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| April 8, 2015
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FIFA chief asks Palestinians to withdraw Israel complaint

Speaking to CAF Congress in Cairo, FIFA head Blatter calls on Palestine Football Association to cancel its attempt to get Israel suspended from world soccer’s governing body, saying, “A suspension of any member affects badly the whole organization.”

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

FIFA President Sepp Blatter says he will attempt to persuade the Palestine Football Association to withdraw a bid to get Israel suspended from world soccer’s governing body.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter after a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday – Photo: AP

Blatter said he was to meet with the association’s president Jibril Rajoub in Cairo later on Tuesday in an effort to convince him not to place a resolution on a possible Israeli suspension on the agenda for the FIFA Congress in Zurich next month.

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| April 7, 2015
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Palestinians Changing Publicity Tactics to Appear ‘Normal’ in Christian World

The PA is addressing its ‘Image Problem’, realizing that when mothers openly ululate in happiness when their children ‘marry virgins in Heaven’, (having been killed in acts of terrorism), is bad publicity in the Judeo-Christian media.

By Ari Yashar

 

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has a long history of broadcasting images of Palestinian Arab women ululating in cries of joy over their dead “martyr” terrorist relatives, particularly in cases of mothers celebrating the terrorist activities of their children – but one official has warned the custom may be creating a public relations problem.

PMW YouTube screenshot

Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) translated a broadcast on official PA TV from late last month, in which the mother of a “martyr” explained the ins-and-outs of the celebratory ululations, saying “it’s true what they say that we ululate for our children because our child is going to Heaven to marry the Dark-Eyed Virgins.” Continue Reading »

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| April 5, 2015
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WSJ Reports: As Iran nuke talks advanced, Pentagon upgraded its ‘bunker-buster’ bombs

WSJ reported top Obama aides & officials split regarding Iranian deal as the Pentagon expedited work to create better weapon that could destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities if negotiations failed.

By Yitzhak Benhorin

 

WASHINGTON – The Wall Street Journal said on Friday that the Pentagon has been upgrading the biggest bunker-buster bomb in its arsenal as talks with Iran continued over Tehran’s nuclear program, readying a weapon that could destroy Iran’s facilities if negotiations failed.

Iran’s Qom facility – Photo: AP

Work to improve the design, guidance systems and anti-jamming capabilities on the so-called Massive Ordnance Penetrator began before the latest round of negotiations with Iran started. Continue Reading »

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| April 5, 2015
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ISIS Beheading Syrian Palestinians in Damascus Suburb of Yarmouk

Islamic State has seized nearly all of the Yarmouk district, currently 18,000 Palestinians residing from the over 100,000 pre-war population.

By Arutz Sheva staff

The savage Islamic State (ISIS) organization has seized nearly all of the Palestinian district of Yarmouk in Damascus, activists said Saturday, and there are reports of beheadings and mass killings of Palestinians.

Inside Yarmouk (file) – Reuters

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) watchdog group said the Islamist militants have taken over 90% of Yarmouk, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital.

The Financial Times cited activists who said that the jihadi group may succeed in cementing a foothold in the Syrian capital, thus increasing pressure on President Bashar al-Assad.

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| April 3, 2015
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Israel allegedly bombed Libya warehouses of Iranian weapons meant for Hamas

Arab media is reporting destroyed warehouses, allegedly stockpiled with weapons purchased by Iran for Hamas, were the result of IDF airstrike via authorized Egyptian airspace.

By i24news

 

An Israeli air force jet allegedly bombed warehouses in Libya placed in a small airfield in the south of the country, according to Arab media citing unnamed Libyan security sources.

An Israeli F-15 I fighter jet takes off during an air show at the graduation ceremony of Israeli air force pilots at the Hatzerim base in the Negev desert. – Photo: Jack Guez /AFP/File

According to the reports, the warehouses, which were completely destroyed, stockpiled weaponry purchased by Iran from Africa and were intended to be smuggled to Hamas in Gaza. Continue Reading »

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| April 2, 2015
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Israel: With Abbas’ PA in Cahoots With Hamas, it’s Absurdly Hypocritical Going to ICC

Emmanuel Nachshon from Israel Foreign Ministry’s calls the Palestinian decision to join the Int’l Criminal Court “political, cynical & hypocritical.”

