The Wackos in Washington

 

In regard to the Mideast, bad ideas never die, no matter how impractical, improbable or implausible.

 

 

Enough is enough. At some stage there must be a limit to the verbal garbage – I resist the strong temptation to employ a somewhat coarser epithet – that one can be subjected to before giving vent to pent-up exasperation and outrage.
US Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the Saban Forum in Washington, December 7, 2013. Photo: Ralph Alswang/Courtesy Saban Forum

US Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the Saban Forum in Washington, December 7, 2013. Photo: Ralph Alswang/Courtesy Saban Forum

A spade is still a spade.

Of late, this limit has been breached with increasing frequency – particularly when the matter of the “Palestinian issue” is broached.As
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Kerry’s Secret Report Reveals Plan as ‘Fraud’

Analyst Mark Langfan, uncovers a 1967 USJCoS secret memorandum, clearly demonstrating Kerry’s proposals are a ‘fraud on Israel and the Jews.’

By Ari Yashar, Arutz Sheva Staff

 

A secret US Joint Chiefs of Staff (USJCoS) Memorandum from 1967 has been uncovered by Arutz Sheva analyst Mark Langfan. Langfan says the report proves that US Secretary of State John Kerry’s current proposed security arrangements are a “military security fraud on Israel and the Jews.”

Kerry is currently in Israel, pushing his proposals for the Jordan Valley which Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas again rejected on Friday morning. Langfan has revealed in the past that the arrangements are based on the 1967 “Allon Plan,” and are a “death-trap” for Israel. Continue Reading »

Aerial View of Snowy Jerusalem Under Siege

 

Road closures throughout Jerusalem and on roads entering & exiting the capital as snow blankets the city & surrounding area.

The worst of the cold weather system expected Friday.

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

 

Fifty centimeters (19.7 inches) of snow fell in Jerusalem on Thursday and Friday (as of press time), leading to a state of emergency in the city, to which entrance and exit roads have been closed.

A Jerusalem light rail train pushes through the snow on Thursday – Photo: Lior Mizrahi

“I’ve heard of making guests welcome and feeling at home. This is as far as I’ve seen anyone go, giving a nice New England snow storm,” said U.S. Continue Reading »

French Town Honors Imprisoned Assassin of U.S. & Israeli diplomats

The city council of Bagnolet voted on Wednesday to make the incarcerated Lebanese terrorist, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, an honorary resident.

 

 

PARIS — A suburb of the French capital honored a man imprisoned for helping to murder diplomats from Israel and the United States.

George Ibrahim Abdallah - Photo: France24

George Ibrahim Abdallah – Photo: France24

A majority of aldermen in the city council of Bagnolet east of the French capital voted on Wednesday to make the Lebanese citizen Georges Ibrahim Abdallah an honorary resident, calling him a “communist activist” and “political prisoner” who “belongs to the resistance movement of Lebanon, his country,” French media reported Friday.

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Israeli & Palestinian officials meet to coordinate civilian emergency responses

The meeting occurred due to a convergence of interests. Coordinating on aspects such as the clearing of roads in the event of floods, & joint firefighting efforts were addressed, and there was positive atmosphere from both sides.

 

 

Israeli and Palestinian officials held a meeting in Hebron this week, the first of its kind, to improve joint coordination in responding to civilian emergencies such as fires and accidents, and to figure out ways to protect the local environment together.

A FIREFIGHTER uses a fire extinguisher during a drill at a school in Jerusalem. - Photo: Reuters

A FIREFIGHTER uses a fire extinguisher during a drill at a school in Jerusalem. – Photo: Reuters

The understandings reached by the participants found expression already on Thursday, when two Palestinian bulldozers joined Israeli bulldozers in clearing routes 36 and 60 after a heavy snow storm blocked the two roads that serve Palestinian and Israeli drivers. Continue Reading »

Photo Essay: More Pics of a Snowed in Jerusalem

This year’s snowstorm has brought both wonderment, smiles & plenty of damage. The following is both Arutz Sheva staff and reader submissions for Snowstorm 5774 (2013).

By Ben Bresky & Contributors

 

While children are out on the streets playing in the snow, others are surveying the damage caused by downed tree branches, downed power lines and other issues caused by the rare snow storm which has affected most of the county. Snow has hit Jerusalem, shutting down streets and cancelling buses. Snow has also hit northern Tzfat, Ariel, Gush Etzion, and other areas.

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Chagall masterpiece among Munich stash believed looted from Latvian Jews by Nazis

A Marc Chagall masterpiece was identified in the art trove hidden in a Munich flat, was stolen by Nazis from a Latvian Jewish family.

By JTA

BERLIN – A painting by Marc Chagall discovered in a sensational art trove found in Munich is believed to have been looted by the Nazis from a Latvian Jewish family.

Marc Chagall masterpiece in art trove was stolen from Jewish family by Nazis - Screensgot: lostart.de

Marc Chagall masterpiece in art trove was stolen from Jewish family by Nazis – Screenshot: lostart.de

According to the German newspaper Bild, evidence was uncovered that the painting from the collection hidden for decades by the reclusive Cornelius Gurlitt, 80, may have been looted during the Nazi invasion of the former Soviet Union in 1941.

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Jerusalem’s Mayor Asks IDF & Police to Extricate Stranded Drivers

Mayor Barkat enlists the IDF & Israel Police to assist the many drivers & cars that have been caught stranded due to the ice & snow.

