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Israel gives sanctuary to Christian cleric from Iraq ‘wanted’ by ISIS

There are those who accuse Israel of being hostile toward Christians, but if that’s true, why do Palestinian Christians, or other minorities from neighboring Arab countries, seek shelter in the Jewish state?

By Israel Today Staff

To hear some of Israel’s antagonists speak one would think the Jewish state was hostile toward Christians.

Why then has a Christian leader dedicated to serving the Arab world sought shelter in Israel after having a price put on his head by ISIS?

Could it be that he, unlike Israel’s detractors, knows that the Jews and their army (called by many an “occupation force”) are a bulwark against the rising tide of Islam, and therefore a haven for Christians? Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: Arab Christian, Christians and Jews

israelandstuffcom | July 8, 2017

Roger Waters anti-Israel ‘Advocacy’ to be Subject of Award-Winning Filmmaker

Pink Floyd founding member Roger Waters, vocal activist for the BDS and Israel’s demise, is now the subject of a documentary film being made by an award-winning filmmaker and New York Times bestselling author.

By Paul Miller

Pink Floyd founding member and former bassist Roger Waters has spent the last decade disparaging the Jewish state. Labeled an anti-Semite by the Anti-Defamation League, Waters compares Jews to Nazi collaborators and claims Israel is a “racist apartheid regime” that practices “ethnic cleansing.”

BDS on American Campuses – CAMERA

As the de facto international spokesman for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, Waters’ contempt for Israel and the Jewish people is often on full display at his concerts, which feature visuals such as a flying pig emblazoned with a Star of David and anti-Israel rants. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: anti-Israel Propaganda, anti-Semitism, BDS, Roger Waters

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REPORT: Netanyahu working with Trump, Putin to establish anti-Iran/Hezbollah zone in Syria

Times of London reports Israel’s PM Netanyahu called Russian President Putin on the phone seeking assurances Iran-backed groups like Hezbollah won’t operate within a designated buffer-zone, that could extend 30 miles east of Golan Heights, once Syria is divided.

By Shlomo Cesana, Erez Linn & Israel Hayom Staff

Israel has asked the United States and Russia to establish a buffer zone in southern Syria that would curtail Iranian activity as part of the overall political arrangement for the country, The Times of London reported Thursday.

According to the report, based on sources in the Middle East, Jerusalem would like the two powers to “guarantee a buffer zone in southern Syria where Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed militias will not be allowed to operate.” Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: buffer zone, Donald Trump, Golan Heights, Syria Russia, Vladimir Putin

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Israel’s Foreign Ministry accuses UNESCO of ‘promoting fake history’ & anti-Semitism

Israel’s President, gov’t ministers, and local authorities sound off on UNESCO shameful, anti-Semitic decision of overtly ‘promoting fake history’ against the Jews, while covertly ignoring wanton destruction of non-Islamic mid-East historical sites.
– “The Cave of the Patriarchs is the foundation of Jewish history, where the first ‘Israel’ in the world is buried, and the magnificent structure over it was built by Jews 2,000 years ago, hundreds of years before the appearance of Islam.”

By Itamar Eichner, Elisha Ben-Kimon

Israel slammed a UNESCO resolution passed on Friday declaring Hebron’s Old City—and with it the Cave of the Patriarchs—as a Palestinian World Heritage Site. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel bias, anti-Israel Propaganda, anti-Semitism, Cave of the Patriarchs, Hevron, Palestinian Authority, UN bias, UNESCO, World Heritage Committee

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India’s PM Modi visited Israel never saying ‘Palestinians’ once… for a reason

Unlike many of the Western European countries, India does not engage in “megaphone diplomacy,” rather it deals with issues quietly, behind the scenes, not in the full glare of camera lights, and not hypocritically lecturing others in public.

By HERB KEINON

Narendra Modi, who departed Israel on Thursday after being the first-ever Indian prime minister to visit, spent 49 hours in the country, participated in more than a dozen events, and spoke publicly five times.

And never once did he publicly utter the word “Palestinians.”

Modi and Netanyahu wading on the beach. – Photo- KOBI GIDEON/GPO

There are many reasons why Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must have hated to see the departure of his Indian counterpart, the leader of the world’s largest democracy with whom he waded barefoot into the Mediterranean on Thursday. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: diplomacy, Israel India, Narendra Modi, Netanyahu - Modi

WATCH: Member of British House of Lords blasts media bias against Israel

Former BBC chairman Lord Michael Grade exposes BBC’s coverage of Israel, and anti-Israel terror as ‘inexcusable’, saying, “When Israel acts in self-defense, the narrative is distorted to fit their (the media) narrative of Zionist aggression.”

By David Rosenberg

A member of the House of Lords and former chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation addressed the problem of media bias against Israel during a speech in Parliament on Wednesday, lambasting the BBCfor its coverage of recent terror attacks against Jews in Israel.

