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Lebanon constructs ‘security wall’ around Palestinian refugee camp to isolate violence

This week Lebanese authorities began construction on an ‘isolation wall’ to encompass the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp following a wide range of “security concerns.”

By The New Arab

The first blocks of an isolation wall were erected around the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon this week, as a plan to build ‘security’ wall and watchtowers around Ain al-Hilweh came into effect.

The security wall forms part of an agreement between Palestinian factions and the authorities in Lebanon in attempt to contain recent confrontations between Palestinians inside the camp and the Lebanese army, Lebanese and Palestinian officials claim. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: Lebanon, Palestinian refugees, refugee camp, Security wall, terrorist camp

israelandstuffcom | November 20, 2016

Gaza’s health ministry reports Palestinian shot dead by IDF on border

IDF reports patrol being forced to use live fire after dozens of violent rioters ignored IDF calls to exit buffer-zone and stop their approach to the Israeli border fence.

By Elad Benari, Canada

Gaza’s health ministry said on Friday that Israeli soldiers shot dead a young Palestinian during clashes along the Gaza border, AFP reports.

IDF Soldiers of the Caracal Battalion, charged with guarding Israel’s southern border – Photo courtesy IDF Spokespersons Unit

“Mohammed Abu Saada, 26, died after being shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers in clashes east of the Al-Bureij camp,” ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said in a statement quoted by the news agency. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Arab riots, border fence, Gaza border, IDF response

israelandstuffcom | November 19, 2016

After Jerusalem, Western Wall, Temple Mount, Palestinians now turn to UNESCO to get Rachel’s Tomb

The Palestinians are trying to threaten Israel’s hold on Rachel’s Tomb by throwing pipe bombs & stones, as well as by fabricating a new history for the site by interjecting the identity of Bilal Ibn Rabah. And again, just as was done with Jerusalem, UNESCO is on their team solidifying their falsehoods into a reality.

By Nadav Shragai

As the argument over the muezzin bill in Israel heats up, security forces in the Bethlehem region and the outskirts of the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem seem bothered by one muezzin in particular: Bilal Ibn Rabah, an Ethiopian-Abyssinian who is recognized in Islamic tradition as a slave who served in the home of the Prophet Muhammad as the first muezzin to ever beckon believers for prayer five times a day. Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: anti-Semitic propaganda, Bilal Ibn Rabah, Jewish history, Palestinian propaganda, Rachel's Tomb, revisionist history, UNESCO

israelandstuffcom | November 19, 2016

UN General Assembly passes Israeli resolution, “Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development”

Israel’s envoy to the UN, Danny Danon, says about the resolution passed in Friday’s General Assembly, “This resolution is further proof of the important contributions that Israel makes to the world as a leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.”

By DANIELLE ZIRI

NEW YORK – The United Nations General Assembly approved an Israeli-sponsored resolution on Friday, focusing on international innovation and development and ways to help some to remove the obstacles entrepreneurs face internationally.

The resolution, entitled “Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development,” states that by promoting entrepreneurship education through capacity-building, training programs, and business incubators, access and opportunities for women, youth and individuals with disabilities can increase as well. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Danny Danon, Israel UN, United Nations, United Nations General Assembly

US demands from Israel intel information on drone given to Russian PM

US demands clarification as to whether the drone used by Israeli researchers, that Agricultural Minister Uri Ariel gave Russian PM Medvedev as a present, contained American technology.

By Itamar Eichner

An American official from the US Embassy in Israel has commented for the first time since Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel gave Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev a drone as a gift worth 200,000 shekels which was being used by researchers at the Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center.

“The US demands information from the Israeli authorities in order to determine whether there was American technology in the drone,” the official said days after Uriel’s humiliating and potentially consequential blunder. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Dmitri Medvedev, Drone, Israel Russia, Israel US, technology, US Embassy

Conference of Mayors from North & South America, Europe & Africa, hosted in Israel

Two American Jewish groups are hosting twenty-six mayors from around the world in Israel as part of a conference highlighting Israeli innovations for urban & city infrastructures, such as telecommunications, water uses, security technologies etc.

By JTA

Two American Jewish groups are hosting mayors from around the world in Israel as part of a conference highlighting Israeli innovation.

Jerusalem Old & New – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Twenty-six mayors from North and South America, Europe and Africa are visiting the Jewish state through Friday as part of a forum organized by the American Jewish Congress and the American Council for World Jewry. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Conference of Mayors, innovations, mayors

US fingers Pollard’s ’86 ‘J’lem Post’ interview for strict sentencing & parole

United States Parole Commission say Jonathan Pollard’s 1986 interview to J’lem Post correspondent Wolf Blitzer was in violation of a signed plea agreement.

By GIL HOFFMAN

Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard’s strict parole conditions were set by the United States Parole Commission due in part to an interview he gave The Jerusalem Post nearly 30 years ago, documents submitted this week revealed.

