Nablus - The Israeli occupation army at dawn Monday swept into the West Bank city of Nablus and rounded up six Palestinians after storming and ransacking their family homes, witnesses reported. The sources said that the Israeli soldiers, garbed in plain clothes and accompanied by police dogs, held as many as 40 Palestinian civilians for a long while and even forced them to strip. The IOF fired at a Palestinian civilian car, causing damage to the vehicle but no casualties were reported amongst the passengers, according to the witnesses. Meanwhile, the IOF also on Monday pressed ahead with imposing tight siege on the West Bank city of Tulkarm, banning the Palestinian travelers from either accessing or getting out of the city, Palestinian sources said. The sources added that the troops erected military barriers at the city entrances at which they held the Palestinian civilian vehicles for many hours and accurately checked the passengers' IDS. The IOF on Sunday evening stormed Tulkarm city amidst intensified shooting as army vehicles were seen patrolling the city's streets. In the meantime, thousands of Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday evening laid to rest the 38-year-old Khader Rayan, one of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades', Fatah armed wing, commanders, who succumbed to the wounds sustained in an Israeli missile raid last Thursday. Two of Rayan's comrades-in-arms were also killed in the raid. The mourners chanted anti-Israel slogans as AMB fighters vowed to respond to the Israeli assassination crime. Also Sunday evening, the IOF nabbed three Palestinian youths while strolling in the pastures located close to the western Ramallah town of Kfar Ne'ama, local sources reported. They said that the youth's kin were very much worried about their loved ones' destiny.

Never Forget

Never Again

Israel4ever? ...Your "never again" is their again and again and again. Worse for you is that the world knows. If it were not for people like www.nkusa.org, you would see the intifada everywhere.

That's rich! The "plaestinians" (if they actually existed, that is) are the good guys.

Nice. These "pealstnins" as you call them are simply the islamist murdering occupiers of two areas of Israel.

The world does know. The world knows that these "pleestnininsa" are either savage terrorists or the glorifiers of said savages.

That's rich! The "israelis" (if they actually existed, that is) are the good guys.

Nice. These "israelis" as you call them are simply the jewish murdering occupiers of two areas of Palestine.

The world does know. The world knows that these "israeillistas" are either savage terrorists or the glorifiers of said savages.

"We must expel Arabs and take their places."

-- David Ben Gurion, 1937, Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press, 1985.

"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."

-- David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.

"There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?"

-- Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp. 121-122.

"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."

-- David Ben Gurion, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99.

"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."

-- David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky's Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan's "Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.

"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories."

-- Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, former Prime Minister of Israel, speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.

"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."

-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.

"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours...Everything we don't grab will go to them."

-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, Nov. 15, 1998.

"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial."

-- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News Online