Did the EU’s ‘lost’ €2 Billion aid money ‘fall close to the tree’?

Are the sons of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president growing rich off their father’s system of ‘lost aid’ and extensive Palestinian corruption?

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER

 

 

In the wake of the Arab Spring, U.S. leaders have promised to reverse the United States’ long reliance on autocratic, unrepresentative leaders who enrich themselves at the expense of their citizens. There’s only one problem: Just as top American officials have been making these lofty promises, new details are emerging of how close family members of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, a major U.S. partner in the Middle East, have grown wealthy. Have they enriched themselves at the expense of regular Palestinians — and even U.S. Continue Reading »

Palestinians are Still bickering over Balfour, still Ignoring History

 

 

Former Palestinian minister Shaath refuses to acknowledge the buildup of the Jewish national home over the centuries; a majority in Safed in the 16th century, & by the 1860s the Jews re-established their majority in Jerusalem — decades before British armies took over the Middle East. This return was a product of the national will of a people which Shaath and his colleagues still refuse to recognize, thereby perpetuating the conflict with Israel to this day.

By Dore Gold

 

 

Last year, on the 95th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the former Palestinian minister, Nabil Shaath, wrote an article in the Daily Telegraph attacking Britain for issuing its famous statement of support for the establishment in Eretz Yisrael of a national home for the Jewish people.

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From Islam to Christianity and Yet Israel Saved Them

 

Majed El Shafie from Egypt and Reverend Mulinda from Uganda  both converted to Christianity from Islam, & paid a heavy price for sticking to their beliefs.

Today both fight against antisemitism & advocate human rights and their love for Israel.

By Amit Lewinthal

 

These two men should never have met, but today they are close friends. They were born in two different countries at different ends of the world, but their life stories are very similar, and today, they both advocate a love for Israel.

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Hungary launches N.Y. style PR blitz to combat antisemitic image

Deputy PM Tibor Navracsics told a conference on Jewish life & antisemitism in Budapest this month that it was time for Hungarians to accept their responsibility for their role in the Holocaust.

Hungary's deputy prime minister, Tibor Navracsics, speaking at a conference in Budapest in early October, acknowledged his country's responsibility for the Holocaust in Hungary. (Babette Rittmeyer/Lantos Foundation)

Hungary’s deputy prime minister, Tibor Navracsics, speaking at a conference in Budapest in early October, acknowledged his country’s responsibility for the Holocaust in Hungary.

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Deputy FM Elkin: EU ties with Israel will fray if settlements excluded

 

Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin: The EU’s breaking ties with Israel would be a larger mistake for Europe.

By REUTERS
 

 

JERUSALEM – Israel and the European Union will drift apart if they cannot compromise on new EU guidelines covering settlements beyond the Green Line that could damage research and trade ties, Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin told Reuters.

Deputy Foreign Minister Ze'ev Elkin.

Deputy Foreign Minister Ze’ev Elkin. – Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post

The two sides must overcome the dispute – focused on territory that Palestinians want for a state – before the end of November, when a multi-million dollar EU research program called Horizon 2020 is due to be finalized.

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Palestinians arrested for plot of ‘drone’ attack in Israel

 

 

3 Palestinian engineering students were arrested by Abbas’ PA police for planning terror attack on Israel with an unmanned aircraft.

Hamas condemns arrest, says Abbas ‘protects security of Israeli occupation’

By AFP

The Palestinian security services in the West Bank have arrested three students accused of plotting to build a “drone” with which to attack Israel, a source said Friday.

pilotless aircraft - Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg

pilotless aircraft – Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg

The three Hebron University engineering students had intended to build a pilotless aircraft equipped with explosives, according to the Palestinian security source.

But before they could carry out the attack, they were arrested by the security services of the Palestinian Authority, which governs the West Bank, the source said without giving any more details. Continue Reading »

US Tells Paris: Israel Behind Elysee Palace Hacking

Leaked document by Edward Snowden: France believed U.S. was behind a cyber attack on the Elysee Palace but White House pointed finger at Mossad.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

France believed the United States attempted to hack into its president’s communications network but the U.S. hinted that Israel was behind the attack, AFP reported on Friday, based on a leaked U.S. intelligence document.

Hackers (illustration) – AFP/File

According to the report, U.S. agents denied having anything to do with the May 2012 cyber attack on the Elysee Palace, the official residence of French presidents, and appeared to hint at the possible involvement of the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency. Continue Reading »

Arab hurl handmade grenade at Israeli school bus in West Bank

IDF reports no injuries or damage in terror incident just West of Jenin in West Bank.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

A supposed makeshift grenade was thrown at an Israeli bus transporting students to schools on Friday morning in the northern West Bank near the village of Yaabud, west of Jenin.

A Magen David Adom ambulance.

A Magen David Adom ambulance. – Photo: REUTER

No injuries or damage were reported.

Security forces were sweeping the area.

The IDF could not confirm the identity of the perpetrator.

“I ​​hope now there will be an aggressive decision to bring attention to the area to prevent further attacks,” Army Radio quoted Shomron Regional Council head Gershon Mesika as saying. Continue Reading »

IDF soldier from Australia was surprise to have parents appear in Masada

 

 

At an elite Shaldag Unit ceremony on top of Masada, IAF combat fighter was surprised by his parents attendance who came from Australia thanks to anonymous donation.

