Archive for June 11, 2013

Israeli PM says rumors of IDF forces operating in Syria is ‘nonsense’

According to PM Netanyahu, Iran is seeking an escalation in the area by ordering Syria to provide Hezbollah with advanced weapons.

Netanyahu affirms that Israel will do all in its power to stop this transfer of weapons.

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied reports in the media on Monday of alleged Israeli forces operating in Syria.

Netanyahu addressing the Knesset April 24, 2013.

Netanyahu addressing the Knesset – Photo: Emil Salman

“Any talk of undercover Israeli forces operating in Syria is nonsense,” Netanyahu said.

According to the prime minister, “Syria is in the midst of a long process of breaking apart that is seeping into our area. Continue Reading »

Convicted Terrorist Sues Media “damaged his reputation.”

Court ordered mediation session held between terrorist who planned Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s murder, and Arutz Sheva has displayed ‘Chutzpah’, worthy an Academy Award.

By Gil Ronen

 

A mediation session was held Monday between the lawyer representing terrorist Salah Hamouri, who plotted the murder of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and was released from Israeli jail in the Schalit deal, and the representatives of Arutz Sheva.

Hamouri sued Arutz Sheva, claiming that the website reported that he told the Reuters news agency, immediately after his release, that “Rabbi Yosef deserves to die.” This report, he claimed, “damaged his reputation.”

The mediation process was decided upon by the court and the contents of the sessions are therefore secret. Continue Reading »

Falk bashed by the EU, US, & UN Watch, called to resign at UNHRC

 

At this UNHRC session, the EU denounced Falk’s report on Israel as inaccurate and biased.

The US called for Falk’s removal.

UN Watch reported that the British Foreign Office has accused Falk of racism.

 

 

 

The European Union took a strong stand against United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur Richard Falk, denouncing as inaccurate and biased a report against Israel which he delivered to the body in Geneva on Monday.

UN Scoundrel Richard Falk

UN Scoundrel Richard Falk

“The EU continues to regret the unbalanced mandate of the Special Rapporteur and is also concerned that parts of the report include political considerations.

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Minister Bennett: More High Tech in Jerusalem and Less PA

In order to ensure Jerusalem stays strong and Israeli, the capital needs more high-tech industry and fewer PA institutions, Naftali Bennett said.

By David Lev

 

 

In order to strengthen Jerusalem, two things are necessary, Minister of Industry and Trade Naftali Bennett told Bayit Yehudi MKs at the party’s weekly meeting Monday. One is to encourage more high-tech businesses to open up shop in Jerusalem – and the other is to keep the Palestinian Authority, and its institutions, out of town.

Encouraging more high-tech businesses to open up offices in Jerusalem is a sure way to strengthen Israel’s presence in the city, Bennett said. Continue Reading »

Nice Kitty: Israeli Zoo Uses Acupuncture on Sick Tiger

Holistic medicine professional tries acupuncture on sedated Pedang, a 14 yr-old tiger, suffers who from chronic ear infection

Tel Aviv Zoological Center: This is the 1st time Chinese medicine is used on an animal, antibiotics failed to cure the infection.

By Zeev Klein

Veterinarians are trying acupuncture to cure a Sumatran tiger at an Israeli zoo. Continue Reading »

Liberman: Stop ‘pointless’ dialog with the EU. Time to cut them off

Former FM Liberman called the EU decision not to add Hezbollah to its list of terrorist organizations “hypocrisy incarnate”. The EU makes demands of Israel in relation to peace talks, but does nothing in return.

 

 

Israel should not continue to let the European Union get involved in diplomatic affairs, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avigdor Liberman said Monday after sending a sharply-worded letter to EU Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton urging her to include Hezbollah in the EU list of terrorist groups.

Former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman - Photo Marc Israel Sellem,The Jerusalem Post

Former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman – Photo: Marc Israel Sellem,The Jerusalem Post

Speaking at a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting, Liberman called the EU decision not to add Hezbollah to its list of terrorist organizations “hypocrisy incarnate,” which would “make the EU irrelevant, as far as we’re concerned, when it comes to dealing with the region.”

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Senior Israeli Minister: With Iran & Hezbollah’s help, Assad may win Syrian war

To win, Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Steinitz says: “It is in his (Assad’s) interest not to provoke us, so that we get involved.”

Steinitz’s assessment was quickly disavowed by others in PM Netanyahu’s coalition gov’t.

 

By Reuters

Syrian President Bashar Assad, backed by Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, may prevail in the more than two-year-old uprising against him, Israel’s intelligence minister said on Monday.

Free Syrian Army fighters eat Kibbeh

Free Syrian Army fighters eat Kibbeh, a traditional Allepian food, in Aleppo’s Karm al-Jabal district, June 8, 2013. – Photo: Reuters

Though the assessment was quickly disavowed by others in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government, it reflected the difficulties facing Israel and Western countries in predicting Syria‘s destiny and weighing intervention. Continue Reading »

BDS conference turns violent for Palestinian who ask the wrong question

In another demonstration of PA brutality in keeping their people in line, an activist was savagely beaten for asking a PA minister a ‘provocative’ question at the BDS conference in Bethlehem.

