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Report: Leaflets published in UK urging suicide bombings found in territories

By Amos Harel, Roni Singer, and Sharon Sadeh, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Agencies



Brochures printed in Great Britain urging Muslims to become suicide bombers have been found in the territories, according to a report in The Guardian.

In response, Israel is demanding that Britain launch an immediate investigation into the publisher of the leaflets - al-Sunnah, the organization based at the Center for Islamic Studies in Birmingham.

Two British citizens were involved in a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv pub last week, in which three Israelis were killed. While one of the terrorists managed to blow himself up, police in Israel are still searching for the second who fled the scene when his explosives belt apparently malfunctioned.

According to the report, one leaflet published just before the outbreak of the U.S.-led war against Saddam Hussein urges Muslims to become martyrs in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. Supporters are asked to send donations to a bank account in Birmingham.

Citing the Sunday Times, Army Radio reported that a British Islamic radical was claiming that the country was harboring nearly 50 would-be suicide bombers for attacks in Israel. The report in the British daily also said that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had ordered that spy operations against radical Muslim organizations in the UK be stepped up in response to the suicide bombing.

Another report in the UK's Sunday Telegraph said that the two British bombers involved in the attack may have been trained by Al-Qaida or Hezbollah.

A Foreign Ministry spokesman said there were "serious leads" indicating that British citizens Asif Hanif and Omar Sharif had been trained in camps in Syria by supporters of either Al-Qaida or Hezbollah, the paper reported, adding that Israel and the MI5, Britain's security service, are cooperating over the information.

The Sunday Telegraph also reported that the MI5 knew that the two Britons had links to Islamic extremists but decided they were not potential terrorists.

Early Saturday, British anti-terror police announced that they had arrested six people in connection with the suicide bombing at the entrance to the beachfront pub Mike's Place.

The UK arrests six people allegedly involved in the suicide bombing a few days ago.

I have yet to see the UK making any kind of statement, any condemnation with respect to the murder of James Miller.

Are you trying to tell us, then, that the life of an Israeli is more important that that of a journalist?

God have mercy on you.

I'm not the person that posted the ha'aretz article, but I figured i'd put my two cents in. It's not that one's life is "worth more" than another. But the Israelis in Mike's Place were murdered by a British citizen, who also happened to be an Islamo-fascist. The British citizen reporter was in the middle of a war zone and got shot (and it's not clear whether he was shot by the IDF, which was shooting at Palestinian terrorists, or by the Palestinians, who were shooting at the IDF). If you can't distinguish between the two situaitons, your either really dense, or your hatred of Israel has blinded you to reason.

Please cease being the davld advocate...

There is no point to look for justice in the Middle East conflict. Too many emotions beliefs and historical misconceptions are clouding the issue beyond any ability to decide who is right and who is wrong. Any observer who feel that only one side is wrong is either stupid, Ignorant or just playing in cheap propaganda. Both sides have done many things that they should not have done.

The issue that will affect the lives of the 10,000,000 Palestinians and Israeli who live in what is now “Israel + the occupied territories” is how to find a solution to this problem. A solution that will allow Palestinians – some of them refugees – to live normally and not be under occupation; a solution that would allow Israelis – some of them were refugees until they came to their homeland – to live normally and not be in daily danger of terrorism.

So this is the first question: Are you for justice or for a solution?

Justice exists on both sides and wrong exist on both sides. However, Solution is nowhere to be found. Solution can be based on fostering understanding in both sides, understanding that a compromise is must: No one side will get all that is believed to be “theirs” in this conflict. No one side will have to loose everything – but each side will have to give up some of what is very dear to them and some of what maybe rightfully theirs. On both sides of this conflict there are strong feeling and ample evidence that this or that stone or peace of land is “ours” – the question is should the Israelis and Palestinians continue to fight over these stones forever or until one side will completely disappear?

