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| January 2, 2014
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Foiled: Hamas Planned Bombing Church on Christmas Day

Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas reportedly planned to murder Egyptian Christians by bombing Churches on Holy Day.

By Maayana Miskin

 

Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood planned a series of bombings at Egyptian churches, according to a report in the Kuwaiti paper Al-Watan, according to Channel 10 news.

According to the report, the attacks were to take place on Christmas. Terrorists in Sinai had succeeded in gathering explosives for the planned attack.

Egyptian intelligence reportedly foiled the plot after discovering communications between the two groups. Intelligence agents also listened in on calls between the Muslim Brotherhood and other Gaza-based terrorist groups. Continue Reading »

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| January 1, 2014
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Palestinian ambassador to Czech Rep. dies from blast injuries after opening old case

 

Ambassador Jamal al-Jamal dies from injuries in bomb blast at suburb home in Prague.

Police say no other injuries reported & confirmed unidentified explosive was detonated inside diplomat’s residence.

By REUTERS

 

 

 
PRAGUE – The Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic has died after sustaining injuries in an explosion at his residence on Wednesday, a police spokeswoman said.
firefighters

firefighters – Photo: Reuters

The blast occurred before midday and Ambassador Jamal al-Jamal’s family was also at the two-story residence in a northern suburb of the Czech capital. But no one else was hurt.

“There has been a detonation of a so-far unidentified explosive mixture,” spokeswoman Andrea Zoulova said.

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| December 31, 2013
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BBC Reports How Israel Loves its Enemies

BBC, known for its bias against Israel, was astonished by the non-stop loving care provided to wounded Syrians, from first contact on the Israeli border, to their discharge from an Israeli hospital.

By Yossi Aloni

 

Israel has taken great pride in a recent BBC report regarding the Jewish state’s genuine care for its enemies. The BBC is often seen as biased against Israel, but the report in question had nothing but good things to say about Israel over its selfless care for victims of the ongoing civil war in Syria, a nation still officially at war with Israel.

Israeli medics on Syrian border awaiting to receive wounded civilians – BBC Screenshot

BBC Middle East correspondent Kevin Connolly visited Ziv Hospital in the northern Israel town of Safed and brought back a story of Syrians under fire whose lives were literally saved by their worst enemy. Continue Reading »

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| December 30, 2013
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As Peace-Talks Are Ongoing, PA Children’s TV Pushes Hating Jews for Poisoning Arafat

November TV broadcasts timed for Arafat’s death anniversary shows kids blaming Jews for murdering Arafat, expressing their hatred for Israel.

By Ari Yashar

 

Official Palestinian Authority (PA) TV recently broadcast interviews of children repeating the libel that Jews “poisoned” former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat, as part of a children’s program called The Best Home.

PA kids hate Jews for 'poisoning' Arafat Screenshot

PA kids hate Jews for ‘poisoning’ Arafat – Photo: PMW Screenshot

Despite the conclusions of a Russian team of forensics experts determining that Arafat died of natural causes, echoing similar French findings in refuting the PA libel against Israel, the PA pledged last Thursday it would continue investigating Arafat’s death. Continue Reading »

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| December 30, 2013
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A hateful church

Is it possible to tell so many half-truths, purposely refrain from being honest & forthright, and advocate a measure that will bring about the deaths of innocent civilians, and still be ‘Christian’?

Posted by Melanie Phillips

A church of hate

An open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.

Dear Archbishop,

I read with interest your Christmas Day sermon, in which you said:

‘The Christian meaning of Christmas is unconditional love received, love overflowing into a frequently love-lost world.’

Leila Khaled is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a convicted airline hijacker who was later released in a prisoner exchange for civilian hostages kidnapped by her fellow PFLP members. Wikipedia

Murial on the Security Wall that protects Israel from terrorist in Bethlehem – Leila Khaled is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a convicted airline hijacker who was later released in a prisoner exchange for civilian hostages kidnapped by her fellow PFLP members.

