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| June 6, 2017
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Israel Security Minister Urges President Trump to Stop Funding Palestinians

 

Israeli Public Security Minister lauds President Trump’s anti-terror coalition, saying changes are already being felt, but implores the US to stop funding those who incite jihad, which is still openly prevalent in Palestinian culture as “Abbas is sending a message to children growing up in the PA that terror pays.”

By Israel Today Staff

 

Israel Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Tuesday urged the Trump Administration to stop send US taxpayers’ dollars to the Palestinian Authority.

Erdan was speaking at the World Leaders Plenary of the American Jewish Committee’s annual Global Forum in Washington, DC.

President Trump tells Palestinian leadership a serious message in Bethlehem.

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| June 6, 2017
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US envoy to UN Haley: UNHRC ignores those to whom they are appointed to protect

 

In an op-ed in the Washington Post Amb. Haley writes, “All too often…the victims of the world’s most egregious human rights violations are ignored by the very organization that is supposed to protect them,” called on council to “end its practice of wrongly singling out Israel for criticism,” curious “whether the Human Rights Council actually supports human rights” or whether it is “merely a showcase for dictatorships that use their membership to whitewash brutality.”

By i24NEWS

 

US envoy to the United Nations Nikki Haley told the UN’s Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday that changes need to be made regarding the body’s approach to Israel. Continue Reading »

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| June 6, 2017
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Israel Antiquities Authority discover Crusader-era escape tunnel near Sea of Galilee

 

Israel Antiquities Authority workers uncover a hidden tunnel in Tiberias through which it is believed served as an escape route during the July 1187 siege, by Muslim ruler Salah a-Din.
• The Mayor of Tiberias to feature the newly discovered tunnel in the town’s development plan.

By Yori Yalon

 

Tunneling through time: An archaeological excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority has unearthed an 800-year-old tunnel that researchers think served as an escape route from a Crusader fortress in Tiberias to the Sea of Galilee.

The tunnel – Photo curtesy: Israel Antiquities Authority

The tunnel, which appears to have been constructed by Crusaders some 800 years ago, runs underground for 7 meters (23 feet) and is exposed at one end near the promenade in the Old City of Tiberias. Continue Reading »

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| June 6, 2017
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Los Angeles Judge: IDF’s ‘Operation Protective Edge’ against Hamas was ‘War’

 

Legal battle over insurance for USA TV’s Network’s FBI thriller set in Jerusalem was dismissed before trial, as California Judge rules the 2014 Israel–Gaza armed conflict was a “war,” although categorized in Israel as a defensive military operation.

By AMY SPIRO

 

The fighting between Israel and Gaza in the summer of 2014 was officially a war – at least, according to a Los Angeles judge.

The ruling came in relation to USA Network’s TV show Dig – an FBI thriller set in Jerusalem – which has been the center of an ongoing legal battle for at least a year. Continue Reading »

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| June 6, 2017
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London Police take 2 hrs to respond to 16 yr-old daughter of cop, after vicious assault

 

London’s Metropolitan Police Service took two hours to respond to an emergency call from local postman who promptly called after seeing a teenage girl being beaten by 2 anti-Semitic thugs for being Jewish.

By Gary Willig

 

A 16-year-old Jewish girl who was wounded in a violent anti-Semitic assault in London was left bleeding for two hours after the Metropolitan Police Service failed to send any officers to the scene of the crime, the British Campaign Against Anti-Semitism reported.

Alexander Goldberg, a police Chaplain and the father of the victim, posted the details of the incident on Facebook on Sunday. Continue Reading »

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| June 6, 2017
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6 Islamic States sever all ties with Qatar, opening door for Israeli-Arab Gulf cooperation

 

Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman says the Qatar crisis offers “opportunity for cooperation”  between Israel and Arab Gulf states.
– Qatar, a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, Hamas and Iran, is being isolated for destabilizing the mid-East and Africa.

By i24NEWS

 

Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday said that the diplomatic crisis between Qatar and its Arab Gulf neighbors is an “opportunity for cooperation” between Israel and Arab Gulf states and could herald a broad anti-terror alliance.

Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman – Screenshot from Facebook video

“It is clear to everyone, even in the Arab countries, that the real danger to the entire region is terrorism,” said Lieberman. Continue Reading »

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| June 5, 2017
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Another ‘Trump success’? – Palestinian terrorists report monthly stipends have stopped

 

A representative for Palestinian prisoners in Gaza reports 277 released prisoners aligned with Hamas have not received their monthly ‘stipends for murderer.’
• A released terrorist: “We believe Palestinian Authority has succumbed to U.S., Israeli pressure.”

By The Associated Press, Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Scores of former Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel and living in the Gaza Strip said on Sunday their stipends from the Western-backed Palestinian Authority have been suspended in an apparent bid to appease Israel and the United States.

A spokesman for Palestinian prisoners said that 277 freed prisoners in the Gaza Strip, most of whom are aligned with the Islamist terrorist Hamas group that runs the coastal enclave, were surprised to find their May stipends had not been paid. Continue Reading »

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| June 5, 2017
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Denmark follows UN, Norway refusing to fund Palestinian center named after mass-murderer

 

Since President Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia and Bethlehem calling on the world to stop funding the glorification of terrorists, Denmark now follows Norway & the UN, upset having been exploited to fund a Palestinian Women’s Center that’s named after an infamous terrorist who participated in a massacre of 38 unarmed civilians on a public bus.
• Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu personally praised Danish PM Lars Lokke Rasmussen for his decision.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

Denmark has frozen $8 million in donor funding it had earmarked for 24 Palestinian and pro-Palestinian NGOs, pending an investigation to ensure that the funds will be used for peaceful and constructive purposes. Continue Reading »

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| June 5, 2017
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Jewish nurse breastfeeds Palestinian infant as mother hospitalized with serious injury

 

Pediatric nurse at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem volunteers to tend to 9-month-old Arab child from Hebron, after father killed and mother seriously injured in a car accident.

