Bar Ilan U. Pamphlet : Soldiers & Settlers Molest Arab Women

A pamphlet published by the Rackman Center contains erroneous & unsupported claims that Jews sexually harass Arabs in Judea & Samaria.

By Gil Ronen

 

A brochure published by Bar Ilan University, Israel’s only religious university, contains the outrageous claim that Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria and IDF soldiers sexually harass Arab women. The claim is not contested in the brochure.

Bar Ilan campus

Bar Ilan campus – University website

The brochure was prepared by Bar Ilan’s Ruth and Emanuel Rackman Center for the Advancement of Women, and its cover displays the logos of Bar Ilan University and the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, which is affiliated with the American Jewish Committee (AJC). Continue Reading »

Where coexistence is the norm

At hospitals throughout Israel, hugs & handshakes between the country’s Jewish & Arab populations are a way of life.

By Avigayil Kadesh

 

A young Arab woman in Jericho was bitten on her foot by a poisonous viper in 2008. When the local clinic was unable to treat her, an Israeli ambulance jeep drove the woman almost two hours through the Jordan Valley to Emek Medical Center, where the anti-venom serum was available. She was already unconscious at that point, but her life was saved  in the nick of time.

600 Palestinians worked at the SodaStream factory in the Mishor Adumim industrial park, next to the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim before it was forced to relocate.

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Shas approached Bennett’s rabbis to circumvent partnership with Yair Lapid

 

Shas Co-chairman Eli Yishai says he doesn’t need portfolios or benefits, only no decisions “having to do with the Torah world” are made that we can’t live with.

Lapid: “It is very possible that I will be the opposition leader. If that happens, we will make sure to topple the coalition within a year and a half,”

Mati Tuchfeld

 

 

Co-chairman of the ultra-Orthodox party Shas, Eli Yishai, confirmed reports on Monday that he had asked certain rabbis to pressure Habayit Hayehudi Chairman Naftali Bennett not to cooperate with Yesh Atid (There is a future) Chairman  Lapid on the issue of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) enlistment to the military.

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Negotiator Erekat refuses to repeat lunacy of peace talks

Palestinian Authority Negotiator Erekat refuses to negotiate unless Israel first halts housing construction and releases convicted prisoners.

“These are not Palestinian pre-conditions” Erekat says of his pre-conditions.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

The Palestinian Authority reiterated Sunday its refusal to return to the negotiating table unless Israel stopped settlement construction and released Palestinian prisoners.

ErekatIn response to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s call for reviving stalled peace talks with the PA, chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat said that the Palestinians were not setting conditions for returning to the negotiating table.

“These are not Palestinian conditions, but obligations that Israel is required to fulfill,” Erekat said.

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NGO and IDF Prevents Environmental Catastrophe by Arabs in Samaria

The Israel Civil Authority, along with the assistance of the IDF have cleared out 20,000 cubic tons of garbage from an illegal Arab dump in Samaria.

By David Lev

 

The Civil Authority and the IDF has cleared out 20,000 cubic tons of trash from an illegal Arab dump in Samaria, after ongoing appeals from an environmental organization. The Yarok Achshav (“Green Now”) group expressed its satisfaction at the resolution of the issue, preventing further damage to the environment by Arabs in the area.

The site of the dump, near the Arab village of Kafr Duma, was situated right atop a well that tapped directly in into the large aquifer that runs under Samaria. Continue Reading »

Terrorist apprehended in West Bank, including 2 Hamas MPs

IDF special forces conduct overnight sweep in major Palestinian cities in Judea & Samaria; 9 Hamas legislators among the 25 Palestinians taken in for questioning

By Elior Levy

 

Palestinian sources reported Monday that Israeli security forces conducted an overnight sweep in the West Bank, arresting 25 Palestinians including nine senior members of Hamas.

PFLPIDF forces arrested nine of the Islamist movement’s members in Nablus and two of its parliament members – Hatem Qafisheh and Mohammed al-Tal in Hebron.

Hamas MP Ahmed Atun was detained in Ramallah and another MP was arrested in the West Bank city of Qalqilya.

All of the men were taken in for questioning by security forces. Continue Reading »

Report: Hezbollah, Iran joined forces for int’l terrorism

Counter-terrorism study reports Hezbollah-Quds Force threat “eclipsed that of al-Qaida”. Their violence targets Israeli officials & tourists.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT

 

BERLIN – The head of the Washington Institute’s Stein Program on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence, Dr. Matthew Levitt, on Wednesday issued a report detailing the intensified and reorganized collaboration between Hezbollah and Iran’s Quds Force to commit terror acts against Western countries and Israel.

Iran revolutionary guardsAccording to the report, “the Hezbollah-Quds Force threat has sometimes eclipsed that of al-Qaida.“ The 17-page study notes that “Iranian decision-makers settled on a campaign of violence based on a three-tiered threat stream targeting the following: Israeli tourists, government figures (diplomats, retired officials), and targets broadly representative of Israel or the Jewish community (community leaders, prominent Israeli companies).”

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Lebanese FM, enough ‘talk’ calls for boycott of Israel

FM Adnan Mansour says Israel ‘deserves tough response’ & not ‘calls, statements and condemnation’ for Syria airstrike.

