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| April 8, 2017
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Syrian patient at Ziv Medical Center: ‘Israel is not the enemy. Bashar is the enemy.’

 

After 5 years of Syrian regime bombing of its own people, Syrian refugees treated by the IDF or in Israeli hospitals learn quickly that their Jewish neighbor is not their real foe.
– A Syrian patient treated in Safed says, ‘The future of Syria has no Bashar Assad…Israel is not the enemy. Bashar is the enemy.’

By The Associated Press

 

Seven wounded Syrians—two children, four women and a man—waited in pain for darkness to fall to cross into enemy territory. Under the faint moonlight, Israeli military medical corps quickly whisked the patients across the hostile frontier into armored ambulances headed to hospitals for intensive care. Continue Reading »

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| April 8, 2017
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Google uncovers ‘Israeli’ spy app made to track & hack smartphones

 

Google discovers what it fears to be the most dangerous android spyware to date, suspected of being created by an Israeli company, that can copy internal memory, messages, call logs, internet history as well as spy on people by remotely activating the smartphones’ camera and microphone.

By Sagi Cohen

 

Security researchers at Google and Lookout have discovered an extremely sophisticated Android app capable of spying on users by hacking their smartphones’ camera and microphone, as well as track calls, messages, internet history and more.

Called Chrysaor, the spyware seems to be linked to Pegasus, a notorious program that was found to be targeting iPhone users in 2016 and is suspected of having been created by Israeli firm NSO Group Technologies. Continue Reading »

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| April 7, 2017
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Israel joins 12 countries, NATO backing Trump’s decision to strike Syria

A dozen countries openly praise the United States’ “courageous” decision to adjust its old policy of remaining passive and to launch the Tomahawk strike against Assad regime.
– PM Binyamin Netanyahu says this new American policy sends clear message to Iran and North Korea.

By Gary Willig

 

 

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other government officials expressed their support for US President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a series of air strikes in Syria Thursday night.

Airbase site attacked by US Navy – Google Maps

The USS Porter launched 59 Tomahawk missiles at the Ash Sha’irat air base in Homs province in western Syria.

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| April 7, 2017
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Russia among very first to declare officially, West Jerusalem is Capital of Israel

 

In a statement on Russia’s official Foreign Ministry website, the Kremlin adjusted its previous policy that Jerusalem should be under control of a permanent int’l authority, to being the Capital of the State of Israel.

By i24NEWS

 

The Kremlin on Thursday declared that it views West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in a statement on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s official website, making Russia one of the first countries to recognize any part of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, is located in Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the Jewish State. – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

“We reaffirm our commitment to the UN-approved principles for a Palestinian-Israeli settlement, which include the status of East Jerusalem as the capital of the future Palestinian state,” read the statement. Continue Reading »

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| April 7, 2017
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Israel Aerospace Industries signs historic $2Billion missile deal with India

Israel has been cooperating with India in various technologies & military systems, including missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles during the last few years, bringing India and Israel into a uniquely strong and strategic partnership.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Israel Aerospace Industries has been awarded a $2 billion Indian military hardware deal, considered to be “the largest defense contract in Israel’s defense industries’ history.”

IAI announced on Thursday that it has signed a mega-contract worth more than $1.6 billion to provide advanced medium-range surface-to-air missiles (MRSAMs) to the Indian Army. The balance of some $400m. in contracts has been awarded to Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. Continue Reading »

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| April 6, 2017
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Hamas hangs 3 for collaborating with Israel as message to Fukha’s assassins

 

After being sentenced to death for undisclosed acts of ‘collaboration’ with the Jewish State, but unrelated to Mazan Fukha’s assassination, three Palestinians were hanged at a Hamas police compound as a warning.

By Elior Levy

 

Hamas hanged three Palestinians accused of collaborating with Israel Thursday morning.The three were sentenced to death before the assassination of Mazan Fukha and have no connection to Hamas’s pursuit of those responsible.

Hamas police guard besides Gallows erected for the execution in a Hamas police compound – Hamas

The three executed prisoners were identified as a 55-year-old man from Khan Yunis, a 30-year-old man from Gaza City and a 42-year-old man whose place of residence was not disclosed. Continue Reading »

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| April 6, 2017
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Israeli Arab TV anchor lashes out at Arab League, ‘Where are you, Arab traitors?’

Israeli-Arab journalist for TV2, Lucy Aharish, confronts ‘traitorous’ Arab leaders for their hypocrisy, silence and inaction of the suffering of civilians in Syria.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

 

 

Last December, Arab-Israeli journalist Lucy Aharish garnered international attention with a viral video blasting world leaders for their failure to intervene in the ongoing Syrian civil war, which she dubbed a “holocaust”.

This week, following a deadly chemical weapon attack near the rebel-held city of Idlib, Aharish took aim at Arab leaders, calling “traitors” for turning a blind eye to the plight of civilians killed in a war that has rage for six years. Continue Reading »

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| April 6, 2017
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Israel presents plans to link its Med ports to Saudi Arabia, Gulf states and Iraq

 

Transportation Minister Katz unveiled what could be an historic plan to give Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq access to the Mediterranean through Israel’s ports, that would be a significant boost for the Jordanian and Palestinian economies.

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Transportation and Intelligence Minister Israel Katz unveiled an ambitious plan on Wednesday to give Jordan, Saudi Arabia and even Iraq access to the Mediterranean through Israel’s ports in Haifa and Ashdod, in a plan called “Tracks for Peace.”

