Archive for July 9, 2014

Olympic committee suspends Tunisia after barring Israel’s flag

The Chief of the Israeli baseball association was forbidden from displaying Israel’s flag at the World Baseball Softball Confederation congress in Tunisia.

 

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The International Olympic Committee has issued a warning to the international baseball and softball federation after an Israeli delegate was barred from displaying his national flag at a recent meeting in Tunisia.

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The IOC Executive in session. – Photo: International Olympic Committee

The IOC opened an investigation after the head of the Israeli baseball association, Peter Kurz, was told he could not display the Israeli flag or name plate at the World Baseball Softball Confederation congress in Hammamet, Tunisia, in May. Continue Reading »

Hidden Deal with Pope May Prevent Jews From Praying at David’s Tomb

Exclusive: Knesset Interior Committee meeting exposes secret arrangement with Christians that ‘soon no Jews at David’s Tomb.’

By Benny Toker, Ari Yashar

 

In a Knesset Interior Committee meeting on Monday chaired by MK Miri Regev (Likud), it was revealed that Christians received permission to hold fixed prayers in the David’s Tomb Compound, in a breach of the status quo that threatens Jewish prayer rights.

Rabbi Simcha Hacohen Kook, chief rabbi of Rehovot and rabbi of the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem’s Old City, took part in the Committee meeting and told Arutz Sheva about the serious implications of what was revealed. Continue Reading »

Hamas naval commander +3 eliminated by IAF surgical airstrike

In #OperationProtectiveEdge, IAF strikes homes belonging to Hamas official that are used as command & control centers.

 

In a joint IDF-Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) operation, the air force struck a vehicle containing a commander of Hamas’s naval commando unit, Muhammad Sa’aban, aged 24 on Tuesday.

Surgical strike by IAF - Photo: YouTube screenshot

Surgical airstrike by IAF in Gaza – Photo: YouTube screenshot

Palestinian media reported that four Hamas people in total were killed in the targeted strike on the vehicle.

Sa’aban’s commando unit operated in northern Gaza, security forces said. He was immediately killed in the strike. Sa’aban was a resident of Jabalia in Gaza. Continue Reading »

Israel to call to arms 40,000 reservists for extended Gaza operation

 

After Hamas ignored Jerusalem’s ceasefire attempts in it’s onslaught of hundreds of rockets aimed at Israeli civilian centers, the Israel cabinet votes to call up 40,000 reservists.

PM Netanyahu tells IDF to ‘take glove off’ and prepare for long Gaza operation.

By Yoav Zitun & Attila Somfalvi

 

The security cabinet has voted to call up some 40,000 reservists in preparation of a possible ground operation in Gaza Strip as part of Operation Protective Edge, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to “take off the gloves” in its confrontation with Hamas.

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IAF attacks Gaza terror targets – Photo: AFP

Netanyahu placed responsibility for the current round of fighting on Hamas, and said “Hamas chose escalation and it will pay a heavy price for it.” Continue Reading »

BBC Report: Palestinian supporters using false images on Twitter #OperationProtectiveEdge

The BBC has reported that many of the photos are not from the present Gaza conflict & many others are taken from Iraq or Syria conflicts.

 

The BBC has warned that Palestinians in Gaza and their supporters are using false images on Twitter to garner sympathy for their cause.

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Some of the images posted on Twitter under the #gazaunderattack hashtag. – Photo: BBC Screenshot

Many of the images that supposedly show Gaza under bombardment over the past week are neither current nor from Gaza, the global news organization wrote.

“Some of the images are of the current situation in Gaza,” the BBC said, “but a #BBCtrending analysis has found that some date as far back as 2009 and others are from conflicts in Syria and Iraq.” Continue Reading »

Operation Protective Edge – Day 1: Five Gazans Reported Killed by IDF Fire

Watch: IDF releases footage of missile hits on Hamas training facilities, and IDF Navy attacking Gaza targets.

Israel airstrike on central Gaza killed an Islamic terrorist named Ashraf Yassin.

By Arutz Sheva

 

An Israeli air strike on central Gaza killed a Palestinian Arab man on Tuesday, an emergency services spokesman said.

 

“A man named Ashraf Yassin was killed in an Israeli air strike west of Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza,” spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP.

Witnesses said the man was a terrorist from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamist Hamas movement.

Later Tuesday, AFP reported that IDF strikes killed four more people in Gaza. Continue Reading »

Jew-Killing is Most Lucrative Palestinian Profession

The murder & attempted murder of Jews has become one of the best paying and prestigious professions in the Palestinian Authority.

By Yossi Aloni

 

Israel’s security cabinet is exploring ways to curb monthly stipends paid by the Palestinian Authority to Palestinian terrorists sitting in Israeli jails.

Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti – Archives

The issue was again brought to the forefront as Israel sought ways to put pressure on the Palestinians to return three abducted Jewish youths, who have since been found murdered.

Data presented to the cabinet revealed that a terrorist sentenced to 10–15 years in an Israeli jail receives a salary of 6,000 shekels (USD $1,750) a month. Continue Reading »

IDF: Operation Protective Edge launched against Gaza’s massive rocket barrage on Israel

 

IDF operation comes after more than 70 rockets were reportedly fired at Israel on Monday

Israel instructs her southern residents to remain in or near protective shelters

By Ynet reporters

 

The IDF on Monday night announced the start of a military operation in Gaza aimed at halting the rocket fire that has increasingly plagued Israel’s southern communities in recent days.

