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Abbas is worried the ‘Arab Quartet’ plans of peace with Israel may succeed

The “Arab Quartet” and not Israeli policy, is Abbas’s true nightmare, since their promotion of the president’s rival, Mohamed Dahlan to facilitate their efforts promoting peace with Israel, will finally end Abbas’s dream of never-ending power — at the expense and well-being of his people.

Abbas to Arab Leaders: Go to Hell! By Khaled Abu Toameh

In his speech last week before the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas trotted out his usual charges against Israel, citing “collective punishment,” “house demolitions,” “extrajudicial executions” and “ethnic cleansing.” However, Abbas’s thoughts seem to be elsewhere these days. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: Arab Quartet, Muhammad Dahlan, UNinvolved in Peace

NY Federal Judge Admonishes Facebook In Terror Lawsuit

At a class action hearing in New York against Facebook for incitement by Israeli victims of terrorism, Federal Judge Garaufis censured Facebook management of not taking adequate steps to stem the incitement, and for not taking global terrorism seriously enough.

By Itamar Eichner

A federal judge in New York scolded Facebook Thursday night and said the social media giant has not done enough to discourage terrorists from using its platform.

Incitement to kill Jews on Facebook

The comments were made in the New York District Court during a hearing on a class-action lawsuit filed against Facebook on behalf of 20,000 Israelis for incitement and encouraging violence. Continue Reading »

Category: The Diaspora | Tags: Facebook, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Shurat HaDin, US District Court

California’s Governor Brown signs into law new anti-BDS bill

Jewish advocacy group admits the new California law that officially blocks state-contracted companies from engaging in any anti-Israel boycott, divestment or sanctions activities, sends an unmistakable message: California wants no part of the BDS movement’s tactics.

By Israel Hayom Staff

California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed into law a bill targeting the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, effectively barring state-contracted companies from pursuing any discriminatory practices when dealing with Israel, Israeli companies or Israeli-made products.

California Governor Jerry Brown at a Rally in Sacramento. – Photo: Mark Miller/Wikipedia Commons

The California State Senate approved the bill by a vote of 34 to one on Aug. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: #BDSfail, BDS, Israel California, Jerry Brown

Saudi paper tells Abbas to accept Netanyahu’s invitation to address Knesset

The editorial in a Saudi English-language paper reflect recent signs that the local media is softening its position on Israel, a strategy change that has been linked to several contacts between the two countries. – ‘Baby steps’

By JPOST.COM STAFF

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas should accept Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s invitation and address Israel’s Knesset, a Saudi newspaper argued in it’s editorial on Monday.

The English-language Saudi Gazette said that Netanyahu’s invitation, issued during his speech to the UN General Assembly last week, was reminiscent of former prime minister Menachem Begin’s invitation to former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, which eventually led to the 1978 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel Saudi Arabia, Saudi media

Israel energy consortium signs $10 billion gas deal with Jordan

The Delek energy group just signed a 15 year deal that will see the sale of Israel’s natural gas worth $10 billion to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

By The Associated Press

Israel’s Delek Group, one of the developers of the country’s biggest natural gas reservoir, says it has signed a deal to sell gas to neighboring Jordan.

Delek Drilling CEO Yossi Abu – Photo source: Ynet

The agreement, announced Monday, would provide 45 billion cubic meters (1.6 trillion cubic feet) of gas to Jordan over 15 years. Delek says revenues could amount to $10 billion.

Delek Drilling CEO Yossi Abu hailed the “historic” deal and said developers of the Leviathan reservoir would pursue similar agreements with others in the region, including Egypt, Turkey and the Palestinian Authority. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Delek Group, Israel Jordan, natural gas

Presidential error at the UN, politicly motivated in anti-Israel bias

President Obama could have said ‘West Bank’, but calling Judea & Samaria “Palestinian lands,” in his UNGA address “prejudges the issue of sovereignty & borders and is not accordance with int’l law” or in accordance with the Oslo Accords, to whom the United States is a signatory.

By Yoel Domb,

Despite Barak Obama’s speech last week at the UN being endlessly analyzed, there has been no meaningful reference to the way in which the president referred to Judea and Samaria. The president remarked parenthetically that Judea and Samaria are “Palestinian lands”. Only the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has responded and protested the inaccuracy in Obama’s words. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel bias, Barak Obama, Judea and Samaria, ZOA

Report: Israeli Schools Teach Peace, Palestinians Prefer Jihad

Global educational watchdog reports Israeli textbooks teach peace as the ultimate goal, while Abbas’ PA approved Palestinian schools encourage conflict and jihad, ignoring any possibility of peace with Jews or Israelis.

By Israel Today Staff

Two recent studies have found that while the Israeli school curriculum makes a great effort to promote peace between Jews and Arabs, the Palestinian Authority school curriculum is doing the exact opposite in violation of signed peace agreements.

