Archive for June 3, 2015

Human Rights Group: Palestinian Suffering More Now Than Ever Before

Palestinian human rights are the worst ever, not because of increased Israeli security measures, but inflicted by the hands of their leader.

By Israel Today

 

In one of its more recent reports on human rights in the Palestinian-controlled territories, the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights said the situation had reached an all-time low, but not because of Israel.

Hamas prepares 3 Gazans before execution- Source: Israel Today

While the advocacy group does routinely lambast Israel for security measures that inflict hardships on average Palestinians, the reason highlighted for the worsening human rights was corrupt and abusive governance by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Continue Reading »

WATCH: Obama Interview for Israel TV2 Threaten to Cut US Support at UN

In an open attack against PM Netanyahu, President Obama says if Israel doesn’t renew peace talks with the Palestinians, he will have to make adjustments in US’s position at the UN.

By Ari Yashar

 

US President Barack Obama gave an interview with Israeli media on Tuesday, in which he threatened that an Israeli refusal to renew peace talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA) will “make it hard” for the US to veto motions in the UN against Israel.

In an interview with Ilana Dayan for Channel 2‘s “Uvda” (Fact) TV show aired Tuesday night, Obama commented on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s statements before elections in which he said that a Palestinian state won’t be founded on his watch. Continue Reading »

REPORT: Israel Air Force attacked Lebanon

—– SPECIAL SECURITY REPORT —–

According to reports from Lebanon, IAF attacked 2 targets leaving a number injured in the mountain rages of Jatamansi Arsel near the Lebanese-Syrian border.

By Rachel Avraham

 

Lebanese media outlets reported that IDF battle planes attacked today twice in the mountain rages of Jatamansi Arsel near the Lebanese Syrian border.

Photo: Reuters/Channel 2

According to the reports, a number were injured in the incident.  There is no confirmation for this incident from an Israeli source.

 

View original Jerusalem Online publication at: http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/middle-east/israel-and-the-middle-east/report-idf-battle-planes-attack-lebanon-13791

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German magazine, Der Spiegel fabricates untrue diplomatic crisis with Israel

 

Israel’s embassy in Berlin and the Foreign Ministry vehemently denied a German Der Spiegel article alleging that Israel’s air traffic authority denied German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s plane permission to fly through its airspace during a trip to the Middle East in May because he snubbed a visit to Israel.

German news magazine Der Spiegel is seen at a newsstand in Athens. – Photo: REUTERS

”With regret we take note of the news item in the new Spiegel edition,” Adi Farjon, the spokeswoman for Israel’s embassy in Berlin, wrote to The Jerusalem Post. Continue Reading »

Palestinian Authority seeks energy independence from Israel

With a debt over $500 million that the Palestinian authorities owe the Israel Electric Company from refusing to pay for its energy, the PA is seeking donors to build them an alternative power supply.

By Linda Gradstein, The Media Line

 

Palestinians plan to begin using solar, wind and geothermal power in an effort to cut their dependence on Israeli energy and save money at the same time.

Solar thermal collectors in Tirat Carmel – Photo: Mohammad Shinawi

The Palestinian Authority has approved a national plan to reach ten percent power generation from renewable sources by 2020, and a new energy law set to be approved soon calls for energy generation programs. Continue Reading »

Egyptian historian chooses normalization with Israel over disastrous Palestinian cause

Maged Farag said the Palestinians are to blame for the lack of peace because “they don’t think it is in their interest…They don’t want to resolve their own problem…For over 70 years, the Palestinian cause has brought upon Egypt and the Egyptians nothing but harm, destruction, and expense.”

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON

 

Egyptian historian Maged Farag called for normalizing relations with Israel in order to benefit economically and technologically, while saying the Palestinian struggle has caused “nothing but harm” for Egypt.

Maged Farag

Egyptian historian Maged Farag interviews on Egyptian Mehwar TV. – Photo: SCREENSHOT/MEMRI

According to a report by MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute, Farag said in an interview aired last week on the Egyptian Mehwar TV station that Egypt could gain culturally, in trade, tourism, and from Israel’s advanced agricultural and industrial technology. Continue Reading »

At the UN’s ‘Theater of the Absurd’: Hamas-linked group granted NGO status

Israel’s mission accuses the United Nations of accepting the nefarious PRC organization, describing it as the ‘organizational & a coordinating wing of Hamas in Europe’.

By Reuters

 

Israel on Monday accused the United Nations of granting “UN non-governmental organization status” to an association linked to militant Palestinian group Hamas that it said promotes “anti-Israel propaganda in Europe.”

Israel’s UN mission issued a statement condemning the decision, by the 19-member UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, to approve the application of the Palestinian Return Center (PRC), an organization based in Britain.

