Phillip Pasmanick | May 24, 2013

Why Do Muslims Slaughter their Victims?

 

Why were Daniel Perl, a British soldier on a London street & the Fogel family in Itamar all butchered?  An endless list of Moslem girls & women can be added to those who were similarly slaughtered. Where does this behavior come from?

 

What is common to Daniel Perl, Nick Berg, a British soldier on London street, the Jews of Hebron in 1929 and the Fogel family in Itamar? They all were butchered. They were not simply stabbed to death, but were killed by an act designed to decapitate them or to cause fatal bleeding by severing their carotid artery. Continue Reading »

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Phillip Pasmanick | May 24, 2013

The Disintegration of Mid-East Borders

The only boundary in the Mid-East that Western diplomats have become rigidly obsessed with, despite the far more profound changes that are occurring across the region, is not even formally an int’l border under int’l law, but only an armistice line from 1949 — what is inappropriately called the 1967 border. While a solution to this territorial dispute must be addressed, the final borders drawn between Israel and it’s neighbors will have to take into account the current dramatic strategic shifts.

By Dore Gold

 

A common theme running through much of the leading commentary on the Syrian crisis is the idea that the principal borders of the modern Middle East, created by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, are about to be fundamentally altered if not erased completely. Continue Reading »

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Phillip Pasmanick | May 24, 2013

Israel 4th from bottom of BBC poll ranking best countries

Israel ‘the better of 4 evils’ topping only North Korea, Pakistan and Iran.

Germany has the most positive influence on the world, according to a survey of 26,000 people in 25 countries.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
 

 

Israel placed near the bottom of a BBC poll released Thursday ranking the world’s most positively viewed countries.

BBC

BBC Photo: REUTERS

Some 26,000 people from 25 countries around the world were asked if they viewed a list of 16 countries and the European Union as having a “mainly positive” or “mainly negative” influence in the world.

Germany topped the list with 59 percent of respondents viewing it positively, followed by Canada (55%), the UK (55%) and Japan (51%).

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Phillip Pasmanick | May 24, 2013

Hague: Israel losing its support in UK & EU over settlement construction

UK’s Foreign Secretary in interview with Sky News says window for 2-state solution closing fast, adding failure to progress may jeopardize Israel’s Jewish, democratic character.

By Ynet

As the minister charged with negotiations with the Palestinians, Livni said that the next few weeks will be critical for negotiations. “I hope the Palestinians realize that the goal is to restart talks and be focused,” she added. British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who is currently visiting Israel, said in an interview with Sky News that Israel has lost some support in Britain and in other European countries due to its settlement construction policy. Continue Reading »

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Phillip Pasmanick | May 24, 2013

White House appoints Gen. John Allen the U.S. security envoy for peace talks

Former NATO forces commander in Afghanistan has been appointed to formulate U.S. security policy in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

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Gen. John Allen has been appointed special U.S. envoy on security issues in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. He will not mediate between the parties; his work will almost exclusively involve contacts with Israel. Allen will deal with the U.S. position on Israeli security needs and the security arrangements that would accompany the establishment of a future Palestinian state.

Gen. John Allen, in a July 2012 photo.

Gen. John Allen – Photo: Reuters

 

Senior U.S. and Israeli officials note that while U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made the appointment it was coordinated with U.S. Continue Reading »

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Phillip Pasmanick | May 24, 2013

Kerry Suggests Yet Another Freeze for Negotiations to Begin

U.S. Sec. of St. suggests Israel freeze construction if Israel seriously wants peace talks with the PA.

By Maayana Miskin

 

United States Secretary of State John Kerry has reportedly proposed that Israel freeze construction east of the 1949 armistice line if it wants to hold talks with the Palestinian Authority.