That interview Pollard gave on November 20, 1986, to Post correspondent Wolf Blitzer was claimed at the time of sentencing to be in violation of a plea agreement he had signed – even though Pollard was in federal custody at the time of the interviews, which could only have taken place with the government’s permission, according to Pollard’s lawyer Eliot Lauer. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Jonathan Pollard

Hamas forbids use of Israeli SIM cards in Gaza

Hamas is trying to stop sale of smuggled Israeli SIM cards into Gaza saying they pose a security risk, undercut local providers, and allow access to internet content that Hamas deems ‘unacceptable.’

By Reuters

Hamas-run authorities in Gaza are trying to stop the sale and distribution of pre-paid SIM cards from Israeli cellular providers, arguing the cards pose economic and security risks and allow users to access “immoral” content.

Officials from the Palestinian telecommunications and interior ministries, which are overseen by Hamas, said there have always been restrictions on the use of Israeli SIMs in the territory, but now they are determined to stamp them out entirely. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: Cellcom, cellphone, Gaza, hamas

Trump Transition Team Tells Israel to ‘Calm Down’

Trump’s transition team says US president-elect is unhappy with wild Israeli assumptions over his future US-Israel policies.

By Ryan Jones

US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has urged Israel to bridle its overt excitement over their candidate’s surprise victory and what it could mean for the Jewish settlement enterprise.

“We’ve been receiving official messages from Trump’s team. They’re expecting us to act modestly,” Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman told a press conference on Wednesday. “There are people in his close circle that we know well, they’re telling us ,‘Wait. Don’t set facts on the ground.’”

PM Benjamin Netanyahu with Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump in New York, Sunday, September 25, 2016.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Avigdor Lieberman, Israel US, Netanyahu - Trump

Canada restores aid to UNRWA with $25 million pledge

Canadian funding to UNRWA had been stopped under former PM Stephen Harper’s Conservative gov’t in 2010, after examples of how the corrupted UN agency was linked to Gaza-based Hamas, deemed a terrorist group by Canada.

By i24news

Canada will provide $25 million in aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees, it was announced Wednesday, restoring government support for the agency that had been frozen over alleged ties to the Islamist militant group Hamas.

UNRWA aid reaches Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria. – Photo courtesy UNRWA.ORG

International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal Liberal government was granting the agency $20 million to support education, health, social services and immediate humaitarian assistance for millions of Palestinians, and an additional $5 million in response an appeal for assistance for those refugees impacted by the crisis in Syria. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: Canada, Palestinian corruption, UNRWA

Israeli discovery could allow early Alzheimer diagnosis with simple blood test

The Tel Aviv University researchers’ study, published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, describe a gene that codes for a particular protein, leading to neurotransmission. As a result, future therapies should be able to halt its progression.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

A recent discovery by researchers at Tel Aviv University may soon change the way Alzheimer’s disease is diagnosed and treated.

The study, published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, describe a gene that codes for a particular protein that researchers discovered.

DNA Wikipedia/ladyofhats

The protein then turns off signals that it normally produces.

That process, in turn, blocks the brain from moving brain chemicals in their regular manner, also known as neurotransmission, thereby contributing to Alzheimer’s disease. Continue Reading »

Category: Innovations & Discoveries, Israel News | Tags: Alzheimer, innovations, Medical, Tel Aviv University

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Announcing new alternative: The New State Solution

Op-ed: The New State Solution appears to merit serious consideration in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after decades of failed attempts at the 2-state solution, that multiple int’l institutions and leaders have subscribed to, but failed terribly.
– It’s time that other ideas be allowed to enter the public discourse.

By Benjamin Anthony/Our Soldiers Speak

When President Obama leaves office, yet another US administration will depart without resolution of the Israeli – Palestinian conflict.

As with all incoming administrations, a Trump presidency ushers in the opportunity to review, retain, or revise the terms of long-standing policies, including those relating to the Middle East. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: Arab-Israel conflict, Middle East peace, The New State Solution

Oberlin College sacks professor after posting anti-Semitic remarks

Although Karega’s blatantly anti-Semitic social media posts included one accusing Israel and “Rothschild-led bankers” of owning “Your news. The media. Your oil. And your government,” and another suggesting that Israel was behind the attack on the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris, and responsibility for downing a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine in 2014, Karega appeared to blame the college governors & administration of persecuting her because she is black.

By JTA

An Oberlin College assistant professor whose anti-Semitic social media posts outraged many alumni and faculty earlier this year has been dismissed.

The Ohio college’s board of trustees announced Tuesday that it had voted to dismiss Joy Karega “for failing to meet the academic standards that Oberlin requires of its faculty and failing to demonstrate intellectual honesty.” Continue Reading »

Category: Jewish News | Tags: anti-Israel Propaganda, anti-Jewish attacks, anti-Semitic propaganda, anti-Semitism, Oberlin College

israelandstuffcom | November 16, 2016