Archive for October 8, 2012

Hungarian radio station praised assult on Jewish leader

Hungarian Nationalist radio claimed recent attack on 62-year-old Budapest Jewish leader was a “response to general Jewish terrorism.”

By JTA

A Hungarian nationalist online radio station called the recent assault on a Jewish community leader in Budapest a “response to general Jewish terrorism.”
Hungarian police officers -Photo: REUTERS

Hungarian police officers – Photo: REUTERS

“Predictably and unfortunately, the good attackers were captured very quickly,” the news edition of Szent Korona Radio, or Holy Crown Radio, reported.

The report was about the arrest of two men, 20 and 21, last Friday on suspicion that they physically and verbally assaulted the 62-year-old president of the Jewish congregation of the Hungarian capital’s South Pest district. Continue Reading »

Palestinian attempts smuggling 3 snakes into Israel from Jordan

Border guards discover rare snakes in Palestinian’s luggage

Smuggler taken into custody, snakes transferred to Parks Authority

By Noam (Dabul) Dvir

 

Security guards on the Israeli border with Jordan were surprised on Sunday during a routine security check, when the X-ray machine used to check luggage, suddenly revealed three snakes that were hidden in the bag of a Palestinian man from Ramallah.

הנחשים שנמצאו בתוך התיק (צילום: משטרת ישראל)

Snakes found in Palestinian’s bag – Photo: Israel Police

The guards asked the man to open his luggage, and in it they found a plastic box with three rare snakes. The man attempted to smuggle the snakes into Israel. Continue Reading »

IDF response to Hamas rocket fire & hits Gaza targets

The IDF retaliated to a barrage of rockets on southern Israel by Palestinian terrorists.

Palestinians claim 16 civilians injured by IDF strikes since Sunday.

 

The Israel Defense Forces struck a number of sites in the Gaza Strip on Monday, including one located in a mosque, in response to continued rocket and mortar fire by Hamas and Islamic Jihad toward southern Israel throughout the morning.

Maj. Gen. Tal Russo and Eshkol Regional Council head Haim Yalin.


GOC Southern Command Maj. Gen. Tal Russo with Eshkol Regional Council head Haim Yalin, October 8, 2012. – Photo by Eliyahu Hershkovitz

In a statement released Monday, the IDF spokesperson said that the IDF hit “a number of terror cells and targets of the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in response to the rockets fired this morning toward territory of the state of Israel.” Continue Reading »

Israel Could Go ‘Solo’ on Iran in 6-8 Months

Former Ambassador to Washington Zalman Shoval reports that Israel believes it can succeed in a “solo” mission

Netanyahu to meet European leaders to press them on stiffening punitive measures on Iran.

News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Israeli leaders remain intent on acting to degrade Iran’s nuclear capabilities, probably within six to eight months, and Israel believes it has the capability to succeed in such a mission, an envoy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Foreign Policy’s The Cable on Friday.

Satellite image of Bushehr nuclear plant in Iran. – Photo: AP

Israel’s former ambassador to the U.S. and Israel Hayom columnist Zalman Shoval, who is considered close to the prime minister, told the publication that the recent tensions between Washington and Jerusalem over “red lines” over Iran’s nuclear program have been “dialed down.”

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UK think tank challenges EU on its Hezbollah torpor

Whereas Canada, Holland & the U.S. recognize Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, the EU does not.

By JONNY PAUL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT

 

LONDON – A prominent British think tank has launched a campaign calling on the EU to proscribe Hezbollah in an effort to sever its funding base in Europe and thwart its influence in the Middle East.

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Hezbollah parade in Beirut – Photo: Sharif Karim/Reuters

The Henry Jackson Society wants the EU and the UK to formally outlaw Hezbollah in its entirety – in line with the US, Canada and the Netherlands – and recognize it as “a terrorist organization that consistently uses violent terrorist tactics.”

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Nabed ‘red-handed’ – Settlers attacked cops posing as Palestinian shepherds

Undercover policemen who were posing as Palestinian shepherds were beaten by Jewish settlers with clubs.

Legal aid org: Police treats settlers like ‘worst enemies’.

By Itamar Fleishman

 

Three young Jewish settlers are suspected of attacking undercover police officers who were posing as Palestinian shepherds. One officer was injured in the incident.

According to police, the suspects punched the officers and attacked them with clubs because they assumed they were Arabs approaching the farm they were staying in. The Mount Sinai farm is located in the south Mount Hebron area.

On Sunday the Jerusalem District Court extended the suspects’ remand until Tuesday. Continue Reading »

French President to Jewish Leaders: We will fight anti-Semitism with ‘greatest firmness’

Meeting between President Hollande & community heads comes after raids on Islamist cell, shooting incident near Parisian synagogue.

France is boosting security at Jewish religious sites after blanks were fired at a synagogue west of Paris amid renewed concerns about anti-Semitism around the country.

French President Francois Hollande meeting with Jewish leaders.


France’s President Francois Hollande and French Jewish leaders following a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on October 7, 2012. Photo by AFP

French President Francois Hollande met Sunday with leaders of the country’s Jewish community and pledged to fight extremism and anti-Semitism “with the greatest firmness.”

He said that authorities “in the coming days, in the coming hours” will increase security at Jewish religious sites so they won’t be subject to the kind of attack that targeted a synagogue in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil on Saturday night. Continue Reading »

IAF Air Strike Kills Gaza Terrorist

An Israeli air strike in Gaza targets 2 Global Jihad terrorists, killing 1 and wounding 5

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

An Israeli air strike in Gaza on Sunday evening targeted two terrorists, the IDF Spokesperson said in a statement.