PM Benjamin Netanyahu met with US Secretary of State, John Kerry - Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom, GPO

PM Benjamin Netanyahu met with US Secretary of State, John Kerry – Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom, GPO

 

Kerry met Thursday with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

It was not clear if Netanyahu responded favorably to Kerry’s suggestion of a new construction freeze. Israel formerly froze construction for several months in an attempt to bring the PA back to the negotiating table. Continue Reading »

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Phillip Pasmanick | May 24, 2013

2nd French Court Ruling Affirms Legality of Israeli Rule Over Territories

 

After a 6 year battle the Versailles Court of Appeal ruled that contrary to Palestinian claims of occupation, the territories claimed by Israel are in fact legal.

Posted by: Jean-Patrick Grumberg

 

Virtually all international media has ignored recent news from France, where a court issued a ruling related, among other things, to the legality of Israel’s occupation. As noted in a March 13, 2013 article published by the French media outlet Dreuz, the Versailles Court of Appeal ruled that the Israeli occupation of the territories claimed by the Palestinians is in fact legal.

Taken from a Dreuz publication via Google translation:

The Jerusalem Light Rail – Photo IsraelandStuffPP

The Jerusalem ‘Light Rail’ – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

[The contractor] Veolia and Alstom built, following a call for tenders, the Jerusalem tramway through the city to the east, into the territories claimed by the PLO and the Palestinian Authority. Continue Reading »

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Phillip Pasmanick | May 24, 2013

Birthright Receives Another $40 million donation from the Adelsons

“Sheldon and I are committed to improving the world through cultural exchange and educational opportunity,” said Miriam Adelson.

By JTA

 

NEW YORK – Casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, donated another $40 million to the Birthright Israel Foundation.

Their latest gift brings the couple’s overall donations to the program to $180 million.

Sheldon and Miriam Adelson - Photo Getty Images

Sheldon and Miriam Adelson – Photo: Getty Images

“Sheldon and I are committed to improving the world through cultural exchange and educational opportunity,” said Miriam Adelson in a statement released Wednesday by Birthright Israel, which offers Jews aged 18 to 26 a free 10-day trip to Israel.

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Phillip Pasmanick | May 23, 2013

PA maintains preconditions to end settlement construction, release prisoners.

Large protest rally outside PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s office in Ramallah to demonstrate Washington’s perceived ‘Israel bias.’

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

 

US Secretary of State John Kerry met in Ramallah Thursday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and discussed with him ways of resuming the peace talks with Israel.

Palestinian protester holds a poster with a caricature of John Kerry in Ramallah May 23, 2013.

Palestinian protester holds a poster with a caricature of John Kerry in Ramallah May 23, 2013. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday reiterated his demand for a full cessation of settlement construction and the release of Palestinian prisoners before returning to the negotiating table with Israel. Continue Reading »

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Phillip Pasmanick | May 23, 2013

Haredi soldier: Haredi incitement endangers my life

Haredi soldier files complaint against ultra-Orthodox newspaper, claiming that the daily’s editorial put his life in danger.

 

The paper denies inciting to violence, but suggests that the ‘collaborators’ who wear IDF uniform inside haredi neighborhoods, de facto ‘legitimize’ idea of draft.

Yoav Zitun

 

A haredi youth serving in the IDF filed a complain with the police Thursday against the ultra-Orthodox daily HaPeles, claiming that the paper’s fiery editorial condemning haredi “collaborators” with the establishment had put his life in jeopardy.

Haredi soldier in the IDF Photo Marc Israel SellemThe Jerusalem Post

Haredi soldier in the IDF Photo: Marc Israel Sellem

The complaint came the same day as a report proposing far-reaching reforms to the process of enlistment of haredim into the IDF was submitted to the Knesset. Continue Reading »

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Phillip Pasmanick | May 23, 2013

Advanced Biological Computer Developed by Scientists

The main advantages of biomolecular computing devices over the electronic computers are that these systems can interact directly with biological systems and even with living organisms.

