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| January 23, 2014
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UN General Assembly launches ‘Int’l Year of Solidarity with Palestinian People’

 

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, slams event, calls the int’l body a ‘propaganda machine.’

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The United Nations launched the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (IYSPP) at an official ceremony last Thursday.

The UN GA voting on August 3, 2012

The UN General Assembly – Photo: AP

The UN hopes the initiative will enhance efforts to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace and claims its purpose is to contribute to international awareness on the “question of Palestine” and the main obstacles to achieving a just solution, a statement issued by the UN stated.

Known as Resolution A/68/12, the initiative was adopted last November by 110 votes to 7, with 56 abstentions. Continue Reading »

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| January 22, 2014
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Islamic Jihad says ‘blood of martyrs not in vain’, Israel to pay for terrorist assassination

Ya’alon says that Israel will not hesitate to hurt those who threaten its security and PFLP terrorist Ahmed Za’anin, responsible for rockets after Ariel Sharon’s funeral and others, is a prime example of Israel’s commitment.

 

 

The Islamic Jihad’s military wing said it would avenge the Israel Air Force strike Wednesday that killed a terrorist responsible for a series of rocket attacks on southern Israel.

IAF airstrike in Gaza – results of firing rockets into Israel – Screenshot

The terrorist, Ahmed Za’anin was responsible for the rockets fired at the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council shortly after the completion of the funeral of former prime minister Ariel Sharon at the nearby Sycamore Ranch last week. Continue Reading »

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| January 22, 2014
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Israel Air Force Successful in Nighttime Surgical Elimination of Gaza Terrorist

In the successful joint IDF-Shin Bet operation, the PFLP terrorist who was centrally involved in recent rocket attacks on southern Israel was eliminated.

By Elad Benari

 

Israeli Air Force (IAF) aircraft struck in Gaza on Tuesday night and eliminated a terrorist who was involved in rocket attacks on Israel, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement.

The statement identified the terrorist as Ahmed Zaaneen from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), who in the past was a member of the Islamic Jihad terror group. He was targeted in a joint IDF-Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) operation, said the statement. Continue Reading »

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| January 22, 2014
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Romania president: We supports Israel’s demand for Palestinian recognition as Jewish state

Romanian President Traian Basescu said “Our fighters cooperate with your fighters in any way possible. We understand the advantages we gain through this”.

By Adi Rubenstein, Yori Yalon & the Israel Hayom Staff

Romanian President Traian Basescu, who arrived in Israel on Sunday, gave an exclusive interview to Israel Hayom on Monday evening. The full interview will be published in Israel Hayom’s weekend edition.

Romanian President Traian Basescu in Israel on Monday – Photo: Dudi Vaaknin

Basescu, 62, was welcomed by President Shimon Peres in a special ceremony on Monday, and was expected to visit the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday.

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| January 22, 2014
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Palestinian Authority Palestinians vs. Pro-Palestinian Israelis

The Israeli peace activists were escorted out of Ramallah in police vans after Palestinian protesters attacked the hotel where a “peace conference” was taking place.

Not a single Palestinian official has condemn the assaults on the Israeli & Palestinian peace activists.

by Khaled Abu Toameh

 

 

Israeli peace activists who arrived in Ramallah recently were forced to leave the city under Palestinian Authority [PA] police protection.

Palestinian protesters try to force their way into the “Minds for Peace” conference in Ramallah. – Photo: Screenshot from Zamnpress YouTube

The activists were escorted out of Ramallah in police vans after Palestinian protesters attacked the hotel where a “peace conference” between Israelis and Palestinians was taking place. Continue Reading »

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| January 21, 2014
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Hamas forces deployed throughout Gaza to prevent rockets fired on Israel

 

 

Gaza Strip government has set up security checkpoints to prevent confrontation with Israel.

Diplomatic communications via Egyptian mediator helps avert breakdown of cease-fire.

Elior Levy

 

The security services of the Hamas-run government in the Gaza Strip have deployed forces along the major roadways leading to the border fence with Israel and across the eastern stretch of the Strip. The move is an attempt by the terrorist organization to prevent an escalation in the scale of hostilities with Israel.

#Breaking: picture of the motorcycle in the Israeli assassination in Gaza city. #Israel #Gaza #USA #KSA #Egypt #Syria #Jordan #Lebanon

The motorcycle after the Israeli airstrike in Gaza city. – Tweeted by: Abdulla M. Al Hamarna

Hamas forces are searching vehicles approaching the security fence to avert any additional rocket fire on Israel. Continue Reading »

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| January 20, 2014
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Syrian Palestinian: ‘I Want Israeli Citizenship’

 

No Flotillas, No ‘Peace Convoys’, no pro-Palestine activists even planing help, as the Arab states, Hamas and even Palestinian Authority seem uninterested in Palestinian starvation and suffering in Syria.


Only Israel seems to have been helping.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Refugee camp resident in Damascus living under ‘suffocating siege’ says Mahmoud Abbas and the Arab world to blame for starvation.

Palestinian in Damascus: ‘I Want Israeli Citizenship’ – Screenshot

Two thousand Palestinians have been killed in Syria’s ongoing civil war, a drop in the bucket compared to the 120,000 estimated overall deaths. But many of those Palestinian casualties are the result of starvation, and many are children. Continue Reading »

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| January 20, 2014
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St. Dept allowed Muslim Brotherhood delegation to bypass U.S. airport security

 

In April 2012, American State Department official allowed a visiting delegation of Muslim Brotherhood officials to enter & continue traveling through the U.S. without undergoing routine inspection by U.S. Customs & Border Protection agents at the airports.

By Steven Emerson, IPT News

 

Newly released records confirm a 2012 Investigative Project on Terrorism report that the State Department cleared the way for a visiting delegation of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) officials to enter the country without undergoing routine inspection by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.

