Archive for Israel News

PA Doublespeak: Palestinian UN envoy compares Israel to Nazi Germany

 

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon says, “Any comparison between the Nazi regime and the democratic State of Israel is despicable & must be condemned by the int’l community.”

By Arutz Sheva staff

 

Palestinian Authority (PA) envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour held a provocative press conference Wednesday, in which he compared the actions of Israeli security forces in Judea and Samaria to the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising by the Nazis in World War Two.

Palestinian Authority UN envoy Riyad Mansour – Reuters

“Any comparison between the Nazi regime and the democratic State of Israel is despicable and must be condemned by the international community,” Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, responded Wednesday night. Continue Reading »

#BDSfail: French gov’t indicates giant bank violates anti-BDS law

 

France’s Credit Mutuel Bank is now in the cross hairs of a 2-front legal war, at home in France, and on the other side of the Atlantic, where Credit Mutuel has a branch office in NYC, as the state’s legislature is presently negotiating a tough anti-BDS law.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

 

NEW YORK CITY – The French embassy in Israel announced that an account held by Campaign BDS France with Credit Mutuel bank appears to violate the law.

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When Palestinian leaders avoid sovereignty, only option is returning land to Jordan

 

Op-ed: Acknowledging the only viable option left for the Palestinian people is the return of 96% of the West Bank to Jordan is now, since every Palestinian leader has proven himself averse to actively running an independent state or founding a sovereign Palestinian country when time after time, opportunity was dismissed.

By Sever Plocker

 

With the 50th anniversary of the occupation of the West Bank coming up, the time has come to return to the idea which guided the opponents of annexation in the 60s and 70s—the Jordan Option, or the Jordanian-Palestinian option.

Who am I to decide whether or not the Palestinians have defining cultural and nationalistic characteristics to differentiate it from the rest of the Arab world? Continue Reading »

Israeli doctors save 3 yr-old Gaza child from paralysis

 

Because of a massive tumor extending to his neck & spine, 3 yr-old Sliman was “on the brink of paralysis” in his lower extremities until doctors at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem performed a procedure done only a handful of times in history.

By Maytal Yasur Beit-Or

 

A rare procedure performed at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem has prevented a 3-year-old boy from the Gaza Strip from becoming paralyzed. The boy was released from the hospital walking on his own.

Three-year-old Sliman from Gaza recovers from surgery at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem – Photo: Hadassah Medical Center

Sliman, 3, had developed a benign tumor in his chest, which not only interfered with his respiratory system but also caused a malformation in his spine and limited his range of motion. Continue Reading »

Female & male Palestinian terrorists shot dead attempting to stab Border Policemen

 

Both assailants were killed by security forces at the Qalandiya checkpost north of Jerusalem just as a female assailant took out a knife from her bag, throwing it at a Border Guard policeman.

By Yoav Zitun

Two Palestinian terrorists Wednesday morning attempted to stab Border Policemen at Qalandiya checkpost north of Jerusalem before being shot and killed by security forces. No injuries were reported.

Terrorists shot dead at Qalandiya checkpoint

Two terrorists, one female and one male, attempted to walk through a passage intended for vehicle entry and began speeding up in the direction of Border policemen stationed at the scene.

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UN Security Council ‘reminds’ Israel that Golan status “remains unchanged”

In response to Netanyahu’s declaration Israel would never vacate the Golan, UNSC felt the need to remind Jerusalem that ‘the status of the Golan remains unchanged’ & Israeli annexation of the plateau is ‘null & void and without int’l legal effect.’

By Reuters

 

UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday voiced alarm over Israeli cities and towns about the Golan Heights on Syria’s border with Israel, adding that its status remains unchanged.

The UN Security Council – Photo: AP

UN council voices alarm at Israeli cities on Golan Heights

Earlier this month Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel would never relinquish the Golan Heights, in a signal to Russia and the United States that the strategic plateau should be excluded from any deal on Syria’s future. Continue Reading »

Fox Reports: Israeli Terrorist-Tracking Technology Boycotted by French Official

 

Israel counter-terrorism program that may have helped thwart the deadly November 2015 attacks that left 130 dead in Paris & also the March bombings in Brussels that killed over 30 people was liked by “French authorities…but the official came back & said there was a higher-level instruction not to buy Israeli technology.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Terrorist-tracking technology offered by an Israeli company to French security officials could have helped detect the Islamic State terror cells that carried out attacks in Paris last year and more recently in Brussels, Fox News on Monday cited an anonymous Israeli security expert as saying. Continue Reading »

Palestinian terror suspects held overnight by Israel Police

 

As Passover holiday attracts masses of tourists to Jerusalem, Israel police reinforces Holy sites, and possibly thwarted catastrophe with Israel security services detaining 3 Palestinians after they said they intended to carry out an attack on Israelis.

By Yoav Zitun

 

Counterterrorism forces and the Shin Bet arrested three Palestinians in Jabel Mukaber in East Jerusalem Monday night. The three suspects, from Nablus, were taken in for questioning for having expressed their intention to carry out a terror attack on Israelis.