By Arutz Sheva

 

PM in Technion lab - Israel news photo Flash 90

PM in Technion lab – Israel news photo Flash 90

Technion scientists developed and constructed a molecular transducer, which is an advanced computing machine. This molecular computer was built entirely of biomolecules, such as DNA and enzymes that can manipulate genetic codes. This unprecedented device can compute iteratively, namely, it uses the output as a new input for subsequent computations. Furthermore, it produces outputs in the form of biologically meaningful phenomena, such as resistance of bacteria to various antibiotics. Continue Reading »

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Phillip Pasmanick | May 23, 2013

Israel’s Knesset argues over peace process, as Kerry returns to Jerusalem

John Kerry returns to Jerusalem pushing new American initiative, but there’s deep divides in Israel’s new gov’t over how to handle peace process with Palestinians. 

By Ryan Jones

 

 

Israel’s government this week heatedly debated how and if to restart peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, as US Secretary of State John Kerry returned to the region to continue pushing the two sides back to the table.

U.S. Secretary of State John KerryMeeting with Kerry in Jerusalem on Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel “wants to restart the peace talks with the Palestinians. …I hope the Palestinians want [this] as well…we ought to be successful for a simple reason: When there’s a will, we’ll find a way.”

But fiery discussions in the Knesset earlier in the week put an end to any illusions that Israel’s new government is anywhere close to a unified position regarding the peace process. Continue Reading »

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Phillip Pasmanick | May 23, 2013

In the Theater of the Absurd: Syria charges Israel for health violations at UN

 

At an official UN’s World Health Organization conference, Syria accuses Israel of conducting medical experiments on Syrian prisoners, burying nuclear waste on Golan Heights, placing “nuclear land mines” on cease-fire line and some more craziness.  

Israel: It’s absurd how the U.N. is being cynically abused.

By Amir Mizroch

 

In an act of macabre political theater, Syria presented a report to the U.N.’s World Health Organization on Monday slamming what it says is the “deterioration of the health conditions of the Syrian population in the occupied Golan as a result of the suppressive practices of the Israeli occupation.”

The Quneitra Crossing between Syria and the Israeli Golan Heights - Photo AP

The Quneitra Crossing between Syria and the Israeli Golan Heights – Photo: AP

In a report to the WHO’s 66th World Health Assembly, Syria’s Health Ministry said that Syrians were being deprived of medical treatment for rejecting Israeli citizenship, and there was an “acute shortage of primary and tertiary health care services owing to the lack of integrated medical centers in the occupied Syrian Golan.”

The Syrian report accuses Israel of torturing Syrians held in Israeli prisons, saying they “continue to be held in inhumane conditions of detention.”

It also accuses Israel of using Arab and Syrian detainees for “testing medicines,” after which they are “brutally tortured and coerced into confessing crimes they never committed.

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Phillip Pasmanick | May 23, 2013

UK security unit reports London Jihadist attack signifies no special risk for Jews

Israeli President Shimon Peres sent a letter of condolence to the family of the dead soldier and to the people of Britain he wrote, “Terrorism is a global threat and one the world must face together,….I know that the people of Britain will stand strong in the face of this threat and the State of Israel stands side by side with them.”

By JTA

 

British Jews are not more at risk from terrorism than they were before the slaying of a British soldier by suspected terrorists, British Jewry’s security unit, CST, said.

The soldier brutally hacked to death in Woolwich yesterday has been named by the Ministry of Defense as Drummer Lee Rigby, 25.

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Phillip Pasmanick | May 23, 2013

Senate vote unanimously passed calls US to back Israel in case of Iranian strike

Senate Vote passes 99-0 on resolution favoring US support to Israel if it were forced to defend itself from an Iranian nuclear threat.

By REUTERS

 

 

WASHINGTON – The Democratic-led Senate voted 99-0 – with one senator not present – on Wednesday night, on a resolution that the United States should support Israel if it were forced to defend itself from an Iranian nuclear threat. The measure also urged Obama to strengthen enforcement of existing sanctions on Iran.

US Senate

Earlier Wednesday, a US House of Representatives committee approved legislation seeking to impose tighter sanctions on Iran, the latest congressional effort to slow development of the Islamic Republic’s disputed nuclear program.

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