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| September 11, 2014
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Palestinians seek to replace US as peace broker with the UN

 

Bloomberg News reports senior Palestinian official Nabil Shaath saying: We will ask U.N. Security Council to take control of peace efforts. “We will confront Israel politically all over the universe” if it doesn’t pull back to the 1967 borders, Shaath said.

By Daniel Siryoti & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas wants the U.N. to take over from the U.S. as the main peace broker between Israel and the Palestinians, senior Abbas adviser Nabil Shaath told Bloomberg News in an interview published on Tuesday.

PA President Mahmoud Abbas and senior adviser Nabil Shaath – Photo: AP

“We are telling the U.S.,

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| September 10, 2014
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Pew poll: Israelis happier than most nationalities about their country & economy

 

In contrast to Israel’s 49% satisfaction rate,  only 33% of Americans said they were satisfied with the direction the U.S. was going.

Half of Israel’s population believes the country is going in the right direction, and 59 percent believe the economy is good, making Israelis among the least dissatisfied people in the world, according to Pew poll released on Tuesday.

Israelis on the beach.

Sun-tanned Israelis relax on a beach near Tel Aviv. – Photo:REUTERS

According to the poll, part of the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project, six years after the beginning of the Great Recession, “publics around the world remain glum. Continue Reading »

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| September 10, 2014
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Eritrean political refugee cooked for the IDF during ‘Operation Protective Edge’

The Israeli Chefs Association has chosen asylum seeker Younis Wolda, 24, as a candidate for an int’l competition in Romania, but there’s a snag: Younis may not be allowed to return to Israel.

By Adva Cohen

 

The following story encompasses three continents, an Eritrean refugee, a restaurant in Jaffa and Operation Protective Edge, with the plot centered on Younis Madhana Wolda, an Eritrean who arrived in Israel some seven years ago. Wolda began to work as a dishwasher in restaurants, until one day he was needed in the kitchen.

Younis cooking for IDF troops during Gaza fighting

Younis cooking for IDF troops during Gaza fighting – Courtesy

It was then that his natural talent for cooking became apparent. Continue Reading »

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| September 10, 2014
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Poles who saved Jews during Holocaust honored with new Warsaw memorial

The new memorial monument, which will be erected in the Warsaw Ghetto, will be entirely financed by Jews in Israel & from other countries.

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Organizers have announced a design competition for a memorial in Warsaw to Poles who saved Jews during World War II.

Warsaw Ghetto

In this 1943 photo, a group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter. – Photo: AP

Polish-born Holocaust survivor and philanthropist Sigmund Rolat, of the Remembrance and Future Foundation, announced the competition at a news conference in Warsaw on Monday.

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| September 10, 2014
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Turkey Nixes ‘Inhumane’ Israeli Gas to Europe Deal Worth $2.2b

Turkish energy minister rejects a planned $2.2 billion gas pipeline project with Israel, until Jerusalem makes ‘peace’ with Hamas terrorists.

By Ari Yashar

 

Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz essentially blackmailed Israel on Tuesday, demanding that the Jewish state make “peace” with the Gaza-based terrorist organization Hamas before it would consider a joint energy project linking Israel with Europe.

Hamas' Ismail Haniyeh and Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Hamas’ Ismail Haniyeh and Recep Tayyip Erdogan – Reuters

“For energy projects to proceed, the human tragedy in Gaza will have to be stopped and Israel will have to instate a permanent peace there with all elements,” Yildiz told reporters in Ankara, referring to the recent counter-terror Operation Protective Edge. Continue Reading »

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| September 10, 2014
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Washington Post Makes Correction: There is No ‘Occupied Palestine’

Major American media outlet, the Washington Post openly acknowledges that there is no ‘occupied Palestine,’ but rather disputed territories claimed by the Palestinians

By Israel Today Staff

 

One of the key tenets of the Palestinian narrative that underlies the land-for-peace process is that Israel currently occupies a country known as “Palestine” in the same way Germany once occupied Poland, or China still occupies Tibet.

Arabs spreading propaganda

Those trying to correct this fallacy in service to establishing a more genuine base upon which to build peace scored a major victory this week when The Washington Post acknowledged there is no “occupied Palestine.”

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| September 9, 2014
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Jerusalem rejects New Zealand’s new envoy to Israel

 

Israeli Foreign Ministry’s policy is to not accept ambassadors who are also serving as envoys to the Palestinian Authority.

Israeli Embassy in New Zealand: Decision is not at all connected to the good working relationship between the 2 countries.

The Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Israel has rejected New Zealand’s new ambassador because he is also an envoy to the Palestinian Authority, officials said Monday.

New Zealand diplomat Jonathan Curr – Photo: AP

New Zealand officials said that since 2008, its ambassadors in Turkey have been responsible for covering a large swath of territory. But Israel has refused to accept their latest appointment to the post, Jonathan Curr, who was due to travel to Jerusalem in the coming days to present his papers.

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| September 9, 2014
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Arrow II interceptor test fired & filmed from central Israel

 

The trial was so technicians collecting data to see how effective the most recent version of Israel’s air defense system will operate against threats.

 

The Ministry of Defense together with the US Missile Defense Agency test fired an Arrow 2 interceptor in central Israel on Tuesday morning.

The trial was aimed at examining the capabilities of the latest version of the air defense system against future threats.

The test was overseen by officials from the HOMA administration – a part of the Defense Ministry’s Administration for the Development of Weapons and Technological Infrastructure, and Israel Aerospace Industries, which is the project’s prime contractor. Continue Reading »

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| September 9, 2014
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4 Gaza fishermen arrested by Israel Naval Patrol

Israeli naval forces detain 4 Palestinian fishermen and seize their boats near Beit Lahiya, in the northern strip, after they crossed Gaza’s designated fishing zone.