Temple Mount area – Photo AFP

None of the suspects had a background posing a security risk or any association with a terror organization. Continue Reading »

Watch: Palestinians Riot at the Temple Mount

WATCH: Israel Police step in when Palestinians attacked Jews for bowing down, a violation of the status quo that prohibits non-Muslims from praying on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s most Holy site.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Over 500 people visited the Temple Mount on Tuesday, including 400 tourists. Eight, however, were forced off by the police after they allegedly (violating the visiting conditions.”

Temple Mount Riots on 26.4.16 - FB screenshot 2

Two Jewish visitors bowed down while on the site, in contravention of the status quo that bans Jews (and only Jews) from praying while at their holiest site. After they did so, a number of Arabs attacked them, driving the pair to the ground. Continue Reading »

83 Senators Send Obama Letter to Enrich ‘Support & Help Israel Defend Itself’

 

In an initiative led by Rep. Lindsey Graham & Dem. Chris Coons, 83 signatories (of 100) that did not include Sen Bernie Sanders, called upon Obama to ‘support & help provide Israel the resources it requires to defend itself.’

By Reuters

 

More than four-fifths of the US Senate have signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to quickly reach an agreement on a new defense aid package for Israel worth more than the current $3 billion per year.

Majority of Senate pushes Obama to boost Israel aid.

Eighty-three of the 100 senators signed the letter, led by Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Chris Coons. Continue Reading »

UN agency honors Palestinian suicide bus-bomber that killed & maimed Jews

 

Investigative reporter reveals UNRWA schools still reward & praise Palestinian terrorists, and Israel not only ignores it, but is blocking a US law against funding PA terror indoctrination.

By Shimon Cohen

 

At a facility in Judea of UNRWA, the UN body tasked with caring for “Palestinian refugees,” a festive ceremony was held on Monday honoring Abd al-Hamid Abu Srour, the 19-year-old Hamas terrorist who exactly a week ago bombed a bus in southeastern Jerusalem.

Journalist David Bedein, director of the Jerusalem-based Israel Resource News Agency as well as the Center for Near East Policy Research, told Arutz Sheva about the UN event to honor the terrorist who conducted the first bus bombing of the current terror wave, in which he died while wounding 15 victims. Continue Reading »

WATCH: On PA TV Muslim Cleric Prays for Genocide to Punish ‘Wicked’ Jews

 

Abbas’ PA television airs Palestinian preacher who’s praying for Allah to kill every ‘enemy of religion’ during official gov’t televised sermon.

By Shoshana Miskin

 

A preacher on official Palestinian Authority (PA) television on Friday prayed that Allah should “count” his enemies, the enemies of Islam, and “kill them to the last one.”

The TV preacher then singled out for punishment “the wicked Jews” and “the atheists who help them,” according to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).

“Allah, punish your enemies, the enemies of religion, count their numbers and kill them to the last one, and bring them a black day. Continue Reading »

Rabid Israel-Hater & Parliamentarian Zoabi Rallies Palestinians to Revolt against Abbas

 

Knesset Member Haneen Zoabi exposes the corrupt Palestinian leadership for “aggressively foiling the creation of any alternative to the status quo,” since it maintains and facilitates the oppression of the Palestinian people.

By MAAYAN GROISMAN

 

Controversial Arab-Israeli MK Haneen Zoabi urged Palestinians to revolt against the Palestinian Authority and protest against its security cooperation with Israel, the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper reported Monday.

Hanin Zoabi – Photo: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST

Speaking on Sunday at a Nazareth forum on the treaty of Palestinian national unity, a document written by central Palestinian figures, Zoabi praised what she defined as “the Palestinian espousal of a sober attitude towards Israel, after they understand that Israel is not a partner for peace.” Continue Reading »

Israeli-American Council seeks mandate to spearhead war against BDS

 

In an in-depth interview, Adam Milstein articulates why the Israeli-American Council should lead the battle against BDS.

By STEVE LINDE

 

As national chairman of the Israeli-American Council, an umbrella group of Israelis living in the US, the Los Angeles-based Adam Milstein sees himself as the “connector” between Israel and the US, and at the forefront of fighting the anti-Israel BDS movement.

Adam Milstein – Photo: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM

“We are the nexus between the Israeli and American people,”  the affable Milstein says in an interview with Jerusalem Post editors during a recent visit to Jerusalem. “We feel that the Israeli American community is equipped and has the information necessary to lead the fight against BDS.” Continue Reading »

Ashdod to get Israel’s newest, most modern hospital

 

Directors of the new Ashdod hospital, in conjunction with Nefesh B’Nefesh, went to America to enlist the help of US medical professionals to work in Israel’s newest, state of the art hospital.

By Itamar Eichner

 

Candidates for Aliyah with medical backgrounds recently attended an event in New York hosted by the directors of a new state of the art hospital being built in Ashdod, in partnership with Nefesh B’Nefesh.

Israel currently has a shortage of doctors, and is looking abroad at potential new immigrants to help fill the gap.

“If you’re considering making aliyah, it’s important to keep the security situation in mind. Continue Reading »