By Elad Benari

 

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has enlisted the IDF and the Israel Police to help out the many drivers who have been stranded on the city’s roads because of the snow.

On Thursday night, after the snowstorm which hit the capital caused many road closures and traffic jams, Barkat contacted IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and the head of the Jerusalem District of the Israel Police, Yossi Pariente, and asked them to help clear the roads of stranded cars and people. Continue Reading »

With Special Police Unit Closing in Mobsters Flee Israel

Menashe Arbib, the commander of Lahav 433 says, “It doesn’t matter where a criminal goes – we will find them”.

 

 

 

Police see a continued migration of Israeli criminals abroad as they “flee” local law enforcement, Lahav 433 – National Crime Unit head Cmdr. Menashe Arbib said Thursday.

Lahav 433 - National Crime Unit head Cmdr. Menashe Arbib.

Lahav 433 – National Crime Unit head Cmdr. Menashe Arbib.- Photo: YouTube Screenshot

“For us it doesn’t matter where a criminal goes – we will find them and we have great coordination with law enforcement agencies abroad. Any of them who think they can be safe by going overseas are greatly mistaken,” Arbib said. Continue Reading »

Australian group: Gaza’s Palestinians delight in the ‘worst case of animal cruelty’ in history

 

Barbaric video exhibits cattle imported from Australia being tortured on streets of Gaza, with bystanders participating, filming & cheering.

 

 

Shocking footage of cattle exported from Australia being tortured and killed in the streets of Gaza is being described by an Australian animal rights group as the worst animal cruelty case it has ever seen in the live export industry, The West Australian news reported Thursday.

Animal cruelty in Gaza

Animal cruelty in Gaza – Photo by Screenshot/Animals Australia

Footage compiled by Animals Australia shows bulls being “knee-capped by a man armed with an assault rifle, another stabbed in the eye and other having their throats hacked open in the streets.” Continue Reading »

Hamas Minister: Israel Engineering an Earthquake to Attack Al-Aqsa

Hamas Minister of Religious Affairs warns the Muslim world that Israel is trying to collapse Al-Aqsa Mosque with ‘artificial earthquake’ as a reason to build third Temple.

By Dalit Halevi, Ari Yashar

 

Ismail Radwan, Minister of Religious Affairs in Gaza’s Hamas government, claims that Israel is trying to cause an artificial earthquake to totally collapse the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. According to Radwan, Israel is attempting to do so to establish the Third Temple.

The comments came at an event organized by female students of the College for Professional Applied Sciences. In response to the supposed “earthquake attack,” Radwan called for a general national enlistment to the military, and to support the mosque by having fixed presence at the site. Continue Reading »

Israel admitted into CERN, 1st non-European country to be accepted

 

20-state council of the Center of European Nuclear Research (CERN), which proved the existence of the ‘God particle,’unanimously voted to accept Israel.

 

 

 

The 20-state council of CERN, the Center of European Nuclear Research that operates the Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border, unanimously voted on Thursday night to accept Israel as a full member of the important scientific organization.

CERN particle research center - Photo: CERN particle research center

CERN particle research center – Photo: CERN particle research center

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman warmly welcomed the decision, saying it was a “proud day for Israeli science.”  He said that the decision to accept Israel was not only an achievement for Israeli scientists, who have brought honor to the country, but also for the Foreign Ministry, which he said worked for years to pave the way for Israel’s acceptance by CERN.

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Knesset passes groundbreaking law to break up huge conglomerates

 

By breaking up large conglomerates this cornerstone legislation aims to stimulate competition by halting pyramid structures controlling markets.

By Reuters

The Israeli parliament passed legislation this week aimed at improving economic competition by halting pyramid structures in companies and breaking up large conglomerates blamed for high living costs.

Knesset (Israel's Parliament)

The Knesset (Israel’s Parliament) under snow12 Dec 2013

The move will, over the next several years, reduce the amount of concentration of corporate power in Israel, one of the highest in the developed world. The government estimates that the country’s 10 largest business groups control 41 percent of the market value of public companies. Continue Reading »

Rock-throwing terrorists face 4 serious charges in court

The Muslim youths who hospitalized unconscious baby Avigail with a fractured skull, first threw prepared firebombs on the road in order to slow down vehicles driven by Jews, then threw rocks intentionally seeking to cause  serious bodily harm.

By Ari Soffer and Gil Ronen

 

Prosecutors have filed charges at the Jerusalem District’s juvenile court against seven Arab youths from the village of Tzur Baher, over a rock-throwing attack which left a two year-old girl seriously injured in the capital’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood.

Suspect in rock attack – Israel Police spokesman’s unit

The indictment states that the seven youths attacked the car in which toddler Avigail Ben-Tzion was traveling, along with her mother and siblings, in a brutal attack on November 28. Continue Reading »

Former Bank of Israel chief candidate to strengthen US economy as Deputy Fed

Stanley Fischer, the former Bank of Israel governor, who’s a dual Israeli-U.S. citizen, has been asked by the Obama administration to become Janet Yellen’s deputy head of the Federal Reserve Bank, when she takes over as chief.

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

Stanley Fischer, who led the Bank of Israel for eight years until he stepped down in June, has been asked to become the Federal Reserve Bank’s next deputy head once the current vice chairwoman, Janet Yellen, takes over as chief of the U.S. central bank, a source familiar with the issue said on Wednesday.

Former Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer – Photo: Reuters

Fischer, 70, is widely respected as one of the world’s top monetary economists. Continue Reading »