Latest Round of Palestinian-Israeli Peace Talks Deal with Water Rights

 

Newest round of peace talks opens in Jerusalem as Israel & Palestinians discuss the core issue of water rights.

By AFP

Palestinian and Israeli negotiators have held a new round of peace talks in Jerusalem, a Palestinian official said, saying it had focused on the issue of water resources.

Renewed Talks - Ynet

Monday’s session was attended by Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian negotiators Mohammed Shtayeh and Saeb Erakat, the official said.

The official did not elaborate, but the question of water rights is one of the core issues that must be settled in any peace deal.

Israel controls most of the underground water resources in the West Bank, and the Palestinians want a more equitable share of them. Continue Reading »

Rihanna set to wow Tel Aviv after Abu Dhabi mosque controversy


Tel Aviv is one of the last stops on Rihanna’s int’l tour which marks her 2nd visit to Israel.

Just prior to landing in Israel, she was asked to leave a mosque in Abu Dhabi due to her ‘sultry’ photo shoot there.

By Haaretz Staff

Tens of thousands of fans of pop singer Rihanna are currently flocking to Tel Aviv’s Park Hayarkon to see the Barbados-born star’s sole offering in Israel during her “Diamond Tour.”

Singer Rihanna performs at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California April 8, 2013.

Singer Rihanna performs at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California April 8, 2013 – Photo: Reuters

Israel is one of the last stops on Rihanna’s international tour, which began in March in New York. Continue Reading »

Israeli Druze Join Assad vs. Israeli Arabs Join the Rebels

Israeli citizens are volunteering on both sides of Syria’s civil war. Golan Druze mostly support Assad while Israeli Arabs largely favor the rebel forces.

By Maayana Miskin

 

There are Israelis fighting on both sides of Syria’s civil war. While it has been known for months that some Israeli Arab men have entered Syria to join  rebel armies, Walla news is now reporting that several Druze men have snuck into Syria as well, to fight alongside President Bashar Assad’s forces.

Among them is 24 year-old Nadim Kadmani, who entered Syria illegally in 2012. Israeli police searched for him for weeks, until he phoned his parents and revealed that he was in Syria, and had been unable to make contact because he was being questioned by Assad’s forces. Continue Reading »

John Kerry: Palestinian-Israel peace talks moving at ‘increased intensity’

A week after European Court determined Palestinians ‘lost’ $2 Billion in donated aid,  Kerry announces Qatar’s pledge to provide $150 million in aid to Abbas’ cash-strapped Palestinian Authority.

By Reuters

 

Qatar has agreed to provide $150 million in debt relief to the Palestinian Authority, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday as he announced that Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are intensifying.

Kerry and Al Attiyeh in Paris

John Kerry speaks to the media during a joint press conference with Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled Al Attiyeh. Paris, Monday Oct. 21 2013.- Photo: AP

Speaking after he briefed Arab states about the direct peace negotiations, which resumed on July 29 with a goal of reaching an agreement within nine months, Kerry told reporters that the two sides have increased the pace of their discussions. Continue Reading »

IDF Proud of its 1st Bedouin Tank Commander

Cpl. Mustafa Tabash, who is still two weeks away from completing the Tank Commanders’ Course. says, “When soldiers have a hard time they look at me, who as a Bedouin did not have to enlist to the military,”

By Arutz Sheva

 

The IDF is about to receive its first Bedouin tank commander. While about 1,000 Bedouin Arabs serve in the IDF, most of them serve as trackers, or in the Bedouin reconaissance battalion. Cpl. Mustafa Tabash will become the first Bedouin tank commander in two weeks’ time, once he completes the Tank Commanders’ Course, reports the IDF Website.

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Israelis Saving African Lives

Israeli medical teams volunteer to travel to various parts of Africa to provide life-saving heart treatment to thousands of suffering children.

By Ryan Jones

 

 

It is no longer unusual for Israelis to travel abroad to help the sick and needy around the world, as a team of 20 doctors and medical staff did on Sunday when they flew to Tanzania to provide free heart surgeries.

Israelis Saving African Lives

Israelis Saving African Lives – Israel Today

But it still creates a small swell of national pride when one reads of the latest humanitarian mission, especially for those of us who are believers and see in these missions the fulfillment of God’s commandment for Israel to be a blessing to the nations, not to mention Yeshua’s teachings on loving both your neighbors and your enemies. Continue Reading »

Israelis quietly feeding Syrian refugees in Jordan

An Israeli humanitarian aid nonprofit, IsraAid, is discreetly providing food & aid to Syrian refugees in Jordan.

Syrian refugees in a small refugee camp outside the Jordanian city of Mafraq collecting supplies funded by IsraAid, an Israeli humanitarian aid organization. (Mickey Alon)

Syrian refugees in a small refugee camp outside the Jordanian city of Mafraq collect supplies funded by IsraAid, an Israeli humanitarian aid organization – Photo: Mickey Alon

They contain an array of staple dry goods — lentils, pasta, powdered milk, tea — as well as a range of hygiene products like soap and detergent, enough for 250 refugee families. Continue Reading »

As Abbas honors terrorists, PA spokesperson slams Israeli ‘incitement’

 

PA Foreign Ministry calls Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman a  “fascist” &  “gangster” for saying ‘Abbas is not a peace partner’.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

 

The Palestinian Authority on Monday strongly condemned Israeli “incitement” against PA President Mahmoud Abbas and warned against its negative impact on the peace talks.