Lord Michael Grade, who was chairman of the BBC from 2004 to 2006, praised his country’s backing for a Jewish national home in the 1917 Balfour Declaration, but lamented that much of the media today feeds false narratives about the Jewish state, while anti-Semites use Zionism and Zionists as a proxy for attacking Judaism and Jews. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel bias, anti-Israel Propaganda, BBC, House of Lords, Lord Michael Grade, media bias

London mayor seeks to make supporting Hezbollah illegal in Britain

Following the outrage over Hezbollah’s flags being flown in the city’s Al Quds Day March, which was accompanied with frequent calls for the destruction of Israel, London’s mayor said, ‘Anti-Semitism or hate crime of any kind has no place in our city.’

By i24NEWS

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, wants to make the act of supporting all factions of Hezbollah illegal in Britain, following outrage over the Lebanese militant group’s flags being flown in the city’s Al Quds Day March in June, the Jewish Chronicle reported on Thursday.Khan will write to Britain’s Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, to urge a change in the law, the paper reported. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Al Quds Day, anti-Israel bias, Hezbollah, Sadiq Khan

IDF’s Bedouin reconnaissance battalion disbanded, soldiers reassigned to other units

Just as the IDF disbanded the Druze battalion in July 2015 after decades of service, the IDF closes its dedicated Bedouin reconnaissance battalion to integrate the soldiers into other units, hoping it will increase enlistment from the country’s Bedouin sector.

By Lilach Shoval

The Israel Defense Forces Bedouin reconnaissance battalion, established in the 1990s, was officially disbanded on Tuesday in an emotional ceremony.

Israel Hayom reported in March on the decision to close the battalion, alongside a series of steps to encourage Bedouin Israelis to enlist in other military units. The battalion will now become a regular patrol battalion comprising two, six-team companies. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Bedouin reconnaissance battalion, IDF

Greek Church covertly sold huge Jerusalem land tracts to anonymous investors

Israeli MK Rachel Azaria and hundreds of Jerusalem residents worried about the disposition of their homes, as well as any future change to the character of the capital of the Jewish State.

By DANIEL K. EISENBUD, GLOBES

The Greek Orthodox Church last week sold 50 hectares of land in central Jerusalem – some 124 acres containing more than 1,000 housing units in numerous buildings – to an anonymous group of investors, spurring fears of a hostile takeover.

For many years, the land was leased to the Jewish National Fund in agreements that are about to expire, leaving the residents’ future rights in limbo. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Greek Orthodox Church, Jerusalem, Rachel Azaria

Hamas leader challenges PA autocrat Abbas, calling for unity gov’t and general elections

Hamas’ new leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, stated that the enclave’s government was “opening a new page” with Egypt, having mended their previously strained ties.

By i24NEWS

Gaza-based Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh called for all Palestinian factions to create a unified national government and to hold open elections at a press conference in Gaza on Wednesday.

Haniyeh was elected to head Hamas, the ruling faction in Gaza, in May.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh vs. Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas – AFP

The Islamist group, considered a terrorist group by the US, EU and Israel, seized control of the territory from Fatah, the Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas’s party, in a near civil war in 2007. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: Abbas Hamas, Fatah-Hamas, unity government

With ‘Operation Protective Edge’ behind us, tourism to Israel is breaking records

In May of this year, foreign tourists entering Israel hit an all-time monthly high, and 2017 is projected to be a record-breaking year for vacationing tourists.

By Ilan Gattegno

Three years after incoming tourist numbers slumped following Operation Protective Edge in July-August 2014, tourism to Israel has fully recovered and will hit an all-time high this year, according to the Tourism Ministry. The rise was attributed to the introduction of the open skies policy and massive marketing efforts by the ministry.

Tel Aviv – Photo: Boris Kuznets

Israel previously reached its highest tourism figures before the 2014 military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, but when that began and rocket fire pummeled southern Israel and reached as far as the Sharon region northeast of Tel Aviv, incoming tourism dropped sharply. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: tourism in Israel, Tourism Ministry

israelandstuffcom | July 5, 2017

IDF Chief: Stopping the transfer of weapons to Hezbollah is IDF’s “top priority”

Speaking at the Knesset, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot reports Hezbollah’s rockets are not particularly accurate at the moment, and under the nose of UNIFIL forces, Hezbollah continues to violate UN resolution 1701, so the IDF’s “top priority” is to keep Hezbollah from improving the accuracy of its missiles.

By LAHAV HARKOV, ANNA AHRONHEIM

Eleven years after the Second Lebanon War, stopping Hezbollah from improving the accuracy of its missiles and rockets is the “top priority” of the army, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot stated Wednesday.

Speaking at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Eisenkot stated that IDF has used the time since the Second Lebanon War to dramatically improve its abilities and now has better intelligence and operational capabilities than ever before. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Gadi Eisenkot, Hezbollah - Lebanon, IDF, Knesset

israelandstuffcom | July 5, 2017