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| July 17, 2012
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Christians from Gaza Protest ‘forcible conversions’

Christians from predominantly Muslim Gaza staged a demonstration claiming that two 25-year-old community members, were forcibly converted to Islam

By Associated Press

 

Dozens of Christians in predominantly Muslim Gaza have staged a rare protest, claiming two members of their community were forcibly converted to Islam and are being held against their will.

Gazans celebrate Islamist victory is Egypt Photo: AFP

Gazans celebrate Islamist victory is Egypt – Photo: AFP

Gaza police say the two are staying with a Muslim religious official at their request, because they fear retribution from their families for converting.

Christians are a minority of about 1,500 people in Gaza, a territory with 1.7 million Muslim residents. Continue Reading »

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| July 17, 2012
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Israel advised to brace for Syrian conventional or chemical missile attack

Britain, believe Assad is preparing a campaign of ethnic cleansing at centers of revolt

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As the already unthinkable pace of slaughter in Syria accelerates further, Western military sources warned Saturday, July 14, that not only Israel, but additional strategic targets in Middle East lands deemed enemies by Bashar Assad should prepare for him to launch surface-to-surface missile attacks. The assaults would start out with conventional warheads, but as the regime continued to be hammered, the beleaguered ruler might well arm the next round of missiles from his huge stockpile of mustard gas – not to mention sarin nerve poison and cyanide. Continue Reading »

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| July 17, 2012
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Muslims Forbid the IOC from Honoring Murdered Jewish Olympians

Olympics official admits that Muslims blocked one-minute silence for the 11 murdered Israeli athletes, one of the widows reported.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

An Olympics official admitted that Muslim countries blocked the “One-Minute of Silence” campaign to honor the 11 murdered Israeli athletes, one of the widows said.

Olympics stadium in London - no time to remeber murdered Israeli athletes

Olympics stadium in London – no time to remember murdered Israeli athletes – Reuters

Ankie Spitzer, whose husband Andre was one of the athletes massacred in the Munich Games n 1972, told the European Jewish Press that Jacques Rogge, president of the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games, told her  that his “hands were tied” by the admission of 46 Arab and Muslim members to the International Olympic Committee. Continue Reading »

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| July 16, 2012
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Here’s how Obama failed on forging peace in the Middle East

“If you want Israel to take risks, then its leaders must know that the United States is right next to them,” Malcolm Hoenlein,  told the president.

Obama politely but firmly disagreed.

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It was their first meeting with the new president, and the dozen or so Jewish leaders picked to attend had made an agreement among themselves: No arguing — either with each other or their host.

The pledge would be hard to keep.

Five weeks earlier, President Obama had traveled to Cairo to ask for a “new beginning” between his government and an Islamic world angry about the United States’ wars in two Muslim nations and its perceived favoritism toward Israel. Continue Reading »

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| July 16, 2012
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Palestinians Plan to Revive Bid for UN Recognition

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat says timing of the request in asking the U.N. General Assembly to recognize Palestine as observer state will be decided next week by the Arab League.

By The Associated Press

 

The Palestinian Authority has announced that it plans to reapply for U.N. recognition. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Sunday that the timing of the request would be decided next week by the Arab League.

Gaining U.N. recognition requires a prospective state to achieve a two-thirds majority at the U.N. General Assembly. – Photo credit: Reuters

Gaining U.N. recognition requires a prospective state to achieve a two-thirds majority at the U.N.

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| July 16, 2012
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Israel being excluded intentionally from Global Counterterrorism Forum

Founder and Dean of Simon Wiesenthal Center: I’m prepared to believe Israel is being intentionally left out of counter-terrorism Forum

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT

 

 

Rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder and dean of the human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Center, charged the US-sponsored Global Counter-terrorism Forum of deliberately excluding Israel; from a second meeting of the group that took place in Spain last week.

RABBI MARVIN HIER – Photo: REUTERS

In a strongly worded letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Hier wrote that “when there was criticism following your announcement of the creation of the Global Counter-terrorism Forum, which excluded Israel, I accepted the administration’s assurances that a way would be found to involve Israel.

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| July 16, 2012
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Kenya brings charges against 2 Iranian terrorists

Nairobi court charged  2 Iranian men arrested in June with explosives, that they planned to attack Israeli & foreign targets in Kenya

By AFP

A Kenyan court charged two Iranian nationals with illegal possession of explosives Monday, a day after a grenade attack on a bar in the southern city of Mombasa that killed three people.

Iranian suspects in court Photo: AP

Iranian suspects in court Photo: AP

The Iranians, whom police said they arrested last week over suspected links to a terror network planning bombings in Mombasa and Nairobi against Israeli and foreign targets, are accused of possessing 15 kilos (33 pounds) of the powerful explosive RDX, according to the charge sheet presented in court. Continue Reading »

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| July 16, 2012
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An Israeli Camp for Sick Arab Kids – Is Not News

Israel’s Civil Administration’s summer camp for Palestinian Authority children with cancer, fails to interest the media.

By Gil Ronen

 

The IDF Civil Administration hosted a three-day summer camp in early July for 24 cancer-stricken children from the Palestinian Authority (PA) entities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

The event went unnoticed by news outlets inside and outside Israel that are usually eager to pounce on news casting Israel in a bad light and showing its alleged cruelty toward the PA Arabs.

