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| May 10, 2016
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Bin Laden’s son calls for “killing the Jews and attacking their interests everywhere.”

 

According to the new al-Qaida video, Bin Laden’s son praised the stabbing attacks by Palestinians against Israelis, urging Muslims to target Jewish, US, & Western interests everywhere.

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON

 

Hamza Bin Laden, the son of former al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, is calling for the targeting of Jewish and Western interests and the building of an army to “liberate Jerusalem.”

AN AL-QAIDA video released yesterday features a recorded message by Hamza bin Laden. – Photo: Middle East Media Research Institute

According to a new al-Qaida video discovered by the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor of MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute) and shared with The Jerusalem Post, Hamza praised the stabbing attacks by Palestinians against Israelis and called on Muslims from around the world to join the fight to defend Jerusalem, urging them to “participate in the intifada” of their Palestinian brethren by “killing the Jews and attacking their interests everywhere.” Continue Reading »

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| May 10, 2016
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Obama sends Hamas $50 million to assistance and create jobs in Gaza

 

The US Agency for Int’l Development, in partnership with Catholic Relief Services, will distribute the $50 million over 5 years to provide humanitarian assistance and create jobs in the Hamas controlled enclave.

By Associated Press

 

 

The United States on Monday announced a $50 million humanitarian aid program for the Gaza Strip.

Destruction in Gaza following Operation Protective Edge (Photo: AP)

Destruction in Gaza following Operation Protective Edge – Photo: AP

US officials said the money will be used over five years to provide basic humanitarian assistance and create jobs. It will be distributed by the US Agency for International Development in partnership with Catholic Relief Services.

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| May 9, 2016
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Hamas blames Abbas’ Palestinian Authority for hoarding Israel’s electricity

 

Israel provides part of Gaza’s electricity, yet Abbas’ PA has refused to pay the $400k bill for electricity provided by Israel, not only to Gaza, but used in Judea & Samaria as well.

By Dalit Halevy

 

Hamas, which advocates jihad to destroy the State of Israel and calls to boycott the Jewish state, demanded a greater supply of electricity from Israel to Gaza on Sunday.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri charged the “Israeli occupation” with responsibility for a house fire “which burned to death this week three toddler members of the al-Hindi family in Gaza.” The fire broke out due to the family lighting candles in their apartment, as their neighborhood had been suffering from a blackout at the time.

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| May 6, 2016
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Angry ‘Palestinian refugees’ close UNRWA facilities for ending free healthcare

After being required to partially pay for their health care, Palestinians in Lebanon close down 4 UNRWA offices in their 2nd day of protest, demanding 100% free, UN funded treatment.

By Ari Yashar

 

“Palestinian refugees” living in Lebanon on Friday closed UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) offices across the country in protest for the second day in a row, in protest for being made to partially pay for their health care.

The protest on Thursday shut down UNRWA offices in Tripoli in the north as well as Ain El Hilweh and Mieh Mieh “refugee camps” in the south, and on Friday the UNRWA office in south Lebanon was again shut in protest, reports the Lebanese state-run National News Agency.
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| May 4, 2016
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Veteran Syrian-born BBC anchor quits due to unprofessional Mid-East bias

 

Senior female BBC journalist refuses to continue as presenter due to company’s improper and inaccurate biased reporting of the Middle East.

By Ari Yashar

 

A senior journalist for BBC has announced she will no longer be working as a new anchor for the leading UK news company due to its biased coverage – but she was not referring to its well-documented bias regarding Israel.

BBC headquarters – Thinkstock

Instead, Dima Izzedin of Syria accused her employer of bias in favor of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in its reporting on the bloody war in her home country. After eight years at BBC she announced she will no longer continue, reports The New Arab on Tuesday.
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| May 4, 2016
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Islamic Jihad terrorist in Gaza blows himself up, wounds 2 others

 

Mazen Lulu, 30, died from an explosion at an Islamic Jihad training site in Gaza, in what was described as a “jihadi mission,” a euphemism used to bring meaning to operational mishaps.

By The Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

An Islamic Jihad operative was killed in an explosion in the Gaza Strip on Monday, in an apparent work accident. Palestinian media reported that two other operatives were wounded in the blast.

An Islamic Jihad gunman in the Gaza Strip [Archive]  – Photo: Reuters

An Islamic Jihad statement said Monday’s explosion took place at a training site in the northern Gaza Strip. Continue Reading »

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| May 4, 2016
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Gaza sewage poisoning its own coastline, now threatens Israel’s

 

Palestinian political infighting is keeping Gaza’s electricity off which fails to run their water treatment plants, so Hamas is dumping the enclave’s sewage into the sea, now threatening the Israeli coastline.

By The Associated Press

 

Each day, millions of gallons of raw sewage pour into the Gaza Strip’s Mediterranean beachfront, spewing out of a metal pipe and turning miles of once-scenic coastline into a stagnant dead zone.

The sewage has damaged Gaza’s limited fresh water supplies, decimated fishing zones, and after years of neglect, is now floating northward and affecting Israel as well, where a nearby desalination plant was forced to shut down, apparently due to pollution. Continue Reading »

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| May 3, 2016
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Senior UN official shields Hamas’ appropriation of cement for terror tunnels

 

Despite tedious and insufficient progress repairing residential neighborhoods after Hamas received 1.2 million tons of cement & construction materials ,UN Assistant Secretary-General says there’s ‘no proof’ Hamas uses aid materials for ‘military purposes,’ i.e. dozens of newly dug terror-tunnels.

By Matt Wanderman

 

UN Assistant Secretary-General Robert Piper claims that there is no proof that Hamas is taking advantage of UN-provided construction material for “military purposes,” the pro-Hamas Middle East Monitor reports.

