Archive for September 4, 2013

Couple caught 1-on-1 on Route 1 – ‘In the act’

 

Traffic Police on ‘holiday duty’ shocked to find newly engaged couple having backseat sex on entry-ramp to a main road.

Suspected drunken driver arrested for DUI responds: ‘But, I didn’t do anything’

By Raanan Ben-Zur

Traffic police arrested on Wednesday early morning a 21-year-old man who had sex with his fiancé in his car on the on ramp leading to Route 1.

Illustration Photo: Herzl Yosef

As the police arrived the couple tried to escape, but police caught up with their car after several hundred meters.

As part of the general police readiness ahead of the holiday, police officers Yossi Jaropi and Ivan Glick were engaged in nighttime traffic enforcement. Continue Reading »

Russian President Vladimir Putin warns Obama: Do not attack Syria without UN approval

After comparing recent evidence of Syrian chemical weapons use, to faulty U.S. intel on Iraq in 2003, the Russian president threatens to supply advanced air-defense systems to Assad and elsewhere if America strikes without accepted int’l approval.

 

 

President Vladimir Putin warned the West against taking one-sided action in Syria but also said Russia “doesn’t exclude” supporting a UN resolution on punitive military strikes if it is proved that Damascus used poison gas on its own people.

Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin – Photo: AP

In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press and Russia’s state Channel 1 television, Putin said Moscow has provided some components of the S-300 air defense missile system to Syria but has frozen further shipments. Continue Reading »

Muslim Arabs Throw Stones at Jewish Visitors on Temple Mount

Israel Police force quickly enter the Temple Mount compound after Arab Muslims began throwing stones at the Jewish visitors.

By Kochava Rozenbaum

 

Police forces were dispatched on Wednesday to break up Muslim stone throwers who were targeting Jewish visitors on the Temple Mount (Har Habayit).

As soon as stones were thrown and riots broke out, police forces stepped in to make arrests.

Security forces were prepared for a riot as this incident follows renewed incitement by Islamic Movement leader Sheikh Raed Salah, who called for Muslims to physically prevent Jews from visiting the Temple Mount last week.

Yesterday, the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel was arrested on charges of “incitement against Israel and regarding the Temple Mount,” and is currently being questioned by police. Continue Reading »

Facebook Ignores its own ‘Terms of Service’ for Vile Anti-Semitic Pages

Facebook must be held accountable for their blatant disrespect of many using social media.  Antisemitism, Holocaust denial, bullying, credible threats of violence pages, groups and profiles are running rampant throughout Facebook.

By David Fischler / JNS.org

 

Facebook is the world’s largest social media website, one with hundreds of millions of users in well over a hundred countries. Despite its size, however, Facebook is not an entirely public forum on which “anything goes.” Rather, it is a worldwide gathering place where certain forms of speech and certain kinds of images are not allowed.

An anti-Semitic illustration on "The Untold History" Facebook page. Photo: Facebook.

An anti-Semitic illustration on “The Untold History” Facebook page.

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Abbas’ PA to provide ‘cash rewards’ to murderers released from Israeli Prison

 

Palestinian Authority cash prizes intended to honor prisoners’ “sacrifices & in order to guarantee them a suitable standard of dignified living.”

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
 

 

The Palestinian Authority government decided on Tuesday to provide “grants” to Palestinian prisoners who were recently released from Israeli prisons.

Freed Palestinian prisoner prisoner Hosni Sawalha greeted by niece as he arrives Ramallah.

Freed Palestinian prisoner prisoner Hosni Sawalha greeted by niece as he arrives Ramallah. – Photo: Abed Omar Qusini/Reuters

A statement issued by the government following its weekly meeting in Ramallah said that the “grants” were being presented to the prisoners in honor of their “sacrifices and in order to guarantee them a suitable standard of dignified living.”