Documents show that in April 2012 the State Department allowed a visiting Muslim Brotherhood delegation to bypass routine airport inspection by U.S.

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| January 20, 2014
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Hamas media in Gaza aired a video purportedly documenting an IAF airstrike

 

 

The hand held amateur video shows explosion, which Gaza sources say was result of IDF’s Sunday airstrike on Gaza, that Jerusalem reported to have been in retaliation for Hamas rocket fire on Israel’s south.

By Elior Levy

Hamas-affiliated Gaza media released a video which they claim presents Sunday’s IDF airstrike in Gaza.

#Breaking: picture of the motorcycle in the Israeli assassination in Gaza city. #Israel #Gaza #USA #KSA #Egypt #Syria #Jordan #Lebanon

Tweeted by: Abdulla M. Al Hamarna Translator at Free-lance Journalist

An Islamic Jihad terrorist and a Palestinian boy were wounded in the targeted which the IDF launched in retaliation for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip on southern Israel.

Official Palestinian sources identified the two as a 22-year-old who was seriously wounded, and a 12-year-old boy who sustained moderate injuries. Continue Reading »

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| January 18, 2014
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UK parliament begins investigation into funding for UNRWA – perpetuating refugees

A British parliamentary committee was formed in response to heavy lobbying by pro-Israel organizations to consider weather perpetuating the refugee problem is contributing to the status quo & a de facto deterrent to the peace process.

By YUVAL PAIS, THE POST

 

 

 

The British parliament has formed a committee of inquiry to probe the flow of funds used by the international refugee agency UNRWA to support the Palestinians, according to an exclusive report first revealed on Saturday by The Jerusalem Post‘s Hebrew-language sister publication, The Post.

Former Labor Party MK Einat Wilf Addresses Knesset - Photo: Facebook profile

Former Labor Party MK Einat Wilf Addresses Knesset – Photo: Facebook profile

According to the report, the British government contributes 90 million pounds annually in aid to the Palestinians. Continue Reading »

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| January 18, 2014
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Exiled Hariri willing to return to Lebanon & share power with Hezbollah

 

Currently in exile in Saudi Arabia, former Lebanese PM Saad Hariri who’s currently in The Hague, says he is optimistic of a  coalition deal that would unite Sunni & Shi’ite Muslim groups.

By REUTERS
 

 

THE HAGUE- Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri says he is now ready to share power with his rivals Hezbollah if that’s what it takes to help Lebanon finally form a government after nine months of political deadlock.

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Saad Hariri in Hague Jan 16 2014 – Photo: REUTERS

Linking up with the powerful Shi’ite group would be a sharp turnabout for Hariri and his Future party, a Sunni Muslim group that supports the Sunni revolt against Shi’ite-backed President Bashar Assad in neighboring Syria’s civil war. Continue Reading »

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| January 18, 2014
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White House presses UNESCO on its sudden cancellation of ‘Jews in Israel’ exhibit

 

The U.S. administration is ‘deeply disappointed’ with UNESCO after it succumbed to pressure by Arab League.

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The Obama administration is “deeply disappointed” with a decision by UNESCO, the United Nation’s cultural arm, to cancel the opening of an exhibition on the Jewish presence in the land of Israel and is seeking its placement “as soon as possible.”

UNESCO headquarters

UNESCO headquarters Photo by Unesco.org

Complaints by Arab states led UNESCO to cancel the exhibition, organized by the Simon Wiesenthal Center along with the governments of Canada and Montenegro. It was scheduled to open January 20 at the Paris headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Continue Reading »

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| January 17, 2014
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Hamas prepares Gaza’s teens for next battle with Israel

 

Hamas trains Palestinian youth for next armed conflict against Israel with teen boot camp teaching how to shoot rifles, crawl under barbed wire and jump through burning tires.

‘We will know how to overcome the Israeli army’ says 15-year-old student.

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The New York Times followed a graduation ceremony at Hamas‘ training camp in Gaza, where the next generation of fighters is being trained ahead of a possible future battle with Israel.

Photo: AP

Photo: AP

Some 13,000 high school students in the Gaza Strip joined a six-day program, Futuwwa, run by the movement controlling Gaza since 2007, in order to undergo intensive training carried out by members of Hamas’ military wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Continue Reading »

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| January 16, 2014
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Ex-Ambassador Michael Oren Joins CNN as Their Mid-East Commentator

The former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., who had his share of run-ins with mainstream media, was very popular with American Jewish groups during his 4-year term in D.C.

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Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, has joined CNN as a commentator on the Middle East, JTA reported Thursday, quoting the news channel.

Michael Oren

Michael Oren. – Photo: Bloomberg

The U.S.-born Oren, who handed over his ambassadorial post in September to Ron Dermer, was very popular with American Jewish groups during his four-year stint in Washington. Before that, he wrote two best-selling books of history – “Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East,” and “Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present.” Continue Reading »

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| January 16, 2014
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Now explosives discovered at Czech Palestine mission after explosion & cache found

CZECH investigators have reported that after the discovery of a large illegal weapons cache, they later discovered explosives at the Palestinian embassy complex in Prague where a possibly booby-trapped safe killed the ambassador on New Year’s day.

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Police discovered 12 illegal weapons following the explosion at the embassy that killed Ambassador Jamal al-Jamal, but this is the first time that authorities said explosives were also found in the new complex that includes the embassy and the ambassador’s residence.

Explosion at home of Palestinian ambassador in Czech Republic

Firefighters search the area after the explosion, Prague January 1, 2014 – Photo: Reuters

It remains unclear what caused the safe to explode but the ambassador’s death is being investigated as a case of negligence.

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