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| January 22, 2013
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BREAKING NEWS: Election shocker: Likud 31, Lapid 19

Predictions:
Likud-Beiteinu win with 31 mandates; Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party comes in 2nd with 18-19 Knesset seats; record number of voters surged to polling stations to make mark on 19th Knesset

Ynet reporters

 

Exit polls marking the conclusion of the 2013 national elections are predicting re-election for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but the big surprise was Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party, which, according to the polls, won 18-19 mandates.

Israel’s news networks projected the joint Likud-Yisrael Beteinu to have won 31 Knesset seats – a sharp drop from the 42 mandates that two parties currently hold.

The winner of the day was Yesh Atid, whose projected number of mandates was almost double what the final pre-election polls predicted. Continue Reading »

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| January 22, 2013
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UK: Israel’s next gov’t must understand 2-state solution is almost dead

Foreign Secretary Hague condemns settlement expansion, says U.S. & EU still need to establish ‘incentives & disincentives’ in regard to any further negotiations.

By Reuters

 

Britain’s foreign secretary said on Tuesday that prospects for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are almost dead because of expanding settlements in occupied territory, and warned Israel it was losing international support.

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British Foreign Secretary William Hague met Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv, Nov ’10 – Photo: AP

Foreign Secretary William Hague spoke as Israelis voted in an election likely to yield a hardline rightist government keener to thicken settlement on land where Palestinians want to establish statehood than seek peace. Continue Reading »

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| January 22, 2013
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Messianic-led forum inaugurates ‘Palestinian Human Rights Week’

Israel is attacked with outrageously erroneous accusations in int’l ‘journalism’ & academia, & our response to these assaults is too often unconvincing explanations.
“We are taking the battle right back to the Palestinians. Israel needs to stop trying to defend itself and start taking the initiate,”

By David Lazarus

 

As anti-Israel organizations from around the world prepare for the annual Israeli Apartheid Week in February, the Jerusalem Institute for Justice is fighting back. The Jerusalem-based institute is organizing the first annual “Palestinian Human Rights Week” in an attempt to draw international attention to the horrendous human rights record of the Palestinian Authority. Continue Reading »

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| January 22, 2013
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Re-elected Obama’s anti-Zionism

Since November, Obama’s anti-Israel steps raise worries because they jibe with Obama’s early anti-Zionist views. We lack specifics, but we know that he studied with, befriended, socialized, and encouraged Palestinian extremists.

By Daniel Pipes

 

I predicted two months before the November 2012 presidential vote that, should Barack Obama be re-elected, “the coldest treatment of Israel ever by a U.S. president will follow.”

President Barack Obama

Well, the elections are over and that cold treatment is firmly in place. Obama has signaled in the past two months what lies ahead by:

  • Choosing three senior figures — John Kerry for secretary of state, John Brennan for CIA director, and Chuck Hagel for defense secretary — who range from clueless to hostile about Israel.
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| January 22, 2013
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Israelis vote, enjoy the ‘day off’ & fantastic weather

Whether it’s Labor or Likud-Beiteinu, Israelis descend on polling stations to exercise their right to vote, then enjoy the day off from work in the mall or at the beach.

Ynet

 

The celebration of democracy is underway and Israelis are voting en mass: 10,132 ballot boxes are waiting on Tuesday across Israel for 5,656,705 eligible voters to exercise their voting right.

כלב מי שלא מצביע. תל-אביב, הבוקר (צילום: מוטי קמחי)

Polling station in Tel Aviv, today – Photo: Moti Kimchi

The Tel Aviv polling station in Geula Street was buzzing in anticipation for Labor Chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich’s vote. Nevertheless, the ballot box was quickly filled with Likud-Beiteinu and Yesh Atid tickets. Continue Reading »

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| January 22, 2013
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The Washington Post to Obama: Welcome the PM’s re-election, urge him to form centrist gov’t

 

The Washington Post calls on both leaders to ‘reset their relationship’ as they each begin new terms this week.

By Haaretz

 

“Mr. Netanyahu hasn’t been afraid to play up his notoriously bad relations with President Obama,” wrote the Post’s editorial board, stating that in the past, a prime minister’s poor relations with the President of the United States would amount to political failure.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama meeting at the White House

The Post’s editorial described the recent comments made by President Obama to Bloomberg Columnist Jeffrey Goldberg, that Israel “doesn’t know what its own best interests are.”

According to the Post, Netanyahu’s response, that only Israelis can determine their own best interests, was received warmly by the Israeli public. Continue Reading »

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| January 22, 2013
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Report: 27% of Israelis struggle with Hebrew

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics finds that Hebrew is native tongue of only 49% of Israelis, with  26% of Russians, & 12% of Arabs don’t speak any Hebrew at all.

By Yaron Druckman

 

Hebrew as a foreign language? More than six decades after the establishment of the State of Israel and more than a century after the revival of the Hebrew language as a spoken vernacular, data indicate that the language is not as culturally solid in Israel as one might expect. According to information released Monday by the Central Bureau of Statistics, Hebrew is the native tongue of only 49% of Israelis over the age of 20. Continue Reading »

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| January 22, 2013
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Over 5.6 million Israelis will go to the polls today

In electing Israel’s 19th gov’t, approximately 1,000 polling stations will open at 7 A.M. Tuesday in towns, cities, hospitals, & prisons through out the country.

 

The polls will open at 7 A.M. on Tuesday for Israel to elect its 19th Knesset, with more than 5.65 million Israelis eligible to vote.

