US Federal Judge dismisses Hamas financing lawsuit

Former American aide to Dichter sues Arab Bank for providing financial support to the organization after being wounded by Hamas sniper

By REUTERS

 

NEW YORK – A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit brought by a US man wounded in the Middle East who sought to hold Arab Bank liable for providing material support to the Palestinian group Hamas.

Hamas members take part in a rally - Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Hamas members take part in a rally – Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

US District Judge Jack Weinstein in Brooklyn, New York, held that Mati Gill could not prove Arab Bank was responsible for injuries he sustained in 2008 from gunshots fired from Gaza into Israel.

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After Bahrain arrested bombing suspects, accused Hezbollah for attacks

Persian Gulf state says arrested 4 suspects after 2 killed in Manama bombing; claims Shiite militia’s fingerprints evident

By Reuters

Bahrain said it had arrested four suspects on Tuesday in the bombings that killed two people in the capital Manama and accused the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah of being behind the attacks.

Bahrain’s capital Manama – Photo: Reuters

Public Security Chief Major-General Tariq Al Hassan said in a statement published by the official Bahrain News Agency (BNA) the suspects were detained after prosecutors issued arrest warrants and police were hunting for other killers.

The five home-made bombs on Monday bore the hallmarks of Hezbollah, the Shiite group allied with Iran, authorities said. Continue Reading »

MK Danny Danon says Israel Must not Bend for Obama

Likud MK Danny Danon says Israel will not bend for Obama despite his re-election victory. National Union: A victory for Israeli left.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Israel will not bend for President Barack Obama, despite his re-election victory, World Likud leader and Knesset Member Danny Danon said Wednesday. The Ichud Leumi (National Union) party declared the results an “award to the Israeli left wing.”

Obama (R) embraces his brother-in-law after victory speech in Chicago

Obama (R) embraces his brother-in-law after victory speech in Chicago – Reuters

“Obama’s victory demonstrate that Israel needs to worry abut its interests,” said MK Danon. “I have no one on whom to rely outside of ourselves.  Continue Reading »

Religious leaders call to fight wave of anti-Israel sentiment

Jewish & Christian leaders unite to focus on countering anti-Israel sentiment within the large Protestant churches around the world.

 

The Bnei Brit organization along with The Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity in Israel kicked off a joint conference on Monday night focused on countering anti-Israel sentiment within the large Protestant churches around the world. According to Alan Schneider, director of the Bnai Brith World Center in Jerusalem, protestant churches have over the past two decades become increasingly aligned against Israel.
CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN Church in Nashville - Photo: Reuters

CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN Church in Nashville – Photo: Reuters

This trend was forcefully underlined in October when 15 senior leaders of mainline Protestant churches in America sent a letter to Congress last month calling for an investigation and possible suspension of US military aid to Israel. Continue Reading »

Soldier that beat Leukemia wins fight to serve in combat role

At 3 yrs-old Yoav Danguri recovered from cancer & then went on to court fighting IDF’s regulations to become a combat soldier. A dream comes true.

By Aviel Magnezi

 

When he was just three years old, Yoav Danguri was diagnosed with Leukemia– bone marrow cancer. He battled for two years and managed to fully recover from the disease.

Yoav Danguri Photo: Amit Shabi

Yoav Danguri – Photo: Amit Shabi

Over the past two and a half years, he was busy fighting again – this time against IDF regulations, preventing him from serving as combat solider due to his past Leukemia.

Since he recovered, Danguri has been healthy and excels in sports, but when he was first drafted by the IDF he was told that due to his medical history he could not serve in a combat role. Continue Reading »

Iran to join nuclear-free Middle East Conference

A day after IAEA chief said Tehran not cooperating with probe of its nuclear program, Iran’s ambassador to UN offers to take part in the December conference in Helsinki.

By and Reuters

 

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic would take part in a proposed international conference in December on creating a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East.

Iran nuclear Arak - AP - Archive

Heavy-water production plant in the central Iranian town of Arak, – Photo by AP

“The Islamic Republic of Iran now finally has decided to participate at the conference in Finland, in Helsinki, in December on a Middle East [nuclear] free zone,” Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters in Brussels where he attended a seminar on nuclear non-proliferation. Continue Reading »

UJA-Federation of New York Makes $10 Million Available for Hurricane Relief

To help finance the UJA-Federation of New York effort, they opened the ‘Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund’. 100% of all the donations will be used for aid.

By Jerry W. Levin, Alisa R. Doctoroff, and John S. Ruskay

 

As we hear wrenching firsthand accounts from those experiencing the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, it is clear that the recovery will be long and challenging. Millions of lives have been affected in our region. The emotional and economic impact, especially on the isolated elderly and the poor, is acute and will remain so for a long time.

Hurricane Sandy caused massive destruction to homes in Brooklyn and other areas of the New York region.

Hurricane Sandy caused massive destruction to homes in Brooklyn and other areas of the New York region.

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Female Turkish Blogger writes: The truth of the matter

Aylin Kocaman explains that according to the Koran, it is the right of the Jews to live in the Land of Israel.

By AYLIN KOCAMAN
Most people around the world know very little about the real Islam and the real Muslims.

