Norwegian Students Indoctrinated with Anti-Israel Propaganda in Language Exam

Discredited libelous report from Gaza by Marxist Mads Gilbert presented as fact to over 40,000 Norwegian students in language test.

By Gil Ronen

 

A Norwegian-language test administered to over 40,000 high-school students across Norway, included blatant anti-Israel propaganda. One of the questions presented a photo of a graffiti drawing by a British street artist on Israel’s security barrier and an SMS sent by Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert from Gaza during the Cast Lead counter-terror offensive in 2009, and asked to analyze the drawing and text.

Gilbert’s SMS says:

"They bombed the central vegetable market in Gaza
 city two hours ago.
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NY’s Metropolitan Opera plans to telecast anti-Israel, anti-Semitic opera to millions

An open letter to the New York Metropolitan Opera general manager concerning “The Death of Klinghoffer,” an anti-Jewish and anti-Israel opera: reasons to reject it and viable replacements for it in HD transmission.

By Myron Kaplan/JNS.org

 

Peter Gelb
General Manager
The Metropolitan Opera
Lincoln Center
New York, NY 10023

 

Dear Mr. Gelb,

As a longtime fan of grand opera, I have attended numerous superb live Met performances both at Lincoln Center and via live Saturday matinee performance HD transmissions to theaters (not to mention listening to numerous Met Saturday matinee live radio broadcasts)—and have greatly admired your accomplishments at the Met.

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Palestinians: Israel Threatens to Sever Ties With Hamas-Fatah Unity Gov’t

 

According to PA official at President Mahmoud Abbas’ office, only security related matters will continue when Hamas sworn in with Fatah government.

 

 

Israel has informed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas directly that all contact with the Palestinian Authority will be severed the moment the new Palestinian unity government is sworn in, a senior figure in the Palestinian president’s office has told Haaretz.

Abbas, Hamdallah, Ramallah, May 29, 2014

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (R) meeting with Palestinian premier Rami Hamdallah to hand over an agreement for Hamdallah to head the unity government, Ramallah, May 29, 2014 – Photo: AFP

Despite the warning, Abbas has confirmed that the cabinet will be sworn in Monday at the Muqata government compound in Ramallah.

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In Face of Arab Outrage, Jerusalem Synagogue Destroyed by Jordan to be Rebuilt

Muslims not only angered because the rebuilt synagogue will sit higher than the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, but that its part of a systematic plan to Judaize Jerusalem & force the Muslims out of the city.

By Yossi Aloni

 

At a ceremony in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, Israeli officials laid the cornerstone for the rebuilding of the Tiferet Israel Synagogue.

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The Old City of Jerusalem in the early 20th century. The Jewish quarter is at the bottom of the image. The two large domes are the Hurva Synagogue (Bottom Left)  and the Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue (Bottom Right).

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Palestinians lied: US rejects PA claims it invited unity gov’t PM to Washington

 

State Dept spokeswoman says the U.S. did not issue any invitation to PA Prime Minister Hamdallah to Washington, who is expected to head unity gov’t with terrorist organization Hamas.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, TOVAH LAZAROFF
 

 

The US over the weekend rejected Palestinian claims that the Obama administration had already accepted the newly unified government between Fatah and Hamas and had invited its prime minister to Washington.

Prof. Rami Hamdallah, president of An-Najah National University.

Prof. Rami Hamdallah, president of An-Najah National University.- Photo: REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini

Although unity government won’t formally be announced until Monday, Palestinian media outlets reported over that Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah — who is expected to head a unity government with Hamas — was invited to Washington for talks with US government officials.

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Israel Air Force operational capabilities to increase 400% by year’s end

 

IAF commander says Israeli fighter jets will be able to strike thousands of terror targets in a single day, by the end of 2014.

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit

 

The Israeli Air Force’s offensive capabilities will quadruple by the end of 2014, IAF commander Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel said last week.

In a single day, Israeli planes will be able to strike thousands of terror targets and expand the IDF’s achievements during extended operations.

Eshel spoke last week at the Tenth Annual Conference for National Security on the contribution of air power to Israel’s strategic capabilities. He discussed the air force’s attack and defensive capabilities during times of war and routine operations. Continue Reading »

Palestinian Authority: BDS Activists Are Troublemakers, Criminals

In the 1st case of its kind, 4 prominent BDS activists this week went on trial before a Palestinian Authority court for “provoking riots & breach of public tranquility.”

A PA official in Ramallah explained that BDS and its followers make the Palestinians appear as if they are all radicals who are only interested in boycotting & delegitimizing Israel.

by Khaled Abu Toameh

 

At university campuses in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe, they are hailed as heroes campaigning for Palestinian rights. But in Ramallah, ironically, activists belonging to the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions [BDS] movement are seen by the Palestinian Authority [PA] as trouble-makers and law-breakers. Continue Reading »

Israel’s Desalination Plants Makes it the Best-Hydrated Mideast Country

 

Israel has 4 operating desalination plants, with a 5th set to go online later in 2014. Over 1/3 of Israel’s drinking-quality water comes from desalination, with the number expected to exceed 40% by 2015 and hit 70% in 2050.

