Archive for Mid-East News

Hezbollah Reports: Another Israeli Spy arrested

Gov’t security sources tell Al Akhbar newspaper that a Lebanese citizen admitted to cooperating with Israeli intelligence for more than a decade; in the past man’s Bulgarian wife claimed of his absence, ‘he had been kidnapped’

By Roi Kais

 

After Hezbollah announced the capture of the “highest paid” spy for Israel, Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar reported Saturday that intelligence personnel arrested a citizen suspected of cooperating with Israeli intelligence.

Hezbollah gunman in Lebanon – Photo: AFP

The newspaper, which is affiliated with Hezbollah, quoted sources as saying the detainee, who in the past has lived in a southern suburb of Beirut, admitted he had cooperated with Israel for more than a decade and worked for the Israelis in Lebanon and Europe. Continue Reading »

Report: 4 Palestinians wounded by IDF gunfire in northern Gaza

According to a PA report, a 20 year-old farmer was ‘wounded’ in his eye after soldiers fired tear gas; IDF says in response only one Palestinian wounded.

By , and Gili Cohen

 

According to the reports, a 20-year-old farmer was wounded in the eye after IDF soldiers fired tear gas. Three others were wounded by gunfire east of the Jabaliya refugee camp. The wounded were taken to a Gaza hospital.

IDF hamer along the Gaza border

IDF hamer along the Gaza border – Photo: Eliyahu Hershkovitz

The IDF said in response that only one Palestinian wounded.

Meanwhile, Israeli military police investigators are looking into the circumstances of the shooting death Wednesday of a 21-year-old Bethlehem woman, Lubnah Hanash.

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British MP: Jews Hadn’t Learned the Lesson of the Holocaust

David Ward, a Liberal Democrat MP in Britain, faces expulsion for saying Jews hadn’t learned from the Holocaust and are “inflicting atrocities” on PA Arabs.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

A Liberal Democrat MP in Britain faces expulsion from the party for saying Jews had not learned from the murder of six million in the Holocaust in their treatment of Palestinian Authority Arabs, the Daily Mail reports.

David Ward, MP for Bradford East, wrote on his own website that he was “saddened” that Jews “could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians…on a daily basis.” Continue Reading »

The North African Jihadists threaten Europe

 

The idea that radical Islamic organizations seek to target the West should not come as a surprise. It has been a prevalent theme in their writings, especially in the Muslim Brotherhood from which many of the leaders of al-Qaida emerged.

By Dore Gold

 

Not long after the French offensive against African jihadists in Mali got underway, a leader of one of the offshoots of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) declared that his organization would “strike at the heart of France.” AQIM attacked French embassies and most recently a gas facility in Algeria, where it took hostages. But was it ready to move its war against the West to the territories of the European states as well and thus pose a real threat to their security?

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The U.S. does not recognize ‘State of Palestine’ reference

The US Ambassador to the UN: ‘Reference to the ‘State of Palestine’ in the United Nations, on placard or invitations, does not reflect acquiescence that Palestine is a state.’

“Direct Negotiations only way to establish a real Palestinian state.”

By JTA

 

WASHINGTON –  Participation in United Nations forums that refer to a “State of Palestine” does not constitute US recognition of Palestinian statehood, UN Ambassador Susan Rice said.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice“Any reference to the ‘State of Palestine’ in the United Nations, including the use of the term ‘State of Palestine’ on the placard in the Security Council or the use of the term ‘State of Palestine’ in the invitation to this meeting or other arrangements for participation in this meeting, do not reflect acquiescence that Palestine is a state,” Rice, the US envoy to the world body, said Wednesday at a Security Council debate on the Middle East.

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Jewish Group Points Out, Recent Islamist Attacks are Just the Beginning

Spokesman at Simon Wiesenthal Center raises alarms about recent threats made by Islamist terrorists that staged deadly hostage crisis at Algerian gas plant.

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has raised alarms regarding the threats made by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, spokesman of the Islamist terrorist group that staged a deadly hostage crisis at an Algerian gas plant last week.

Algerian security escorts a freed hostage

Algerian security escorts a freed hostage
Reuters

In an interview with the journal Paris Match, Belmokhtar claimed to be speaking on behalf of his leader, the Mauritanian Salafist, Hacen Ould Khalil, also known as Joulaybib, whom he quoted as “threatening to commit new attacks against France, in which the Crusaders and the Zionist Jews will pay for its aggressions in the north of Mali.” Continue Reading »

Disrupting the ecosystem of extreme Racism

We can’t rest until the evil ideologies that fuel terror become nothing more than relics of the past.

By Ron Prosor

 

There is a specific kind of ecosystem that creates terrorism. Terrorism is rooted in hate, watered with instability and state support, and then planted in the next generation.

screenshotEvery roadside bombing, every suicide attack, and every act of terrorism begins with words and thoughts of hate. It begins with al-Qaida websites that turn suicide bombers into jihadi celebrities. It begins with Hezbollah summer camps that use arts and crafts to glorify martyrdom and teach bombmaking skills to children.

It begins with statements by Hamas leaders like Atallah Abu al-Subh, who recently said on public Palestinian television (and I quote) “The Jews are the most despicable and contemptible nation to crawl upon the face of the Earth.”

