UK May Seek to Adjust Law After Inciting Palestinian Violates Gov’t Ban by Using Video Link

Deemed persona non grata, leader of the Islamic Movement’s Northern Branch in Israel outsmarts UK Home Secretary by appearing as guest speaker for meeting of the Palestine Forum via video link.

By JERRY LEWIS

 

LONDON – Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement’s Northern Branch in Israel who was banned from entering the UK in 2011 because of his extremist views, apparently appeared as guest speaker at a Manchester meeting of the Palestine Forum in Britain organization on Saturday by video link.

Sheikh Raed Salah

Sheikh Raed Salah (C), head of the Islamic Movement in northern Israel – Photo: REUTERS

In 2007, Salah delivered a speech in Jerusalem in which he invoked anti-Semitic blood libel.

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After Sacking Lapid & Livni, Israel’s PM Receives Fiji’s President in Jerusalem

Prior to meeting PM Netanyahu, the Fijian president began his visit in the Golan Heights inspecting his country’s UN peacekeeping troops, who this past summer had been kidnapped by Al-Nusra terrorists.

By Moshe Cohen

 

Fijian President Frank Bainimarama began a three day visit to Israel on Monday ahead of a meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Tuesday evening, after the latter fired key ministers and sent Israel to snap elections.

Fiji President Frank Bainimarama. - Photo: Graham Davis/The Australian

First Fiji President, Frank Bainimarama – Photo: Graham Davis/The Australian

Bainimarama, who was elected in September, is the first democratically elected president in Fiji’s history. The country has just come off a long period of military dictatorship. Continue Reading »

Kuwait Reports: Saudi Minister Considering Oil Trade With Israel

 

KUNA news agency quotes Saudi petroleum minister saying his country would be willing to sell oil to any country that wants to buy it, not exclude Israel as potential client.

By Daniel Siryoti, News Agencies & Israel Hayom Staff

 

After years during which Israel and Saudi Arabia have been rumored to have low-key commercial ties, the two nations may soon engage in open trade relations.

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia – Archive Photo: AFP

The Kuwaiti news agency KUNA on Tuesday quoted Saudi Petroleum Minister of Ali Al-Naimi as saying that as Riyadh is seeking to increase oil sales, it would be willing to sell oil to any country that wants to buy it, including Israel.

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Netanyahu sacks 2 lefties – Livni and Lapid are out – Elections to Come

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Bibi: “I will not tolerate this opposition from within.”

By GIL HOFFMAN, JPOST.COM STAFF

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directed the secretary of government on Tuesday evening to dismiss Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.- Photo: REUTERS

“In the last couple of weeks and over the last day, Lapid and Livni have forcefully attacked the government,” he said.

“I will not tolerate this opposition from within,” he added.

Netanyahu said he will call to dissolve the Knesset as soon as possible in order for the citizens of Israel to vote and receive a clear mandate to lead Israel. Continue Reading »

Panda diplomacy hits Israel: China inspects Haifa zoo as possible new home

The Chinese pandas chief visited Israel last week with a huge 200-man business delegation, to determine if the Haifa zoo is Panda-worthy. Watch adorable video.

 

Following a diplomatic tradition going back millennia, China will be gifting Israel with two giant pandas, if it decides that the conditions in the Haifa zoo meet the animals’ needs.

Four-month old panda babies playing at Atlanta Zoo, December 12, 2013.

Four-month old panda babies playing at Atlanta Zoo, December 12, 2013. – Photo: Reuters

The delightful duo, which are actually a primitive species of bear, would be the latest to travel further to China’s “Panda Diplomacy,” a policy first employed by the Empress Wu Zetian in the year 658 AD to charm the Japanese emperor Temmu. Continue Reading »

They’re not Palestinians: UN agency suspends food aid for 1.7 million Syrian refugees

Arab states remain quiet, unable to exploit crisis in Syria against Israel, forcing UN agency to appeal to Western donors to provide $64 million needed.

By i24news

 

The World Food Program (WFP) on Monday suspended food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in neighboring countries, blaming a financing crisis caused by unhonored cash pledges.

A Syrian refugee carries on her head a box distributed by the World Food Programme as she walks through the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, on January 24, 2014 ( Khalil Mazraawi (AFP) )

A Syrian refugee carries on her head a box distributed by the World Food Programme as she walks through the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, on January 24, 2014 – Photo: Khalil Mazraawi/AFP

The Rome-based UN agency said refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt risked going hungry this winter if donors do not urgently provide the $64 million needed to finance the distribution of food vouchers through December. Continue Reading »

Following in Palestinian Leadership’s Footsteps, BDS Seeks to Hurt Israel Rather Than Help Palestinians

 

BDS leadership tries to hinder the use of $5.4 billion aid to rebuild Gaza. Keeping the Gazans in poverty & increasing their suffering, stirs up international anger & backlash at Israel.

By David Lazarus

 

The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) National Committee are trying to block a $5.4 billion investment to rebuild the Gaza Strip.

A BDS campaign grotesquely misuses a picture of Jewish Holocaust survivors for its anti-Israel agenda on social medias.

The huge sum of money was pledged during a conference this October in Egypt in order to help reconstruct some of the damage done during the recent Israeli military campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Continue Reading »

Islamic State Commandeers Egyptian Warship, Planned to Attack Israeli Ship

 

Arab media reports: Islamic State took control of Egyptian missile boat near Suez, injuring 5 & 8 Egyptian sailors missing.

By YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA

 

An investigation in Egypt is underway into a November 14 incident during which Islamic State members successfully hijacked an Egyptian missile boat.

Warship with the flag of the Egyptian Navy. - Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

Warship with the flag of the Egyptian Navy. – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

According to Arab media reports Monday, the assailants planned to then attack and hijack an Israeli ship to use as leverage for the release of Palestinian prisoners.

The incident reportedly took place in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, by the Suez canal.

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Israeli-Canadian soldier said kidnapping by IS was BS & she’s ‘safe & secure’

Day after reports circulated that Gill Rosenberg, who is fighting IS alongside Kurds in Syria, was abducted by terror organization, she posts on Facebook to discredit ‘bullshit stories.’

By Roi Kais

 

Gill Rosenberg, the Israeli-Canadian, who joined Kurdish forces in their battle against the radical Islamic State terror group and was said to have been taken captive by the group, posted on her Facebook page Monday night to say that she was “safe and secure.”

Status report from Gill Rosenberg’s Facebook account – Screenshot

“I don’t have Internet access or any communication devices with me for my safety and security,” she wrote. Continue Reading »

REPORT: Incredible Compilation Detailing Media’s Egregious Misrepresentations About Israel

Former AP reporter demonstrates how major western media outlets seek to display the ‘Jews of Israel, more than any other people on earth, as examples of moral failure.’

 

During the Gaza war this summer, it became clear that one of the most important aspects of the media-saturated conflict between Jews and Arabs is also the least covered: the press itself. The Western press has become less an observer of this conflict than an actor in it, a role with consequences for the millions of people trying to comprehend current events, including policymakers who depend on journalistic accounts to understand a region where they consistently seek, and fail, to productively intervene.

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Uruguay’s newly elected president has ties to Israel & Jewish community

Tabare Vazquez, of the ruling leftist coalition, was confirmed as Uruguay’s next president Monday with 53.6% of the vote in the 2nd round of national elections.

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JTA – Uruguay elected a president who has twice traveled to Israel and who has an open dialogue with the country’s Jewish community.

Elected President Tabare Vazquez

Elected President Tabare Vazquez gestures during a celebration rally in Montevideo after knowing the results of a runoff election, November 30, 2014. – Photo: Reuters

The ruling leftist coalition candidate, Tabare Vazquez, was confirmed as president Monday with 53.6 percent of the vote in the second round of national elections, beating rightist Luis Lacallae Pou who garnered 41.1 percent of the vote.

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Watch: Stabbing Attack in Samaria by Female Fatah Terrorist

One wounded, as soldier attacked by knife wielding female terrorist.

A few hours after the stabbing attack in Samaria, the terrorist was shot while fleeing IDF soldiers.

By Uzi Baruch, Ari Yashar

 

A female Arab terrorist arrived at Gush Etzion Junction in Judea on Monday morning and tried to stab an IDF soldier, in an attack in which one person was lightly wounded according to Magen David Adom (MDA) reports.

Scene of the attack

Scene of the attack – Photo: Meir Deutsch, Regavim

The terrorist tried to flee the scene according to reports, evidently after the soldier managed to fight her off, but IDF soldiers on patrol who were active in the area shot her and wounded her critically. Continue Reading »

Hamas called on Abbas to stop spreading lies – quits unity government

Hamas leadership rejects Abbas’ claim that they colluded with Israel & declares unity government agreement has expired.

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON

 

Hamas announced on Sunday that the unity government established with Fatah over the summer has ended.
Nabil Shaath and Ismail Haniyeh.

Fatah official Nabil Shaath (L) and Hamas deputy political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh. – Photo: REUTERS

The unity government’s six-month term has expired, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said at a press conference in Gaza City, adding that talks would take place regarding a future government, Palestinian News Agency Ma’an reported.

Hamas “isn’t interested in incitement, but rather seeks to maintain national unity,” he said. Continue Reading »

European Move For Unilateral Palestinian Statehood Suffers Setbacks

Following Germany Chancellor Merkel’s decree not to follow Sweden’s lead, French and Dutch leaders oppose their country’s unilateral recognition of a Palestinian State.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Efforts to secure unilateral recognition of an independent Palestinian state suffered serious setbacks in Europe last week, despite warnings by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that, following Sweden’s decision, far more countries were likely to recognize “Palestine” with or without the agreement of Israel.

On Wednesday, former, and possibly future, French president Nicolas Sarkozy urged members of his UMP party to vote against an upcoming motion in France’s National Assembly demanding Paris follow Stockholm’s example regarding a Palestinian state.

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Report: ISIS kidnaps former IDF female soldier who went to fight with the Kurds

Earlier this month, Gill Rosenberg, 31, said she decided to join the Kurdish fighters for humanitarian & ideological reasons, saying, “because they are our brothers.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

The Canadian- Israeli woman who joined the ranks of Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State earlier this month has been kidnapped by the organization that she went to fight, Channel Two reported on Sunday citing Syrian jihadi websites.

Gila Rosenberg

Gila Rosenberg(R) – Photo: FACEBOOK

Gill Rosenberg, 31, from Tel Aviv, said in an interview with Israel Radio earlier this month she had decided to join the fighters for humanitarian and ideological reasons and “because they are our brothers” who are fighting the evil of Islamic State. Continue Reading »