Phillip Pasmanick | May 26, 2013

Russian parliament forming Pro-Israel caucus

An Israeli delegation met with influential Christian parliamentarians to talk about raising support for Israel by forming a Russia-Israel alliance in the Duma.

By GIL HOFFMAN

 

A select group of Russian parliament members will soon be urging their colleagues to say “da” to Israel after a delegation of Israelis took steps to initiate the formation of a pro-Israel caucus in the Duma in meetings last week in Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin Prime Minister Netanyahu in the Black Sea, May 14, 2013. - Photo REUTERS

Russian President Vladimir Putin Prime Minister Netanyahu in the Black Sea, May 14, 2013. – Photo: REUTERS

The delegation from the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus (KCAC) and the World Jewish Congress met with influential Christian leaders from across Russia.

Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: ,
Phillip Pasmanick | May 25, 2013

Hezbullah’s Deputy Chief threatens EU Against Terror Blacklist

Hezbullah’s deputy, Sheikh Naim Qassem warns the EU it would be making a “big mistake” if it should label the group as a terrorist organization.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

 

The deputy chief of the Hizbullah organization warned the European Union on Friday that it would be making a “big mistake” if it labeled the Lebanese Shiite group as a terrorist organization.

Hezbolla's #2 Sheikh Naim Qassem - Photo Reuters

Hezbollah’s no. 2 Sheikh Naim Qassem – Photo Reuters

Sheikh Naim Qassem told the Al Mayadeen television network that such threats “do not concern” or worry the group. He did not elaborate.

The EU has so far been reluctant to add Hizbullah to its list of terrorist organizations, but Britain this week filed a formal request to blacklist what is called the “military wing” of the Lebanon-based group. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , ,
Phillip Pasmanick | May 25, 2013

Israel in UN: Assad Purposely Provoking Us

“This week’s events are part of a disturbing pattern of events intended to spark provocation with Israel,” said UN ambassador to Security Council.

By Arutz Sheva

 

Israel on Saturday accused Syrian forces of trying to provoke conflict following a border clash.

Merkava tank - Israel news photo Flash 90

Merkava tank – Israel news photo: Flash 90

Tensions around Golan Heights ceasefire zone between the two rivals have escalated since Syrian forces fired across the UN-patrolled ceasefire line and hit an Israeli military vehicle on Tuesday.

“This week’s events are part of a disturbing pattern of events intended to spark provocation with Israel,” said Israel’s UN ambassador Ron Prosor in a letter to the UN Security Council. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , ,
Phillip Pasmanick | May 25, 2013

Nasrallah promoses Hezbollah victory for Assad

Speaking from his secret underground bunker via a televised speech, the leader of Lebanese guerrilla movement Hezbollah, says his group will stay in the Syrian war “to the end of the road” and will accept all sacrifices and consequences of position.

By REUTERS, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

BEIRUT – The leader of Lebanese guerrilla movement Hezbollah said his group would stay in the Syrian war “to the end of the road” and bring victory to its ally President Bashar Assad.

Women are seen watching Nasrallah at an event marking Resistance and Liberation Day, May 25, 2013.

Women are seen watching Nasrallah at an event marking Resistance and Liberation Day, May 25, 2013. – Photo: REUTERS

Hassan Nasrallah, head of the militant Shi’ite Muslim group, said in a televised speech on Saturday Syria and Lebanon were under threat from radical Sunni Islamists.

Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , ,
Phillip Pasmanick | May 25, 2013

Syrian hackers targeted Haifa’s water system

Israeli official says Syria’s failed cyber attack was launched about 2 weeks ago.

Literally, hundreds of cyber attacks occur every minute against crucial Israeli infrastructure.

By Ilana Curiel

A senior Israeli official revealed on Saturday that Syria has attempted two weeks ago to launch a cyber attack against Haifa‘s water system, in retaliation to the alleged Israeli attack in Damascus a month ago.

נשיא סוריה אסד. הפעיל את "יחידת הצבא הסורי האלקטרוני"? (צילום: AP)

Syria’s Bashar Assad – Photo: AP

Yitzhak Ben-Yisrael, chairman of the National Council for Research and Development, said that Israeli critical infrastructures such as electricity, water and the stock exchange undergo hundreds of cyber attacks every minute. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: , , , ,
Phillip Pasmanick | May 25, 2013

New Israeli drug during chemotherapy successfully prevents damage to ovaries

For years, medical researchers have been working to preserve fertility in female cancer patients. Scientists testing an experimental chemotherapy drug at the Sheba Medical Center, have been successfully preventing damage to fertility.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

 

 

 

One of the greatest fears of younger women who have to undergo chemotherapy to fight tumors is possible fertility damage. But the mechanism responsible for the destruction of the eggs in their ovaries and the resultant infertility has not been understood until now.

Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer

Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer – Photo: Courtesy Sheba Medical Center

A new Israeli study, published today in the prestigious journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science Translational Medicine, has discovered the working of this mechanism and proven that treatment with the immunomodulator AS101 during chemotherapy can successfully prevent damage to fertility.

Continue Reading »

Category: Innovations & Discoveries | Tags: ,
Phillip Pasmanick | May 25, 2013

Turkey erects ‘Apartheid’ wall at Syria border crossing

Following the death of 65 people in border town by terrorist bombings, Ankara, adapting Israel’s experience, constructs 2.5km long twins security walls, beefing up border security.

By REUTERS

 

ANKARA – Turkey is constructing 2.5-km-long (1.5 mile) twin walls at a border crossing with Syria to increase security at the frontier following three deadly bombings this year.

Officials work on one of the scenes of the twin car bomb attacks in the town of Reyhanli.

