Archive for January 31, 2014

French court rescinds terrorist of his honorary residency

 

Montreuil Court vacated the city council of Bagnolet’s declaration making the incarcerated Lebanese terrorist, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, an honorary resident.

 

A French court nullified an honorary title conferred on the murderer of an Israeli diplomat.

George Ibrahim Abdallah - Photo: France24

George Ibrahim Abdallah – Photo: France24

The administrative court of Montreuil on Thursday nullified the honorary residency that the suburb of Bagnolet conferred on Georges Abdallah, according to a report published on Friday by the Le Figaro daily.

Abdallah, a pro-Palestinian militant, was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for his role in the 1982 assassinations of  Yacov Bar-Simantov, a second counsellor at the Israeli embassy in Paris, and Charles Ray, a U.S.

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Peace talks with Abdullah in the middle

Kerry’s current peace plan was reportedly proposed by Jordan’s King Abdullah II to President Obama last year in order to keep Jordan from becoming recognized as Palestine.

 

Since January 8, 2014, the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper has published three reports on the alleged details of the Kerry peace plan.  Al-Quds Al-Arabi is one of the most prominent Arab newspapers and considered a major source of inside information on most Arab regimes. According to Al-Quds Al-Arabi, US Secretary of State John Kerry’s plan revolves around Jordan’s king settling Palestinian refugees living in Arab countries in his kingdom and in exchange he would receive $55 billion for “Jordan’s role in hosting refugees for over five decades”. Continue Reading »

Signed Israeli-Palestinian gas deal still bogged down in politics

 

Agreement signed earlier this month involving Israel’s natural gas field and Palestinian power firm, may need top-level gov’t support to succeed.

By Reuters

A billion-dollar deal signed this month involving an Israeli natural gas field and a Palestinian power firm marked a rare private-sector victory over political conflict, but it may need top-level support to succeed.

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

The Tamar gas rig off the coast of Israel – Photo: Albatross Aerial Perspective/AP

Palestinian officials say implementation will depend on guarantees by the governments of both sides, whose mutual distrust has grown amid troubled US-backed peace talks.

The deal’s Palestinian backers say Israel has pledged that any future political or security crisis will not interrupt the gas supply. Continue Reading »

BDS to New Zealand: ‘Refuse visas to Israeli dance troupe’

BDS & Pro-Palestinian activists are trying to prevent Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company from performing in February at the New Zealand arts festival.

 

 

Pro-Palestinian activists in New Zealand have called on the government there not to issue visas to members of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company, which is scheduled to perform at next month’s New Zealand Festival of the Arts.

In letters to New Zealand’s immigration and foreign ministers, activists from several different pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel boycott groups expressed their “concern” about the scheduled Batsheva performance, according to J-Wire, a Jewish news source from Australia and New Zealand. Continue Reading »

Israel’s Defense Minister: ‘We Will Hurt Those Who Hurt Us’

Minister Moshe Ya’alon vows not to allow Hamas to attack Israelis ‘just because they are Jews.’

By Tova Dvorin

 

Ya’alon spoke at a ceremony from Germany’s Platform 17 Friday, where he vowed to hold Hamas accountable for Thursday’s rocket fire on Israel.

“We view Hamas as responsible for what is happening in Gaza, and if it doesn’t know how to impose its authority over the [terror] cells that fire [rockets] and attack Israel, it will pay a heavy price,” Ya’alon declared. “The IDF and security forces will continue to pursue anyone who shoots at Israel or tries to carry out attacks against it, and will not hesitate to hurt him and the people who send him.” Continue Reading »

Reuters News Headline Falsely Accuses Israel of Threatening Lebanese Civilians

Reuters’ classic anti-Israel bias in it’s news is adequately demonstrated in this purposely misleading and erroneous headline.

By RH / CAMERA

 

A Reuters article about an Israeli military general’s warning to Hezbollah over its establishment of thousands of terrorist bases within residential buildings was published under the following erroneous headline:

 

 

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Reuters Headline screenshot

 

In fact, the article makes clear that Israel did not threaten any Lebanese civilians. Rather, Israel’s Air Force chief, Major General Amir Eshel called out Hezbollah for establishing thousands of terrorist bases within residential buildings and warned that the Israeli army would not be deterred from retaliating for attacks launched from within these quarters. Continue Reading »

Israel Air Force returns night-time response to Hamas for earlier rocket fired from Gaza

— BREAKING NEWS —

IAF aircraft hit several of Hamas’ terror-related sites in Gaza, in retaliation for a rocket attack targeting the city of Netivot a few hours earlier.

By Elad Benari

 

Israeli Air Force (IAF) aircraft targeted several terror-related sites in Gaza on Thursday night, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement.

IAF airstrike in Gaza (archive) – AFP photo

According to the statement, the airstrikes targeted a weapons facility and a terrorist center in northern Gaza, as well as a weapons storage site in southern Gaza.

Direct hits were identified, and all aircraft returned safely to their basis, the IDF said. Continue Reading »

IHH designated as a terror group by most – not the U.S.

 

Turkey’s based IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation has already been blacklisted as a terrorist group by the Netherlands, Germany and Israel, yet Obama’s administration has failed to take similar action.