Old-style Hamas tunnel, left, & The newer terror tunnels built after Operation Protective Edge, right – Photo: IDF spokesperson

He made his remark after Israel announced that it was blocking the transfer of cement into Gaza because Hamas uses it to build terror tunnels. Continue Reading »

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| May 1, 2016
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Palestinian football club reaps ‘insults & injury’ from Lebanon & AFC

 

One month after 9 Arab Israeli soccer players were ‘insulted’ by Lebanon’s refusal to allow them entry for a match, the AFC ‘injured’ them by declaring the team losers & fining them $20,000 to boot.

By AFP

 

The Palestinian Football Association on Saturday denounced the Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) decision to declare as losers a Palestinian team who had several players unable to enter Lebanon for a soccer game in the AFC Cup.

The match was supposed to take place on March 9 between the Palestinian soccer team Shabab Al-Thahriyeh from near Hebron and the Syrian team Al-Wahda. Because of the ongoing war in Syria and restrictions imposed on Syrians who want to travel to the Palestinian territories, the game was organized in Lebanon. Continue Reading »

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| April 30, 2016
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PLO ‘Throwing a Fit’ Demanding Apology Over Eurovision Flag Policy

 

PLO representatives have denounced the ‘shameful, totally biased & unacceptable decision’ from the Eurovision song contest organizers after a document was leaked banning the flags of all non-UN member state, including the Palestinian Authority flag.

By AFP

 

The Palestinians demanded an apology on Saturday from the organizers of Eurovision, who are already under fierce criticism after a document leaked forbidding certain flags, such as the Basque and Palestinian ones.

In a letter addressed to Jean-Paul Philippot, the president of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and obtained by AFP, Saeb Erekat, the number two of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), denounced a “shameful, totally biased and unacceptable decision” and demanded “its immediate cancellation.” Continue Reading »

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| April 27, 2016
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Palestinian ‘Dictator’ Fires Nablus Governor After Criticism Posted on Facebook

 

PA leader, Mahmoud Abbas whose presidential term ended 6 years ago, allegedly dismissed Akram Rajoub, the governor of Nablus after posting on his Facebook page criticism of Abbas’ leadership.

By MAAYAN GROISMAN

 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued on Tuesday a surprising decision to fire the governor of Nablus, Akram Rajoub, Palestinian media reported Wednesday.

After receiving a phone call from Abbas informing him of his dismissal, Rajoub wrote a post on his Facebook page, blasting the PA president for his decision.

“The president’s order is a sword pulled at my throat. I am required to leave Nablus, which I have served with all my heart, implementing my leadership’s orders with great honor,” Rajoub commented. Continue Reading »

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| April 27, 2016
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EXPOSED: Abbas’ PA Continues in Billion Dollar Scam Using ‘Aid’ to Fund Terror

 

A new report proves how Western governments, including the U.S. & EU, continue sending mass amounts of aid to the Palestinian Authority after it was told to stop paying jailed terrorists’ salaries, pensions and benefits.

By Ari Yashar

 

A shocking report on Wednesday reveals that the Palestinian Authority (PA) has fooled Western governments, raking in over a billion dollars in aid from them annually despite breaching their demands that it stop paying salaries to terrorist prisoners.

The report by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), which can be read in full here, exposes how the PA has coped since August 2014, when – in the face of demands by the US and European donor countries that it stop paying salaries to jailed terrorists – it announced it would stop the terror funding.

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| April 27, 2016
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Report: ISIS may use chemical weapons in Golan against Israel

 

According to a TV10 report, the Yarmouk Martyrs’ Brigade, identified with ISIS and operates in the southern Syrian Golan, may attempt to test-fire artillery or mortar shells with chemical agents attached.

By i24news

 

Israel’s security apparatus is concerned that an Islamic State branch located on the other side of its border with Syria may have acquired chemical weapons and could be planning to test them, according to a Channel 10 report aired Tuesday evening.


Former IDF Intel Chief Amos Yadlin on the… by i24news-en
The Yarmouk Martyr’s Brigade is identified with IS and operates in the southern Syrian Golan. Continue Reading »

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| April 27, 2016
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Shocking proclamation by Egyptian archaeologist: Jewish claims Pharaoh was Egyptian are untrue

 

Mustafa Waziri, Director General of Luxor’s Antiquities, declared king Pharaoh was a foreigner, belonging to the Hyksos dynasty that invaded Egypt in the 15th century BCE, and not the “false thesis promoted by the Jews to stick false accusations on ancient Egyptians.”

By MAAYAN GROISMAN

 

In an unprecedented declaration that challenges the story told in the Passover Haggadah, a senior Egyptian archaeologist said that ancient king Pharaoh was not Egyptian, as claimed in the ancient Jewish text.

A worker shows to media a replica of a golden death mask of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. – Photo: REUTERS

In an interview with the Egyptian daily newspaper al-Youm al-Sabih, the director-general of Luxor’s Antiquities, Mustafa Waziri, surprisingly argued that king Pharaoh belonged to the foreign Hyksos dynasty that invaded Egypt in the 15th century BCE and ruled northern Egypt. Continue Reading »

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| April 26, 2016
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Saudi official says Kingdom will build embassy in Israel when PM accepts Arab Peace Plan

 

Further warming between the Islamic & Jewish states was made evident from an interview retired Saudi major-general gave to Al Jazeera, where Anwar Eshki said the Kingdom will open an embassy in Israel when PM Netanyahu accepts the Arab Peace Initiative.

By i24news

 

Saudi Arabia will open an embassy in Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepts the Arab Peace Initiative, the Jerusalem Post reports, citing an interview that retired Saudi major general gave to Al Jazeera.

Responding to the question of how long he thought it would be before a Saudi embassy would be opened in Tel Aviv, Anwar Eshki said: “You can ask Mr. Continue Reading »

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