Archive for April 18, 2012

Police probing reports of group sex on TA beach

Eyewitnesses say half-naked woman who appeared intoxicated engaged in sexual acts with group of men in front of beach-goers

Criminal act or innocent fun? The police on Tuesday launched an investigation into eyewitness reports according to which a number of men had sexual intercourse with a woman on a public beach in Tel Aviv two weeks ago.

The incident, which was revealed in the press only two weeks later, took place on Bugrashov Beach in broad daylight, and was witnessed by many passersby and beach-goers, but police officials say they only received two complaints.

One eyewitness told Ynet that he was certain it was a group of young men who hired the services of a call girl. Continue Reading »

Essay by Moshe Arens: Palestinians are not wanted in Jordan

Jordan refuses to let in the more than 1,000 Palestinians stranded along the Syria-Jordan border, even though it has allowed 100,000 Syrian refugees to enter. There are at present an estimated 500,000 Palestinian refugees in Syria, and clearly the last thing the rulers of Jordan want is for them to come streaming into Jordan.

Jordan’s King Abdullah, left, embracing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.

Jordan’s King Abdullah, left, embracing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah last year. Jordanian and Israeli objections notwithstnading, if Jordan is not a Palestinian state - Photo by: Emil Salman

The rulers of Jordan believe they have a demographic problem, and Palestinians are not wanted in Jordan.

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MK Tibi in Canada: Boycott Products from ‘Settlements’

MK Tibi in Ottawa: Settlements are a cancer spreading all over Palestinian land. Boycott products manufactured there.

Arab MK Ahmed Tibi, notorious for making statements against Israel while he serves in its parliament, has called for a boycott of products manufactured in Judea, Samaria, and east Jerusalem.

Tibi made the controversial comments during a visit in Ottawa, Canada, on Monday. According to a report in The Montreal Gazette, Tibi also said he was aware that his remarks were a direct violation of the boycott law approved by the Knesset last July, though he seemed unfazed by that fact.

“I said that I am willing to test this immoral law trying to prevent me, as a member of the parliament, from expressing my views against the settlements in a peaceful way,” The Montreal Gazette quoted Tibi as having said during his visit to Ottawa. Continue Reading »

Druse in Majdal Shams rally for Syria’s Assad

Chanting “the army and the people are with Assad“ around 200 people marched in Druse village of Majdal Shams.

Druse rally in Majdal Shams for Assad - Photo: Ben Hartman

Druse rally in Majdal Shams for Assad - Photo: Ben Hartman

Syrian President Bashar Assad may be a pariah in most parts of the world, but in parts of Israel the autocrat still has a diehard following, at least at first glance.

Around 200 people, chanting “the army and the people are with Assad,” marched around the central square of the Druse village of Majdal Shams on Monday, in a rally held to mark Syrian Independence Day and to show support for the Assad regime, whose forces have murdered thousands in a 13- month violent uprising.

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Lt. Col. Eisner: I didn’t put anyone’s life at risk

Deputy brigade commander suspended for striking pro-Palestinian activist with M-16 says, ‘What’s more important, fulfilling the task or looking good for the camera?’

Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner, the IDF officer who was suspended for striking a pro-Palestinian protester from Denmark with an M-16 rifle, said in a conversation with a supporter that he never put “anyone’s life in danger.”

“What’s more important, fulfilling the task or looking good for the camera?” he said in a chat that was broadcast on Channel 10 News. “I am familiar with these anarchists’ history. They came with sticks and broke my hand, but no one talks about that or films that. Continue Reading »

Fayyad Pulls Out of Netanyahu Meet

Without explanation, Palestinian Authority PM Salam Fayyad will not join the delegation delivering chairman Abbas’ letter to PM Netanyahu

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad pulled out of a planned meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netayahu on Tuesday.

The move scuttled what was set to be the highest-level talks between Israeli and PA officials in nearly two years.
Fayyad and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were scheduled to meet Tuesday evening in what the PA portrayed as “a last-ditch effort to salvage peace talks” before the US election season.
However, shortly before the meeting was to start, PLO chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said that only he and a senior PA security official, Majed Faraj, would attend.
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Foreign activist draws swastika on BG Airport wall

Prior to deportation, pro-Palestinian activist leaves anti-Semitic drawing on holding facility wall

A swastika was found drawn on the wall of a holding facility for illegal aliens at Ben Gurion Airport, where several foreign pro-Palestinian activists who arrived in Israel as part of the “Welcome to Palestine” fly-in protest were held.

The activist responsible for the drawing was deported back to his country of origin on Monday. “This was the gift the ‘peace activists’ left Israel,” a source at the Immigration Authority said.

The swastika was discovered by the detention facility employees after two foreign activists – citizens of France and Spain – were removed from the building. Continue Reading »

2011 Top Ten Anti-Israel/Anti-Semitic Slurs – according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center

 

Click here for the pdf from the Simon Wiesenthal Center

1. “I come before you today from the Holy Land, the land of Palestine, the land of divine messages, ascension of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him and the birthplace of Jesus Christ peace be upon him, to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people…”

– Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his UN General Assembly address, September 23, 2011. Speaking to the world, Abbas omitted any reference to the Jewish people’s connection to the Holy Land. No reference to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, nor King David, King Solomon, or Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel. Continue Reading »

Jordanian parliament moves to ban Muslim Brotherhood party

In a Lower House session, Jordanian lawmakers voted to add an item in the country’s draft political parties law forbidding the establishment of any political party on a ‘religious basis.’