Officials work on one of the scenes of the twin car bomb terrorist attacks in the town of Reyhanli. – Photo: Reuters

The concrete walls will be built on either side of the road leading from the Turkish side of the crossing at Cilvegozu to the Syrian border gate and will be topped with barbed wire, the Turkish Customs Ministry said in a statement.

Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , ,
Phillip Pasmanick | May 25, 2013

Mark Zuckerberg summoned to appear before the Knesset

MK Moshe Gafni was surprised to discover use of his name for fake profile

on Facebook

. After unsuccessful attempts to contact social network’s management, he invites Facebook’s founder & CEO to attend urgent discussion at Israeli parliament

By Tzvika Brot

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is likely a very busy man, is facing an unexpected task: The Israeli parliament has summoned him for a discussion on the social network at the request of Knesset Member Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism).

facebook

Will Zuckerberg accept invitation and visit Knesset?

Gafni was surprised to discover this week that someone had opened a fake Facebook profile using his name, holding conversations with other Facebook users and answering their questions. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: , ,
Phillip Pasmanick | May 25, 2013

A Jewish Family’s 21st Century Exodus from Egypt

Dina Ovadia, born in Egypt, didn’t know she was Jewish until she was 15 years old, when local Islamists forced her family to flee Egypt or die.

By Yossi Aloni

 

Dina Ovadia, today a soldier in the IDF Spokesperson Unit, was born in Egypt not knowing she was Jewish until the age of 15. In an emotional interview published on the IDF website, Ovadia spoke about her childhood in Alexandria, the earthshaking event that changed her life, the discovery of her Jewish identity, and her immigration to Israel and integration into local society.

A Jewish Family's Emotional and Harrowing Exodus from Egypt

Dina Ovadia, today a soldier in the IDF Spokesperson Unit – Photo courtesy: IDF Spokesperson Unit

 

Going by the name Roulin Abdullah throughout her childhood, Dina always felt that she belonged somewhere and to something else, but wasn’t quite sure what that was. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags: , ,
Phillip Pasmanick | May 25, 2013

Jerusalem prepares defense for The Hague

Lt. Col. (res.) David Benjamin, an Israel-based attorney specializing in int’l law, the law of armed conflict & counter-terrorism, talks to Israel Hayom about defending Israel in the Int’l Criminal Court at The Hague.

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

Lt. Col. (res.) David Benjamin is an Israel-based attorney specializing in international law, the law of armed conflict and counterterrorism.

Lt. Col. (res.) David Benjamin at Israel Hayom – Photo: Israel Hayom

As a career officer in the Israel Defence Forces, Benjamin served as the chief legal adviser for the Gaza Strip (2001-2005) as well as director of the International and Strategic Branch in the IDF’s International Law Department (2006-2009).

Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: ,
Phillip Pasmanick | May 25, 2013

Hamas accuses Israel of poisoning Palestinians patients with gas

Hamas health minister reports to ICRC & WHO that Israel provided carbon monoxide instead of nitrous gas used for anesthesia that almost killed 4 hospital patients.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

Hamas Health Minister Mofeed al-Mokhalalati accused Israel of poisoning Palestinians patients in Gaza by providing the hospitals in the Strip carbon monoxide gas posing as nitrous gas, the Middle East Monitor reported on Friday.

Doctors in Gaza, Nasser Hospital - Photo Suhaib Salem, Reuters

Doctors in Gaza, Nasser Hospital – Photo: Suhaib Salem, Reuters

Four Palestinian patients were reportedly poisoned by the carbon monoxide gas and suffered cardiac arrest, in what Mokjalalati described as an “unprecedented case which almost killed several patients at the hospital’s main operation room,” according to Palestinian news agency Ma’an.

Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , , ,
Phillip Pasmanick | May 25, 2013

Nasrallah’s No. 2 in Hezbollah: Assad serious about making Golan a front

 

Hezbollah’s Sheikh Naim Qassem addresses possibility that the regime’s conflict will develop into fighting Israel in the Golan Heights, saying ‘if needed we are willing to help (the ‘resistance’).’ As for Israeli response, ‘we have the power to deal with any foolish act on Israel’s part,’ Qassem clarifies.

By Roi Kais

After the stray bullets from Syria turned into intentional fire, and while Israel is increasing its alert level, Hezbollah‘s deputy leader appears to be fanning the flames.

Hezbolla's #2, Sheikh Naim Qassem - Photo: Reuters

Hezbollah’s No. 2, Sheikh Naim Qassem – Photo: Reuters

“Opening the Golan front is a serious matter on the part of the Syrian president, and what is left is the performance on the practical level,” Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem said Friday in an interview to Lebanese channel al-Mayadeen, which is affiliated with the Shiite group. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , ,
Phillip Pasmanick | May 25, 2013

Op-Ed: When the Going gets Tough, EU Just Leaves UNIFIL!

Just as Syria’s crisis is escalating tensions, rumors of an EU withdrawal from Beirut are heard and Hizbullah begins applying pressure.

From Il Giornale, sent to Arutz Sheva in translation by the writer.
By Hon. Fiamma Nirenstein

 

 

It really would not be a good sign if UNIFIL, the UN Peace Force on the border between Lebanon and Israel, pulled out now, while tensions have heated up due to Syria’s tragedy and all that goes with it.

UN lookout at the Quneitra Crossing between Syria and the Israeli Golan Heights - Photo: AP

UN lookout at the Quneitra Crossing between Syria and the Israeli Golan Heights – Photo: AP

The EU is apparently threatening to withdraw its soldiers (it nonetheless denied it after a Kuwaiti newspaper disclosed the news) and these rumors were extremely detailed.

Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , , ,
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 »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags:
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 »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags:
« Older Entries