By HERB KEINON

 

“Palestine” has no right to join the International Criminal Court, because there is no Palestinian state in accordance with international law, Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon said Wednesday.

ICC Second Vice-President Judge Kuniko Ozaki, in the presence of the President of the Assembly of States Parties, H.E. Sidiki Kaba, presents Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Al-Malki with a special edition of the Rome Statute. – Photo: ICC

Nachshon said that for this reason, the ICC’s prosecutor erred earlier this year in accepting the Palestinian request for a preliminary examination into alleged war crimes stemming from Operation Protective Edge over the summer. Continue Reading »

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| April 1, 2015
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While Iran ‘Smooth Talks’ Obama, They’re Smuggling Precision Missiles to Hezbollah

Top Iranian colonel in missile defense system says Teheran is upgrading warheads allowing Hezbollah pinpoint accuracy in attacking Israel.

By Ari Yashar

 

A senior Israeli security source revealed on Tuesday that Iran is smuggling rockets souped-up with advanced guided warheads to its terror proxy of Hezbollah in Lebanon, posing a direct threat to the Jewish state of Israel from right over its northern border.

Col. Aviram Hasson, a leader in the IDF’s top-level missile defenses, brought up the threat at the Israel Air and Missile Defense Conference held in Herzliya, an event hosted by the iHLS (Israel’s homeland security) defense website and the Israel Missile Defense Association.
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| April 1, 2015
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Analytical Examination of P5+1 ‘Bad Deal’ With Apocalyptic Betrayals Ongoing & Future

Rather than a bold show of force, Obama seeks ‘deal at any price’, so we could be looking at an Islamic inspired apocalyptic World War III in the not-too-distant future.

By Noah Beck

 

President Obama’s far-reaching efforts to facilitate Iran’s march to nukes amount to nothing less than apocalyptic betrayals of U.S. voters and allies – betrayals that will make the world exponentially more dangerous.

Leader of the “Free World”….

Obama has ignored the countless reasons to doubt that the ayatollahs will make and keep a nuclear accord that prevents them from acquiring nuclear weapons. Here are just some of those reasons:

1) Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani boasted about his own role in exploiting diplomatic talks to advance Iran’s nuclear program,

2) Iran hid its nuclear facility in Qom until it was exposed in 2009 and continues to cover up its nuclear work in Parchin),

3) Iran recently tried – in a single transaction – to buy know-how for nukes and impunity for one of its biggest terrorist attacks. Continue Reading »

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| March 30, 2015
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The Saudi’s ‘United Arab Army’ is Targeting Iran, Not Israel

Discouraged over Washington’s (lack of?, or uncharacteristic) foreign policy, Saudi Arabia takes the helm to lead a ‘United Arab Army’ against Iran’s unsettling expansionism and world-wide terrorism.

By Gedalyah Reback

 

The Arab League has never been known for the unity that other international alliances have projected. NATO was a strong, American-led alliance throughout the Cold War (and in many ways still today); the European Union, for all its diversity, has a unified foreign policy.

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman – Reuters

The Arab League on the other hand has been plagued by its members changing heads of state every few years or so in bloody revolutions. Continue Reading »

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| March 30, 2015
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Israeli envoy: UN ignores intimidation, exile and murder of Christians in Arab countries

Ron Prosor to U.N:  Palestinians seek a state without negotiations, without compromise, & without a peace deal; Over 50% of Christians fled both Hamas & PA rule in Gaza AND the West Bank.

By Yoni Hersch

 

The international community is turning a blind eye to the murder of minorities in the Arab world, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor said this weekend.

Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor – Photo: AP

“Last year police in Saudi Arabia stormed a Christian prayer meeting and arrested its entire congregation, including women and children. … In 2013, three Iranian Christians were caught selling Bibles, found guilty of ‘crimes against state security,’ and sentenced to 10 years in prison.” Continue Reading »

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| March 30, 2015
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PA Report: Gaza ‘Fat Cats’ Driving Up Cooking-Gas Prices

Normally, Palestinian leaders blame Israel for the horrible poverty in Gaza as they skimmed their personal wealth, but now they point the finger of blame on the local gas companies.

By Dalit Halevi

 

Hamas has generally accused Israel of making life miserable for Gazans, even though it’s been nearly a decade since Israel abandoned the Strip, and Hamas has been in charge since 2007. In general, Hamas has blamed Israel for the high level of poverty in Gaza, as well as the many social problems in Gazan society.

However, one thing, it turns out, is not Israel’s fault: The high price of cooking gas.
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| March 29, 2015
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Iranian defector reveals US Sec. of State Kerry suckered into parroting Iranian demands

PM Netanyahu said impending nuclear agreement will be ‘Worse Than Feared’, shortly after Iranian defector revealed US negotiating team capitulated to majority of Iranian demands.

By Tova Dvorin and Ari Soffer

 

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said the deal currently under discussion between Iran and world powers over Tehran’s nuclear program is even worse than he had feared.

“The dangerous accord which is being negotiated in Lausanne (Switzerland) confirms our concerns and even worse,” Netanyahu said in remarks at a meeting of his cabinet broadcast on public radio.

Netanyahu also highlighted concerns over Iran’s wider expansionist ambitions in the region via Shia Islamist proxies and other terrorist groups. Continue Reading »

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| March 29, 2015
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Following Airstrikes on Yemen Rebels, Nasrallah Reminds Saudi Arabia That Israel is the Enemy

Hezbollah chief condemns airstrike on Shiite rebels, saying Saudis abandoned Palestinian cause with aims to control Yemen.

By Roi Kais

 

The leader of Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah group unleashed a tirade against Saudi Arabia on Friday over its intervention in Yemen, saying the Sunni kingdom has abandoned the Palestinians and does not care to oppose Israel.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah – Photo: EPA

Hassan Nasrallah rejected Riyadh’s claim that it had assembled a coalition to conduct airstrikes against Shiite Houthi rebels in order to save Yemen, an operation named “Decisive Storm.”

“All that has happened in our region for years did not require Saudi intervention, so why does the current situation in Yemen require such intervention?” Continue Reading »

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| March 29, 2015
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Abbas Suggests That Arab League Attack Hamas

Abbas urges Arab League exercise ‘same policy’ of Yemen airstrikes, in their calls for ‘iron’ blow on Hamas in ‘Palestine’.

By Ari Yashar

 

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas used the platform of the Arab League summit in Sharm el-Shekh, Egypt, this Saturday to attack his “unity partner” Hamas, making a subtle call for the Arab states to take military action against the Gaza-based Muslim Brotherhood offshoot.

Mahmoud Abbas – Reuters

Speaking at the 26th summit in the southern Sinai peninsula, Abbas made reference to the campaign of airstrikes launched last Thursday by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries against Iran-backed Shi’ite Houthi rebels in Yemen – the Houthis have overthrown the government while rapidly expanding their control.
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| March 27, 2015
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Watch: Arab Child Admits PA School Teaches ‘To Kill Jews’ For the Homeland

Education,[sic] Palestinian style: On official PA TV, young Arab boy in Hevron theater says he joined to ‘boycott Israel & kill the Jews.’

By Ari Yashar

 

How does the Palestinian Authority (PA) education system look? A broadcast aired on official PA TV this Sunday and Wednesday gave an in-depth look at how children are being exposed to arts, theater – along with boycotting Israel and “killing Jews.”

In a broadcast from a school in Hevron holding a theater contest that was meant to use “culture” to teach children to boycott Israeli products, a boy interviewed said “I came to rehearse the play in order to boycott Israeli products and fight the Jews, kill them, and defeat them,” as translated by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).

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