By Yael Freidson

 

During an entire shift in the pediatric emergency room at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, nurse Ula Ostrowski-Zack nursed a nine-month-old Palestinian baby from Hebron whose mother was seriously injured and his father killed in a car accident.

“His aunts were surprised that a Jew agreed to breastfeed him, but I told them that every mother would do it,” she said.

Hadassah Hospital Nurse Ostrowski-Zack, with baby Yaman – courtesy via Ynet

On Friday, Yaman’s parents collided head-on with an armored bus on Route 60. Continue Reading »

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| June 5, 2017
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Israeli Deputy Minister all but calls NYT report of 6 Day War, ‘Fake News’

 

Israeli Deputy Minister Michael Oren, a historian and visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown universities, totally rejects a New York Times report claiming Israel was prepared to detonate a nuclear bomb in 1967 if it had felt war was lost, saying, “There is not even half a hint that supports” such a claim.

By Arutz Sheva Staff and JTA

 

Deputy Minister Michael Oren (Kulanu), a former Israeli ambassador to the United States, on Sunday rejected a report in the New York Timeswhich claimed that Israel was prepared to detonate a nuclear bomb in the Sinai to turn the tide of the 1967 Six Day War with its Arab neighbors if necessary. Continue Reading »

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| June 5, 2017
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Watch: Israel’s PM Netanyahu at African gathering, renews diplomatic ties with Senegal

 

Watch: Netanyahu tells African leaders at the ECOWAS conference in Liberia, “Israel is back in Africa,” starting with renewing diplomatic ties with Senegal, after downgrading ties for supporting a UN resolution condemning Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

By i24NEWS

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Senegal’s President Macky Sall announced on Sunday that the diplomatic crisis between the two countries has ended.

Watch: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses leaders of West African countries.

Earlier this year, in an act of retribution against the countries that co-sponsored a United Nations Security Council resolution in December condemning the construction of Jewish settlements, Israel permanently downgraded its diplomatic ties with New Zealand and Senegal. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2017
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Porsche invests 10’s of million$ in Israel to acquire AI technology for its vehicles

 

Porsche is looking to Israel to bring it into the future of transportation, seen by its investment of eight figures in its effort to integrate artificial intelligence technology.

By ARIANE MANDELL

 

Porsche is establishing an “innovation office” in Israel, and investing eight figures in the effort, the German sports car manufacturer said in a statement released Thursday.

“Porsche is a company that draws on innovation,” the statement read. “And now it is establishing an ‘innovation office’ in Israel.”

Tel Aviv – Photo: PORSCHE

Lutz Meschke, Deputy Chairmain of Porsche’s Executive Board and Member of its Executive Board for Finance and IT, said “Israel is a key market for IT experts and engineers. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2017
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ARAB REPORT: List of Hamas terrorists required to leave Doha

 

Lebanese media reported that senior Hamas officials received a list of fellow members who must leave Doha.
– Qatar’s decision comes less than a fortnight after US President Donald Trump met with Muslim leaders calling Hamas a terrorist organization.

By Roi Kais

 

Diplomatic sources told the Lebanese Al Mayadeen network that Qatar had given Hamas a list of names of movement members who were required to leave the Qatari capital, Doha. According to the sources, the list includes mainly Hamas members who are responsible for coordinating with the organization’s leadership in the West Bank.

It was also claimed that a Qatari envoy had met with prominent Hamas figures to deliver the list. Continue Reading »

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| June 4, 2017
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BUSTED: UN agency exploits Syrian girl photo in Palestinian campaign for Gaza

 

The UN agency that represents only Palestinian refugees, launches (fake) “Gaza Girl Campaign” on Facebook & Twitter with UNRWA photo of bombed-out Damascus, to raise (swindle?) money for ‘oppressed Gaza civilians’ (Hamas leaders?).

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

UN Watch today demanded that UNRWA Chief Pierre Krahenbuhl apologize for using images of a girl from a bombed-out Syrian buildingas part of a global campaign to raise money for the organization by pretending the girl is a Gaza victim of Israeli actions.

UNRWA uses photo from Syria as Pallywood deception of ‘poor Gaza girl’. – Facebook Screenshot BEFORE being deleted after having been exposed as ‘Fake News’

UNRWA is now running the above photo on Facebook and in paid Twitter ads. Continue Reading »

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| June 3, 2017
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Philippine President rejects US ‘second-hand’ equipment, seeks IDF weapons

 

“I will no longer accept second-hand military equipment” [from the US], said Philippine President Duterte, whose defense budget allocates $500 million for the acquisition of new weapons & military equipment this year.

By REUTERS

 

MANILA – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte promised on Friday to buy brand-new military equipment to fight twin Maoist and Muslim rebellions, and no longer accept second-hand weapons from the United States.

President Duterte delivering his first State of the Nation Address – Photo: Ace Morandante/Wikimedia

The Philippine budget allocates more than 100 billion pesos ($2 billion) to modernize the military’s equipment under a five-year plan, spending 25 billion pesos this year on acquisitions from Israel and South Korea. Continue Reading »

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