The statement named the two as Talat Khalil Muhammad Jerbi, a Global Jihad member from Rafiah and Mohammed Abdullah Hassan Makawi, a member of the Shura Council, a terror organization based in Gaza.

The operation was carried out jointly with the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), said the statement. It was unclear if the terrorists had been killed or wounded in the air strike. Continue Reading »

Egyptian president: Egyptians will never forget 1973 ‘historic victory’ over Israel

Morsi  tells cheering crowd in Cairo Egypt won its ‘land & dignity’ back during October war

Small rally held in support of real ‘war hero’ Mubarak, outside prison

By Elior Levy, Yonatan Gonen

 

Addressing tens of thousands of Egyptians Saturday evening during a ceremony commemorating the 39th anniversary of Egypt’s “victory” over Israel during the October 1973 war, President Mohamed Morsi said, “It was a monumental event. We will never forget the heroes and shahids (martyrs).”

Morsi during ceremony, Saturday – Photo: AP

Morsi was elected president of Egypt after Hosni Mubarak, a hero of the Yom Kippur War, was ousted. Continue Reading »

Israel assessing intel: Was UAV headed to Dimona?

IDF collects remnants of UAV as security establishment examines the possibility it was sent by Hezbollah to photograph Dimona reactor

IDF fears drones will be used to hit strategic sites

Ron Ben-Yishai

 

After Israeli fighter jets shot down a drone over the Yatir forest in the south Mount Hebron area on Saturday, the army is trying to figure out what its destination was. One of the possibilities the security establishment is looking into is that the unmanned aircraft, which was apparently Iranian-made, was on its way to test the option of infiltrating the nuclear reactor in Dimona, perhaps even to examine the option of targeting the plant in a future conflict. Continue Reading »

Latest Flotilla Ship with Activists Sails for Gaza from Naples

In the latest attempt to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza, activists from several countries sail on a Swedish ship from Naples

By Elad Benari

 

A Swedish ship with activists from several countries aboard sailed from Naples on Saturday, in the latest bid to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza, AFP reported.

Estelle ship leaves from Naples to Gaza

Estelle ship leaves from Naples to Gaza
AFP/Maddalena Tartaro

The report said that a crowd of well-wishers saw off the sailing vessel Estelle as it left the Italian port as part of the “Freedom Flotilla” movement.

“We think it will take around two weeks to get to Gaza, but it will obviously also depend on the weather conditions,” spokeswoman Ann Ighe said earlier. Continue Reading »

Video: Arab Youths Disrupt Bus Ride Just for Fun

Just Another day in Be’er Sheva: 2 young Arab boys on bus go from loud singing to rock throwing.

By Gil Ronen

 

It was a scene typical of the times in Israel. On a Be’er Sheva bus carrying mostly elderly Jews, an Arab boy began singing out loud in a way that seemed calculated to convey his disdain for his fellow passengers.

Repeated attempts by passengers and the driver to get the boy to pipe down only resulted in more disruption, as the boy was joined by another, younger boy, in their annoying song.

Push came to shove, shove came to kick, and the boys were taken off the bus, which drove away – but not before the boys had thrown a rock that smashed a hole in the pane of one of its doors. Continue Reading »

Dore Gold: Iran & its Nuclear Deception

Khomeini’s ideological legacy for the Islamic republic is to protect its nuclear program. He knew that Iran’s use of lies in its diplomacy in the past had been effective. One of the problems with Iran’s use of deception is that the West refuse to accept that they’ve been duped.

By Dore Gold

In a rare admission two weeks ago, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Fereydoon Abbasi, was quoted in al-Hayat saying the Iranian government had provided false information in the past to protect its nuclear program. Abbasi accused Britain’s foreign intelligence service, MI-6, of spying on Iran to justify the fact that it had decided to lie to the international community.

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Mahmoud Abbas: Israel blackmailing PA with the Palestinian prisoner issue

PA president accuses Israel of exploiting the suffering of Palestinian prisoners jailed before 1993 Oslo Accords.

Responding to Friday’s Temple Mount riots, Abbas accused Israel of launching “fierce assault” on al-Aksa Mosque.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, HERB KEINON

 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday accused Israel of “blackmailing” the PA leadership on the issue of Palestinian prisoners.

He also called for an emergency meeting of Islamic countries to discuss Israeli “aggression” against the Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem.

PA President Mahmoud Abbas  at the UN - Photo: Scott Eells/Bloomberg

President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN – Photo: Scott Eells/Bloomberg

Abbas said that Israel has agreed to the gradual release of only a limited number of prisoners who were jailed before the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. Continue Reading »

Families of Mavi Marmara victims file lawsuit against Israel

33 relatives of the 9 Turkish activists that were killed during the 2010 IDF raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla file a $5 million compensation lawsuit against Israel.

By Ynet

 

Some 33 relatives of the Turkish activists, who were killed in an Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara flotilla to Gaza in 2010, have filed a lawsuit against Israel seeking compensation for their losses, Hürriyet Daily Newspaper reported Saturday.

Archive photo of Marmara flotilla from May 2012 – Photo: AP

The families of Furkan Doğan, Cevdet Kılıçlar and Necdet Yıldırım, who were killed in the attack, filed a petition against Israel seeking financial and moral compensation, along with 30 other people who have suffered due to the attack. Continue Reading »