Golani soldiers voting on the snowbound Mount Hermon Monday.

Golani soldiers voting on the snowbound Mount Hermon Monday. – Photo: AFP

The approximately 1,000 polling stations located in towns, hospitals and prisons around the country will stay open until 10 P.M. in most locales, but will close at 8 P.M. in small towns and hospitals.

To cast a ballot, voters will need to present an Israeli ID card, a valid passport or a valid driver’s license. Continue Reading »

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| January 21, 2013
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Judaism’s Temple makes appearance as election topic

Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Temple Institute wrote: Gimpel and other Jews longing for the day the Temple will be rebuilt shouldn’t have to apologize.

By  Israel Today Staff

 

Amid all the pre-election arguing over diplomatic, security and economic issues, the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem made a brief appearance as a topic of fiery debate between two Israeli candidates.

The episode began when Israel’s Channel 2 News in its Friday evening coverage of the election aired a video showing a member of the right-wing Jewish Home party purportedly stating that it “would be incredible” if the Dome of the Rock were to be blown up and a Jewish Temple rebuilt in its place. Continue Reading »

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| January 21, 2013
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IDF Bulldoze Second Palestinian Outpost Near Jerusalem

IDF reports 4 tents & 1 building dismantled at the illegal Al-Karamah outpost erected in protest of Jewish housing construction.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

The IDF dismantled a Palestinian tent outpost northwest of Jerusalem on Monday, which had been erected in protest of Israeli settlement construction plans in the area.

Police prepare to evacuate Palestinian E1 outpost

Police prepare to evacuate Palestinian E-1 outpost – Photo: Ammar Awad/Reuters

A military source said that four tents were dismantled and one building bulldozed. The source also said that the IDF removed equipment from the area. Palestinians said that a large contingent of Israeli security personnel accompanied bulldozers to the site, and activists were prevented from reaching the area, according to Palestinian news agency Ma’an.

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| January 21, 2013
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Facebook apologizes for taking down Arab-Israeli journalist’s page

The problem becomes worse when Facebook itself starts removing material that bothers dictatorships and tyrants.

By JTA

 

JERUSALEM — Facebook apologized to an Israeli –Arab journalist for closing his Facebook account and removing posts.

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Facebook Logo & Mark-Zuckerberg

Facebook last week closed for 24 hours the account of the Jerusalem Post’s Arab affairs reporter Khaled Abu Toameh, for what it said was “security reasons.” The account was opened one day later with two posts critical of corruption in the Palestinian Authority and in Jordan removed. Toameh had received hate mail and death threats due to the posts, according to the Jerusalem Post. Continue Reading »

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| January 21, 2013
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Arab League urges Israeli Arabs to go vote against ‘radical Right’

The Arab League, representing all Arab nations, calls on the Israeli Arab sector to stand up to ‘racist, radical Right’, warning that by not voting, Arabs are giving a hand to ‘ethnic cleansing’

By Roi Kais

 

The Arab League is urging Arab Israelis to go vote in the national elections on Tuesday in order to battle the rise of the “radical Right” in the Jewish state.

Arab League conference

In a statement released Sunday, only two days before Israeli citizens head to the polling stations to determine the makeup of the next Knesset, the umbrella organization of Arab countries called on the Arab sector to make its voice heard. Continue Reading »

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| January 20, 2013
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Yesh Atid Party’s Chief: All I Want, is to be Rid of the Arabs

Chairman of Yesh Atid says Arabs don’t want peace. All Lapid wants is a tall fence between us and them. 

By Gil Ronen

 

Yair Lapid, the head of the Yesh Atid party, explained Sunday that he has no expectations from negotiations with the Arabs.

“I do not think that the Arabs want peace,” he wrote on his Facebook page.

Lapid said that he does not care what the Arabs want. “What I want is not a new Middle East, but to be rid of them and put a tall fence between us and them.” The important thing, he added, is “to maintain a Jewish majority in the Land of Israel.” Continue Reading »

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| January 20, 2013
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Bedouins & Jews Charged with Planning Terror Strike

2 Jews are accused of supplying stolen explosives to a pair of Arab brothers who planned a rocket strike against Israel.

By Gil Ronen

 

Two Bedouin Arabs and two Jewish accomplices have been charged with planning a terror rocket strike on Israel.

The Shin Bet and the Negev Central Unit of the Israel Police arrested two Bedouin brothers, Mahmoud Abu Quidar, 25, and Sameh Abu Quidar, 22, in recent weeks. The two have admitted to being in contact with terror elements in Gaza and abroad, preparing explosive charges and attempting to build rockets for launching at Israel.

Two additional suspects in the case are Jewish Israeli citizens, one of them an IDF soldier, who supplied the main suspects with weapons stolen from the IDF, which were used in preparing the explosive charges. Continue Reading »

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| January 20, 2013
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Netanyahu: ‘History will not forgive those who do not stop Iran’

In a meeting with bipartisan group of U.S. senators visiting Jerusalem, PM Benjamin Netanyahu says, “Building in Jerusalem is not the world’s problem; a nuclear Iran is the world’s problem”. His comments appear to be subtle message to the US president.

By Shlomo Cesana and Israel Hayom Staff

 

 

“History will not forgive those who do not stop Iran’s nuclear program,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. senators visiting in Israel over the weekend, in what appeared to be a subtle message to U.S. President Barack Obama.

PM Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro (far right) and U.S. senators visiting in Israel over the weekend discuss the need to intensify sanctions against Iran.

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