#BDSfail: Rhetoric aside, Israel is simply too good to actually boycott

 

Aside from the hype & publicity stunts, manufactures and investors aren’t about to boycott one of the world’s most innovative countries on the whim of its enemies.

By David Green

 

It’s no secret that some of the most innovative creations and technological advances over the last few decades have been dreamed up and created in Israel. From updates to the F-16 fighter jets of the US Military, to Microsoft’s infamous Intel technology and much of the technological prowess behind Apple’s iPhones, there is no shortage of Israeli innovation throughout the modern world.

Boycott Israel? Really? Just because you said so?

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Israel Defense Minister Refuses to Acknowledge Arab Reports of IAF Strike In Syria

Syrian media reports Israel Air Force fighter jets hit 2 Hezbollah military targets within Syria Friday night, the 1st reported attack on the Shiite terror group’s convoys since Russia’s deployment.

By Ari Yashar

 

Syrian media outlets reported on Saturday that Israel Air Force (IAF) fighter jets struck two targets in the country on Friday night, around 11 p.m.

The strikes targeted military targets of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the Iranian terror proxy Hezbollah, and both took place in the >mountainous Qalamoun region on the border with Lebanon, according to the sources cited by Walla.

Sources in the region, which is a key transfer point for arms moving between Syria and Lebanon, said that the strikes targeted a unit positioned in the area of the village Ras al-Ein, as well as an army base at the edges of the village Al-Qutayfah. Continue Reading »

Abbas turns over dossier to ICC prosecutor alleging charges of ‘ethnic cleansing’

 

Abbas planed meeting with ICC prosecutor charging Israel with war-crimes and alleged examples of ‘ethnic cleansing’ according to Palestinian officials.

By i24news

 

A Palestinian delegation led by president Mahmud Abbas met Friday with the International Criminal Court to hand over a file documenting alleged Israeli crimes such as “ethnic cleansing,” Palestinian officials said.

Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas called on the UN to set up a “special regime for international protection” for his people. – Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP

Abbas arrived late Friday at the court for talks with prosecutor Fatou Bensouda accompanied by Palestinian foreign minister Riad al-Malki, an AFP correspondent said. Continue Reading »

A detailed history of the Temple Mount’s status quo and Palestinian violations

 

Although then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan shaped the status quo on the Temple Mount in 1967, PM Menachem Begin made important security adjustments. 
• Since then, the status quo has changed immensely, mainly in favor of Muslims who openly wave Hamas or Islamic State flags there.

By Nadav Shragai

 

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who this week shepherded Israel and Jordan toward the first-ever formal written agreement on the status quo on the Temple Mount, doesn’t know it, but the first seeds of the much talked about Temple Mount status quo were sown about 48 years ago on another hilltop, Mount Scopus. Continue Reading »

ADL condemns British MP for accusing Israel of fabricating Palestinian stabbing attacks

 

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

The Anti-Defamation League condemned on Thursday recent comments by British Labor MP Gerald Kaufman, who accused Jews of exerting undue influence over the Conservative Party and charged that Israel is fabricating terror attacks as an excuse to kill Palestinians.

Israeli soldiers stand next to the body of a Palestinian who moments earlier stabbed a soldier in Hebron. – Photo: REUTERS

Speaking at a pro-Palestinian event on Tuesday, Kaufman said, “It’s Jewish money, Jewish donations to the Conservative Party – as in the general election in May – support from The Jewish Chronicle, all of those things, bias the Conservatives.” Continue Reading »

Italy seeks Israeli-Italian-Egyptian natural gas development & export union

 

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Exclusive: Representatives of the Italian energy company Eni, that recently discovered gas fields off the Egyptian coast, are expected to meet with Israel’s PM this week on preliminary talks on a tri-national energy accord. 

By Tal Shalev

 

Italy has proposed a joint Italian-Israeli-Egypt cooperation on natural gas, i24news has learned. Representatives of the Italian energy company Eni are expected to arrive in Israel this week and will be meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz to discuss ideas for joining forces on gas exports to Europe.

The issue was first discussed by Netanyahu and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in their August 30 meeting in Florence, which took place hours after Cairo announced the historic discovery of a natural gas field off the coast of Egypt. Continue Reading »

Knesset approves bill requiring Arabic classes beginning with first graders

 

Knesset’s bill makes it compulsory for Arabic to be taught in Jewish schools & Hebrew to be taught in Arab schools, beginning in the first grade, as a way to usher coexistence.

By Gideon Allen

 

A bill that would make it mandatory for Arabic to be taught in Jewish schools and Hebrew to be taught in Arab schools from the first grade passed its initial reading in the Knesset Wednesday.
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Israel-India relationship emerges from the shadows

 

Leaders’ visit represents how India seems ready to openly reap the rewards of its ties with the Jewish State in the form of Israeli technology, weapons & military equipment, agriculture and the diamond industry.

By ROBERT SWIFT/ THE MEDIA LINE

 

Long believed to hold the potential to become natural allies and trading partners, the predicted mutually-beneficial relationship between Israel and India is seen as maturing with lucrative benefits to both nations.