What is presented to them under the name of Islam is a religion of war full of fear, hatred, rage and blood. It is a religion of fear formed by those who are in favor of war, societies of fear and suicide bombers. The alarming part is that some Muslims also think that this is the case. They are unaware that attacks, murders, suicides, instilling rage and fear instead of love in people’s minds is unlawful, for they are totally unaware of the content of the Koran.

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3 IDF soldiers hurt in terrorist blast on Gaza border

 

Explosive device hits IDF force on routine patrol near border fence by southern Gaza Strip

Soldiers respond, fire back at suspicious targets

By Elior Levy

 

Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers were injured Tuesday morning in an explosion which took place near the border fence in the southern Gaza Strip.

IDF tank in Khan Younis area – Photo: Tsafrir Abayov

One of the troops was lightly to moderately hurt and is said to be suffering from a limb injury. He was evacuated to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.

The two other soldiers sustained light wounds and received medical treatment on site. Continue Reading »

Bashir al Assad’s Grandfather’s 1936 Letter Predicts Muslim Slaughter of Minorities and Praises Zionists

The grandfather of Syria’s embattled dictator Bashir al Assad, Suleiman Assad, warned France of the dangers of a Sunni Islam takeover back in 1936.

He was fearful of a Muslim massacre and appreciated Zionism.

By: Dr. Mordechai Kedar from The Jewish Press

 

I will begin on a personal note. Since the start of the pogroms in Syria a year and a half ago, I have written again and again in my articles on this honorable stage that the Alawites will behave with cruelty and severity and with total insensitivity toward their opposition, because they are aware that they are fighting not only to keep control of the regime in their hands but also – and mainly – in order to keep their heads connected to their shoulders.
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Israel Issues Tenders for 1,200 New Homes in Metro-Jerusalem Area

Peace Now reports that Israel has formally issued new tenders for an additional 1,213 homes in areas of Jerusalem returned to the country after the 6-Day War.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Israel has issued tenders for additional 1,213 homes in areas of Jerusalem restored to the country after the Six-Day War, according to the anti-nationalist Peace Now organization, quoted by AFP.

Maaleh Zeitim area in eastern Jerusalem

Maaleh Zeitim area in eastern Jerusalem
Israel News Photo: JCDF

The report was based on Peace Now’s citing tenders published by the Israeli Housing Ministry, for 607 units in the northern Jerusalem area of Pisgat Ze’ev and 606 units in Ramot, located near the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway. Continue Reading »

Tunisian Lawyers Set to Sue Israel for Assassinating a Terrorist

2 lawyers from Tunisia plan to sue Israel for the 1988 hit on terrorist Abu Jihad, who was Yasser Arafat’s deputy.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Two lawyers from Tunisia plant to sue Israel for the 1988 assassination in Tunis of terrorist Abu Jihad, who was a deputy to Yasser Arafat, according to Tunisia’s official TAP news agency.

Abu Jihad, whose full name was Khalil Al-Wazir, was shot in the head by a silencer gun hidden in a box of chocolates.

The commando who shot the terrorist was the late Nachum Lev, who was quoted last week in a previously unpublished interview with the Yediot Acharonot newspaper. Continue Reading »

A BDS Supporter in the UN with his Boycott recommendation

Op-ed: Richard Falk had 2 options –
1) forced hospitalization or
2) taking job as UN Rights Council rapporteur

By Yoaz Hendel

While the UN shows that it has no problem observing the chaos and carnage in Syria with intellectual curiosity from afar, the activity aimed at condemning Israel has reached new heights.

The UN’s Richard Falk – Photo: AFP

Earlier this week, Richard Falk, the special rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council, released a report in which he calledfor a boycott of private companies that are “engaged in profit-making” in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

In the report, Falk singled out 13 companies, including Hewlett Packard, Motorola, Volvo, Caterpillar and even Veolia, which holds shares in the company that operates the Jerusalem light rail system and provides transportation for the residents of the capital’s eastern sector. Continue Reading »

Syrian gunfire hit IDF jeep on Golan Heights

Battalion commander’s jeep hit on northern border with Syria

Israel appeals to UN over the 3 Syrian tanks that entered demilitarized zone in Golan

Stray Syrian bullets struck an IDF jeep on the northern border Monday night. The IDF said that the vehicle was damaged but that there were no injuries.

The army believes the bullets were fired in the course of battles near the border between the Syrian army and rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad’s regime.

Reserve soldiers (illustrative photo, soldiers pic - Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski

Reserve soldiers by IDF Jeep (illustrative) – Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski

“We have reported the incident to the United Nation Disengagement Force,” an army spokeswoman said.

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Istanbul court indicts 4 IDF commanders over Marmara killings

Relations between Ankara & Jerusalem have deteriorated since Israeli commandos boarded  the Mavi Marmara aid ship in May 2010 & killed 9 Turks in clashes with activists on board.

By Reuters

 

Turkey is putting four former Israeli military commanders, including the head of the army, on trial in absentia this week for the 2010 killing of nine Turks on a Gaza-bound aid ship.

Mavi Marmara AP 22.5.10

Photo of Mavi Marmara taken on May 22, 2010 – Photo by AP

The trial, which begins in Istanbul on Tuesday, will further test relations between the one-time strategic allies and has been dismissed by Israel as a “show trial” and “political theatre.” Continue Reading »