News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (October 27-November 3, 2009)

This past week one rocket was fired into the western Negev from the Gaza Strip, as Hamas maintains its policy of restraint. Another rocket was fired at the Kiryat Shemonah region from south Lebanon, apparently by global jihad elements.

American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint press conference. Secretary Clinton said that the United States accepted the Israeli position regarding the renewal of negotiations with the Palestinians without preconditions. Mahmoud Abbas and his aides reiterated their position that a relaunching of negotiations would have to be based on the absolute cessation of building in the settlements.

Imports confiscated for using "Allah," a forbidden word for non-Muslims.

FRESNO, Calif., November 6 (Compass Direct News) - Malaysian port and customs authorities have seized at least 15,000 Bibles in recent months because the word "Allah" for God appears in them.

Some 10,000 of the Bahasa Malaysia-language Bibles, which were printed in Indonesia, are in Kuching, capital of Sarawak in East Malaysia, and another 5,000 copies are in Kelang near Kuala Lumpur.

The Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM) on Wednesday (Nov. 4) called for the immediate release of the confiscated Bibles.

"Why Didn't You Tell Me Your Panel Declared Israel Guilty From the Start?

Why Were You Silent When I Was Attacked?"

Israeli terror victim challenges author of ignominious Goldstone Report, who fumbles and fails to answer her simple questions.

Newly available on YouTube video, this compelling UN Watch speech by Dr. Mirela Siderer, victim of a May 2008 Palestinian rocket attack, was quoted in the U.S. Congress yesterday by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, as she introduced House Resolution 867, adopted by an overwhelming vote of 344 to 36, that condemned the "irredeemably biased" Goldstone Report, in advance of today's vitriolic UN General Assembly debate.

In the 11th edition of the online magazine Sada al-Malahim (The Echo of Battle), which was released to jihadist Web sites last week, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasir al-Wahayshi wrote an article that called for jihadists to conduct simple attacks against a variety of targets. The targets included "any tyrant, intelligence den, prince" or "minister" (referring to the governments in the Muslim world like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen), and "any crusaders whenever you find one of them, like at the airports of the crusader Western countries that participate in the wars against Islam, or their living compounds, trains etc.," (an obvious reference to the United States and Europe and Westerners living in Muslim countries).