Gaza’s Hamas Slams PA Chairman Abbas over Israeli TV Interview

Hamas outraged by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s remarks that he considers Palestine “a state within the pre-1967 borders.”

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

Hamas slammed Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, in response to comments he made in an interview he gave to Israel’s Channel 2 News.

In the interview, which aired on the network’s Friday evening news magazine, Abbas hinted he would be willing to give up on the so-called “right of return” and said that he considers Palestine as “a state within the pre-1967 borders which exists alongside Israel.”

The comments irked Hamas’ prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, who issued an angry statement and said that Abbas’ remarks represent only his personal opinion and not the opinions of the “Palestinian people.” Continue Reading »

Israel expanding its medical marijuana industry

The number of Israelis who have official gov’t permission to consume marijuana increasing dramatically. ‘When people see how suffering people are benefiting, I’m sure everyone will get behind it,’ Minister Edelstein says.

Holocaust survivor: It’s helping me cope

By the Associated Press

Moshe Rute survived the Holocaust by hiding in a barn full of chickens. He nearly lost the use of his hands after a stroke two years ago. He became debilitated by recurring nightmares of his childhood following his wife’s death last year.

Illustrative – Photo: Shutterstock

“But after I found this, everything has been better,” said the 80-year-old, as he gingerly packed a pipe with marijuana. Continue Reading »

Erdogan: Netanyahu sent weirdo envoys to patch things up

‘Today’s Zaman’ reports: Turkish PM Erdogan renews plans to travel to Gaza, hints he could make visit with Abbas.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday described as “very weird,” the diplomats sent by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyhu to help negotiate a re-normaliztion of relations between the two countries, Turkish daily Today’s Zaman reported Friday. Ties between Turkey and Israel were strained following the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident, in which IDF commandos killed nine Turkish citizens attempting to break the blockade on Gaza.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan - Photo: REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan – Photo: REUTERS/Umit Bektas

The Turkish prime minister, speaking to journalists on his return flight to Ankara from Berlin, reiterated his three demands for rehabilitating ties with Israel, Turkish daily Today’s Zaman reported Friday.

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Jerusalem Mayor Barkat: Let My People Pray!

Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat calls for end of Jewish discrimination, Jews should be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount.

By Maayana Miskin

 

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has come out against the ongoing discrimination against Jews on the Temple Mount. Jews are prohibited to pray on the Mount, which is the holiest place in the world according to Judaism, and many have even been arrested for moving their lips at the site.

The matter is ultimately in the government’s hands, Barkat said, and not in the hands of Jerusalem leaders. His own opinion is “to let every person pray on the Temple Mount,” he said. Continue Reading »

West Bank: What is the West Funding?

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Caroline Glick: Obama and his politics of contempt

Obama’s contemptuous vilification of Israel & successful American Jews make him bad for Jews specifically. Just as the Dunham ad exposes his underlying hostility towards women & so makes clear that women’s interests are imperiled by his presidency, so Obama’s repeated hostile treatment of Israel & American Jews make him a specific danger to Jewish interests.

By Caroline B. Glick


“Your first time shouldn’t be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy.”

So begins the now famous official Barack Obama for President campaign ad that was released last week. The ad depicts a young woman named Lena Dunham, who is apparently a celebrity among Americans in their teens and twenties

Obama

After that opening line, Ms. Continue Reading »

Israel aids Jordan on water & natural gas. Only ‘Elder of Ziyon’ blog reports it.

While Jordanians are protesting against peace with Israel, Israel is quietly working behind the scenes to help Jordan with its two most pressing needs.

By Zvi, Elder of Ziyon

 

 

Jordan is having serious problems with shortages of both water and natural gas.

Man yells in front of Palestinian, Jordanian flags -Photo: REUTERS/Ali Jarekji

Man yells in front of Palestinian, Jordanian flags – Photo: REUTERS/Ali

From AFP, October 1:

Many ordinary Jordanians, as well as others in government circles, complain that tens of thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled from the conflict at home are draining the country’s meager water resources.

