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| August 27, 2018
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Iran sues U.S. at International Court of Justice to end sanctions

Iran contends in the lawsuit filed with the ICJ, that the U.S. sanctions, which are damaging further the already weak Iranian economy, violate terms of the little-known, 1955 Treaty of Amity between the two countries.
– ICJ president urges the U.S. to adhere to court’s decision.

By Reuters

 

Iranian lawyers asked the International Court of Justice on Monday to order the United States to lift sanctions imposed by the Trump administration against Tehran.

The presiding judge of the UN body informally known as the World Court began the hearing by calling on Washington to respect its outcome. During their decades of animosity, both the United States and Iran have ignored some rulings at the court. Continue Reading »

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| August 27, 2018
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IDF acquires precision rockets that guarantee unprecedented accuracy

The introduction of the new precision ‘Made in Israel’ rockets significantly improves the IDF’s capabilities of accurately hitting its target from all ranges while achieving lower mission costs.

By ANNA AHRONHEIM

 

Israel’s Ministry of Defense has signed a deal to develop and acquire advanced precise short and long range rockets worth hundreds of millions of shekels with Israel Military Industries (IMI).

According to the Ministry of Defense, the precision firepower will significantly improves the IDF’s capabilities of accurately hitting a target from a distance at immediate availability and with a low mission cost relative to other combat systems.

Rocket used by the IAF during tensions at Gaza border in August 2018.

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| August 27, 2018
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Israeli leaders remember Sen. John McCain, the man, the hero, Israel’s friend

Israel’s Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, “John McCain was an American hero and a unique person. We will always remember him as a great friend of Israel. May he rest in peace.”
– WATCH: PM Netanyahu eulogizes John McCain.

By GIL HOFFMAN

 

Knesset members from across the political spectrum praised the late American Senator John McCain, who died Saturday, as a close friend of the Jewish state.

“The State of Israel salutes John McCain,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday in response to the death of the long-time US senator. Netanyahu called McCain a “great American patriot and a true friend of Israel.” Continue Reading »

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| August 26, 2018
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Israeli Arab parliamentarians team up with Palestinians against Israel at UN

Israeli Knesset Members from the Joint Arab List party met with UN and senior PA officials in order to facilitate the passing of an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations to condemn Israel’s Nationality Law as “Apartheid.”

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Arab MKs from the Joint Arab List are preparing a resolution at the United Nations to condemn the Nationality Law, Hadashot News reported.

According to the report, a number of MKs from the Joint List met with UN officials alongside Palestinian Authority representative Riyad Mansour and other senior PA officials in order to arrange the passing of the anti-Israel resolution. Continue Reading »

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| August 26, 2018
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WATCH: PLO chief Erekat blames Israel & Trump of ‘waging war’ on Palestinians

In an interview with Ynet, Saeb Erekat the PLO Secretary General and renowned Palestinian spin-master & fabulist, decries, “Netanyahu & Trump … believe they can take Jerusalem off the table, take refugees off the table, legalize settlements, drop the idea of two states on the 1967 lines, and they believe the Palestinians … will accept this.”

By Attila Somfalvi, Alexandra Lukash and Associated Press

 

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Secretary General Saeb Erekat accused the US and Israel on Sunday of waging a “war against the Palestinians by financial pressure” after the Trump administration announced over the weekend that it would be cutting more than $200 million in bilateral aid to the Palestinians. Continue Reading »

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| August 26, 2018
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FIFA: Palestinian threats forced cancellation of Israel-Argentina match

Palestinian Authority officials celebrated the cancellation of an Israel-Argentina football match as an anti-Israel, boycott victory, but a FIFA investigation confirmed it was really about Palestinian threats of terrorism.

By Israel Today Staff

 

At the time, it was hailed as a major victory for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Israel was supposed to have played a highly-anticipated friendly match against Argentina just weeks prior to the World Cup, the world’s most watched sporting event.

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But at the very last minute, Argentina cancelled.

Israel’s critics insisted it was because Argentina’s star players, including the renowned Lionel Messi, had rejected the notion of playing in “apartheid” Israel, and especially the “occupied” city of Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

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| August 24, 2018
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Hamas threatens Israel should Mahmoud Abbas continue sanctions on Gaza

Following Israel’s Defense Minister promise to southern community leaders that he will not make an agreement with any terror group that’s committed to Israel’s destruction, Hamas warned Israel of consequences should PA leader Mahmoud Abbas fail to end their sanctions on Gaza.

By Elior Levy

 

The Hamas terror group threatened on Friday that Israel would “pay the price” if sanctions imposed on the Gaza Strip by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas continue or worsen.

“Israel is responsible for ending the current situation in coordination with, and encouraged by, him (Abbas),” a Hamas statement said.

Palestinian kleptocrats: Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh (left) and his second-in-comand, Gaza leader, Yahya Sinwar (center) PA autocrat, Mahmoud Abbas (right)

The ultimatum comes on the heels of expected renewed indirect talks between Israel and Hamas as they work to reach a long-term ceasefire to end months of fighting that has repeatedly brought the two sides to the brink of war. Continue Reading »

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| August 24, 2018
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Confirmed: Gaza terrorist killed by IDF tank worked for Doctors Without Borders

ANOTHER so called ‘humanitarian’ NGO goes rotten with a Palestinian terrorist working for Doctors Without Borders, who “opened fire toward [Israeli] military forces and even threw an explosive device at them,” before an IDF Merkava tank eliminated him.