To Jerusalem sign with Jordan in the background. 

Under the plan, the Haifa to Beit She’an train link would be extended eastward to the border crossing with Jordan and southward to the Jenin area where the Palestinians could connect to it. Continue Reading »

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| April 6, 2017
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With 32 global crises, Israel blasts EU for being ‘obsessed’ with demolition of illegal structures

 

Jerusalem accuses the E.U. for being ‘obsessed’ with Israel’s court sanctioned demolitions of illegal structures, instead of focusing on any of the 32 humanitarian crises around the world.

By i24NEWS

 

In a sharp criticism of the European Union on Tuesday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry accused Europe of focusing more time and energy on Israel’s West Bank demolition plans, than the mass of humanitarian crises happening all around the world, reported Haaretz.

Israel demolished illegal structures in the West Bank’s Area C, August 9, 2016 – Photo: COGAT Spokesperson

“There are 32 humanitarian crises around the world, but the EU chooses to disproportionately focus only on what is done in Area C of the West Bank, which are most definitely not suffering a humanitarian crisis,” the Foreign Ministry’s EU department director Avivit Bar-Ilan reportedly said, adding that she was “astounded” at the EU’s obsession with the demolitions in Area C, which is the part of the West Bank wholly under Israel’s control. Continue Reading »

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| April 6, 2017
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PA Abbas slashes salaries of Gaza workers by 30%, a decade after they stopped working

 

With western countries curtailing their lavish financial aid, the salaries of 50,000 Fatah government employees in Gaza, who have not actually been working since Gaza was taken over by the Hamas terror group over a decade ago, is being reduced by a third.

By The Associated Press

 

The cash-strapped Palestinian Authority announced on Wednesday it was slashing by nearly one third the salaries of tens of thousands of government employees in the Gaza Strip who have been sitting idly since the rival Hamas militant group took over the coastal territory a decade ago.

Personal residence of Mahmoud Abbas, autocrat of the Palestinian Authority.

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| April 5, 2017
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US District Court allows professors to sue American Studies Association for Israel boycott

 

#BDSfail: United States District Court for the District of Columbia has allowed four college professors to sue the ASA over its academic boycott policies of Israel.

By Ben Ariel

 

A U.S. federal court has ruled that four college professors can sue the American Studies Association (ASA) over its academic boycott of Israel, JTA reported on Tuesday.

The ruling was handed down on Friday by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, according to the report.

The ASA asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit, but the court rejected ASA’s argument that going forward with the lawsuit infringes on its First Amendment rights. Continue Reading »

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| April 5, 2017
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US Supreme Court to Hear Case of Jordanian Bank Financing Palestinian Terrorism

 

US Supreme Court agreed to consider reviving the Arab Bank of Jordan case, of knowingly financing Palestinians to commit acts of terrorism, including suicide bombings and other attacks, that  resulted in the death of scores of Americans.

By REUTERS

 

WASHINGTON – The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider reviving litigation seeking to hold Arab Bank Plc financially liable for militant attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories that accused the Jordan-based bank of being the “paymaster” to militant groups.

Aftermath of Jerusalem bus bombing – Photo: Wikipedia

The justices agreed to hear an appeal by roughly 6,000 plaintiffs, who included relatives of non-US citizens killed in such attacks and survivors of the incidents, of a lower court ruling throwing out the litigation. Continue Reading »

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| April 4, 2017
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Second YouTube outs Hezbollah commander’s assassination by bosses, not Israel

 

With her identity being concealed on a newly released YouTube video, Mustafa Badreddine’s self-proclaimed mistress claims that not only was the Hezbollah behind his assassination, but that the Shiite leader Hassan Nasrallah, was aware of the plot.

By Roi Kais

 

A video of a woman has surfaced on an anonymous YouTube channel claiming not only to be the lover of former Hezbollah military leader Mustafa Badreddine, but also that the terrorist leader was murdered by his own terror organization.

Iranian Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani (L) – ‘Eliminated’ Mustafa Badreddine – Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah(R) – Photos: Arab Media

The explosive claims ostensibly lend credibility to the Israeli position that it had no part in the assassination. Continue Reading »

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| April 4, 2017
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New era at UN Security Council as US takes presidency, curtails anti-Israel bias

 

As Trump’s United States Ambassador to the UN takes presidency of UN Security Council in April, Nikki Haley pledges to put a halt to its focus on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and end the body’s obsession with Israel.

By David Rosenberg

 

The United Nations Security Council has a new Council President this month.

United States Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley will preside as President of the Council, a position which rotates within the 15-member body each month. Haley assumed control of the council from Matthew Rycroft of Great Britain, and is slated to hand off the position to the representative of Uruguay in May. Continue Reading »

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| April 4, 2017
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India to receive more weapons-capable Heron UAVs from Israel

 

Two years ago, India bought its first armed Heron drone, used for both reconnaissance as well as combat & support roles, and can carry air-to-ground missiles to take out hostile targets.

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According to India’s Economic Times, 10 Heron TP-armed drones bought in September 2015 at a cost of $400 million are ready to be delivered to New Delhi once a final payment is completed.

The Heron TPs are Israel Aerospace Industries’s most advanced UAVs with a 40-hour endurance, maximum takeoff weight of 5,300 kg. and a payload of 1,000 kg., according to the Times. They can be used for both reconnaissance as well as combat and support roles, and can carry air-to-ground missiles to take out hostile targets. Continue Reading »

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