Arab Media: Saudi Prince offered Abbas $10B to accept Trump’s peace-plan

Jordanian envoy to Ramallah, Khaled al-Shawabkeh reports 83 yr-old Palestinian autocrat rejected the offer saying, it would “mean the end of my political life.”
-Senior Palestinian official refused to comment on the report.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has offered Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas $10 billion if he accepts US President Donald Trump’s plan for peace in the Middle East, also known as the “deal of the century,” the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported on Tuesday.

A senior Palestinian official in Ramallah refused to comment on the report.

Referring to meetings between the Saudi crown prince and Abbas, the newspaper said: “According to information obtained by Al-Akhbar, Salman briefed Abbas about the details of the deal of the century and asked him to accept it.

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US Secretary of State spurs Lebanon to settle maritime border with Israel

Following the visit to Beirut by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the speaker of Lebanon’s parliament indicated Lebanon was prepared to settle its maritime border dispute with Israel, but under the supervision of the U.N.

By Dima Abumaria, The Media Line

 

Talk of the demarcation of a maritime border gathered steam with the visit to Beirut last month by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The speaker of Lebanon’s parliament indicated Lebanon was prepared to set a maritime border with Israel under the supervision of the United Nations.

Israeli offshore gas fields

During an April 23 meeting in Beirut with Maj.-Gen. Continue Reading »

Israel releases 2 Syrian prisoners as ‘gesture’ for return of IDF soldier KIA

Israel releases two incarcerated Syrians as a “goodwill gesture” for the return of fallen American-Israeli IDF soldier Zachary Baumel, killed in the 1982 Lebanon War.

By i24NEWS

 

Israel on Sunday morning released two Syrian prisoners in what an Israeli official called a “goodwill gesture” for the body of the fallen American-Israeli soldier Zachary Baumel, which was returned to the Jewish homeland at the start of the month, 37 years after its first war with Lebanon in 1982.

The Israeli Defense Forces said Sunday that the two prisoners were transferred from Israel to the Red Cross in Syria via the Quinetra border crossing in the Golan Heights. Continue Reading »

PLO terrorist convicted of bombing Israeli bus loses US citizenship

A Palestinian Islamic jihadist who was imprisoned in Israel for a bombing on a civilian bus has been sentenced by the US District Court in Los Angeles to jail, and then to be deported to Jordan, for feloniously acquiring U.S. citizenship.

By Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

A Southern California man who was imprisoned in Israel for trying to bomb a bus has been sentenced in the U.S. for lying to immigration authorities when he became a citizen.

Fifty-one-year-old Vallmoe Shqaire of Downey was sentenced to nine months in federal prison Friday for unlawfully procuring U.S. citizenship in 2008. Continue Reading »

PM Netanyahu: Synagogue attack ‘blow to Jewish nation’s heart’

Lori Kaye was murdered while protecting Chabad Poway Synagogue’s founding Rabbi. Three injured.
– Israel’s President Rivlin calls Synagogue attack on the last day of Passover, a ‘painful reminder that anti-Semitism is still with us.’

By Ynet, News Agencies

 

The prime minister condemned on Sunday the anti-Semitic attack in a California synagogue, which left a 60-year-old woman dead and three others wounded, calling it “a blow to the Jewish nation’s heart,” while Israeli president said the attack is a reminder hatred that of Jews is alive and well all around the world.

On Saturday, a 19-year-old gunman opened fire inside the synagogue near San Diego as worshippers celebrated the last day of Passover, a major Jewish holiday, killing the 60-year-old Lori Kaye. Continue Reading »

NYT Int’l posts anti-Semitic cartoon of Trump & Netanyahu

The International edition of the New York Times admits their caricature had antisemitic tropes and admits it was an ‘error of judgement’ to publish it. (… ya think?)

BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN

 

The New York Times International Edition ran a cartoon of an apparently blind US President Donald Trump wearing a yarmulke being led by a dog with a Star of David for a collar and with a face of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on April 25.

NYT antisemetic photo on article

The cartoon was part of its Opinion section and appeared next to a column by Thomas Friedman about immigration. Continue Reading »

Born to Gaza parents, IDF Sargent to be honored on Independence Day

Born to Muslim parents who moved to Israel from Gaza 30 years ago, Sergeant ‘A’ doesn’t try to hide his roots from his friends, saying, “It’s always accompanied by follow-up questions, but I’m Jewish & Israeli, and proud of myself, and my parents who chose to come to Israel.”

By Korin Elbaz Alush

 

He was born to Muslim parents who relocated from the Gaza Strip to Israel some 30 years ago, and in two week’s time – on Independence Day – he is going to be a recipient of a special citation of excellence from the head of his division. Continue Reading »

ANOTHER Democrat calls Israel’s government ‘racist’

Jewish born Democratic senator Bernie Sanders, who was guilty of using Hamas propaganda figures in the past, professes to be ‘100% pro-Israel,’ but purports how PM Netanyahu’s government is “racist” and laments how US policy in the Middle East should be ‘on a level-playing-field’ …even though Israel is the only true democracy in the region.