UK Labour funds play of Gaza Children incited to Kill Jews – Screenshot, YouTube

Both studies were conducted by IMPACT-SE, and organization that “monitors and analyzes education across the world to determine compliance with international standards on peace and tolerance.” Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Arab-Israel conflict, coexistence, Israel education, ‘Palestinian’ incitement

In overnight sting, Israeli security forces arrest 19 wanted Palestinians

In addition to the 19 wanted Palestinians arrested on assorted terrorism charges during the overnight operation to uncover illegal weapons manufacturing workshops, a number of pistols, weapons parts, cartridges & ammunition were seized.

By i24news

The Israeli Defense Forces in cooperation with the Shin Bet security service arrested 19 wanted Palestinians overnight in the West Bank and uncovered three weapons manufacturing workshops.

Israeli forces carry arrested 19 wanted Palestinian overnight in the West Bank, September 26, 2016. – Photo: IDF’s Spokesperson’s Unit

According to a statement from the IDF, two of the workshops were discovered in the northern West Bank city of Jenin and the third in Dahriya in the south. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: IDF-Shin Bet, illegal weapons manufacturing, terror arrest, weapons cache

Palestinian activists boycott Facebook after multiple accounts closed for incitement

Facebook, in cooperation with Jerusalem’s request, has disabled a number of Palestinian accounts that the social media giant identified as ‘promoting violence.’

By ADAM RASGON

Palestinian activists called on Facebook users to boycott Facebook and instead post tweets on Twitter under the hashtag #FBCensorsPalestine between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Sunday to protest the closure of a number of Palestinian Facebook accounts.

Da’es facebook page known for its Incitement on Facebook page [file]. – Photo Courtesy

Facebook, in cooperation with the Israeli government, has disabled over the past several months a number of Palestinian accounts that it has said “promote violence,” including those of top Hamas officials, such as Ezzat al-Rishq and Salah Bardawail.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Facebook, incitement to violence, ‘Palestinian’ incitement

Trump tells Netanyahu: Jerusalem is eternal capital of Jewish people

Donald Trump spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prior to the two candidates’ first debate Monday, hinting of a possible move of the US embassy to Jerusalem, ‘the undivided capital of the State of Israel.’

By Associated Press

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will be meeting separately with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday in sessions that could set the tone for relations between the allied countries during the next presidential administration.

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu – Photo: Kobi Gideon, Israel’s GPO

Trump met Sunday with Netanyahu for over an hour at his residence in Trump Tower in Manhattan, according to Israeli and campaign officials. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Netanyahu - Trump

Israeli Knesset Member: US Sec. Kerry has a lot learn from Mayor Giuliani

MK Moti Yogev thinks Secretary of State Kerry should stop ‘obsessing’ over “settlements” and a Palestinian state, and seek out to learn from people who’ve actually succeeded in fighting terror.

By Netanel Katz

US Secretary of State John Kerry harshly criticized Israel’s policies during a closed meeting with representatives of countries who fund the Palestinian Authority, according to a report in Haaretz Sunday morning.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Secretary of State John Kerry. – Photo courtesy: Kobi Gideon, Israel’s GPO

Kerry said in the meeting that Israel and the Palestinians are moving towards a reality of one state and war, and that “we need to do something now or simply shut up.” Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Israel US, John Kerry, Moti Yogev

Togo president tells African Presidents, Prime Ministers: Israel holds key to troubles in Africa

President Gnassingbe was one of 3 heads of state & 12 other prime ministers & foreign ministers from Africa at the meeting seeking to work with Jerusalem to safeguard Africa’s interests.

By HERB KEINON, DANIELLE ZIRI

Togo President Faure Gnassingbe told a group of African leaders who met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York on Thursday that African countries hesitant about strengthening ties with Israel should stop looking for excuses and work with Jerusalem to safeguard Africa’s interests.

TOGO PRESIDENT Faure Gnassingbe receives a book from Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz during a visit to the Western Wall yesterday..

Category: Israel News | Tags: Danny Danon, Israel Africa, Israel Togo

Israel gives Taiwan 117 earthquake-resistant tables for its schools

The Israeli donation of 117 earthquake-resistant tables, given to a school in the city of Tainan, is in memory to the 117 victims of the earthquake that hit the country in February.

By Itamar Eichner

Israel has given Taiwan a donation of 117 earthquake-resistant tables, as a gesture of solidarity with the country ahead of its independence day on October 10, and in commemoration of the 117 victims of the quake that hit Taiwan in February.

Each Israeli earthquake-resistant table can support loads of up to a ton before collapsing. – Photo source: Ynet

The tables will be used by three schools in the city of Tainan, which was damaged in the earthquake. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: earthquake, humanitarian, Israel Taiwan, Tikon Olam