How a pro-Israel Muslim was ambushed by Australian breakfast TV

A Muslim physician had been reduced to an instrument of rank media opportunism on Australia’s Channel 7, by producers who shamelessly exploited her Israeli-Palestinian goodwill project at Hadassah hospital, & turned it into a ‘Pallywood’ production for Hamas.

By Dr. Qanta A Ahmed

 

On a recent trip to Australia I was booked by Ch7′s Weekend Sunrise to discuss Project Rozana, an Israeli-Palestinian initiative to train West Bank physicians (predominantly Palestinian Muslims) in Israel’s Hadassah hospital. As an ambassador for the Project, I was lock step with my ideals both as a physician and as an observing Muslim opposed to virulently anti-Semitic Islamism. Continue Reading »

Germany’s Spiegel Reprts Syria Building Secret Nuclear Plant Again

It was assumed that Israel’s Air Force destroyed Syria’s Kibar nuclear complex in a 2007 raid. But, new intelligence suggests that President Assad is still trying to built a nuclear bomb, and he may be getting help from Iran & North Korea, reports German magazine.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

Intelligence suggests that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is building a secret underground plant with the aim of developing nuclear weapons, Germany’s Spiegel news magazine said Friday, according to AFP.

Photo of a suspected new nuclear facility in Syria – DER SPIEGEL

Citing information made available by unidentified intelligence sources, Spiegel said the plant was in an inaccessible mountain region in the west of the war-ravaged country, two kilometers (1.2 miles) from the Lebanese border.

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Dennis Ross Says Stop Giving the Palestinians a Pass

Since 2000, there have been 3 serious negotiations. In each case, a proposal on all core issues was made to the Palestinian & the answer was either “no” or no response. The cost of saying “yes,” or even of making a counteroffer that required concessions, was too high.

By Dennis B. Ross

 

WASHINGTON — THE president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, insists on using international institutions to pressure Israel, even after he was rebuffed in the United Nations Security Council, where he sought a resolution mandating Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Mr. Abbas has now announced that he will turn to the International Criminal Court — a move that will produce Palestinian charges and Israeli countercharges but not alter the reality on the ground. Continue Reading »

Video: Natanyahu to French ambassador: 1st rule in fighting terror – do not be afraid

 

WATCH: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells French Ambassador to Israel, Patrick Maisonnave, “Israelis know the anguish & pain that the French people are experiencing.”

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2nd Paris Hostage Crisis – Now at Kosher Deli

BREAKING NEWS

AFP report 2 dead (unconfirmed) amidst tense standoff in Dammartin-en-Goele, developments on police shooting, as many as 5 hostages at kosher deli.

By Tova Dvorin

A second hostage crisis is unfolding in Paris Friday, French police announced to the media Friday afternoon: an armed man has taken a hostage in a kosher grocery store in the French capital.

1-2 people have been shot and wounded by a gunman with a Kalashnikov-type rifle, according to French media, who has taken the hostage at the Hypercasher supermarket in Vincennes.

French media has now begun to report that there are 5 hostages there, including women and children, but this has not been officially confirmed.

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CNN’s Jim Clancy Incerts Israel Into Debate Over Paris Massacre

In bizarre exchange on Twitter, CNN news anchor accused many who disagreed with his comments of being Jewish propagandists for Israel

By Israel Today Staff

 

In the aftermath of the horrific massacre at the headquarters of a satirical magazine in Paris, veteran CNN news anchor and international correspondent tried to promote the notion that the Muslim perpetrators of this and all such atrocities are extremists, and therefore unrepresentative of mainstream Muslim sentiments or Islamic teachings.

Jim Clancy blocked me after I contradicted his conclusions. Freedom of Speech runs one way, it appears. – Photo: @IsraelandStufff Twitter account

“The cartoons [published by the magazine Charlie Hebdo] NEVER mocked the Prophet.

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#BDSfail: Boycott efforts against Israel have been for naught, exports booming

Knesset commissioned study reports: 2014 attempts to boycott products produced beyond the Green Line have failed, with the overall exports to Europe, where boycott efforts were strongest, have actually grown.

By Zeev Klein

 

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Egypt’s President al-Sisi calls for reform in Islam

Egyptian leader Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s makes boldest effort yet to position himself as a modernizer of Islam & states professed goal to purge Islam of extremist ideas of intolerance & violence that fuels groups like Islamic State and al-Qaeda.