By Associated Press

 

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Newsweek: Israel wiretapped Clinton’s phone during Camp David peace talks

 

Newsweek reports Israel’s intelligence services eavesdropped on diplomatic phone calls when then-US President Clinton conducted private conversations with Syria’s Assad, as well as calls regarding the Camp David peace talks with Arafat.

By Ynent news

 

Newsweek strikes again: A new report by Newsweek claims Israeli military’s intelligence unit 8200 eavesdropped on calls conducted by then US president Bill Clinton during a round of peace talks conducted between Israel and Syria, and the Camp David talks with the Palestinians in 2000.

Barak with Clinton (Photo: AP)

Barak with Clinton – Photo: AP

The report is based on a forthcoming book written by an Israeli expat and political scientist Ahron Bregman, and sites verbatim transcripts of the allegedly tapped phone calls given to him by unnamed “private sources”. Continue Reading »

Jewish graves vandalized in Greece’s 2nd largest city


A dozen graves defaced in Thessaloniki, home to Greece’s largest Jewish community until it was nearly wiped out during the Holocaust.

 

 

Greek authorities say vandals have attacked the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki, whose Jewish population was nearly wiped out during World War II.

Greek nationalists.

Greek nationalists shout slogans during a demonstration in Thessaloniki, Greece, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. – Photo: AP

Police said Friday marble ornaments were smashed off 12 graves, while vandals also tried to remove the tombs’ heavy marble covers.

Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos promised that police would do “whatever is humanly possible” to arrest the vandals.

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Iran Again Threatens to Annihilate Israel

In response to U.S. President Barack Obama reiteration on Wednesday, that Washington reserves “all options” against Iran, a senior Iranian commander says that any U.S. attack will result in “the annihilation of the Israeli regime”.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

A senior Iranian commander threatened on Friday that any American attack on Iran will result in “the annihilation of the Israeli regime”.

Iranian Armed Forces march in Tehran

Iranian Armed Forces march in Tehran – Photo: Reuters

“They know that aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran would mean annihilation of Tel Aviv and spread of war into the United States,” the commander, Massoud Jazayeri, was quoted by the Fars news agency as having said. Continue Reading »

John Kerry: Israel’s response to Fatah-Hamas unity deal ‘appropriate’

 

US Sec. of State says Israel’s wait-&-see approach to formation of Palestinian reconciliation gov’t is “appropriate.”

By JTA
 

 

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Israel’s wait-and-see approach to Fatah-Hamas unity talks was “appropriate.”

John Kerry

John Kerry – Photo: REUTERS

He made the remarks in an interview Thursday night on PBS, adding that he was “disappointed that the [peace] process, what is in place, that that didn’t produce the next step.”

Asked about the negotiations on unity between Hamas and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement, Kerry said that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “and Israel are waiting to see what happens with the Hamas reconciliation, with the announcement of a new government, with the question of what that new government may or may not choose to do. Continue Reading »

Palestinian Religious Affairs Minister slams Hamas’ incitement

 

Religious Affairs Minister for the Palestinian Authority, Al-Habbash says Fatah’s nonviolence resistance is moving Palestinian state forward, claims unity gov’t will be ‘under ideology of PLO, not Hamas’

By The Media Line

 

A senior aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the Palestinian leadership rejects any efforts to teach Palestinian children a culture of violence. Mahmoud Al-Habbash, the Palestinian Minister of Waqf and Religious Affairs was responding to a report on Israel’s Channel 2 on a Hamas rally in the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

Abbas meets with Hamas delegation (Photo: AFP)

Abbas meets with Hamas delegation – Photo: AFP

In the video, Palestinian boys, some of them wearing black ski masks, carried toy guns and waved the Islamist group’s green and white flag. Continue Reading »

PHOTO ALBUM: IDF Female combat soldiers mark end of training with 20k march

The IDF’s Caracal Battalion is a combat infantry battalion charged with patrolling the Israeli-Egyptian border and composed of both Jewish & Arab, male & female soldiers.

Israeli soldiers of the Caracal battalion carry their comrade on a stretcher. (Reuters)

 

Israeli soldiers of the Caracal battalion carry their comrade on a stretcher. (Reuters)

Israeli soldiers of the Caracal battalion help their comrade. (Reuters)

 

Israeli soldiers of the Caracal battalion carry their comrade on a stretcher. (Reuters)

 

An Israeli soldier of the Caracal battalion rests after finishing a 20k march. (Reuters)

Israeli soldiers of the Caracal battalion rest after finishing a 20k march.

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Israel Security Forces Prevent Suicide Bombing in Samaria

Another in a series of Palestinian attempts to massacre Jews as an Arab terrorist wearing a bomb belt is apprehended near Ariel before he could attack.

By Ari Yashar

 

Security forces apprehended an Arab terrorist wearing a bomb belt at Tapuach Junction in Samaria, near the city of Ariel, on Friday morning.

The terrorist raised suspicions by wearing a large coat in the hot summer weather. After security forces called on him to take off his coat and be checked, the man refused and proceeded to lay on the floor, reports Channel 10.

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