Neither the Palestinians people nor the Jewish/Hebrew people are going to just evaporate. Solutions that call for transfer of population: Either Ethnically cleanse the Jewish people away from Israel or transfer the Palestinians to the Jordan are just harmful wishful thinking that just fuel the conflict. The same goes for the constant demonization of both sides – portraying Palestine as all terror state or Israel as all occupation state is not going to help (unless of course the intent is propaganda)

So the bottom-line: I believe that justice is what we leave to our kids and this should guide what we do to resolve the conflict. Any person or organization that calls itself “peace activist” and is only focusing on showing how poor and weak is un side and how evil is the other side is IMHO fostering hate and not solutions. I very much doubt if Gahndy and MLK would approve of the hate against Israel ISM us spreading within Palestinians and in the world. It is very sad to see figures like Starhawk take part in what is a cheap propaganda campaign instead of working to foster peace and understanding between Arabs and Jews. The people of this region have suffer greatly from outside intervention in the form of colonization and the organization calls itself “International Solidarity Movement” is just one more link in the chain of foreigners who think they know better what the natives should be doing. If you come to help the least you can do is listen to both sides and help both sides listen to each other. Burning Israeli flags, hiding terrorists in your office, assisting Hammas operatives that hide in the nativity church to evade the law and spreading lies about Israel is not the way to peace.

(Signed by Ami Ayalon & Sari Nusseibeh on July 27, 2002)
Two states for two peoples: Both sides will declare that Palestine is the only state of the Palestinian people and Israel is the only state of the Jewish people.

Borders: Permanent borders between the two states will be agreed upon on the basis of the June 4, 1967 lines, UN resolutions, and the Arab peace initiative (known as the Saudi initiative).

· Border modifications will be based on an equitable and agreed-upon territorial exchange (1:1) in accordance with the vital needs of both sides, including security, territorial contiguity, and demographic considerations.

· The Palestinian State will have a connection between its two geographic areas, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

· After establishment of the agreed borders, no settlers will remain in the Palestinian State.

Jerusalem: Jerusalem will be an open city, the capital of two states. Freedom of religion and full access to holy sites will be guaranteed to all.
· Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem will come under Palestinian sovereignty, Jewish neighborhoods under Israeli sovereignty.

· Neither side will exercise sovereignty over the holy places. The State of Palestine will be designated Guardian of al-Haram al-Sharif for the benefit of Muslims. Israel will be the Guardian of the Western Wall for the benefit of the Jewish people. The status quo on Christian holy site will be maintained. No excavation will take place in or underneath the holy sites without mutual consent.

Right of return: Recognizing the suffering and the plight of the Palestinian refugees, the international community, Israel, and the Palestinian State will initiate and contribute to an international fund to compensate them.
· Palestinian refugees will return only to the State of Palestine; Jews will return only to the State of Israel.

· The international community will offer to compensate toward bettering the lot of those refugees willing to remain in their present country of residence, or who wish to immigrate to third-party countries.

The Palestinian State will be demilitarized and the international community will guarantee its security and independence.
End of conflict: Upon the full implementation of these principles, all claims on both sides and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will end.

ISM and MAB are organazing a demo together in the UK.

A Palestinian State is needed now, not in three to five years when it will be to late. Instead of a State with unreasonable border, and a messy mass exodus of people, How about looking at another solution?
You do not need to be anti Israel or anti Palestine in order to have a peaceful solution...
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Both sides need to see that the past is past and can not be changed, but a reasonably just peace can be achieved.

The Palestinian leadership has been calling for international peacekeepers for years, but the terrorist state of Israel refuses to allow anyone in.

And we all know why, don't we, folks? The atrocities against the Palestinian peoples would be known to the world at large.

If Palestine is going to have an independent state, it MUST be independent. If it is going to be unarmed, as war criminal, Sharon, has stated, then it is still at the mercy of Israel and its killer machine. Either both have armies or both have none.

Indeed, the ISM is among the organozers of this demo. So is the organisation of MAB (Muslim Association of Britain) which is the organization that sponser the two terrorists

I just hope they can keep tempers under control.

People fighting for this cause have been known to blow up without warning.

I think it's about time for another pro-justice for Palestine rally.

There will be one on May 16 at noon in front of Lee's office 1301 Clay St., Oakland

americansforjustice [at] earthlink.net for more info

How about a Pro-Justice, Free-Palestine, Anti-Terrorism Rally?

That way, we can shut all the right-wingers up AND still rally for a free Palestine!