Rocket launced from Gaza on Israel (Photo: AP)

Rocket launched from Gaza on Israel – Photo: AP

The “IDF has commenced Operation Protective Edge in Gaza against Hamas, in order to stop the terror Israel’s citizens face on a daily basis,” said the IDF Spokesman’s office in a tweet posted after 1am. Continue Reading »

Swedish man severely beaten with iron pipes for displaying Israeli flag by window

After thorough investigation, local Police suspect that the attack against the 38-year-old, in the Swedish city of Malmö, was a hate crime, reported The Local, Sweden’s English language website.

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A man was severely assaulted in the Swedish city of Malmö on Sunday night after hanging an Israeli flag out of his window, according to local media reports.

A screenshot of the flag hung in Malmo from The Local website.

Broken window & flag hung in Malmo – Screenshot from The Local website.

Police suspect that the attack against the 38-year-old was a hate crime, The Local website reported. “Our initial evaluation is that this is a hate crime,” policewoman Marie Keismar said.

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Israel’s Knesset Passes Bill Blocking Terrorists’ Benefits

Knesset’s landmark legislation to begin removing benefits for terrorist prisoners & ‘gestures’ to the Palestinian Authority.

By Shlomo Pitrikovsky

 

The Knesset approved the National Insurance Act bill in its second and third readings on Monday night, in a move which would see convicted terrorists stripped of Social Security benefits.

MKs Yariv Levin (Likud), David Rotem (Yisrael Beytenu), and Robert Ilatov (Yisrael Beytenu) drafted the bill, which stipulates that anyone convicted of terrorism-related crime, served more than ten years in Israeli prison, and then was released as part of peace talks or other negotiations, is ineligible for social security benefits.

Benefits to be stripped include maternity benefits, unemployment benefits, accident insurance, bankruptcies for corporations, retirement pensions and car loans, among others. Continue Reading »

Israel Police arrest 1st Jew for online incitement to violence

 

Police arrest a 37 yr-old Arad resident for posting incitement material on an online group called “The Jewish Gang”
• PM Netanyahu: I do not distinguish between acts of terror & incitement from either side; both will be dealt with severely.

By Itsik Saban & Shlomo Cesana

 

The first arrest of an Israeli Jew for online incitement to nationalistic crimes has been made. The National Cyber Crimes Unit of the Lahav 433 Major Crimes Unit arrested a 37-year-old Arad resident as part of the investigation into online incitement to racist and violent acts.

Jewish Israelis were questioned after posting material on an online group called “The Jewish Gang” – Photo: AP

Two more citizens, a 23-year-old from Mevaseret Zion and a 22-year-old from Petach Tikva, were detained for questioning over allegations of publishing online extremist material calling for violence.

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After 2 years of weekly pro-Palestine protests, SodaStream store in Britain closes

Since 2012, pro-Palestinian activists from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign have demonstrated every Saturday as part of the global BDS movement.

By JTA

 

An Israeli-owned store in England that sold replacement parts for SodaStream closed after two years of weekly boycott protests.

Israel boycott activists outside the EcoStream shop in Brighton  - Photo: Sandy Rashty

Israel boycott activists outside the EcoStream shop in Brighton – Photo: Sandy Rashty

The EcoStream shop in the coastal town of Brighton shut down last week, the Jewish Chronicle reported.

The store sold the recyclable bottles for the SodaStream machines made in the factory in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim.

Since September 2012, pro-Palestinian activists from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign have demonstrated in front of the store every Saturday as part of the global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.

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6 Arab terrorists killed in Gaza as IDF foils Palestinian terror attack on Israel

 

Hamas source says 6 Palestinians killed in tunnel explosion were their fighters planning a ‘significant’ operation against Israel.

By Ynet staff

 

A senior military source said that the Palestinians killed overnight Sunday in the Gaza Strip were Hamas members “who were in the tunnel with explosives” and that “the tunnel was intended for a significant terror attack with special infrastructure and an anti-soldier force.”

Vue d'un tunnel creusé en territoire israélien depuis la bande de Gaza, le 13 octobre 2013  ( David Buimovitch (AFP) )

Gaza Tunnel – David Buimovitch/AFP

According to the source, the IDF will continue to attack similar targets in the coming days. The operation against the tunnel was undertaken several days ago; the Hamas members touched the explosives tonight and it caused the tunnel’s explosion.” Continue Reading »

Tehran University professor/cleric: “Jews are sorcerers”

A Tehran University professor, on an Iranian state TV broadcast, discusses Judaism and the Jewish Sorcerers & Genies.

 

An Iranian cleric has accused Jews of being skilled sorcerers and said that Israel uses their power against Iran.

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YouTube Screenshot of Iranian cleric Valiollah Naghipourfar on state TV.

The Tehran University professor, who was recently interviewed on Iran’s state broadcaster, said that Jews use sorcery for espionage. Valiollah Naghipourfar talked about jinns, or genies, according to The Daily Beast.

“Can jinns be put to use in intelligence gathering?” the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting presenter asks the professor in the video, which was uploaded to YouTube on July 2.

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Hamas: Rockets to Continue Until Imprisoned Terrorists Released

Senior Hamas source reveals that  to stop daily rocket barrage on southern Israel, the group wants all re-arrested Shalit deal terrorists freed, as well as IDF ‘ceasefire’.

Watch: Hamas video to Israel

By Ari Yashar

 

A senior Hamas source spoke to Walla! news on Monday, revealing the conditions his terrorist organization demands from Israel in order to stop the recent round of terror against Israeli civilians, in which over 120 rockets have been fired on Israel from Gaza since last Wednesday.

Hamas terrorists in Gaza (file)

Hamas terrorists in Gaza (file) – Reuters

According to the source, Hamas will not follow Israel’s condition of having “quiet met with quiet.” Continue Reading »