Archive for December 31, 2012

What Does Abbas’s Latest Threats to Quit Really Mean?

 

 

Why doesn’t Abbas consider the possibility of handing the “keys” to another Palestinian? Abbas apparently believes that if he cannot lead the Palestinian Authority no one else should — that if he comes down, then the entire Palestinian Authority should also collapse. A changing of the guard is something that the US and the EU, the major funders of Abbas and his associates, could play a major role in bringing about.

By Khaled Abu Toameh

 

Mahmoud Abbas has once again threatened to dismantle the Palestinian Authority which he heads in the West Bank.

This time he chose to make his new old threat in an interview with the daily Haaretz. Continue Reading »

2013: Israel Falling off Newspaper’s Headlines

Int’l media seem to be beginning to get fed up with Abbas & his PA issues.  Syria & Iran will be taking the headlines.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Major media outlets’ reviews of 2012 and predictions for big news stories in 2013 indicate that Israel finally may have to spend less time defending itself as the Palestinian Authority’s demands become old hat and pale in the shadows of events in Syria and Iran.

The Council of Foreign Relations, considered to be the most influential American think tank, predicted that the Middle East is a major issue for the Obama administration but not because of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Continue Reading »

UK English textbook erases Israel

Not only in the Middle East, students are taught that Israel has no right to exist. The more students around the world are fed this brand of propaganda, the more remote prospects for any true peace to happen.

By Ryan Jones

 

A popular textbook used by institutions and teachers to teach English as a second language to students in the UK has been found to have a serious anti-Israel bias.

British textbook erases Israel

British textbook erases Israel

“I teach English as a foreign language in a further education college in Nottingham, England. I came across the attached map and couldn’t believe my eyes!” Continue Reading »

50 Year Low in Road-Deaths Despite Increase in Road Vehicles

Yisrael Katz, the Transportation and Road Safety Minister says the number of road deaths in Israel in 2012 dropped 25% from 2011

According to the Transportation Minister, Israel is now 10th in the world in terms of fewest road accidents per kilometers driven.

By Dan Lavie

 

 

The number of deaths in road accidents in Israel in 2012 was the lowest in 50 years, Transportation and Road Safety Minister Yisrael Katz announced on Sunday.

Moving in the right direction: Road deaths are down 25 percent, said Transportation and Road Safety Minister Yisrael Katz. – Photo: Yossi Zeliger

Since the start of the year, there were 287 deaths in road accidents in Israel, a 25 percent drop from 2011.

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Education Minister of Israel fires back at British criticism

“A university is an obstacle to peace? And as long as it was not a university there was a chance for peace?”

“The incitement in the Palestinian educational system is the true obstacle to peace,” Saar said.

By JTA

 

The education minister of Israel responded to British condemnation of planned construction in eastern Jerusalem and accreditation of Ariel University Center.

Education Minister Gideon Saar in the Northern Galilee – Photo: facebook profile pic

“Our connection to Ariel is at least as strong as the UK’s connection to the Falkland Islands,” Gideon Saar said late Saturday.

“A university is an obstacle to peace? Continue Reading »

Poll: Majority of Israelis back peace plan that guarantees security

2 separate polls find that 2/3 of Israelis would vote for peace accords, including more than 1/2 of Likud Beytenu and Bayit Yehudi supporters.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

About two-thirds of Israelis would vote in favor of a peace agreement with the Palestinians if a deal which took Israel’s security concerns into account was brought to a referendum, two polls conducted on behalf of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace found.

Abbas and NetanyahuThe Dahaf Institute poll found that 67% of  Israelis say they would support a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians if it takes into account Israeli security concerns.

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Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Top anti-Semites for 2012

Top spot on Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list are 2 of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood officials for their inflammatory statements against Israel & a public prayer calling on Allah to destroy Jews & their supporters.

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VIDEO – International human rights group Simon Wiesenthal Center has recognized 2012’s biggest anti-Semites in its annual top 10 list of worst offenders.

Video courtesy of jn1.tv

Tied for the top spot were Muhammad Badie and Futouh Abd al-Nabi Mansour of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. The two earned the title for the Brotherhood after making a number of inflammatory statements against Israel, as well as for a public prayer by Mansour earlier in the year, calling on Allah to destroy Jews and their supporters. Continue Reading »

Bennett Reminds Peres: Because of Oslo ‘Peace’ 1,600 Israelis Killed

This morning, Jewish Home chairman Bennett tells President Peres “enough, already” with “peace process” talk. Oslo ‘Peace’ Killed 1,600 Israelis

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Naftali Bennett, who heads the Bayit Yehudi (merged Jewish Home-National Union) slate of Knesset candidates, reminded President Shimon Peres Monday that the Oslo Accords “brought us more than 1,600 murdered Israelis.”