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Video: Drama at Israel’s Int’l Airport as Shots Fired at Palestinians

 

Airport security cameras caught the dramatic events at main entrance to Ben Gurion Int’l Airport Monday night.

Security specialist reports that more aggressive response was needed

By Itay Blumenthal

Ben-Gurion Airport claimed this morning that airport security’s handling of Monday’s incident in which a stolen truck driven by two Palestinians breached the security barrier, was effective, but security specialists are raising difficult questions about the version of the affairs presented at the airport Tuesday. “Why did security not stop the struck right away? How did the truck reach so close to terminal 3? Would firing towards the wheels stop a potential terrorist from pulling the trigger?” Continue Reading »

FIFA head hosts Palestine-Israel soccer talks with goal to play

Chief of int’l soccer body, Sepp Blatter, suggests Israel & Palestine play a game of football together.

 

 

ZURICH — FIFA President Sepp Blatter hopes to have a solution by year’s end to the problem of Israeli security restrictions affecting Palestinian football, after holding talks with the two sides on Tuesday.

Sepp Blatter

FIFA President Sepp Blatter in Zurich, at a press conference following the meeting between Israeli and Palestinian soccer authorities. – Photo: Reuters

After hosting the leaders of the Israeli and Palestinian football associations, Blatter said they agreed to send delegates to a follow-up meeting later in September. Continue Reading »

After 6 weeks 15 yr-old Syrian Girl Released from Israeli Hospital

The young female teen was hospitalized for 6 weeks in northern Israel after incurring massive injuries from an explosion in Syria.

By Kochava Rozenbaum

 

A fifteen-year-old Syrian girl severely injured by a violent attack over a month ago, was released from the Ziv Medical Center in Tzfat on Tuesday, walking with crutches and wearing a smile.

Syrian Teen Smiles Leaving Ziv Medical Center – Hannah Bickle

Israel Defense Forces transferred the young girl to Israel from a field hospital in Syria where she underwent surgery for abdominal wounds and shrapnel injuries on both of her legs. The Syrian medics decided to amputate one of her legs, while the Israeli medical team was able to save the girl’s other leg from being amputated. Continue Reading »

Syria: Frustration & Outright Disgust

 

Whether or not the US or the int’l community ultimately punish Syria, it is evident that the thousands of dead Syrian bodies mean little to the UN, the EU, the BDS people and the like.

By ALAN BAKER

 

 

 

It is questionable whether or not the US and other countries, and the international community will ultimately punish Syria for the indiscriminate and criminal use of chemical weapons against its own civilian population.

Syrian President Bashar Assad on Instagram

Syrian President Bashar Assad on Instagram – Photo: Instagram

Whatever they decide to do, one striking fact nevertheless stands out. Over a thousand innocent civilians were cruelly murdered in Syria, in one fell swoop over a week ago.

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Egyptian helicopter-gunship kills & wounds dozens of Islamic militants in Sinai strike

The Egyptian official said the 2 Air Force  gunships fired 13 rockets after surprising 2 different Islamic militant gatherings near the Gaza border.

An Egyptian security official says helicopters have rocketed militant hideouts in the northern Sinai Peninsula, killing and wounding dozens. 

Egyptian Army soldiers patrol in Sinai.

Egyptian Army soldiers patrol in an armored vehicle backed by a helicopter gunship during a sweep through villages in in Sheikh Zuweyid, northern Sinai, Egypt in May. – Photo: AP

The official said the two helicopter gunships fired 13 rockets after surprising militant gatherings on Tuesday in two locations, al-Muqataa and Touma, south of the town of Sheikh Zuweyid near the border with Gaza. Continue Reading »

Iranian General Suggests that Israel is Close to Striking It

Lebanese daily newspaper reports senior Iranian military officer visited underground bunker of Hezbollah leader and briefed him on Teheran’s assessment.