Israeli UN ambassador Ron Prosor addressing colleagues (Photo: AFP)
Israeli UN ambassador Ron Prosor addressing colleagues – Photo: AFP

 

The statement said that in 2010 Israel banned the PRC because of its ties to Hamas, labeling it “an organizational and a coordinating wing of Hamas in Europe” with members that include senior Hamas officials. Continue Reading »

NY Co-Op Receives Written Warning Against Israeli Boycott Being Orchestrated By BDS

Shurat HaDin (Israel Law Center) sends urgent letter to American food co-op company after violent clash between pro-Israeli & pro-Palestinian factions at meeting over BDS resolution.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Israeli legal rights Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center sent a letter this morning to the Park Slope Food Co-op (PSFC) President William Penner and General Manager Joseph Holtz warning them not to implement a boycott of Israeli manufacturers, products or services.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner – Shurat HaDin

 

The PSFC, located in Brooklyn recently debated a resolution to discontinue the sale of Israeli products including those manufactured by the SodaStream Company.

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Jailed Hamas commander gets solitary after radio interview with smuggled phone

After Abdullah Barghouti was taken to solitary confinement by Israel’s prisons authority for giving prohibited radio interview with a smuggled in cellphone, it was reported that he began an indefinite hunger strike.

By AFP, Liad Osmo

 

An imprisoned commander of Hamas’s armed wing who is serving 67 life terms has been placed in solitary confinement for speaking to a radio station, Israel’s prisons authority said Sunday.

Jailed Hamas operative Abdullah Barghouti – Photo: Hagai Aharon

Abdullah Barghouti gave an interview to Hamas radio using a mobile telephone “smuggled into the prison where he is being held, and has been placed in an isolation cell,” said spokeswoman Sivan Weizman. Continue Reading »

Official PA Children’s Programming Repeats Show for 3rd Broadcast: Jews are Bloodthirsty, Evil

Watchdog group exposes poem broadcasted for third time on the official PA TV saying Jews are animals, claiming they are ‘brought up on spilling blood.’

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has once again broadcasted anti-Semitic content, this time “informing” viewers that Jews are bloodthirsty and subhuman on a children’s show, Palestinian Media Watch reports Monday.

Official Palestinian TV incitement – PMW screenshot

On the latest broadcast of the official PA TV children’s program “The Best Home,” a young girl recited a poem calling Jews “barbaric monkeys,” “the most evil among creations,” and those “who murdered Allah’s pious prophets.” Continue Reading »

Iran, Hezbollah worried over IDF movements during annual nation-wide safety exercise

As IDF masses its forces near Lebanese border, senior Iranian military official warned Israel that any attack would unleash a firestorm of missiles on its cities.

By i24news

 

Israeli forces, including heavy artillery, have been massing along the Lebanese border, yet the sole purpose of the buildup is participation in a military drill, Israeli officials said on Sunday after Iran and its Lebanon proxy Hezbollah reportedly showed unease over the maneuvers.

An Israeli army 155mm mobile artillery battery is stationed near the border with Syria in the Israeli Golan Heights on January 28, 2015 – Photo: Menahem Kahana/AFP

 The Ynet website reported that the Islamic Republic is worried that Israel might use the lack of stability in Syria and Lebanon to somehow jeopardize the planned signature of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.
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Israel’s Government Approves Legislation Confiscating Security Detainees’ Cellphones

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked to present bill to the Knesset seeking to thwart use of cellphones by incarcerated terrorists.

By Tova Tzimuk

 

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved on Sunday a proposal to prevent the use of cellular devices by prisoners and security detainees involved in acts of terror, presented by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked – Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg

Coincidentally, the bill was presented after – earlier in the day – Palestinian terrorist Abdullah Barghouti conducted an interview with a Palestinian radio station from prison using his mobile phone.

Currently the legal authority to deny detainees use of cellular devices remains vague, with the security services forced to petition the High Court of Justice to prevent prisoners making using cell phones. Continue Reading »

ISIS Group In Gaza Threaten to Destroy ‘Heretical Hamas’ After Killing Commander

A terror group operating in Gaza called Army of the Islamic State, claim to be associated with ISIS and said that it blew-up a top Hamas commander with a car-bomb.

By Yaakov Levi

 

A group that is operating in Gaza and which says it is associated with ISIS has claimed that it killed a top Hamas commander. According to the group, which calls itself the Army of the Islamic State, Saber Siam was killed when ISIS operatives placed a bomb on his car, blowing it up with him inside.

ISIS terrorist – file photo

Siam was killed, the group said, because he was “a partner in a declared war against religion and against Muslims, working for the heretical government in Gaza.” Continue Reading »

Palestinians Marching in ‘Co-Existence March’ with Israelis Brutally Attacked

Palestinians verbally and physically attack fellow Palestinian Arabs for daring to seek ‘normalization’ and live in peace with Israeli Jews

By Israel Today Staff

 

Palestinian participants in a co-existence march with Israelis were attacked by fellow Palestinians on Thursday.

A Palestinian Arab man is treated for a head injury after being attacked by fellow Palestinians for daring to join a ‘normalization’ event with Jews. – Israel Today

The victims were taking part in the annual “Jerusalem Hug” march, the purpose of which is, according to the group’s website, “…to promote a peaceful experience, a life of freedom and joy to all people. Continue Reading »