Responding to the President’s controversial remarks on political issues in the middle of the election campaign, Bennett stated, “Enough, already. The President of the country is supposed to represent all of the country, not just a part of it.”

Peres said on Sunday that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas wants peace and is the only man with whom Israel can sign an agreement. Continue Reading »

Israeli professor receives OBE from Queen Elizabeth II

Prof. Penny Ur of the Oranim Academic College of Education received the Order of the British Empire award for her services to the English language.

 

Prof. Penny Ur of the Oranim Academic College of Education was awarded with Queen Elizabeth II’s Order of the British Empire on Saturday for her services to the English language.

Prof. Penny Ur

Prof. Penny Ur – Photo: Thompson Rivers University

“At first, when I got the call from the British ambassador and he told me the news, I thought someone was playing a joke on me,” Ur, who specializes in English, told The Jerusalem Post in a phone interview on Sunday.

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Israeli crosses border from Golan Heights into Syria

A man from Kfar Qassem said to be mentally unstable crosses border to Syria with hope of convincing Assad to stop the bloodshed.

Maor Buchnik

 

An Israeli citizen crossed the border into Syria in the Golan Heights region on Saturday. IDF forces called to the border fence identified the man as a 37-year-old resident of Kfar Qassem after finding his car.

Golan border Photo: EPA

Golan border – Photo: EPA

The IDF said he is still in Syria and may be returned to Israel soon.

The man’s family said he was mentally unstable. “They publically stated that he traveled to Syria to tell Assad to stop massacring his people,” Golan District Police chief Yossi Katab said. Continue Reading »

Israeli Astrologist sees Oslo Accords Disintegrating

Israel Hayom’s Astrologist Tova Safra consulted the stars to see what 2013 holds for the Oslo Accords signed by Israel and the Palestinians in 1993.

 

2013 will be a bad year for the Oslo Accords, astrologist Tova Safra predicted on Friday in the Israeli daily Israel Hayom, which is owned by Jewish U.S. casino mogul Sheldon Adelson.

Oslo Accords

President Clinton presides over the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, a time that brought hope for peace and revitalized Israeli youth culture, paving the way for hip-hop to take hold in Israel. – Photo by AP

Safra consulted the stars to see what the new year holds for the agreement signed by Israel and the Palestinians in 1993, and made a number of less-than-encouraging predictions. Continue Reading »

Palestinian Authority Makes It Official: Palestine is all of Israel

Heading the PLO as well as the Palestinian Authority,  Mahmoud Abbas, officially adopts their new logo: All of Israel as Palestine.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

The Fatah party, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has made official what it has been saying quietly and has adopted a new logo showing all of Israel as Palestine.

The logo marks the 48th anniversary of the founding of Fatah by Yasser Arafat and includes a map with the PA flag and a map of Israel that appears to be a depiction of the black and white checkered kefiyah, a symbol of the violent intifada, and the slogan “the state and victory.” Continue Reading »

Revealing a sordid Nazi plan

Could Hitler have actually been alive & well and living in Argentina? A new documentary film says that’s exactly what happened.

 

Hitler’s last days were not spent in his Berlin bunker, but in tranquil luxury in an Argentine hotel – at least, that’s the story that director/ producer Noam Shalev and researcher Pablo Weschler are trying to prove in their upcoming documentary, Revealed: Hitler in Argentina, set for release next year.

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“We will never know the truth,” Shalev cautions, sitting in the offices of Highlight Films, the video production company he and Weschler run in Bnei Brak.

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Muslim soldier hides IDF military service from neighbors

‘Samir’, a Muslim Arab from the Galilee, may hide his uniform & weapon from his neighbors, but is still proud to be an IDF combat soldier.

By Reuven Weiss

 

He is a combat soldier in the IDF, but when he goes home to his village in northern Israel, Samir (alias) has to change out of his uniform and hide his weapon. A Muslim Arab who chose to volunteer for army service, Samir and his family can expect nothing but hostility if his neighbors find out about his military career.

“I love the army,” he says. Samir, 26, serves in the Tavor battalion, one of the Home Front Command‘s search and rescue battalions whose men also perform combat activities in addition to their rescue efforts. Continue Reading »

Israel Makes History With $3 Billion Move Towards Energy Self-Sufficiency

Israel has just launched a Texas built offshore platform for pumping natural gas, a step towards energy self-sufficiency for the 1st time in history.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Israel has launched an offshore platform for natural gas, a step towards energy self-sufficiency for the first time in history.

A natural gas rig west of Haifa, Israel. - Photo: Albatross Aerial Perspective/AP

The Finance Ministry expects gas production from the Tamar natural gas field to contribute 0.8% to GDP next year – – Photo: Albatross Aerial Perspective/AP

The platform, taller than Israel’s highest building, is located 24 miles west of the southern port city of Ashkelon and is scheduled to receive gas in April. Continue Reading »