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Answers with links:
1. B
2. D
3. B
4. A
5. C
6. D
7. B
8. C
9. A and C
10. A (Palestine Post pageviews gone at the moment)

For the questions, go here:

via Palestinian history quiz, part one – before 1948.

Snapped Shot

via Circumventing Congress on Amnesty.

Reuters-Middle East Watch R-MEW

Get a load of this headline and story update from Amir Cohen and Douglas Hamilton:

Gaza rocket ends quiet year for Ashkelon

“No one was injured in the blast. But the attack ended over a year of calm for the city closest to the enclave ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement and it was likely to trigger a military response by Israel.

As a reminder for Amir and Doug, here’s what that “year of calm” has seen:

via Palestinians attack; Reuters lies.

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During the 1948 war, Palestinian leaders like Haj Amin al-Husseini insisted that the Arab citizens of Haifa and Jaffa had to leave, lest they help legitimize the Jewish state. Now, the descendants of those citizens are locked up in places like Balata and prohibited from resettling in the Palestinian-administered West Bank—again, lest they help legitimize the Jewish state, this time by removing the Palestinians’ chief complaint. Yet there is a certain perverse logic at work here. For if Israel and the Palestinians ever managed to hammer out the draft of a peace treaty, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, would have to go to Balata and explain to its residents that their leaders have been lying to them for 60 years and that they are not going back to Jaffa. Which, to state the obvious again, is one of the main reasons that there has been no peace treaty.

via The Nakba Obsession (Sol Stern).

Idiots

Way back in June, The Guardian [UK] wrote up an excellent summary of the official forecasts of doom.

via Reviewing Last Month’s Forecasts of Doom | Watts Up With That?.

How did the predictions of higher than normal temperatures, record-low Sea Ice Extent, amount and strength of Hurricanes…? Well, click on the link above and see.

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Three prominent people recently said some very stupid things. Three wonderful critics ripped them to shreds.

Melanie Phillips on David Cameron
Jennifer Rubin on Oliver Stone
Evelyn Gordon on Roger Cohen

via Three idiots; three critics.

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An informal and accidental alliance has been developing for some time between neo-Nazis and some members of a group they would normally despise: Muslim immigrants. The two groups seem to share vaguely similar anti-Semitic ideologies.

Anti-Semitism from the two groups shows itself in different ways in Germany. On the one hand, there are the efforts of extremist right-wing groups, which tend to follow a certain pattern. During a football match in April, for example, supporters of SV Mügeln-Ablass 09, a district-league football club in the eastern state of Saxony, chanted “a tree, a noose, a Jew’s neck” and “we’re building a subway, from Jerusalem to Auschwitz,” until the match was stopped.

According to the German government’s response to a parliament inquiry by Left Party politician Petra Pau, Jewish cemeteries in Germany are defaced, vandalized or destroyed about once every 10 days. Memorial sites are also frequently targeted. Last month, for example, extremists defaced a memorial plaque in the western city of Bochum, a Jewish cemetery in Babenhausen in the state of Hesse and a memorial in Beckum in the Münsterland region.

via German anti-semitism on the increase.

Accidental alliance? This “accident” has been happening for most of a century now.

How embarrassing… Hizb’allah soldiers all at the same time accidentally give the Nazi salute at their swearing-in ceremony. *blush*

In other words, real-life housewives emulate the “Real Housewives,” who can’t quite keep up with the A-list — and everybody winds up spending themselves into oblivion.

via Bankrupt Housewife, Teresa Giudice, Inspires Spending Trend – Lemondrop.com.

Photography is Not a Crime

via D.A. threatens La Habra Heights videographer over Youtube video.

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Meanwhile, 86-year-old Judith Popinski says she is no longer invited to schools that have a large Muslim presence to tell her story of surviving the Holocaust.

Popinski found refuge in Malmo in 1945. Until recently, she told her story in Malmo schools as part of their Holocaust studies program. Now, some schools no longer ask Holocaust survivors to tell their stories, because Muslim students treat them with such disrespect, either ignoring the speakers or walking out of the class.

“Malmo reminds me of the anti-Semitism I felt as a child in Poland before the war,” she told the Forward while sitting in her living room, which is adorned with Persian rugs and many paintings.

“I am not safe as a Jew in Sweden anymore,” a trembling Popinski said in a frail voice. But unlike others, she intends to stay in Sweden. “I will not be a victim again,” she said.

via Malmö, Sweden synagogue attacked.