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| July 26, 2012
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Just a day before Romney’s visit, Obama is to sign an act expanding US military cooperation with Israel

By signing the U.S.-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act, Obama is trying to upstage Romney for the presidency, as he arrives for an official visit to Israel.

By Barak Ravid

The White House may be trying to steal the thunder from Republican candidate Mitt Romney on the eve of his visit to Jerusalem. A day before Romney is due to land in Israel, U.S. President Barack Obama will sign the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act, which is meant to approve and expand military cooperation between the two countries.

U.S. President Barack Obama

U.S. President Barack Obama. – Photo by AP

The act, which Congress passed a week ago, will be signed by the U.S. Continue Reading »

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| July 26, 2012
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Hevron: Arab Woman Arrested in Attempted Stabbing of Policeman

Young woman squirts pepper spray at Border Police, says she wanted to stab a soldier.

By Gil Ronen

 

A 20 year old Arab woman was arrested in Hevron Thursday in what police say was an attempt to stab soldiers.

The woman was arrested when she tried to spray pepper spray at Border Police at the Tzalbanit checkpoint, near the Cave of Patriarchs. A knife was then found in her bag.

In her initial interrogation she admitted that she intended to stab a soldier or policeman. She was taken away to be interrogated by the Shin Bet.

The Tatzpit news agency reported Thursday afternoon that about 40 Arabs rioted on the Cross-Binyamin Highway near Neve Tzuf and hurled rocks at vehicles passing on the road and at IDF soldiers. Continue Reading »

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| July 26, 2012
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PA: “Sports are meant for peace, not for racism”

The PA is against the moment of silence because they view the murder of Israelis by Palestinians not as terror but as heroism.

By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

 

 

The Palestinian Authority is against the moment of silence at the Olympics to commemorate the Israeli athletes murdered at the Munich Olympics in 1972. According to the headline in the official PA daily, “Sports are meant for peace, not for racism.”

The 11 members of the Israeli Olympic Delegation that were murdered by Palestinian terrorists.

According to Jibril Rajoub, President of the Palestinian Olympic Committee:

“Sports are meant for peace, not for racism… Sports are a bridge to love, interconnection, and spreading of peace among nations; it must not be a cause of division and spreading of racism between them [nations].”
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| July 26, 2012
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In Case it Wasn’t Understood, Israel’s Settlers Are Here to Stay

The aim to expand the existing Jewish settlements in Judea & Samaria, and create new ones, is not  a theological adventure, but is rather a combination of inalienable rights & realpolitik.

By DANI DAYAN

 

 

WHATEVER word you use to describe Israel’s 1967 acquisition of Judea and Samaria — commonly referred to as the West Bank in these pages — will not change the historical facts. Arabs called for Israel’s annihilation in 1967, and Israel legitimately seized the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria in self-defense. Israel’s moral claim to these territories, and the right of Israelis to call them home today, is therefore unassailable. Continue Reading »

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| July 26, 2012
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Clinton tells IOC: Hold memorial for Murdered Israeli Olympians

U.S. Sec. of St. joins int’l calls on Olympic Committee to honor slain Israeli athletes when games open on Friday • Athletes’ widows meet with chief to hand over petition, & call on spectators to stage silent protest at opening ceremony.

 

 

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling on the International Olympic Committee to commemorate the massacre of 11 Israelis by Palestinian gunmen at the Munich Games in 1972 with a moment of silence at Friday’s opening ceremony of this year’s games in London.

Ankie Spitzer, widow of an Israeli Olympian killed by Palestinian gunmen in 1972 Munich Olympics: We are outraged, we are angry, we are sad.

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| July 26, 2012
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Dubai police chief: Brother Arabs plotting overthrow of the Gulf states

Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan warns of “int’l plot” against Gulf states: “This is preplanned to take over our fortunes”; warning Iran, Syria and Muslim Brotherhood gov’t’s in N. Africa that the Gulf is a red line.

By REUTERS

 

DUBAI – Dubai’s chief of police has warned of an “international plot” to overthrow the governments of Gulf Arab countries, saying the region needs to be prepared to counter any threat from Islamist dissidents as well as Syria and Iran.

Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan - Photo: reuters

Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan – Photo: reuters

The comments by Dahi Khalfan, one of the most outspoken security officials in the United Arab Emirates, follow the detention in the UAE since April of at least 20 dissidents, according to relatives of the detainees and activists. Continue Reading »

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| July 26, 2012
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Jewish settlers enter the Temple Mount under protection of security forces

Jewish Israelis nearly came to blows with Muslims attending the midday prayers at the mosque.

 

More than 120 Jewish settlers entered Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday morning. Al-Aqsa Foundation for Islamic Endowments and Heritage said that several groups of illegal settlers entered the Noble Sanctuary from Al-Magharebeh Gate and spread around the compound in several places. There, it is reported, they established religious study circles and performed a number of prayers.

Jewish settlers enter Al-Aqsa Mosque under protection of security forces

Al-Aqsa Mosque

Witnesses who took video and still photographs of this latest incursion at Al-Aqsa Mosque said that the settlers were protected by heavily armed Israeli security officers. The settlers nearly came to blows with Muslims attending the midday prayers at the mosque. Continue Reading »

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| July 26, 2012
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BBC capitulates on Israel’s profile page for 2nd time.

