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Report: Radioactive poison may have killed Arafat

Eight years after Palestinian leader’s death, Al Jazeera unveils report suggesting he was poisoned with polonium

By Elior Levy

Conspiracy theories surrounding Yasser Arafat‘s death have resurfaced eight years after his passing. The former Palestinian Authority chairman may died of radioactive poisoning, Al Jazeera reported Tuesday. The report is based on the findings of tests performed by a Swiss laboratory and exposed in a new documentary film.

החוקרים בודקים את כובעו של ערפאת (צילום: אל ג'זירה)

Taking samples from Arafat's hat - Photo: Al-Jazeera

The Institut de Radiophysique in Lausanne tested samples taken from Arafat’s personal belongings including his clothes, his toothbrush and even his iconic kaffiyeh. The personal effects were provided by Arafat’s widow Suha. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: Arafat

Expose by Giulio Meotti: Catholics Label Rachel’s Tomb a Mosque

The PA wants the Church of the Nativity to be the world’s 1st heritage site, and now they also say that nearby Rachel’s Tomb is a mosque. She lived thousands of years before Mohammed, so they can’t claim her for Islam. Christians are backing them.

By Giulio Meotti

Giulio Meotti

The Palestinian Authority (succeeded in) making a historic bid to list Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity as its first world heritage site under the United Nations.

The PLO knows the consequences of locating King David and Jesus’ city as being in the “country of Palestine”. The final goal is the de-Judaization of the land of Israel.

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: UNESCO, Vatican

‘IAF strikes Hezbollah target in Lebanese territory’

Lebanese media states strike either targeted spying device or Hezbollah telecommunications line; IDF refuses to confirm attack.

By YAAKOV KATZ

The Israel Air Force bombed an intelligence- gathering device in southern Lebanon on Monday, according to Lebanese media reports.

One of the reports claimed that the attack was carried out by an air-to-surface missile which struck a “device” between the southern towns of Zrariyeh and

Tayr Filsay.

IAF A-4, F-16 jets at Hatzerim - Photo: Reuters/Amir Cohen

Al Manar TV said that the attack targeted a device that had been installed on a Hezbollah telecommunications cable.

Naharnet said that Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati asked UNIFIL to investigate the bombing.

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: Hezbollah, IAF, Lebanon

PA seeks role in UN arms trade talks; denied

Ramallah’s wish to take active part in members-only talks blocked by Israel, US and EU

By Yitzhak Benhorin

WASHINGTON – Another attempt by the Palestinian Authority to asset statehood in the United Nations was blocked by Israel on Monday, Ynet has learned.

The PA sought to take an active role in a UN conference meant to hammer out the first binding treaty on the regulation of the global weapons market, valued at more than $70 billion a year.

PA observer to the UN Riyad Mansour - Photo: AFP

The conference is meant for the UN’s 193 member-states only. Israel, the United States and the European Union opposed the PA’s move – which was backed by several Arab countries. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: PA, UN

After Arab Spring, Abbas discovers importance of Palestinian public opinion

A meeting between Palestinian president and Vice PM Shaul Mofaz was cancelled due to pressure from the Palestinian public, not because of Netanyahu.

By Avi Issacharof

Several hours after an official from Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud’s Abbas’ office leaked to the media that a planned meeting with Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz would not take place, the latter’s aides claimed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was behind the move.

This reaction was both immature and condescending, reflecting a characteristic Israeli response to Abbas’ moves – as if the Palestinian leader has no will of his own, no independent interests and especially no public opinion to take into consideration. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: PA, West Bank

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UN ‘Human Rights’ Official Attacks Israeli ‘Apartheid’ Policy

Richard Falk says the peace process is a trick, claims Israel’s treatment of PA Arabs in Judea and Samaria is apartheid.

By Elad Benari

The UN’s rapporteur for PA human rights launched a blistering attack on the international community on Monday.

According to an AFP report, Richard Falk accused the world of “conspiring in Israeli settlement policies”. He also branded the peace process a “trick.”

Falk also took aim at the Middle East Quartet’s peace envoy Tony Blair over his efforts in the region.