Saeb Erekat, Palestinian spin Grand-Master - Photo EPA

Saeb Erekat, Palestinian spin Grand-Master – Photo EPA

The PA’s attack came in response to statements made by Avigdor Liberman, chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, who was quoted as saying that Abbas is not a peace partner.

Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat described Liberman’s statements as “dangerous incitement” which in his view “reflected an Israeli desire to get rid of President Abbas.”

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More Israeli Bedouin women attending Universities

 

“Today, when a man wants to marry, he looks for a working woman because of the hard life and the economic situation,” says Reem Al-Amrany, who is married and working on her master’s degree, “He needs someone to help him make a living.”

By Linda Gradstein – The Media Line

 

 

Eman Abu Ammar, 24, is studying language and literature at Ben Gurion University. Unlike many Bedouin girls her age, she’s in no rush to get married.

Bedouin village in Israel’s Negev – Photo: Hertzel Yose

 

Bedouin usually get married young,” she told The Media Line. “People ask me, ‘Why aren’t you married, don’t you have anybody?’ Continue Reading »

ADL’s list of America’s ‘Top 10 anti-Israel groups’

While the annoying and very frustrating anti-Zionist Neturei Karta makes its debut, the ‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ has made it to the list once again.

 

 

The Anti-Defamation League released a list of the top 10 most “influential and active anti-Israel groups” in the U.S. on Monday, highlighting organizations it sees as being “fixated with delegitimizing Israel” and providing “misleading narratives” about Israel.

Members of Neturei Karta with Hamas.

Members of Neturei Karta with Hamas.- Photo: Reuters

 

The top 10 anti-Israel groups, as identified by ADL:

  1.  ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)
  2.  American Muslims for Palestine
  3.  CODEPINK
  4.  Friends of Sabeel-North America
  5.  If Americans Knew/Council for the National Interest
  6.  Jewish Voice for Peace
  7.  Muslim Public Affairs Council
  8.  Neturei Karta
  9.  Students for Justice in Palestine
  10. U.S.
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U.S. Congress Cancelled Predator Drone Delivery to Turkey

Reports fromTurkish newspaper: The American Congress cancelled the scheduled delivery of US made UAVs to Turkey because of Ankara’s  exposing of Israeli spies to the Iranians.

By Elad Benari

 

The United States Congress cancelled the delivery to Turkey of 10 Predators – unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – following Turkish intelligence chief Hakan Fidan’s disclosure of the identity of 10 Iranians who had been working for the Mossad, the Turkish Taraf daily reported on Monday.

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Predator – unmanned aircraft, Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

According to the newspaper, the claims about Fidan can be traced back to the year after the Mavi Marmara incident in 2010. Continue Reading »

View: Palestinian Arab tries to stab random Jew on public bus

 

Palestinian man gets on a No. 128 line bus near Beit Shemesh, accosts a Jewish passengers and then flees the bus, but causes no injuries.

Police are continuing their search for the wanted assailant.

By Israel Hayom Staff
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Toronto Star Columnist Promotes Jesus as Palestinian

By deceivingly portraying Jesus as a Palestinian martyr, Star columnist Ken Gallinger’s commentary, an attempt to invent a Palestinian history, was tantamount to historical revisionism.

By Mike Fegelman

 

 

Anti-Israel adherents continue to peddle the fiction that Jesus was a “Palestinian” who preached Islam.

According to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), “One of the ways the Palestinian Authority attempts to create a Palestinian history is to deny the Judean/Jewish nationality of Jesus, and misrepresent him as a ‘Palestinian.’”

There exists a very real “history war” whereby Jewish history is being erased and replaced with an invented Palestinian history. According to PMW: “As part of its ongoing attempt to invent a Palestinian history, the Palestinian Authority tries to hitch a ride into the past with Jesus.

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Israel’s High Court rejects petition against natural gas exports

 

In the petition to the High Court, signed by MK Yacimovich & MK Rivlin, the call for a gas export policy to be determined by Knesset falls 5-2.


 

 

The High Court of Justice on Monday rejected by a tally of 5-2 a petition against the state’s unilateral decision on Israel’s natural gas export policy.

A natural gas rig west of Haifa, Israel. - Photo: Albatross Aerial Perspective/AP

The Finance Ministry expects gas production from the Tamar natural gas field to contribute 0.8% to GDP for 2013 – – Photo: Albatross Aerial Perspective/AP

The petition, signed by a number of MKs, including opposition leader Shelly Yacimovich and Reuven Rivlin (Likud Baytenu) called for gas export policy to be determined by the Knesset.

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Syria mortars pound Golan Heights again

 

Two shells fired from the Syrian side of the border land at the foot of Tel Fares. No reported injuries.

Maor Buchnik

Two mortar shells fired from Syrian territory at around noon Monday landed in an open area in the Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights, near Tel Fares. There were no reports of injury, and it remains unclear if any damage was caused. IDF forces were sweeping the area.

View from Tel Fares, Golan heights, Israel - Photo courtesy:  Panoramio

View from Tel Fares, Golan heights, Israel – Photo courtesy: Panoramio

Less than two weeks ago two IDF soldiers sustained mild injuries when two shells fired from Syria landed in Israeli territory. Continue Reading »