By Associated Press

 

The Israeli navy has arrested four Palestinian fishermen and seized their boat after they crossed the zone designated for fishing, in one of the first instances of friction between the sides since the Gaza war ended last month.

Israeli Patrol watching Gaza fishermen along Gaza's border - Photo by Rosa_Schiano

Israeli Patrol watching Gaza fishermen along Gaza’s border – Photo: Rosa_Schiano

Nizar Ayyash of the Gaza Fishermen’s Union says the incident occurred on Tuesday off the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya.

The four were taken for questioning at the Ashdod naval base. Continue Reading »

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| September 8, 2014
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IDF Soldier Wounded in the Golan By Stray Gunfire From Syria

Israeli soldier evacuated to hospital after being shot by ‘stray gunfire’ near Quneitra crossing.

By AFP and Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Stray gunfire from Syria wounded an Israeli soldier in the Golan Heights on Monday, the army said.

Syria border

Syria border – Reuters

“An IDF (Israel Defense Forces) soldier was injured by errant fire from internal fighting in Syria. He was evacuated to hospital,” an army statement said, without elaborating.

The soldier is reportedly from the Armored Corps., which is currently stationed along the Israeli-Syrian border.

IDF sources told Arutz Sheva Monday that the gunfire surfaces after a full day of quiet along the border, with no shots or explosions heard on the Syrian side. Continue Reading »

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| September 8, 2014
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Ultra-Orthodox army conscripts jump by 39% surprising everyone

Number defies initial expectations: With over 1,900 haredi men drafted this year & 863 of them taking combat roles, Science & Technology Minister Yaakov Peri says: ‘This proves the new draft law has paved the way toward a social & legislative revolution.’

By Mati Tuchfeld

 

The number of ultra-Orthodox Israeli men being drafted into the army has risen by 39 percent since the Knesset passed the Equal Sharing of the Burden Bill in March, according to a report presented to the cabinet on Sunday by the ministerial committee, headed by Science and Technology Minister Yaakov Peri, appointed to oversee the implementation of the law.
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| September 8, 2014
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World Leaders Ignore History & Int’l Law to Appease the Arabs When Discussing the West Bank

 

For most around the world, every inch of land beyond the 1949 armistice lines is automatically Palestinian; a display of unfamiliarity with history & int’l law.

Time to learn the facts about Judea & Samaria.

By ODED REVIVI

 

The recent furor surrounding the government’s decision to declare nearly 1,000 acres at Gvaot in Gush Etzion “State Land” is a classic example of the ignorance of history and law that governs most discussions of Israeli actions beyond the internationally hallowed “Green Line.” Media headlines around the world screamed about “annexation” and “land grab,” the Palestinian Authority declared it a “crime” and foreign ministries around the world have demanded the reversal of the decision. Continue Reading »

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| September 8, 2014
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Syrian kids traveled by donkey to receive medical aid from Israel

After a 12-year-old boy lost his vision & sustained serious wounds to his arms & legs during fighting near Damascus, his older brother placed him on a donkey and took him to an IDF post on Syria’s border.

By Ahiya Raved,

 

A 12-year-old Syrian boy was brought to the Ziv Medical Center in Safed for medical treatment over the weekend after he was severely wounded near Damascus. This was not the first time a wounded Syrian arrived in an Israel hospital for treatment – but no patient has ever crossed the border in this fashion.

The wounded Syrian boy. Arrived at an IDF post near Israel-Syria border riding a donkey (Photo: Courtesy of Ziv Hospital)

The boy told the hospital staff that he had been taken by his brother to the Israeli border near the Syrian slopes of the Hermon, on the back of a donkey.”

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| September 8, 2014
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Egypt Offered Palestinians: Create State in Sinai, Receive 5 Times the Size

 

Palestinian Authority chief rejected offer by Egyptian president to create a state 5 times the size of Gaza, by giving up demands of 1967 borders.

By Gil Ronen

 

Egyptian president General Abdel Fatah el-Sisi has offered Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to cede 1600 square kilometers of the Sinai Peninsula adjoining Gaza to the PA, thus creating a Palestinian state five times the present size of Gaza. In return, the PA would stop demanding that Israel return to the 1967 borders.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi – Photo: Kremlin/Wikimedia Commons

The offer was revealed on IDF Radio.

el-Sisi reportedly suggested that Palestinian “refugees” be allowed to settle in the new, much enlarged Gaza, which would be demilitarized. Continue Reading »

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| September 8, 2014
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Gaza-border representative: ‘Hamas’ renewed terror tunnel-digging is a cause for war’

After senior Hamas official boasted that the Gaza group started rehabilitating its underground terror infrastructure, residents of southern Israel blame Netanyahu’s administration for not eliminating the threat.

By Ilana Curiel

 

Less than two weeks after Operation Protective Edge officially ended, and mere days after the majority of Gaza-border residents returned to their homes, a senior Hamas source declared that Hamas has renewed its tunnel-digging operations.

Protective barrier in Nahal Oz kindergarten (Photo: Reuters)

Protective barrier in Nahal Oz kindergarten – Photo: Reuters

Though the Palestinian source did not elaborate, and despite an Israeli source claiming in response that there was no basis for such a declaration, the Gaza-border residents maintain that the Netanyahu administration has not definitively ended the threat posed by the Hamas attack tunnels. Continue Reading »

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