Speaking to reporters after addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Falk claimed that Palestinian Authority Arabs in the PA-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria were offered no protection in Israeli law and said that their treatment was akin to apartheid. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: Apartheid, UNHRC

Report: Israel detonated spy device in Lebanon

Local media outlets say warplane fired air-to-ground missile at espionage device that was exposed by Hezbollah

By Roi Kais

An air-to-ground missile fired by an Israeli plane on Monday detonated a surveillance device that was planted between the southern Lebanese towns of Zrariyeh and Tayr Filsay, the National News Agency reported.

Archives Photo: Dan Bronfled, IDF's Spokesperson Unit

According to the report, the device was planted on a Hizbullah telecommunications cable. The device was destroyed by Israel because the terror group had exposed it, the National News Agency reported.

Lebanese media reported that Israeli warplanes have been flying at a low altitude over the country’s southern sector since the afternoon hours, while Hizbullah has cordoned off the area. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: Hezbollah, IDF, Lebanon

New Device Destroys Breast Tumors With Extreme Cold

Cryoablation, a process which uses extreme cold to freeze and destroy diseased tissue, has been used by medical experts for years to treat both malignant and benign tumors, mostly in the kidneys and prostate.

By Natassia Gerrard, NoCamels

IceCure - Health News - Israel - Photo: IceCure Medical

An Israeli biomedical company, IceCure Medical, has taken the technology into the field of breast tumors. Their system, called IceSense3, has been specifically developed to treat fibroadenomas, which are the most common type of benign breast tumors, typically seen in young women aged 15 to 30.

The system is currently being used worldwide for treatment of the benign lumps, but now also holds promise as a potential treatment option for malignant breast tumors, after a successful clinical trial on four women in Japan. Continue Reading »

Category: Innovations & Discoveries | Tags: breast cancer

New IDF military college to move to east Jerusalem

Interior Ministry approves National Defense College plan to build structure on Mount of Olives; Peace Now slams move as “crazy.”

By MELANIE LIDMAN

The Interior Ministry on Monday gave its initial approval for a new military college in east Jerusalem, which will be located on the Mount of Olives. The 42,000 square meter structure of the new National Defense College is planned for an open area between the Mount of Olives and Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus.

IDF soldiers view J'lem from Mt. of Olives - Photo: Darren Whiteside/Reuters

Left-wing groups slammed the approval. “This is a crazy plan to build a military college in one of the most sensitive areas in dispute,” said Hagit Ofran of Peace Now, who oversees the Settlement Watch Division. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: IDF

Where’s Reuters On Its Own Photographer’s Brutal Beating?

A Ramallah protest got ugly yesterday when PA police started cracking skulls — including reporters. Maan News reports that several reporters were beaten up, had their cameras confiscated or destroyed, and that two journalists were even taken into custody.

by Pesach Benson

Electronic Intifada wasn’t spared either. The PA Interior Ministry ordered an inquiry while outrage was all over Twitter.

One of the journalists beaten was Saed Hawari, a Reuters cameraman. Although the Washington Post picked up on the story, it’s strange that I haven’t seen Reuters mention the attack on their own photographer. Unless I missed something, the radio silence is a tremendous disservice — both to readers, and to Reuters itself. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: Palestinian Authority Police

VIDEO: How Jonathan Pollard was caught

The 21-year-old internal briefing video produced by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, to encourage U.S. government employees to lose their inhibitions about reporting a colleague for exhibiting suspicious behavior, was released under the Freedom of Information Act.

By Eli Leon and Israel Hayom Staff

The following video depicts the events leading to the capture of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard in 1985. The internal briefing video, which was made 21 years ago, was produced by the Threat Countermeasures Branch of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and released under the Freedom of Information Act on June 25, 2012 to the IRmep Center for Policy and Law Enforcement.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Jonathan Pollard

By YourJewishNews.com/Shifra Unger

Menorah like image from the second Temple found in Rome.

The Romans were again caught red handed looting the Jewish second Temple.

Historical sources describe the menorah looted by the Romans when they destroyed the Second Temple of Jerusalem in AD 70, as gold, as God instructed Moses in Exodus.

The menorah image stolen by the Romans from the Jewish second Temple

Thus, the recent discovery that a version of the menorah in a bas-relief on the Arch of Titus in the first century of the Roman Forum was originally painted rich yellow color should not be a surprise. But because the image faded to the color of the stone foundation after a long time – like so many other things in and around the Forum – a precise knowledge of their once brilliant pigmentation appears as an interesting revelation for historians and archaeologists. Continue Reading »

Category: Innovations & Discoveries, Jewish News | Tags: archaeology