By Israel Today Staff

 

A conference promoting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel was held in Bethlehem over the weekend. But instead of making Israel look bad, the gathering demonstrated precisely why it is the Palestinian Authority from which average Palestinians have the most to fear.

Palestinian activist Nizar Banat after being beaten by Palestinian police for asking PA Economy Minister Jawal al-Naji a 'provocative' question

Palestinian activist Nizar Banat after being beaten by Palestinian police for asking PA Economy Minister Jawal al-Naji a ‘provocative’ question

Speaking at the conference was PA Economy Minister Jawad al-Naji, who was taken aback when one of the participants pointedly asked why the Palestinian regime bans normalization between average Palestinians and Israelis, but still conducts security coordination with the Israeli military. Continue Reading »

African nations agreed to receive African infiltrators from Israel

 

PM’s envoy to Africa, submits affidavit to High Court of Justice detailing how the Israel is working with 4 other African nations, which will help repatriate illegal African migrants.

Rights groups call gov’t plan a “smokescreen to prolong detention.”

By Edna Adato

 

 

Israel has reached an agreement with an unnamed African nation willing to absorb a portion of the African migrants residing in Israel illegally, an affidavit submitted to the High Court of Justice by the prime minister’s chief representative on the matter revealed.

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Thousands of Orthodox Jews Protest in Lower Manhattan

Thousands of haredim gathered in Manhattan to demonstrate against recent efforts in Israel to conscript haradi yeshiva students to the IDF.

Ironically, the ultra orthodox sect renowned for its uncompromising attitude toward liberal and reform Judaism, held banners calling for “freedom of religion”.

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UN Watch is under attack by BDS advocate from the UNHRC

 

After UN Watch successfully exposed abuses from the United Nations special rapporteur at the Human Rights Counsel, Falk is now trying to get the U.N. to remove its observer credentials.

By Hillel C. Neuer

 

 

We’re under attack.

 

Moments ago, the Jewish Telegraph Agency reported that:

 

“Richard Falk, the United Nations special rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to shut down the watchdog organization UN Watch.”

Headlines are now appearing in newspapers worldwide.

Falk is the U.N.’s permanent investigator against Israel. He endorses 9/11 conspiracy theories, supports Hamas, and exonerates Al Qaeda. Continue Reading »

Official figures report increased settlement construction

Central Bureau of Statistics’ report detailing overall construction starts, shows West Bank building at highest level since last year as compared to other regions throughout Israel.

Associated Press

Official Israeli figures show housing starts in West Bank settlements rose significantly in the first three months of 2013 compared to the same period last year – numbers that are likely to cast a shadow on the upcoming visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry.

Settlement construction (Archive photo: Reuters)

Settlement construction – Archive photo: Reuters

A document on housing starts released by the Central Bureau of Statistics showed that building in the West Bank jumped from 313 housing starts between January and March last year to 865 the same period this year. Continue Reading »

Egypt’s highly influential Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Hizbullah ‘Party of Satan’

Influential Egyptian Muslim Scholar reconsiders stand on Iran & Hizbullah, after years of supporting them.

By Gil Ronen

 

The highly influential Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, retracted his previous defense of Hizbullah and Iran, in an interview with Al Arabiya aired on Sunday.

Hezbollah flag - Photo: AFP

Hezbollah flag – Photo: AFP

“When Hizbullah was fighting against Israel, I defended it. I stood against the Muslim scholars in Saudi Arabia, the most renowned scholars who warned us against Hizbullah,” he said.

“They warned us against Hizbullah’s plans to sow discord. They warned us against their ideology and intentions. Continue Reading »

Secret EU funding for inciting Palestinian NGO’s and BDS leader

NGO Monitor issues report saying the EU’s funds conflict & violence to groups that were centrally involved in 2001 Durban Forum’s strategy of ‘political warfare & demonization of Israel’

By Ynet news staff

 

In a new report presented to members of the European Parliament, NGO Monitor details the damaging impact of “highly secretive EU funding for radical political advocacy NGOs.”

 

EU flags – Photo: AFP

According to NGO Monitor, EU funds are going to organizations involved in anti-Israel boycotts and violent demonstrations, which “undermine the EU’s efforts to secure peace in the Middle East.”

According to NGO Monitor, the report, titled “Lack of Due Diligence and Transparency in European Union Funding for Radical NGOs,” shows how EU-funded NGOs lead the campaigns to demonize Israel through the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) – actions that “totally contradict the EU’s proclaimed objectives of supporting peace and democratic development.” Continue Reading »

Iran sets up space tracking center to monitor objects in orbit

Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported that the Defense Minister said the space-center was for Iran’s space-related security but that Tehran would share the acquired data with other countries.

Iran said Sunday that it set up its first space tracking center to monitor objects passing in orbit overhead.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ahmad Vahidi - AP - 18.4.2012

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second left, listening to his Defense Minister, Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, as a rocket is paraded during army parade ceremony marking National Army Day outside Tehran, April 18, 2012. – Photo: AP

 

Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said the center was for Iran’s space-related security but that Tehran would also share the acquired data with other countries, the official IRNA news agency reported. Continue Reading »