The camp was financed by the Civil Administration, reported the website of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT). Continue Reading »

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| July 16, 2012
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PA Mahmoud Abbas asks Cuba to release American Jew, Alan Gross from prison.

An unexpected source requested Cuba to release Alan Gross, a Jewish prisoner jailed in Cuba. In early March, President Mahmoud Abbas, went to the Cuban leader Raul Castro, with the unusual request.

By: John Roberts

 

According to a senior Israeli negotiator who established the ties, Abbas wanted Castro to free Alan Gross, an American Jew imprisoned in Havana since late 2009.

The broker, peace activist Gershon Baskin, says Gross “is being held hostage.” The view is shared by much of the U.S. Jewish community and the State Department, which has no direct ties to Cuba. Palestine, however, has an excellent relationship with the island nation, so Baskin contacted Abbas. Continue Reading »

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| July 16, 2012
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Egyptians throw tomatoes at Clinton’s motorcade

Anti-Islamist protesters threw tomatoes & shoes at U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s motorcade during her visit to Egypt. They accuse the U.S. of backing Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power • Clinton rejects claim that U.S. is taking sides in power struggle between ruling military council & the Brotherhood.

By Reuters

 

Protesters threw tomatoes and shoes at U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s motorcade on Sunday during her first visit to Egypt since the election of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Seeing red: Protesters threw tomatoes and shouted “Monica” at Clinton prior to her meeting with Egyptian military chief Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi – Photo credit: Reuters

A tomato struck an Egyptian official in the face, and shoes and a water bottle landed near the armored cars carrying Clinton’s delegation in the port city of Alexandria after she gave a speech on democratic rights.

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| July 16, 2012
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Sec Clinton to President Peres: Friends like us must work together

US Sec of St meets president in Jerusalem, praising him for “knowing the inextricable link between security & peace.”

 

By GREER FAY CASHMAN, JPOST.COM STAFF

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Monday, saying that the transformations which the Middle East is undergoing require “friends like us to think together and act together.”

Arriving in Israel Sunday night for a 24-hour visit, Clinton said that the region was in the midst of a “time of uncertainty, but opportunity.” She posited that the changes in the Middle East have given the US and Israel the chance to advance their shared goals of security, stability and democracy.

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| July 16, 2012
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Gazans to visit family imprisoned in Israel

For first time in five years, Palestinian security prisoners held in Rimon to receive family visits

By Raanan Ben-Zur

 

Palestinians from Gaza Strip will visit relatives in Israeli prisons for the first time in five years on Monday.

The visit to Ramon Prison is part of the agreement signed between the Israel Prisons Service and the Palestinian prisoners, with the aim of ending their hunger strike.

The IPS said that the visit was a pilot program and that if it proved successful, similar visits would take place in other prisons in Israel.

According to the deal, the IPS will then facilitate visits by security prisoners’ relatives on a regular basis. Continue Reading »

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| July 16, 2012
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Israel has Tough Time Finding a Hungarian Leader who’s not Identified with Antisemites

Last month, Knesset speaker uninvited his Hungarian counterpart because of his attendance at a memorial for an antisemitic author; as it turns out, his replacement, the Hungarian president, is guilty of the same offense.

 

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin is having a difficult time finding a suitable Hungarian representative to attend an official ceremony honoring the righteous Gentile Raoul Wallenberg at the Knesset, due to the support shown by senior Hungarian government officials for known anti-Semites.

Hungarian President Janos Ader and Parliament Speaker Laslo Kover.

Hungarian President Janos Ader, second right, stands alongside Speaker of the Parliament Laszlo Kover, right. Photo by AP

Three weeks ago, Rivlin cancelled an invite to his Hungarian counterpart after finding out that the latter had participated in a memorial ceremony for an anti-Semitic author in Hungary. Continue Reading »

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| July 16, 2012
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Shin Bet Shuts Down Terror Squad

Hizme terrorist cell planned to abduct IDF soldier & use him to bargain for release of PFLP’s Ahmed Sa’adat.

By Gil Ronen

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), along with the IDF and the Israel Police, has exposed a terror cell that operated from the village of Hizme, north of Jerusalem, and which attempted several abductions.

Hizme Roadblock

Hizme Roadblock
Orli Harari

The cell was uncovered in May but as is often the case with such investigations, a gag order prevented making the development public until now.

The Shin Bet says that the cell planned to abduct an IDF soldier, hold him in a secret apartment or cave near Hizme, and then hand him over – in return for money – to relatives of senior Arab terrorists who are incarcerated in Israeli jails. Continue Reading »

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| July 16, 2012
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PA Official Found Dead Charged with Selling Land to Jews

A senior Palestinian Authority official who had recently been arrested on suspicion of selling property to ethnic Jews, allegedly committed suicide in Ramallah on Sunday.

by Mahmoud Abu Ghosh

 

Osama Akel Hassan Mansour, 49, was killed when he fell from the third floor of a building that serves as headquarters of the Western-backed PA’s military intelligence force.

Palestinian Authority Crest

A PA security source said that Mansour was arrested on June 19 for involvement in land transactions with Israelis.

The source said that Mansour had been in charge of a department that was created by the PA to prevent Palestinians from selling property to Jews. Continue Reading »

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