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| December 30, 2013
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Brits Suckered by Anti-Israel Antics at St. James’s Church

Having successfully tormented & then hounded most of Bethlehem’s Christians into leaving – the Palestinian Muslims’ propaganda campaign is succeeding at blaming Israel abroad.

By Gil Ronen

 

Palestinian Authority Muslims, who have been fully in charge of life in Bethlehem since the 1993 Oslo Accords were implemented, have successfully hounded most of the city’s Christians into leaving the city – but a London exhibition shows that their overseas propaganda in the West still manages to blame Israel for the Christians’ alleged suffering from Jewish “occupation.”

Replica Palestine Separation Wall Built in Central London - YouTube screenshot

Replica Palestine Separation Wall Built in Central London – YouTube screenshot

 

The “Bethlehem Unwrapped” festival opened Dec. Continue Reading »

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| December 29, 2013
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Hezbollah Keeps Families Quiet by Paying Them $25K per Dead Fighter

Source in Lebanon claims Iranian-backed Shiite terrorist group is paying families of fighters killed in Syria ‘hush-money’ to conceal cause of relatives’ deaths.

By Mark Langfan and Ari Soffer

 

Hezbollah is reportedly paying the families of its fighters killed in Syria to keep quiet about the circumstances surrounding their relatives’ deaths.

Funeral of Hezbollah fighter killed in Syria – Reuters

According to a source in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, which has been wracked by deadly clashes between militias supporting different sides in the Syrian civil war, the Iranian-backed group is paying $25,000 to families of operatives killed fighting Syrian rebel forces, apparently in an attempt to conceal the true extent of its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Continue Reading »

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| December 28, 2013
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Earthquake Hits Northern Israel

Mediterranean earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale shakes Cyprus and was felt as far east as the Haifa area.

By Tova Dvorin

 

An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale shook Cyprus Saturday night, with the effects felt as far east as Northern Israel. The two areas primarily affected were Haifa and the Krayot.

The quake’s epicenter was about 50 kilometers deep in the Mediterranean Sea, and about 80 kilometers from Antalya, Turkey.

No casualties are reported and no further aftershocks are expected.

Orit, a resident of the Kiryat Shmuel neighborhood in Haifa, described the quake to Arutz Sheva. Continue Reading »

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| December 27, 2013
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Again, Gaza is Without Fuel, Hamas Blames Israel for Power Blackouts

Gaza’s lone power plant closes down just 12 days after having being restarted with Qatar bought fuel via the Palestinian Authority.

Israel blamed, although it was Egypt’s siege that has cut off Hamas’ lucrative fuel smuggling.

By Ari Yashar

 

Gaza’s only power plant ground to a halt again on Friday, only 12 days after being brought back online following a 7 week shutdown due to fuel shortages. The shutdown was announced by Gaza’s electricity firm, reports AFP.

An official of the company claimed “the plant stopped working on Friday morning due to a lack of fuel caused by Israel’s closure of the Kerem Shalom crossing.” Continue Reading »

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| December 26, 2013
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Russian Experts Confirm French Conclusions: Arafat Died of Natural Causes

Russian scientists have reached the same decision as the French team, in refuting claims the former Arab leader was poisoned.

By Ari Soffer

 

A team of Russian forensic experts have said that former Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Yasser Arafat died of “natural causes”, and ruled out radiation poisoning as a cause of death, according to Lebanon’s Daily Star.

Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat, not yet dead

“We have completed all the studies. The person died a natural death and not from radiation,” announced the head of Russia’s Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) Vladimir Uiba, according to Russia state media.

The announcement echoes previous findings by a group of French experts, who also ruled out foul play as contributing towards Arafat’s death. Continue Reading »

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| December 26, 2013
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Bad news for Hamas: Egyptian gov’t designates Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist group

 

New policy comes just days after suicide bomb that killed 16 at an Egyptian Police station.

Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis claims responsibility for this week’s attack.

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON, REUTERS
 

 

The Egyptian government intensified its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, formally listing the group as a terrorist organization after accusing it of carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a police station that killed 16 people.

Muslim Brotherhood

The Brotherhood on Tuesday condemned the attack in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, north of Cairo. Earlier on Wednesday, a Sinai-based Islamist group, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, claimed responsibility for the attack that also wounded some 140 people. Continue Reading »

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| December 25, 2013
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Kerry Ignores the Palestinians’ Support for “Hitler”

 

Deaf, Dumb, & Blind Sec. of State John Kerry totally ignores Abbas’ inability to negotiate as a ‘Representative’ of the Palestinian people while Hamas publicly announced in Gaza that they will never recognize any peace agreement with the Zionist State.

What cements Kerry’s disillusion of grandeur is his inability to see that not only Gaza has divorced themselves from Abbas, but that within the current Palestinian Authority, a civil war is brewing…and Hitler is alive & kicking.

by Khaled Abu Toameh

 

 

Abbas, it seems, has lost control not only over the Gaza Strip, but also his Fatah faction.

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| December 25, 2013
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Palestinian journalists in Gaza launch soft media revolution

 

New coalition of 29 Arab reporters aims to revolutionize Palestinian media as journalists wish to break away from propaganda-filled, gov’t fed media, and produce factual news articles that reflect the people’s real concerns.

The Media Line, by Diana Atallah

A group of 29 Palestinian journalists in Gaza have united to form “Fish,” an independent coalition seeking to revolutionize their local media. The group took its name, which also means “doesn’t exist” in Arabic, from the most important job for journalists: fishing for news.

Al-Jazeera television network logo – AFP file

Al-Jazeera television network logo – AFP file

Fish’s members say they hope to create a media landscape without boundaries or bias, and to move the traditional news culture away from routine, repetition and staleness. Continue Reading »

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| December 25, 2013
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Palestinian Christian Blames Muslims, Not Israel, for Ever Decreasing Numbers

 

Local Palestinian Christian researcher from Bethlehem says encroaching Muslim discrimination & intimidation is pushing Christians out of the region.

By Israel Today Staff

 

A Christian community leader and researcher from the Bethlehem suburb of Beit Sahour provided journalists with a very candid explanation for the exodus of Christians from the birthplace of Jesus: encroaching Muslim extremism.

Bethlehem Christian Blames Islam, Not Israel, for Dwindling Numbers

Bethlehem Christian Blames Islam, Not Israel, for Dwindling Numbers – Photo source: Israel Today

While most public figures among the Palestinian Arab Christian community will without blinking an eye blame Israel for all their woes, Samir Qumsieh, who operates a small local TV station, says these Christian leaders are “cowards” who are either deceived or compelled into toeing the line of the official Palestinian narrative. Continue Reading »

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| December 24, 2013
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Abbas rejects EU demand to stop funding terrorists with EU money


Since the EU public statements are purposely misleading that they don’t mention paying Palestinian terrorists their salaries & pensions (11 million euros to pay the November salaries), Abbas’ Palestinian Authority ignores the EU’s discrete requests to no longer fund Arab terrorists. 

 

And the EU continues transferring money to Abbas’ Palestinian Authority

By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

 

November 2013

PA Minister mocks EU for criticizing PA use of funding for terrorists’ salaries:
“The Europeans want their money that comes to us to remain ‘clean’ – not to go to families of those they claim to be terrorists… [but] These [prisoners] are heroes”

December 2013:

EU ignores its own principles, continues transferring funds to the PA and facilitating salaries to terrorists
“The EU donated approximately 11 million euros to pay the November salaries… [of PA] government employees”

 

Head of Prisoners’ Club: Government workers and prisoners’ salaries are paid together “What is disbursed to the prisoners is exactly what is disbursed to me and you [a PA civil servant]. Continue Reading »

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