Meanwhile, Arab media reports that IAF bombed a Hezbollah facility in  Tyre, but group denies strike.

By Roi Kais

 

Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said Sunday that last week’s airstrike in Syria “is aggression against Lebanon.” He further added, “Israel deserves harsh responses and a tough boycott on the economic, political and diplomatic levels.”

SA 17

Speaking before traveling to Cairo to attend a conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Mansour said, “Israeli jets continue to invade Lebanon’s airspace every day. We must stand up against the Israeli attacks but not just with calls, statements and condemnation.” Continue Reading »

Aylin Kocaman: ‘Islam Curses Anti-Semitism’

A Turkish peace activist, Aylin Kocaman, writes, “Islam curses anti-Semitism” in her blog post for a Jewish magazine, and also posted on her Facebook page.

By Hana Levi Julian

 

A Turkish peace activist says “Islam curses anti-Semitism” and that the “true home” of the Jewish People is in the Holy Land, in a blog post on the website of a Jewish magazine, and posted on the author’s Facebook page.

Aylin Kocaman, Muslim commentator

Aylin Kocaman, Muslim commentator
A9TV Building Bridges program

Aylin Kocaman, a host on  A9TV’sBuilding Bridges’ satellite television show in Turkey, made the statement in an article she wrote on how Islam views genocide of the Jews during World War II. Continue Reading »

Arab politics; Palestinians suffering draws int’l aid & political clout

Pressure for peace exerted by the int’l community seems to fall only on Israel. Achieving peace will require putting more pressure on many Arab gov’ts to make them willing to share the burden for regional stability in the form of support for their fellow Arabs.

By MUDAR ZAHRAN

 

Several Arab countries have expressed passionate support for direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Still, this verbal support is compromised by apparently questionable practices on the ground executed by many Arab countries with a Palestinian population. Those countries have been emphasizing their refusal to integrate them.

Arab League conferenceThis stance has posed a major obstacle to peace talks for years, as many of the Arab countries with Palestinian populations still officially insist that they must exercise “the right of return to Palestine.” Continue Reading »

Sunday Times finally apologizes for anti-Netanyahu cartoon

UK’s weekly the last to issue apology after publishing cartoon showing PM building wall with Palestinians’ bodies on Int’l Holocaust Remembrance Day. ‘It crossed a line, we would never set out to offend the Jewish people,’ paper wrote.

By Ynet

 

The Sunday Times issued an apology Sunday for a cartoon it published last week showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a wall with Palestinian blood and bodies.

הקריקטורה משבוע שעבר (איור: ג'ראלד סקארף, סאנדיי טיימס)

Gerald Scarfe’s cartoon

The apology noted that the cartoon, which many described as anti-Semitic, was a mistake and had “crossed a line.”

The cartoon, drawn by Gerald Scarfe, includes a caption stating: “Israeli elections – will cementing peace continue?” Continue Reading »

Newest Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory Simply ‘Too Absurd’

“It would seem that no allegation made against Jews & Israel is too absurd,” says ADL of latest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory coming out of the Gulf States.

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

Amid the protests and violence that have roiled Egypt in the past few days, a bizarre new anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish conspiracy theory has emerged claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood is tainted by a secret allegiance to the Jews and the State of Israel.

anti-Israel and anti-American propaganda in Egypt“It would seem that no allegation made against Jews and Israel is too absurd when it is used to discredit others,” said the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of the latest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory to emerge from the Arab world. Continue Reading »

Gaza Nazi-Style Youth Movement Prepares Palestinians for Jihad

by Khaled Abu Toameh

 

Thousands of Palestinian schoolchildren have been receiving military training in the Gaza Strip to prepare them for jihad against Israel.

Emulating the Nazis

According to Mohamed Siam, a senior official with the Hamas-run ministry, some 9,000 high school children have already joined 36 camps throughout the Gaza Strip and are being taught how to use various types of weapons and handle explosives. Continue Reading »

Israel seeks initialization of buffer zone inside Syria

‘The Sunday Times’ quotes military planners as saying a ‘buffer-zone’ plan to protect Israel from global jihadists, much like that of the southern Lebanese security zone (1982-2000), has already been shown to Netanyahu.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

Israel is considering creating a buffer zone reaching up to 10 miles inside Syria, The Sunday Times quoted sources close to military planners as saying.

Netanyahu surveys Syrian borderThe Times reported that the proposal, intended to protect itself from rebels across the northern frontier, has been presented to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

“A buffer zone set up with the co-operation of local villagers lies at the heart of the plan.

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Habayit Hayehudi wants Sunday as day off

As part of Habayit Hayehudi negotiations,  Naftali Bennett is expected to call for revival of long-weekend initiative. ‘Move will benefit families, designating Sunday for shopping, leisure & trips,’ party official reports.

Moran Azulay

 

Bennett strives to shorten work week: The Habayit Hayehudi party is expected to revive the proposal to turn Sunday into a sabbatical, extending the Israeli weekend to Sunday while turning Friday into a short work day.

Bennett revives long weekend Photo: Ido Erez

Bennett revives long weekend – Photo: Ido Erez

The proposal will be presented Sunday during the initial stages of government coalition negotiations between Bennett‘s Habayit Hayehudi and representatives of the Likud-Beiteinu. Continue Reading »