By David Rosenberg

 

Israel said a terrorist who was a member of the Geneva-based organization “Doctors Without Borders” opened fire at IDF troops on the Gaza border earlier this week, a charge the group said Friday it was investigating, after it had confirmed the death of an employee.

The terrorist was eliminated Monday morning, after he opened fire on Israeli troops. An Israeli tank later shot at and killed the terrorist. Continue Reading »

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| August 23, 2018
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Head of UNHRC’s anti-Israel crime probe into Hamas ‘March of Return’ resigns

David Crane, who was tasked by the overtly anti-Israel UNHRC to chair a panel to only investigate Israel’s actions during the Hamas riots along the Israel’s border known as the ‘Great March of Return,’ offered his letter of resignation yesterday.
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By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

Legal expert David Michael Crane resigned Wednesday from his post as chair of the UN Human Rights panel that is probing possible Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

Crane, who teaches international criminal law at Syracuse University College of Law in New York, was appointed to the post along with the two other panel members last month. Continue Reading »

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| August 23, 2018
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Photoessay: IDF Navy delegation participates in world’s largest naval exercise

The 2018 Rim of the Pacific Exercise was carried out by select naval units from 26 countries, in a massive maritime exercise in which the ‘enemy’ threatens a critical sea route, similar to a scenario where the Strait of Hormuz is being threatened by Iran.

By Yoav Zitun

 

For the very first time, an IDF Navy delegation took part in the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC), the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise. During the drill, which took place near Hawaii last month, Israeli officers joined the commanding team. The exercise included 25 participants from 26 countries, 47 warships, 200 fighter planes, and five submarines. Continue Reading »

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| August 23, 2018
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Fatah contenders arm militias preparing to war for Palestinian Presidency

REPORT: The potential of the hundreds of million$ that can be skimmed for personal wealth has senior Fatah officials collecting weapons, some even recruiting armed Tanzim operatives, in preparation for the eventual post-Abbas reign, as President Trump is proving kleptocrat Mahmoud Abbas isn’t willing to make peace with Israel.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Senior Fatah officials are stepping up the preparations for the succession struggle over the position of Palestinian Authority chairman, which will open up as soon as Mahmoud Abbas announces that he is ending his term of office, Kan reported.

According to the report, the various candidates for the position have begun to accumulate weapons for the struggle, and recently began to recruit armed Tanzim operatives who will stand by them for money, favors and alliances to strengthen their status in the PA. Continue Reading »

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| August 23, 2018
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Palestinian officials reject Trump’s promises of ‘something big’ in negotiations

Having deemed President Trump as ‘pro-Israel’, Palestinian officials parrot Abbas, dismissing all assurances of gaining something “very good”, should they stop rejecting out of hand all calls to return to the negotiating table.

By i24NEWS

 

Palestinian leaders rejected apparent overtures by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday after he said they would get something “very good” in exchange for his country recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

The December decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the US embassy to the city sparked fury among Palestinians, with the political leadership cutting off ties to the US administration.

The White House’s effort to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process appears to have stalled, and in interviews with i24NEWS Palestinian leaders scoffed at recent attempts to focus largely on economic growth at the expense of the most prickly political and religious subjects. Continue Reading »

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| August 22, 2018
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Israel requests UN peacekeepers return to posts in Syria

Now that President Bashar Assad regained control of the Syrian Golan Heights, Jerusalem asks U.N. to increase size of UNDOF force from 1,000 to 1200-1300 peacekeepers.
• Remember: UNDOF retreated from Syria in 2014 after peacekeepers were kidnapped by an al Qaida force.

By Lilach Shoval

 

Israel has asked the United Nations to reinstate its Disengagement Observer Force on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights border, outgoing Northern Command Chief of Staff Brig. Gen. Asher Ben-Lulu has confirmed to Israel Hayom.

UNDOF peacekeepers were first deployed on both sides of the Golan Heights border in 1974 as part of the Separation of Forces Agreement between Israel and Syria after the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Continue Reading »

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| August 22, 2018
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Facebook, Twitter delete hundreds of fake Iranian & Russian accounts

Amid worries of foreign attempts to influence U.S. midterm elections, Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms have remove hundreds of accounts used to push Iranian and Russian agendas, citing, “coordinated inauthentic behavior” and “manipulation.”

News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet have collectively removed ‎hundreds of accounts tied to Russian and Iranian ‎users that cybersecurity firm FireEye‎ said were ‎promoting Russia’s and Iran’s ‎geopolitical agendas around the world.‎

Some of the Twitter and Facebook accounts were designed to ‎appear as if they belonged to real people in the United States, ‎Britain and Canada, according to FireEye. Continue Reading »

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| August 22, 2018
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Left happy after Trump said, Israel will pay “high price” for US Embassy move

Hinting to a quid pro quo situation, the ‘left’ were pleased to hear President Trump say at his rally in West Virginia yesterday, that the Palestinians would soon “get something very good” in return for the U.S. moving its Embassy to Jerusalem, “because it’s their turn next.”

By GIL HOFFMAN

 

US President Donald Trump’s statement that Israel will pay a “high price” in its negotiations with the Palestinians because it won something “very big” with America’s relocation of its embassy to Jerusalem brought joy Wednesday to the Israeli Left, which praised him.

Addressing a rally in West Virginia, Trump said that the Palestinians would soon “get something very good” in return for the May embassy move “because it’s their turn next.” Continue Reading »

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