By Matan Tzuri

L. (21), a fighter in the Israeli Air Force elite unit Shaldag who recently made aliyah from Australia, already accepted the fact that his parents will not stand beside him in his unit’s training graduation ceremony, which was held in Masada this week. Yet moments before receiving the fighter pin he had been dreaming about for two years of exhausting training, he discovered his parents came to surprise him from across the planet. Continue Reading »

Iran may be 1 month from nuclear bomb


The time needed to convert enough uranium to weapon-grade so as to build a bomb, stands at between 1-1.6 months, & is shortening further, says new assessment by the U.S. Institute for Science and International Security.

By and Reuters

 

 

Iran could build a nuclear bomb within as little as a month, a new report issued by the U.S. Institute for Science and International Security says.

Bushehr nuclear power plant.

In this Oct. 26, 2010 file photo, a worker rides a bicycle in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. – Photo: AP

According to the assessment, Iran’s weapons-grade uranium production capabilities are developed to a degree that its ‘breakout time’ – the time needed to convert enough uranium to weapon-grade so as to build a bomb – stands at between one and 1.6 months – and is shortening further. Continue Reading »

Tanzania’s 1st Pediatric Heart Surgeon Returns Home

 

First pediatric open heart surgery performed in Tanzania by medical team trained in Israel.

By Adam Ross

 

The South-Eastern African state of Tanzania now has its first pediatric heart surgeon, after Dr Godwin Godfrey returned home following five years of training in Israel.

Joint team performs surgery in Tanzania – Photo: Save a Child’s Heart

The Israel based humanitarian project Save a Child’s Heart (SACH), organized Dr Godwin’s training in a landmark achievement that also saw it train a complete surgical team from a foreign state for the first time.

Since being established in 1995, SACH has trained doctors and nurses from all over the world and brought over 3,000 children to Israel from countries in Africa, South America, Europe, Asia, and throughout the Middle East, including the Palestinian Authority (PA), for life saving surgery at Holon’s Wolfson Medical Center. Continue Reading »

Israel’s Knesset to vote on bill prohibiting prisoners’ release

 

Naftali Bennett’s party, Habayit Hayehudi, announces it will propose bill forbidding political prisoners’ release to vote on Sunday, shortly before 2nd group of murderous Palestinian prisoners to be freed.

By Attila Somfalvi

 

Habayit Hayehudi announced Thursday that on Sunday the party intends to raise to vote a bill prohibiting the release of terrorists, shortly before the scheduled second release of terrorists, as agreed under the renewed talks.

“Releasing terrorists in return to Tzipi Livni‘s right to meet with (Saeb) Erekat is very severe,” a Habayit Hayehudi official said about the peace talks, which are at an impasse.

The party official referred to the reports that Netanyahu will promote settlement development beyond the green line, saying: “The attempt to bind building in the settlements with releasing murderers is cynical and morally wrong. Continue Reading »

Druze Colonel to be next Commander of IDF’s Golani Brigade

Col. Rassan Alian fought (& was wounded) in the 2nd Lebanon War as Commander of the Rotem Battalion.

“Rassan is also a brother: we went through Officers’ Training Course in the same company,” reports Naftali Bennett.

By Gil Ronen

 

Economics Minister Naftali Bennett, Chairman of the Bayit Yehudi faction, expressed satisfaction Thursday with the planned appointment of Col. Rassan Alian to head the Golani Brigade. Alian will be the first Druze to command the brigade.

Col. Rassan Alian – IDF Spokesman

The appointment will be formalized once Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon signs it.

“Rassan is a Druze,” Bennett told his Facebook friends. Continue Reading »

Watch Sheldon Adelson: Nuke Iran

Sheldon Adelson suggests nuking the Iranian desert to get Teheran to talk business & stop it’s nuclear weapons aspirations.

 

 

WASHINGTON — Sheldon Adelson, a top backer of Republican and right-wing pro-Israel causes, advocated bombing Iran with a nuclear device as a means of negotiation.

Sheldon and Miriam Adelson - Photo Getty Images

Sheldon and Miriam Adelson – Photo: Getty Images

“You pick up your cell phone and you call somewhere in Nebraska and you say ‘OK, let it go,’ and so there’s an atomic weapon goes over, ballistic missiles in the middle of the desert that doesn’t hurt a soul, maybe a couple of rattlesnakes and scorpions or whatever,” Adelson, a casino magnate, said in a rare public appearance on Oct.

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Civil war between the Global Jihad & Hezbollah has erupted in Lebanon

 

Israel’s Defense Minister Ya’alon says the Global Jihad tried to pull Israel into a conflict in Lebanon by firing missiles at Israel, hoping Hezbollah would receive Israel’s wrath.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Thursday that a “civil war” has erupted in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Global Jihad elements that have attempted to drag Israel into the conflict.

People gather around the site of an explosion in Beirut's southern suburbs, August 15, 2013.

People gather around the site of an explosion in Beirut’s southern suburbs, August 15, 2013.- Photo: REUTERS/ Hasan Shaaban

“To those who are not yet aware, there is already a civil war in Lebanon. Global Jihad, which has infiltrated Lebanon and is attacking Hezbollah, is blowing up car bombs in Dahia and is firing rockets at Dahia and the Beka’a Valley,” he said, referencing recent attacks on Hezbollah strongholds.

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