BBC heeds anger caused by its choice of aggressively bias picture on Israel’s profile page; changes it to one of architecture

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The British Broadcasting Corporation has finally changed the picture placed on its website’s profiles page for Israel, replacing the aggressive image of a confrontation between a Border Guard officer and a Palestinian, to that of landmark Bauhaus architecture in Tel Aviv.

(Photo: AP)

Bauhaus architecture in Tel Aviv – Photo: AP

The unique style of architecture, knows the “White City of Tel Aviv” has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage site.

The BBC came under fire recently for failing to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on its Olympic Games website. Continue Reading »

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| July 26, 2012
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Iran accuses Israel of committing Bulgaria suicide attack

Iranian envoy to UN to Security Council: Israeli agents attacked their own people in Bulgaria

By Reuters

Iran’s UN envoy accused Israel on Wednesday of plotting and carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Bulgaria a week ago in which five Israeli tourists were killed.

A suicide bomber blew up the bus in a car park at Burgas airport, a popular gateway for tourists visiting Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, killing himself, the Israeli tourists and the Bulgarian bus driver and wounding more than 30 people.

Burgas bus

A burned out bus in Burgas, Bulgaria following a terrorist attack on July 18.

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| July 26, 2012
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Olympic Team Salutes Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital In Response to BBC’s Map

Israel’s Olympic team responds in a special video to the BBC’s claim that Jerusalem is not Israel’s capital

By Elad Benari

 

Israel’s Olympic team has decided to respond to the BBC’s assertion that Jerusalem is not Israel’s capital, by preparing a video in which Israeli athletes are seen saying they are proud to represent Israel “and its capital Jerusalem.”

The British broadcast authority, which has often been charged with bias against Israel, has come under fire for listing “East Jerusalem” as the capital for the “Palestinian Olympic team” while leaving Israel listed without a capital.

After Israel and Jews around the world complained, the BBC partly corrected its mistake and stated that Israel’s “seat of government is Jerusalem” while still omitting Jerusalem as the capital. Continue Reading »

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| July 25, 2012
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World Bank: Palestinian Economy is Unsustainable

World Bank says the PA economy is currently not strong enough to support a state due to foreign aid reliance.

 

The Palestinian economy’s recent growth is unsustainable because of its heavy reliance on foreign aid, a World Bank report said Wednesday.

For the past two decades, donor countries have propped the Palestinian economy by giving billions of dollars. The report said such aid has led to 7.7 percent gross domestic product growth between 2007 and 2011.The growth has been primarily in government services, real estate and other non-tradable sectors. In contrast, the report said manufacturing and agriculture have dropped significantly. Continue Reading »

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| July 25, 2012
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The United States is in a Serious Drought, and Israel Can Help

Israeli Water Desalination expert has solutions for the current drought in the US.

By Gideon Israel

 

The New York Times reported recently that the current drought afflicting the US, which has spread to more than half of the continental United States, is the most widespread drought in more than half a century – and it appears that conditions will worsen.

There have been forecasts of increased dry conditions over the central United States, a development which could lead to higher food prices and shipping costs.  The government has declared nearly 1,300 counties across 29 states a federal disaster area as a result of the drought. Continue Reading »

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| July 25, 2012
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Israeli PM Netanyahu calls on Turkey to ‘restore relations we once had’

Prime minister cites instability in region as driving force behind the need for the 2 former allies to resolve grievances • “Turkey & Israel are two important, strong & stable states in this region … it is important, particularly now, for stability in the region in these times.”

By Shlomo Cesana, Eli Leon, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel and its former ally Turkey must repair their relationship because of the instability in the region.

“Turkey and Israel are two important, strong and stable states in this region … We must find ways to restore the relations we once had … it is important, particularly now, for stability in the region in these times,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement on Tuesday.

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| July 25, 2012
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FM Liberman addresses Hezbollah as a terror group, relations with Turkey, & Syria’s biological weapons

Liberman cites adding Hezbollah to EU terrorist blacklist is a process that will take time.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

There is significant support for Israel’s call to add Hezbollah to the EU’s terrorist blacklist, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman told Israel Radio from Brussels, in an interview aired Wednesday morning.

Avigdor Lieberman

FM Avigdor Lieberman – Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski

Liberman met Tuesday with his EU colleagues as part of the annual EU-Israel Association Council meeting, where he called on the body to put the Lebanese organization on its terrorist list.

He said that discussion of his request, which seemed to be initially dismissed by EU officials, had been misrepresented, and that no one had expected it to be immediately accepted without debate.

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| July 25, 2012
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Olympic training camp has no security for Israeli swimmers

Olympic Team holds training camp in England with no security on site. Israeli officials are refusing to take responsibility.

By Nadav Zenziper

 

 

On the background of the Burgas terror attack and with reports in the global media claiming that security around the Israeli Olympic representatives would be increased, it has been revealed that the Israeli swimmers who have been training in the borough of Corby over the last few days did not receive a security detail.

Yedioth Ahronoth decided not to publish the incident for security reasons so long as no security measures were in place for the swimmers. Continue Reading »

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