Subject: Hamas

• TheDirty.com's West Valley Invasion Party

  January 22, 2009

• Hot Links: Parents Remove Kids From School in Kidnapping-Plagued Juarez; Light Rail 11 p.m. Closing Irks People; Gunfight at Chandler Diamond Shop

  The Mexican government can't figure out how to stop thugs from killing and kidnapping citizens. No wonder so many people want to flee the country. Still, there's no competing with the cycle of violence in the Middle East where Israel is threatening a large strike against the Hamas-rule Gaza Strip. Closer to home, we're worried about parking meters that cost too much and light rail that shuts down a few hours after dinner. Be happy if you're at work or home

  December 22, 2008

• Hot Links: Light Rail Riders Out in Force; Former State Football Star Danny Villa Faces Charges; Oil Prices Rise

  Light rail riders came, they rode, and they conquered the Valley during the historic opening weekend of the new 20-mile train line. Today will be the first test of the tracks for commuters. If you make minimum wage, you're about to get a decent raise. Damning allegation: Danny Villa, the former Arizona State University football star and Cardinals player, is being held in Tucson by authorities on charges that he had sex with a child over 14 in Massachusetts. Now that Republicans are in charge in

  December 29, 2008

• Trent Franks On Why We Should Support Israel Against Hamas: The Bible Tells Me So

  Of the reasons someone might choose to support Israel, "God says so" would obviously count among the most irrational. Yet Trent Franks, a Republican Congressman from Arizona, espoused this kind of rank superstition last night on KTAR (620 a.m.) radio in reference to the Jewish state's current war with Hamas:"There's an old Abrahamic covenant that says, 'I will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse it,' and so I feel pretty confident it's a good idea to be on Israel's side," Fra

  December 29, 2008

• Hot Links: Commuters and Families Pack Light Rail; Gas Averaging $1.50 in Phoenix; Terminator Entering National Archives

  Disneyland Phoenix: Valley residents continue to swarm onto light rail for fun, bumping elbows with weekday commuters. Hopeful patients praise the opening of a chain hospital in Goodyear designed to care for people with cancer. The Republican Party's grooming Congressman Jeff "No Earmarks" Flake as a future contender for governor or another high office. Stats bad and good: The one-year drop in Phoenix home prices was even sharper than previously reported, and local gas prices are now averaging

  December 30, 2008

• Gaza Comes to Central Phoenix in Tuesday's Pro-Palestinian Demo

  Demonstrators marching at Thomas and Central in Phoenix. When I got word that End the War Coalition, Code Pink, Women in Black, and other lefty, peacenik groups would be holding a vigil at Thomas and Central calling for an end to Israel's attack on Hamas in Gaza, I was skeptical there'd be more than a handful of people present, and even then, all the usual suspects. Boy was I wrong. A young girl from yesterday's demo. By the time I arrived around 5:30 p.m., towards the tail end of the demons

  December 31, 2008

• Hamas Web Site for Children Hosted by Scottsdale-based GoDaddy, Expert Says

  A feature article in a Hamas Web site for children hosted by a local domain seller has a Palestinian boy lamenting that he must "kill the Israeli occupation and break the siege of Gaza," according to an American expert on the Middle East. The most recent update on the children's site also has an editorial article that "celebrates the life of a young man by the name of Asim, who killed himself carrying out a suicide attack in 2001 against an Israeli bus as it approached a busstop," writes&n

  January 5, 2009

• Jan. 5 In Blogs: Andrew Thomas, Bob Log, Toffee, Arpaio and More

  We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Valley Fever: From the Rumor Mill: Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas to Resign Hamas Web Site for Children Hosted by Scottsdale-based GoDaddy Up on the Sun: Over the Weekend: Bob Log III, First Friday, Cream Stereo Lounge and New Year's Eve Up on the Sun's Top 5 Entries of 200

  January 5, 2009

• Former President Jimmy Carter Discusses Bringing Peace to the Middle East, President Obama, and Raising Kids in the White House

  photo from Carter's book We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land President Carter signs his latest book at Changing Hands this Friday.It's not every day you get to chat with a former President of the United States. And since President Jimmy Carter will be in town on Friday, signing copies of his book We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work at Changing Hands bookstore in Tempe, I welcomed the opportunity to speak with him, even though it was only for a blurb in this week'

  February 11, 2009

• He Comes in Peace

  Former Prez proposes a new plan for the Middle East

  February 12, 2009

• Feud for Thought

  January 15, 2009

• Hamas-Tied Charity Group Helper Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI

  A Mesa father and engineer has pleaded guilty to charges of lying to the FBI about his involvement in a charity organization tied to Hamas. Between 1994 and 1997, Akram Musa Abdallah, 54, raised funds for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which the federal government accuses of funneling money to the terrorist group that has political power in Palestinian Gaza. When the FBI came inquiring about the group in 2007, he denied helping the group even though he knew the United Stat

  May 6, 2009

• Arizona Congressmen Lead Charge in Investigating Congressional Interns Who Happen to Be Muslim; Slangin' Coffee is Apparently a Threat to National Security

  www.fiscalconservatives.com Arizona Congressman John Shadegg​Congressmen John Shadegg and Trent Franks are two of four legislators calling for an investigation into a potential threat in Washington D.C. -- a possible conspiracy where Muslims plan to infiltrate the highest levels of the U.S. government with some highly influential weapons -- the interns. If screwing up coffee orders and forgetting to change the ink in the copy machine are threats to national security, they may be right

  October 21, 2009

• Author of Muslim Mafia, Endorsed By John Shadegg, Uses Fort Hood Tragedy to Rally a "Backlash Against the Muslim Community"

  ​The author of the book Muslim Mafia, which received a glowing endorsement from Arizona Congressman John Shadegg, is using the tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas last week as a battle cry for a "backlash against the Muslim community and its leaders."Hold on -- that's just the beginning.

  November 9, 2009