammar Al-Qaddafi, recently wrote a series of articles, dated July 16, 22, and July 26, 2006 for the liberal website Elaph.com. Following is an excerpt from an article dated July 26; July 26: The Dreams of Ahmadinejad, Hamas, and Nasrallah “Bring Nothing but Massacres and Unbalanced Wars” “In southern Libya, there was a dervish by the name of ‘Adallah bin Mas’ud, who had disciples and students. One morning Sheikh bin Mas’ud gathered
Read More +Received by email, with much gratitude, from reader Karl Huttenbauer: This chart, a comparison between the Nazi and PLO Covenants, was published 25 years ago in the Canadian Jewish Herald – Oct.1980 (publisher Dan Nimrod z”l). One year later saw publication of ‘On A field of Red’ – the Comintern and the coming of World War II’ (Putnams 1981) which revealed that (three years prior to the appearance of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’) the American Military Attache in Germany, CaptainTruman Smith, secured a 1922 audience with Adolf Hitler in Munich. The outcome of that encounter is enshrined in an extraordinary report
Read More +From Iran’s Nuclear Nutter: Profile of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s combustive rhetoric about wiping out Israel, denying the Holocaust, and asserting Iran’s inalienable right to nuclear power – a potential cloak for developing nuclear weapons – have triggered alarm bells around the world. The president is believed to be devoted to the cult of the 12th Imam, the Shi’ite savior better known as the Mahdi, whose return would usher in an apocalyptic revolution of the oppressed over the forces of injustice. In September, he told Newsweek: “Our religion prohibits us from having nuclear weapons.” After his recent outbursts, nobody
Read More +From JihadWatch: From the Northern Virginiastan: “Fundraising for the HAMAS fundraiser” On Sunday, May 22, a fundraising dinner to support Abdulhalim Ashqar, charged with raising funds for HAMAS, and aspiring assassin Ahmed Abu Ali, will be held at the Sheraton Premiere Hotel in Tysons Corner. Confirmed speakers include our old buddies Shaker Elsayyed and Mahdi Bray and Imam Seraj Wahhaj, identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 WTC bombings. What makes the Sheraton Premiere, aside from its central location, the “go-to” place for holding Islamic functions? CAIR is hosting two events – its MD-VA chapter annual fundraiser and its
Read More +Folks, MEMRI, is a terrific research institute because of its invaluable work in their exploration of the Arab world’s media. Quotes, newspapers, translations and analyses of poisonous articles, hate-filled statements and slanderous accusations mirror the darkness that permeates the region. Without MEMRI, we wouldn’t know what our enemies are thinking. Here is an interesting editorial that the newspaper of the leading Syrian party, Al-Ba’th, published by the paper’s editor-in-chief Mahdi Dakhlallah. Although Saddam is not explicitly mentioned in the article, the author gives examples of leaders from throughout history who preferred suicide to humiliation at the hands of the enemy.
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