By Associated Press, Ynet

 

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is standing by his criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the US goal in the Middle East must be to try to bring people together and “not just support one country, which is now run by a right-wing, dare I say, racist government.” Continue Reading »

Next Palestinian autocrat: ‘We’ll retract recognition of Israel’

Palestinian Authority’s Vice Chairman threatens to terminate security coordination with the IDF and retract its recognition of the State of Israel, if Jerusalem’s freeze on Palestinian terror payments continues.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Palestinian Authority (PA) Vice Chairman Mahmoud Aloul on Monday said that if Israel continues freezing tax funds, the PA will cease security coordination with Israel and retract its recognition of the State of Israel, Israel Hayom reported.

Israel’s cabinet in February approved the implementation of the freeze on funds to the Palestinian Authority. The law, which passed in July 2018 with a majority of 87 Knesset members, offset 502,697,000 shekels ($138,426,818) from funds transferred from Israel to the PA. Continue Reading »

REPORT: Israel is world’s 8th most influential country

In its annual report, US News & World Report ranks Israel for the second year straight, 8th most influential country in the world.

By ILANIT CHERNICK

 

US News & World Report has ranked Israel as the world’s eighth-most influential country in the magazine’s 2019 version of its annual list.

The report released this weekend describes Israel as “the only Jewish nation in the world… a small country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea” that has had a large influence on global affairs.
“For its relatively small size, the country has played a large role in global affairs,” the article said. Continue Reading »

Schoolboys find 1,600 yr-old gold coin on Galilee field trip

Eagle-eyed students received a special citation from Israel’s Antiquities Authority after turning in a found gold coin bearing the image of Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II, who abolished Sanhedrin in the Land of Israel, forcing the Jewish leadership to be exiled to Babylon.

By Itay Blumenthal

 

A group of Israeli schoolboys stumbled across a shiny coin on a field trip, only to discover that it was 1,600 years old and the first such find in the country. What’s more, the coin bore the face of the man who abolished the contemporaneous Jewish leadership in the Land of Israel.

The four ninth-graders from the Jezreel Valley, Ido Kadosh, Ofir Siegel, Dotan Miller and Harel Green, found the coin during a school trip and immediately realized that they had something special and informed their teacher, Zohar Prishian. Continue Reading »

#MuellerReport: Trump tried to thwart Obama’s anti-Israel UN resolution

The Muller report revealed Michael Flynn testified that before taking office, then President-elect Trump’s team attempted to prevent the infamous UN Security Council Resolution 2334 that Obama would allow to pass, condemning all Jewish presence in Jerusalem (yes, even at the Western Wall), Judea and Samaria.

By Arutz Sheva Staff,

 

The Israeli angle: The Muller report, which examined Russian involvement in the US presidential election, showed that Donald Trump worked to counter anti-Israel bias at the United Nations even before he entered the White House.

According to a report by Barak Ravid for Channel 13 News, Trump, his adviser Jared Kushner and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, worked with several foreign governments to prevent the Security Council Resolution condemning the Jewish presence over the so-called Green Line in December 2016,

Flynn said during his interrogation by the FBI that Trump and his team saw the thwarted decision as a significant issue. Continue Reading »

Female Muslim IDF soldier shows her mettle to serve in active infantry unit

Cpl. ‘N.’ has been threatened by her fellow villagers and even by male Arab soldiers, but she still dreams of a military career, starting in the Lions of the Jordan Valley infantry battalion, and for Arabs & Jews defending Israel together.

By  Bat-Chen Epstein Elias

 

When Cpl. N., who serves in the mixed-gender IDF infantry battalion Lions of the Jordan Valley, heads out on arrest operations in nearby Palestinian villages, she usually talks to the locals in Arabic.

N. is a 19-year-old pepper pot. She’s opinionated and knows what she wants to achieve. She is an observant Muslim who prays five times a day and during the Ramadan fast mostly takes night shifts. Continue Reading »

Was Israel’s successful strike against Iranian target in Syria due to RAMPAGE?

IAF allegedly destroyed an Iranian missile factory in Syria’s Masyaf on Saturday using Israel’s advanced capability missile, the supersonic Rampage.

BY ANNA AHRONHEIM

 

Israel’s Air Force reportedly used the supersonic Rampage stand-off air-to-surface missiles for the first time during a strike on Iranian positions in Syria last week, foreign media has reported.

Israel allegedly struck a possible Iranian surface-to-surface missile factory in a Syrian base in the country’s Masyaf on Saturday and satellite images released by Israeli intelligence firm ImageSat Intl. (ISI) showed the complete destruction of the factory.

“The main industrial structures were completely destroyed, including the main hangar and the adjacent three production hangers and buildings. Continue Reading »

Muslim Zionist exposes those who only know, ‘How to defame Israel’

Once anti-Zionists feel defeated in speaking with Zionists, or they feel they’re not winning the topic they started, because they’ve refused to accept historical facts, they begin abusing the other speaker & begin using foul language against and about the Jewish people.

– Let’s Defame the Jewish State of Israel

By Noor Dahri

 

During the many years since I started talking with my fellow Muslims about their baseless arguments against the state of Israel, I could see them arguing without knowledge. I could tell they know nothing about Israel. They had a few topics to discuss, “illegal settlements, Gaza being blockaded, unlawful occupation and Israeli operations against Hamas, the Holy Land belongs to Palestinians and Palestinians are indigenous habitants of the land.” Continue Reading »