 

Jordan’s parliament took legal measures on Monday to disqualify the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party, the country’s largest opposition movement.

Jordan protest - Reuters - 3.6.11

Pro-government protesters, with portraits of Jordan's King Abdullah, shout anti-opposition slogans during a demonstration after Friday prayers in Amman - Photo by Reuters

In a Lower House session, 46 out of 83 Jordanian lawmakers voted to add an item in the country’s draft political parties law forbidding the establishment of any political party on a “religious basis.”

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Fayyad Ignores Israeli Sovereignty, Launches New Dam

PA Prime Minister inaugurates new PA construction project, despite the fact that it is located in an area under full Israeli control.

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has inaugurated a new PA construction project, despite the fact that it is located in an area under full Israeli control, the PA-based WAFA news agency reported on Monday.

Salam Fayyad

Salam Fayyad Reuters

According to a statement issued by Fayyad’s office, he inaugurated on Monday stage one of a water dam to be built in “Palestine” at a cost of over $1 million.

The statement quoted by WAFA said that during a visit to the village of Ouja and the Jordan Valley, Fayyad inaugurated the Ouja Dam, which he said is one of the projects to develop Area C, which falls under full Israeli control. Continue Reading »

PA crackdown on journalists angers PLO official

Saleh Ra’fat accuses the Palestinian Authority attorney-general of “cloning the policy of administrative detention.”

 

The Palestinian Authority’s attorney-general, Ahmed al-Mughni, is unlawfully detaining journalists and bloggers, Saleh Ra’fat, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, said on Monday.
Palestinian boy looks over rally in Ramallah -Photo REUTERS/Darren Whiteside
Palestinian boy looks over rally in Ramallah
-Photo REUTERS/Darren Whiteside
Voicing outrage and discontent over the recent PA crackdown, Ra’fat accused the attorney-general of “cloning the policy of administrative detention” by ordering the arrest of journalists and bloggers exposing corruption in the PA and criticizing Palestinian leaders.

Over the past few weeks, PA security forces in the West Bank arrested four journalists and a blogger on orders of the attorney-general.

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‘Video may not be enough to convict officer’

Inquiry into skirmish between IDF officer, Danish activist underway. Investigators seek incident’s full video, depose witnesses; legalists doubt footage’s admissibility

The Military Police launched an official inquiry Monday into the incident in which Lt.-Col. Shalom Eisner struck a Danish pro-Palestinian activist with an M-16 rifle, over the weekend.

Admissible?

Admissible?

Eisner has been suspended pending the inquiry’s results. Investigators are now trying to obtain the full video depicting the incident.

The IDF maintains that the version posted on YouTube was heavily edited and did not show the events leading up to the incident, in which the activists assaulted IDF soldiers.

Investigators are also set to depose witnesses in the case. Continue Reading »

Israeli TV report shows air force gearing up for Iran attack, says moment of truth is near

‘IAF expects losses, and knows it can’t destroy entire Iranian program’

 

A major Israel TV station on Sunday night broadcast a detailed report on how Israel will go about attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities in the event that diplomacy and sanctions fail and Israel decides to carry out a military strike.

The report, screened on the main evening news of Channel 10, was remarkable both in terms of the access granted to the reporter, who said he had spent weeks with the pilots and other personnel he interviewed, and in the fact that his assessments on a strike were cleared by the military censor. Continue Reading »

Iranian nuclear scientists were present at failed North Korean missile launch, says source

Anonymous diplomatic source tells South Korea’s state news agency 12 Iranian officials observed the failed missile launch last week in North Korea.

A dozen Iranian nuclear experts visited North Korea last week to observe its failed rocket launch on Friday, South Korean state news agency Yonhap’s Washington correspondent reported on Sunday.

The new ballistic missile unveiled in North Korean this week.

The new ballistic missile unveiled in North Korean this week. - Photo by Reuters

“On March 31, 12 Iranians of the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG) arrived in North Korea. “The Iranians undoubtedly were there to observe the missile launch and receive test data from North Korea,” the correspondent quoted a diplomatic source, who wished to remain anonymous, as saying.

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Jordanian TV: ‘Shatter Might of Israel,’ Conquer Jerusalem

Jordanian cleric declares that the Arabs will conquer Jerusalem and “shatter the might of Israel,” MEMRI exposed.

 

Jordanian state television aired a sermon by cleric Ghaleb Rabab’a, in which he declares that the Arabs will conquer Jerusalem and “shatter the might of Israel,” The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) exposed.

Activist holds a model of the Dome of the Rock at rally in Jordan

Activist holds a model of the Dome of the Rock at rally in Jordan - Photo by Reuters

 

“The (Jordanian) army is invincible,” he says. “Its units are filled with people who pray with imams, and with people who memorized the Koran.”

“This army will never be defeated, Allah willing. Continue Reading »