By The Associated Press

 

Egypt’s president opened the new year with a dramatic call for a “revolution” in Islam to reform interpretations of the faith entrenched for hundreds of years, which he said have made the Muslim world a source of “destruction” and pitted it against the rest of the world.

Egyptians pray at the shrine of the grandson of Mohammad. – Photo: Reuters

The speech was Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s boldest effort yet to position himself as a modernizer of Islam.

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Passing Japan Alliance Plan, Israel-Asian Coalition Takes Shape

PM Natanyahu unveils landmark alliance policy with Japan-China-India detailing economic/cultural/tourism plan involving many of Israel’s ministries to solidify ties with Asia.

By Ari Yashar

 

A roadmap plan to radically strengthen economic ties with Japan introduced by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was approved by the Cabinet on Sunday, and paves the way for a strategic array of alliances with three Asian superpowers – Japan, China and India.

“The State of Israel must vary the markets in which we are active. In the last two years, I have met with the leaders of China, Japan and India as part of a comprehensive policy of turning to major markets including Latin America and Africa,” explained Netanyahu.

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To avoid embarrassment Swedish FM cancels trip to Israel

Israel Foreign Minister Lieberman announced he would ignore her after Sweden became Europe’s 1st country to recognize Palestine as a state.

By i24news

 

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstroem has postponed indefinitely a planned visit to Israel. Although no reason was provided, Israeli media speculated the decision was the result of a snub by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who announced he would not meet with her because her government had recognized the Palestinian Authority as a Palestinian state.

Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Margot Wallstroem – Photo: AFP/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND

Israel recalled its ambassador to Stockholm, Isaac Bachmann, in response to the decision adopted in October by Sweden’s new government, but has since sent him back to his post. Continue Reading »

WATCH Israel’s PM: Radical Islamic Terrorism Trying to Destroy Western Civilization

 

Unlike world leaders that purposely refrain from connecting the terrorist attack in Paris to radical Islam, Israel’s PM Natanyahu says radical Islamic terror knows no boundaries and must be fought across international borders.

 

Fighting terrorism means physically battling it, as well as rejecting its false claims and not accepting any justification for it, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday in response to the terrorist attack in Paris.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – Screenshot

Netanyahu, after sending condolences to the French government and people, said that Israel stands with France at this difficult time. “Two years ago we saw a great intensification of international terrorism, and the source of that terrorism is radical Islam,” Netanyahu said. Continue Reading »

US Senator Rand Paul introduced bill to stop Palestinian aid

Republican Sen. Rand Paul files motion to cut all American assistance to Abbas’ Palestinian Authority until PA ends efforts to join International Criminal Court.

By The Associated Press

 

Republican Senator Rand Paul introduced a bill on Wednesday that would immediately halt US aid to the Palestinians until they halt their effort to join the International Criminal Court to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel.

Senator Rand Paul – Photo: AP

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ recent turn to the international court at The Hague marked a major policy shift and transformed his relations with Israel from strained to openly hostile.

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Israel’s new regulations on natural resources discourage potential investors

 

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US State Department: Palestine can’t qualify for ICC membership; it’s not a state

 

WASHINGTON – Palestine is not a state, and therefore does not technically qualify for membership to the International Criminal Court, the State Department said on Wednesday.

Jen Psaki – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the US would oppose the Palestinian move to join the body, and several others at the United Nations, a step it sees as technically flawed.

“It doesn’t qualify to join the ICC,” Psaki told reporters. Continue Reading »

Lebanon Distracted From Local Violence as Native Porn Star Attracts Threats on Twitter

 

As Lebanese born porn star is topping the porn charts across the world, she has stirred a debate back home with threats mounting daily from fellow Lebanese men.

By AFP

 

A Lebanese-born porn star living in the US has stirred fierce debate back home after her rise to fame split social media users in liberal-yet-conservative Lebanon.

Mia Khalifa, 21, Lebanese-born porn star living in the US – Photo: Twitter

Mia Khalifa, 21, who was born in Lebanon but lives in Miami, last week became the most searched star on adult movie site Porn Hub, with more than 1.5 million views, prompting a mix of scorn and praise from Lebanese commenters. Continue Reading »