By Gil Ronen

 

Iran believes that Israel is close to stiking its nuclear facilities, according to a report in Lebanese newspaper Al Jumhuriya, cited by Maariv/NRG. According to the report, a senior Iranian official recently visited Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in his hideout in the Dahiya section section of Beirut to discuss this assessment.

A senior military source confirmed to the Lebanese newspaper that the meeting had, indeed, taken place, but said that it had not been held inside the Dahiya – a neighborhood controlled by Hezbollah – but outside it. Continue Reading »

Unlike EU leaders, Beijing businesses seeking products labeled ‘Made in Israel’ !!

Visiting Chinese trade executives praise Israel’s “world-class products” and want to see them being sold in China.

 

 

 

The ubiquitous “Made in China” stamp that for years could be found on cheap manufactured goods in Israel and around the world is gradually giving way to a new economic reality.

JOHNSON LIU, deputy director-general of the China Foreign Trade Center, addresses Israelis in TA

JOHNSON LIU, deputy director-general of the China Foreign Trade Center, addresses Israelis in TA – Photo: Shlomi Mizrachi

On Monday, representatives from Canton Fair, China’s largest trade exhibition, met in Tel Aviv’s David Intercontinental Hotel and urged Israeli businesses to join the event in mid-October. But for the first time, they were not courting just importers to distribute Chinese goods to Israel; instead, they laid out the case for Israeli businesses to sell to China.

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Quebec to ban Jewish men wearing kippa in public

 

 

According to the new Charter of Quebec Values, skullcaps (kippa or yarmulke), religious jewelery,  & religious garments will be prohibited throughout public sector.

Canadian Jewish community outraged, where many compare initiative to Putin’s homophobic legislation.

By Tali Farkash

If you are a Jewish doctor in the Canadian health care system in Quebec, you may soon be forbidden to wear a skullcap. As part of the Charter of Quebec Values that is being developed these days in the Canadian province, employees of the public service will not be allowed to put on or wear religious symbols or garments.

Ban to apply to hospitals, government offices, schools and even toddler daycare centers (archives) - Photo: AP

Ban to apply to hospitals, government offices, schools and even toddler daycare centers (archives) – Photo: AP

These include wearing a Star of David or a cross, or putting on a yarmulke, burqa or Sihk turban – or any external religious garment or adornment, Canadian media reported. Continue Reading »

Former presidential candidate Ron Paul to keynote largest ‘anti-Semitic’ conference

The Fatima Center, a Catholic organizations is described by human rights groups as being possibly ‘the single largest group of hard-core anti-Semites in America’, will have Ron Paul as keynote speaker.

 

 

Former Texas Congressman and perennial GOP presidential contender Ron Paul is scheduled to keynote a conference in Canada next weekend of a “radical traditionalist” Catholic organization that’s described by human rights organizations as a major center of anti-Semitism.

Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas speaks at University of California, April 5, 2012.

In this April 5, 2012 file photo, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas speaks at the University of California at Berkeley, Calif. – Photo: AP

Other scheduled conference speakers include John McManus, president of the John Birch Society, the hoary staple of the far right, and Italian politician Roberto Fiore, founder of the neo-fascist Forza Nuova and a close ally of the British National Front. Continue Reading »

Rare Interview Reveals Yemenite Jewry Being Driven to Extinction

Rabbi Yahya Youssef Salem, the leader of Yemen’s embattled Jewish community reveals in a rare televised interview, the precarious plight of his dwindling flock.

By Ari Soffer

 

 

The leader of Yemen’s embattled and dwindling Jewish community has spoken of his community’s harrowing struggle to survive, in a rare interview with Yemen Today TV.

Yemenite Jews in Sana’a (Illustration) – Reuters

Rabbi Yahya Youssef Salem’s interview, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), provides a rare glimpse into the tragic existence of the few remaining Jews in the Middle East’s poorest country; trapped between Muslim extremists and unsympathetic government officials, and forced to completely submit their fate to state authorities just to survive. Continue Reading »