By John Rossomando, IPT News

 

 

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Gaza Rocket hits open area in Sdot Negev – no injuries or damage

 

Red alert siren sounds throughout Netivot region when Gaza launched rocket explodes in open area within the Sdot Negev Regional Council.

By Mattan Tzuri

 

Rocket launched from the Gaza Strip hit in an open area in the Sdot Negev Regional Council. No injuries or damage were reported.

me digging out Katyusha rocket

retrieving fallen rocket [file] – IsraelandStuff/PP

A red alert siren sounded in the Netivot region. Residents reported to hearing blasts. No injuries were immediately reported.

Last week, at least one rocket hit an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council and two rockets hit open areas near Eilat. No injuries or damage were reported. Continue Reading »

Arab Shot Running Towards Iron Dome Position

IDF soldiers shoot at Arab man’s legs after storming the Iron Dome installation screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’.

By Maayana Miskin

 

Soldiers guarding an Iron Dome installation near the city of Eilat fired on an Arab man on Thursday after he ran at them screaming “Allahu Akbar” (Arabic for “G-d is great”).

Fearing a terrorist attack, the soldiers shot at the man’s legs in order to stop him. The man was hit and injured.

He was taken to Eilat’s Yoseftal Hospital. It is not yet clear whether the man is armed and was attempting a terrorist attack, or is mentally ill. Continue Reading »

N.Y. Senate: New law penalizes universities that boycott Israel

The new law doesn’t specifically mention Israel, but the bill’s sponsor Senator Jeffrey Klein (D-Bronx/Westchester), noted that academic boycotts of Israel were what inspired him to introduce the legislation.

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The New York State Senate approved a bill that would suspend funding to educational institutions that fund groups which boycott Israel.

Bill de Blasio and Sheldon Silver.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, left, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. – Photo: AP

The legislation, approved Tuesday in a 56-4 vote, bans state funding to colleges that fund organizations boycotting “countries that host higher education institutions chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York.” Continue Reading »

Fatah official: Palestinians seeking Iranian involvement in conflict with Israel

 

With signs of rapprochement between Islamic Republic and Abbas, Jibril Rajoub says Palestinians “entitled” to seek all channels to recruit any ally for its cause.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
 

 

The Palestinians have an interest in an Iranian role in the region, Jibril Rajoub, a senior Fatah official, said Thursday.

Fatah official Jibril Rajoub. - Photo: REUTERS

Fatah official Jibril Rajoub. – Photo: REUTERS

He announced that Fatah has not abandoned the option of “armed resistance” if the peace talks with Israel fail.

“The year 2014 is the year of decision; we either go to a state or to a confrontation,” Rajoub said. “The confrontation would be on three fronts: launching and escalating resistance; boycotting and isolating Israel and halting all forms of normalization [with Israel] on the political, academic, trade and economic levels.” Continue Reading »

Israel’s Strategic Affairs and Intelligence Minister: Abbas ‘most anti-Semitic leader’ in world

Israeli Strategic Affairs & Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz reveals the obvious, that under PA leadership, ‘level of anti-Israel & anti-Semitic incitement in the PA has reached new heights.’

 

 

Strategic Affairs and Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas the world’s most anti-Semitic leader, AFP reported on Thursday.

“Since Ahmadinejad left the political stage, Abu Mazen [Abbas] is the number one leader in injecting anti-Semitic and anti-Israel poison,” Yuval Steinitz said, at the Institute for National Security Studies conference at Tel Aviv University last Sunday.

“Under Abu Mazen, the level of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement in the [Palestinian] Authority has reached new heights, where the bottom line is the destruction of Israel. Continue Reading »

New National Park Dedicated as Where David Defeated Goliath

Archaeologists have determined that a building unearthed south of Jerusalem, at Khirbet Qeiyafa, was King David’s ‘Suburban Palace.’

By Gil Ronen

 

A national park will be declared at Khirbet Qeiyafa and the Ela Valley, southwest of Jerusalem, and a residential neighborhood that had been planned next to the location will not be built. The area is believed to be the spot where the young David fought Goliath, according to the Bible.

An aerial view of the Khirbet Qeiyafa dig – Skyview/Archaeological Authority

The decision was made by the Jerusalem District Committee for Planning and Construction. The national park will stretch from Beit Natif in the east to Khirbet Qeiyafa in the west, and the construction of the southern neighborhood of Ramat Beit Shemesh will be scrapped. Continue Reading »

US intel assessment: Tehran can now build & deliver nuclear bomb

 

Director of U.S. National Intelligence:  Iran has the means to assemble & deliver nuclear device, but question is whether it has the political will.

By i24News

 

Iran has the technological capabilities to produce nuclear weapons should it decide to do so, the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, said in a report to a US Senate intelligence committee on Wednesday.

Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper - Photo: Jim Watson/AFP

Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper – Photo: Jim Watson/AFP

The report, titled “US Intelligence Worldwide Threat Assessment,” discusses how Iran could make and deliver nuclear bombs if it made the political decision to do so.

“Tehran has made technical progress in a number of areas — including uranium enrichment, nuclear reactors, and ballistic missiles — from which it could draw if it decided to build missile-deliverable nuclear weapons,” wrote Clapper.

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