News from Jerusalem

New EU sanctions will have drastic effect on Iran’s economy.
Hamas leader visits Jordan; may move there.
Organization to move HQ from Syria.

Western Wall area to be turned
into Arab housing neighborhood -
Jewish presence in Jerusalem
will be erased from history.

The Palestinian Ministry of Information has removed from its website an article denying Israel’s Jewish connection to the Western Wall. This followed American and Israeli accusations that the report was an obstacle to peace.

Official Palestinian Authority television has broadcast a song calling for Jihad and violence against Israel.

As Time magazine castigates Israel and Israelis for not truly wanting “peace,” a recent poll by AWRAD (Arab World for Research & Development) shows how Palestinian Arabs think.

13 terrorist groups are establishing a “joint operations room” to coordinate attacks on Jewish civilians in Israel.

“The term ‘war’ will not be erased from the lexicon… as long as Jerusalem is occupied” Said PA Minister of Religious Affairs in sermon in the presence of PA Chairman Abbas.

On Sept. 5, 1972, eight members of the Palestinian terror organization Black September broke into the athletes’ village at the Munich Olympics. They kidnapped and ultimately murdered 11 Israeli athletes and coaches.

On June 11, 2002, a Palestinian suicide terrorist walked into a restaurant in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya, and detonated a bomb that killed 15-year-old Hadar Hershkovitz and injured 16 others.

Mahmoud Abbas gave a wide-ranging interview to the Arab press yesterday. Abbas said that Washington is putting him under “unprecedented” pressure to resume direct negotiations.