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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
A Fatah member who was tortured in Hamas prisons writes to Firas Press , saying that Hamas torture was even worse than Israel's. "We stood, blindfolded, even during prayers, flogging, humiliation and insults, without pity or mercy, without water or food or medicine, and complained he will get one of us following the strike in the same place him in pain..." An Arab analysis of why Jordan...
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Firas Press just published a gushing tribute to Yasir Arafat that seeks to elevate him from being merely the symbol of PalArab nationalism into virtual sainthood, together with miracles. It is a little hard to interpret in autotranslation because the author uses very poetic imagery but some of the more nauseating points he makes include: The stones and trees are mourning Arafat His birth...
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Firas Press published an article claiming that the recent series of earthquakes felt in northern Israel were really underground Israeli nuclear tests. The author, Mahmoud Daoud, marshals an impressive array of facts: since the earthquakes are in the north of the country, far away from the Dimona nuclear plant, they must have really been nuclear weapons, because Israel would never...
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FresnoZionism.org -- ציונות פרסנו (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
... in the West Bank than the world realizes. Well, many PA [Palestinian Authority] leaders agree. Firas Press is reporting that a large number of PA leaders are sending their kids to school - in Jordan. They anticipate that sometime during this school year there will be widespread fatal Hamas/Fatah violence of the type that shook Gaza last year and they want to keep their kids safe....
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
I have mentioned before the fact that Hamas is much stronger and Fatah much weaker in the West Bank than the world realizes. Well, many PA leaders agree. Firas Press is reporting that a large number of PA leaders are sending their kids to school - in Jordan . They anticipate that sometime during this school year there will be widespread fatal Hamas/Fatah violence of the type that shook...
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Firas Press reports that the spokesman for Hamas' "Al Qassam Brigades," Abu Obeida, said that if Israel doesn't meet Hamas' demands for releasing thousands of prisoners soon, Gilad Shalit's fate will end up the same as Ron Arad's, the IAF officer who apparently died in Lebanon while being held hostage by Hezbollah. It should be emphasized that since the "calm" began - a deal which Israeli...
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Israelated (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
An article in Firas Press today mentions that Israel released a 15-year old who was caught with what appeared to be explosives at the Hawara checkpoint. The story says that 15-year old Ra’fat Obeid from the Askar refugee camp south of Nablus had been carrying a number of small pipes filled with white flour. A friend convinced him to take this fake bomb and surrender himself at the checkpoint,...
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
An article in Firas Press today mentions that Israel released a 15-year old who was caught with what appeared to be explosives at the Hawara checkpoint. The story says that 15-year old Ra'fat Obeid from the Askar refugee camp south of Nablus had been carrying a number of small pipes filled with white flour. A friend convinced him to take this fake bomb and surrender himself at the checkpoint,...
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
A weird article in Firas Press is nothing but a bunch of pictures of men's shoes, with the autotranslated title " Photo shoes male sublime ." Some of them were spectacularly ugly. I'm certainly no expert on shoes, and I buy based on comfort more than style. But, come on! This one clearly shows JRR Tolkien's influence on Palestinian Arab culture. This is for those times you want to run...
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
Firas Press (autotranslated, cleaned up:) Younis Oweidat, leader of the Ahmed Abu Rish Martyr Brigades, asked President Abbas to intervene to allow their people to enter the Palestinian territories of the West Bank after Hamas carried out various operations and attempted executions on more than one occasion, even knowing that they are wanted by the forces of Zionist occupation. [Apparently,...
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Not a bad day's work. from Firas Press (autotranslated): Egyptian security forces discovered today 8 tunnels on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egyptian territories that were used for smuggling into Gaza. The Egyptian security official explained that these tunnels were discovered north of the Rafah border crossing during the last 24 hours and that they arrested Egyptians. In another...
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Firas Press is reporting that there was an assassination attempt against PA prime minister Salim Fayyad today. According to the story, he first received threatening messages, I believe on his mobile phone, which were followed by gunfire towards his home. Security had been beefed up at his house since there had been previous threats from Fatah loyalists. No other PalArabic media is reporting...
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Israellycool (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
... this is not the first time that Palestinian Arabs have accused Israel of this idea, because the Firas Press article that mentions this also mentions an earlier accusation by the equally esteemed “Dr. Mahmoud Deputy Chief of the Middle East in the International Physicians for Protection from Radiation and Nuclear War” that Israel has done the same thing in other “Palestinian territories”...
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Here are the first three autotranslated reader reactions in Firas Press to today's copycat terror attack in Jerusalem that injured at least 16 people. Keep in mind that Firas is pro-Fatah. Khosetm my brothers and apes and pigs and you should defend its borders shame you Zionism and the establishment of our Lord God accepts the hero martyr Ghassan Aboutir and enter it in eternal...
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Firas Press quotes an "Israeli intelligence site" as saying that Syria is planning to move the headquarters of Hamas and Islamic Jihad to Beirut, where they will be hosted by Hezbollah: The sources added that the men of Hezbollah are working with a construction company of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that began renovating two buildings in the heart of Beirut's southern suburb and...
