Former Syrian brigadier general looking for peace with Israel

 

Former Syrian brigadier general, Nabil al-Dandel, sends Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein a letter suggesting Israel open a dialogue with the Syrian people & support the opposition in its fight against Assad’s regime.

By Roi Kais

 

“I announce my defection from the criminal regime of Bashar al-Assad,” declared Brigadier General Nabil al-Dandal and a number of other defecting officers after the brutal crackdown on the Syrian uprising in March 2011.

Former Syrian General Nabil al-Dandel

Al-Dandal sent an open letter to the Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein this week, calling on Israelis to open a dialogue to make peace with the Syrian people. Continue Reading »

Hamas swears to ‘never forgive’ the British for empowering Israel’s existence

 

Terror group’s spokesman reminds the world once again why Palestinians will never make peace with Israel, in his vow to ‘never forget’ that the UK facilitated the existence of a Jewish State.

By Dalit Halevy

 

Hamas will “never forgive” the United Kingdom for enabling Israel’s existence, a spokesperson for the terror group said Saturday.

“Britain conquered the land of Palestine and was the first to support the ‘Nakba’,” Yasser Ali, Hamas’s “Palestinian refugees” official, stated to Palestine magazine. ‘Nakba’ is the Arabic term for ‘Catastrophe,’ i.e. Israeli Independence in 1948.

“[Britain] helped establish the entity of Israel on the ruins of the historic land of Palestine, which resulted in expulsion of the Palestinians after they are slaughtered and killed dozens of massacres.” Continue Reading »

Al-Qaida praises Palestinian knife-attacks on Israelis, calls for same on Americans

 

Praising the Palestinians for carrying out their lethal attacks against Israeli civilians in Al-Qaida’s English-language magazine, ‘Inspire,’ the Islamist group says its followers must now strike in the West, “particularly America in their own backyard.”

By i24news

 

Al-Qaida praised Palestinians carrying out attacks against Israelis Saturday and called for its followers to carry out similar attacks in the United States in the latest issue of the Islamist group’s English-language magazine “Inspire.”

Kay Wilson, survivor of 2 women brutally attacked while hiking, was saved after being left for dead by their 2 Palestinian knife attackers – Photo: Twitter

In an article titled “Let us Unite for Palestine” the group says “blessed be the hands of the Mujahid that are defending Palestine and al-Aqsa with knives, cars, rocks and everything they have.” Continue Reading »

Hezbollah blames Sunni insurgents, not Israel, for death of its senior commander in Syria

 

Despite initial headlines blamed Israel for Badreddine’s death, the Lebanese terrorist organization, Hezbollah, has officially declared the assassination to be the work of ‘criminal Sunni gangs.’

By Roi Kais & Reuters

 

Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim militant group Hezbollah said on Saturday to its Lebanese television channel Al-Manar that its top military commander Mustafa Badreddine was killed by artillery shells fired by insurgents near Syria’s Damascus airport.

Badreddine’s funeral Friday – Photo: AP

“Investigations have showed that the explosion, which targeted one of our bases near Damascus International Airport, and which led to the martyrdom of commander Mustafa Badreddine, was the result of artillery bombardment carried out by takfiri groups in the area,” Hezbollah’s statement said. Continue Reading »

Bill Clinton: “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state,” Hamas rejected deal to get all of Gaza.

 

When Clinton’s wife was heckled at a campaign event regarding her support for Gaza, the former US head of state said, “Hamas is really smart… they insinuate themselves in the hospitals, in the schools, in the highly populous areas.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Former US President Bill Clinton came to his wife’s defense on Friday when the focus of a campaign event for the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton shifted to Israel, Politico reported.

Former US President Bill Clinton – Photo: REUTERS

Amid a speech discussing his wife’s positions on the major issues at an event in New Jersey, a member of the audience interjected “What about Gaza?” Continue Reading »

UN Committee Against Torture sites Israel with ‘excessive force’ 

 

The Committee Against Torture has no investigative or fact-finding powers, only relies on information from the media, advocacy groups, the UN, and other sources in drawing conclusions to condemn & delegitimatize Israel.

By The Associated Press

 

A U.N. panel against torture on Friday expressed concerns about allegations of “excessive use of force,” including deadly force, by Israeli security forces in the Palestinian Territories, and warned about authorities barring access to detained suspects, including minors.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon – Photo: AFP

The Committee Against Torture, which works under the office of the UN human rights chief, released its “concluding observations” about Israel and five other countries — France, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the Philippines — as part of regular reviews by the panel. Continue Reading »

Mossad inaugurates ingenious employment drive for hiring new cyber warriors

Day before Israel’s Independence Day, its top spy agency publishes employment ad that included coded text, urging the possible candidates to crack the code for a position in Mossad’s cyber division.

By Shlomo Cesana

 

The Mossad wants you — if you can figure out what this says. That is the message of the Israeli spy agency’s latest campaign to recruit cyber workers, which it launched on the eve of Independence Day.

Are you ready for a challenge?

The campaign ad, which includes coded text, aims to seek out potential employees for the Mossad’s cyber division and for other special jobs. Continue Reading »

Hamas sneaks ISIS terrorists into Gaza via tunnels for military training, medical attention for cash & weapons

REPORT: Israeli general tells Saudi media that an ISIS operative, who snuck into Gaza from the Sinai by using a Hamas smuggling tunnel, is due to undergo military training in Gaza.

By YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA

 

In Islamic State operative snuck into the Gaza Strip through Hamas’ system of underground tunnels connecting the Palestinian-ruled area with the Sinai Peninsula, Israel said on Friday.

Palestinian Hamas militants take part in a rally in memory of their seven comrades killed in mysterious tunnel collapse.

In an interview with the Saudi news site Elaph, the coordinator for government activities in the territories, Maj.-Gen. Continue Reading »

Palestinian activists stop Israeli-themed charity using designer Reebok shoe

 

Reebok ‘distanced itself from the shoe’ an Israeli designer, who’s a gym owner, sought to auction the one pair for charity.
• Reebok, collapsing under the outraged, also found an international demand for Israel’s 68th Independence Day themed sneaker.

By Meirav Crystal

 

Pro-Palestinian websites were angry to discover that Reebok had released a sneaker commemorating Israel’s 68th Independence Day and delighted to report that the company had cancelled its decision. However, it turns out that Reebok never even designed such a sneaker; the whole story ended up being about a single pair of sneakers privately designed to raise money for charity. Continue Reading »

Jerusalem rejects French ‘peace’ initiative ahead of FM visit to Israel

 

Prior to the French FM’s visit with PM Netanyahu on Sunday, Dr. Dore Gold, the Foreign Ministry director general, explains Israel’s opposition to the French initiative.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

A top Israeli official on Friday reiterated the country’s opposition to a French attempt to resurrect the peace process with the Palestinian Authority (PA), ahead of a visit by France’s foreign minister on Sunday.

Paris will hold an international ministerial meeting on May 30 to try to revive peace talks that have been frozen since a US-brokered initiative was torpedoed by the PA in April 2014, when it signed a unity agreement with Hamas. Continue Reading »

UPDATED: Israel jets eliminated Hezbollah general, murderer of former Lebanese PM

 

Arab media reports that Mustafa Badr al-Din, Hezbollah’s top military commander and leading suspect in the assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Damascus.

By Ben Ariel

 

Arab media reported overnight Thursday that Mustafa Badr al-Din, Hezbollah’s military commander, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Hezbollah facility in Damascus.

Hezbollah supporters (archive) – Reuters

The IDF has not responded to the reports, which were published in Al MayadeenAl-Arabiya, the Iranian Al-Alam and the Lebanese Daily Star.

Badr al-Din is considered the successor of senior Hezbollah terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, who was assassinated in 2008, also allegedly by Israel.

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Captured Hamas teen reveals trove of information to Israel’s Shin Bet

Gaza teenager arrested in April while trying to infiltrate into Israel passes on to the Shin Bet valuable intel about Hamas’ tunnel-digging operations, including terror-tunnels’ layout, methods & operating procedures.

By Lilach Shoval and Gadi Golan

 

An underage Hamas operative arrested by Israeli security forces in April has provided the Shin Bet security agency with valuable information about Hamas’ tunnel-digging operations, the agency revealed Tuesday.

A Hamas terror-tunnel leading from Gaza to Israel – Photo: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

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Israel’s new Mediterranean friendships growing exponentially amid regional turmoil

 

view videoWith Turkey’s plunge into Islamism, the once less-than-friendly relationship between Greece & Israel has blossomed into an extensive 7-tier agreement of new partnerships dedicated to boosting security and economic ties, that’s enveloped Cypress as well.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

Israel and Greece have in recent years upgraded bilateral diplomatic and defense relations to a significant degree, creating a new Mediterranean alliance that developed quickly following Turkey’s plunge into Islamism.

An Israel Air Force Apache helicopter lands across from a Greek mountain range during a joint Israel-Greece exercise with the Hellenic Air Force in October 2011. – Photo: IAF

Now, with reports surfacing periodically of a thaw in Israeli-Turkish relations, the partnership with Greece, carefully built up over the past six years, faces a new test. Continue Reading »

French PM condemns UNESCO resolution on Jerusalem as ‘unfortunate, clumsy’

 

PM Manuel Valls contradicts UNESCO’s resolution saying, “I want to repeat once again and clearly, with conviction – France will never deny the Jewish presence & Jewish history in Jerusalem. It would make no sense, it is absurd to deny this history.”

By AFP

 

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Wednesday described a UNESCO resolution on the flashpoint al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem as “clumsy” and “unfortunate” and said it should have been avoided.

Jewish men & women pray at the Kotel (Western Wall) – circa 1900

The Paris-based UN cultural body adopted the resolution on “Occupied Palestine” presented by several Arab countries in mid-April.  Continue Reading »

US lawmakers press State Dept to reject UNHRC resolution assaulting Israel

 

Letter sent to Sec. of State Kerry ‘reminds’ him UNHRC Resolution violates both US Trade & US Customs laws, by urging countries to divest from Israel, which sets a dangerous precedent undermining US-Israel relationship, and financial security of American interests.

By Tova Dvorin

 

US Representatives Peter J. Roskam (R-IL) and Juan Vargas (D-CA), along with Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Trade Representative  Michael Froman this week, calling on them to oppose a UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) supporting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

“We write to urge you to take action to oppose the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) recent resolution calling for foreign divestment from Israel,” the letter began. Continue Reading »