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Amb. Prosor: Support for France’s Mali invasion reveals world hypocrisy

 

Amb. Prosor : “Make no mistake: France’s principled stand should be commended. We only ask that France and all the countries who are supports its principled stand today, support Israel tomorrow when we fight Islamic terrorism on our borders.”

By  Israel Today Staff

 

Israel on Wednesday suggested that the international community’s overwhelming support for France’s anti-terror military incursion into the west African nation of Mali reveals a clear double standard when it comes to the Jewish state’s security.

Ron Prosor

Ron Prosor

France has been increasing its military presence and activity in Mali over the past two weeks as it battles Al Qaeda-linked forces that control the northern half of the country. Continue Reading »

PA threatens to charge Israel at Int’l Criminal Court if it builds in E-1

 

U.S. & Canadian ambassadors protests “State of Palestine” placard, says Palestinians have not been given “statehood” or “recognition.”

By News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

 

 

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki declared Wednesday that the Palestinians would have “no choice” but to complain to the International Criminal Court if Israel proceeded with plans to build housing on land the Palestinians want for a future state.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas took another symbolic step weeks ago, proclaiming that official PA letterheads and signs would bear the name “State of Palestine.” – Photo:AP

Speaking to reporters after a meeting of the U.N.

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Hamas establishes military school for Gaza’s children

With more than 10,000 kids attending military parade, Haniyeh says military academy in Gaza will prepare children from 12 years old for “liberating Palestine,…from the river to the sea”

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

Hamas is planning to establish a military academy in the Gaza Strip for training and educating schoolchildren.

Gaza children

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh announced Thursday that the new military academy, the first of its kind in the Gaza Strip, would prepare the children for the “phase of liberating Palestine.”

He said that children in grades 7-9 could join the academy and graduate with a Diploma or Bachelor of Arts in military affairs.

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Khameini aide says Iran’s backing Assad to avert collapse of anti-Zionist front

Iranian official says rebel leader’s vow to establish relations with Israel & the US, justifies Iran’s involvement.

 

The main reason behind Iran’s support for Syrian President Bashar Assad is to prevent the collapse of the rejectionist front against Israel, a senior aide to the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Religious Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in a television interview that was broadcast on Sunday.

Iranian Revolutionary Guards personnel -AP - June 28, 2011.

Iranian Revolutionary Guards personnel watch the launch of a Zelzal missile during maneuvers by the city of Qom, Iran. June 28, 2011.- Photo by AP

“If Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is toppled, the line of resistance in the face of Israel will be broken,” Ali Akbar Velayati told the Arab satellite channel Al-Mayadeen, which is operated by former Al Jazeera reporter Ghassan Ben Jeddo. Continue Reading »

Area PFLP head survives assassination attempt

Pro-Assad Palestinian terrorist group calls on PA to arrest the unidentified gunmen who fired on gang’s Nablus chief.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

A pro-Syrian Palestinian terrorist group claimed Tuesday that one of its leaders in the West Bank escaped an assassination attempt on Monday night.

PFLPIt said that unidentified gunmen opened fire at the car of Mohamed Jibril, a senior member of the group, in Nablus.It said that Jibril was not hurt in the attack.

The group, whose members have been fighting alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces against the rebels over the past two years, called on the Palestinian Authority to capture the perpetrators and bring them to trial.

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Gazan PM Haniyeh: Israel electing even more extreme gov’t

Hamas’ leader urges Arabs to devise united strategy to fight ‘Israeli extremism’ at a joint press conference with visiting Malaysian premier.

Yonatan Gonen, Reuters

 

Tuesday’s elections in Israel will result in “an even more extreme government,” Hamas Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh said. He called on Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims to devise a united strategy to fight “Israeli extremism.”

Mohamed Kamel Amr with Gaza's  Ismail Haniyeh

Mohamed Kamel Amr with Gaza’s Ismail Haniyeh

Haniyeh spoke during a joint press conference in Gaza City with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is visiting the coastal enclave for the first time. The visit is seen as a political boost for the territory’s once internationally isolated rulers from Hamas. Continue Reading »

Palestinian engineer: Allow Gaza’s population to expand into Sinai

Palestinian study recommends solving “population explosion” by leasing land from Egypt, transferring residents to West Bank & setting birth control rules.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

A study published Monday by a Palestinian engineer recommends solving the Gaza Strip’s “population explosion” by allowing the enclave to expand into the Sinai Peninsula.

gazaThe study also recommends transferring some of the Gaza Strip’s residents to the West Bank and setting rules for birth control as a way of solving the problem.

The study was prepared by engineer Mustafa al-Farra and published in the daily Al- Quds newspaper.

He also suggested vertical construction and filling parts of the sea as possible methods to solve the problems facing the residents of the Gaza Strip.

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Video: Scary Truth about Israel’s ‘Partner’ in Judea & Samaria

News interview by Channel 2 from Shechem shows the ‘hidden’ face of Hamas, waiting to take over Judea & Samaria…..and all of Israel.

By Gil Ronen

 

The elections taking place Tuesday will decide how tough Israel will be in the face of pressure to cede land in Judea and Samaria to the “Palestinians.”

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What will happen to Israel if it cedes control of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Authority? Experts agree that a Hamas takeover, like the one that took place in Gaza when Israel withdrew, is extremely likely.

Israel’s Channel 2 spoke to Hamas activists in Shechem last month – and the report is available online with English subtitles. Continue Reading »