Indian soldiers march past the historic Red Fort during Independence Day celebrations in Delhi. – Photo: REUTERS

While there was a time the developing bonds between the two nations were stalled by India’s ties to Israel’s enemies, India now seems ready to reap the rewards of its ties to the Jewish state in the form of Israeli technology, weapons and military equipment, diamonds and agriculture. Continue Reading »

WATCH: Helen Mirren: ‘Having worked on kibbutz in Israel made me the actress I am’

 

Award winning super-actress received Achievement Award at Israel Film Festival in Beverly Hills, revealing the impact of her time on Israeli kibbutz shortly after the Six Day War.

By Ari Yashar

 

Academy Award, Tony Award and Emmy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren was honored at the 29th Israel Film Festival on Wednesday at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills, where she revealed how her first visit to the Jewish state shaped her career.

Mirren was honored with the Career Achievement Award at the festival, and while there she said her time working at an Israeli kibbutz shortly after the 1967 Six Day War “made me the actress I am.”  Continue Reading »

Israel national airliner El Al orders 9 Boeing 787 Dreamliners in $2.2 billion deal

El Al currently operates an exclusively Boeing fleet of 42 aircraft, saying the orders are both to replace the older aircraft and to expand its fleet.

By i24news

 

Israel’s flag carrier El Al announced Thursday that it has ordered up to nine 787 aircraft from Boeing and will lease six more from private leasing firms.

A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner lands after its first flight at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington on September 17, 2013 – Photo: Stephen Brashear/Getty/AFP/File

The catalogue price value of the new orders from Boeing is about $2.2 billion.

Boeing will record three of the planes on its official orders list and the others will be added as El Al and Boeing finalize commitments, the two companies said. Continue Reading »

Despite being a wanted Nazi war criminal, Mufti of Jerusalem ‘mysteriously’ escaped the French

 

view video clip belowHitler provided Haj Amin al-Husseini, who later sponsored Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, with a budget of 750,000 Reichsmark per month to foment Jihad in Palestine.

Dr. Tsilla Hershco

 

During the recent uproar over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks on the WWII-era grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, the media failed to underline the important fact that although the mufti had collaborated with the Nazis, he was never brought to trial. The story of his detention in France and his subsequent escape is little known to the public, but has significant repercussions. 

Pushing for Genocide, Hajj Muhammad Amin al-Husseini intervened to reroute children heading to Palestine, which were sent to the gas chambers instead.

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Hebron: Two Palestinians terrorists shot dead in separate knife-attacks

 

VIDEO: In the first terror attack, a Palestinian assailant was shot dead by Border Police after stabbing an IDF soldier in the head near a security checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron.

 

The West Bank town of Hebron was the scene of two separate knife attacks against security forces on Thursday morning, resulting in the shooting deaths both Palestinian assailants.

A Palestinian assailant stabbed and lightly wounded an IDF soldier in the head near a checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday morning.

The officer quickly recovered from the attack and chased the assailant who tried to stab a border policeman at the scene. Continue Reading »

Israel’s AMOS-6 satellite to transmit free internet to sub-saharan Africa

 

The joint venture initiated by Facebook’s Internet.org includes the Israeli company Spacecom, and French satellite provider Eutelsat, bringing internet access to millions of Africans who aren’t currently connected.

By Alexander J. Apfel, Tazpit Press Service

 

An Israeli space company, Spacecom, is developing its newest satellite for Facebook and French satellite provider Eutelsat, in a venture intended to supply free Internet to millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.

 

AMOS-6 satilite made at Israel Aerospace Industries - Facebook Photo

AMOS-6 satellite made at Israel Aerospace Industries – Facebook Photo

The project is part of Facebook’s Internet.org non-for-profit initiative of providing affordable or free Internet to countries with limited or no access to what founder, Mark Zuckerberg describes as “the knowledge economy.”  Continue Reading »

Watch: Waqf Ejects pro-Israel ‘Religious Christians’ from Temple Mount Compound

 

Christian pro-Israel activist, Jane Kiel from Denmark, records being kicked off of the Temple Mount by Waqf guards who ‘waited 2 months’ to bully her.

By Ari Yashar

 

Jane Kiel, a Danish pro-Israel activist better known as “Jerusalem Jane,” managed to record the blatant discrimination she faced Wednesday morning at the Temple Mount, where Jordanian Waqf guards kicked her off the site for two months ago singing a prayer there.

Kiel told Arutz Sheva she has complained to the police and contacted governmental ministers, but that her hopes are low that any action will be taken over the harassment she suffered. Continue Reading »

Pope Francis: “Outright attack on the State of Israel is also anti-Semitism.”

 

By JTA,  SAM SOKOL

 

Jewish leaders met with Pope Francis in Rome on the 50th anniversary of the Nostra Aetate, the declaration promulgated by Pope Paul VI that led to improved relations between Jews and Catholics.

Pope Francis meets with World Jewish Congress leaders at the Vatican. – Photo: WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS

“Yes to the rediscovery of the Jewish roots of Christianity. No to anti-Semitism,” the pope said Wednesday morning during the public audience on St. Continue Reading »