In recent weeks, people have demonstrated in southern and northern villages for not receiving water for the past two months, burning tyres, blocking roads and seizing a Water Authority tanker.

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NGO Urges Basic Fact-Finding Standards & Ethical Principles for UN Body

Watchdog group to UN expressed concern over the Mission’s working methods & calling for compliance with fact-finding standards & ethical principles.
Don’t be like Goldstone. Check your facts, reveal your sources, & who was paid $105,300 for 2 months of work?

By Maayana Miskin

 

The NGO Monitor watchdog group has filed a submission to the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) “independent international fact-finding Mission on the Israeli Settlements,” expressing concern over the Mission’s working methods and calling for compliance with fact-finding standards and ethical principles. The submission demands, at a minimum, strict adherence to the principles of impartiality and objectivity, transparency in all interactions with NGOs and professional guidelines for assessing the credibility and factual and legal claims of NGOs. Continue Reading »

Priest & Christian Arab youths come under fire over desire to enlist in IDF

Arab MKs & Arab media are waging a vicious smear campaign against a small group of Christian Arab youths interested in IDF or National Service

Christian Orthodox priest was even excommunicated, for “cooperating with the enemy.”

By Danny Brenner

 

The Arab media is waging an unrestrained and vicious campaign against a small group of Christian Arab youth who wish to serve in the Israel Defense Forces.

Priest Jobrail Nadaf: “I am not sorry for my participation in the conference.” – Photo: Michel Dot Com

Two weeks ago, a conference was held at an Upper Nazareth community center fro 121 Christian 11th and 12th grade high school students, all residents of Nazareth, Upper Nazareth, and Arab villages in the Lower Galilee region, who had expressed their desire to enlist in the IDF, even in combat units.

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Essay: How Egyptian legal system saved Camp David

Camp David agreement has become the focal point of a political struggle between Egyptian critics since Morsi’s election as president in June

 

 

Why did the Cairo Administrative Court dismiss a lawsuit calling for the 1978 Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel to be annulled?The case, reported by The Jerusalem Post on Thursday, put Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi in the uncomfortable position of having to affirmatively defend the Camp David accords, as opposed to merely tolerating them.

Mohamed Morsi - Photo: Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

Mohamed Morsi – Photo: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

Three members of the Revolutionary Youth Union, a movement which says it encompasses all political parties, national movements and independent NGOs, filed the lawsuit in August against Morsi, Prime Minister Hisham Qandil and Foreign Minister Mohammed Amr. Continue Reading »

Sandy is God’s punishment say Muslim clerics

Radical Muslim clerics are claiming that Hurricane Sandy was G-d’s punishment for US sins because of anti-Mohammed film, urges Americans to convert to Islam

By the Associated Press

 

Some anti-American Muslim clerics have cast the deadly Superstorm Sandy as divine punishment for a film mocking the Prophet Mohammed or for other perceived ills of American society.

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Hurricane-turned superstorm in NASA satellite image (Rauters/NASA)

The remarks by some on the fringe brought a backlash from other Muslims who said it was wrong to relish the suffering of others.

In Egypt, one radical cleric described the hurricane as revenge from God for the crude, anti-Islam film made in the US that sparked waves of protests in the Muslim world in September. Continue Reading »

Mahmoud Abbas says: As long as I am in power, there will be no 3rd intifada

In interview with Israel’s Channel 2, PA President, Mahmoud Abbas says although he is a refugee from Safed, he supports a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders & the rest, is Israel.

 

 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been increasingly addressing Israeli public opinion ahead of the Palestinian United Nations independence bid and the upcoming Israeli elections.

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Mahmoud Abbas addressing the Tunisian parliament on Monday – Photo by AFP

In an interview with Israel’s Channel 2, Abbas said that as long as he remains in power, he will not allow a third, armed intifada — or uprising — to break out. Continue Reading »

Cameron Considers Sending British Warplanes to Persian Gulf

The Independent reports: UK is considering stationing warplanes in the Persian Gulf as the confrontation with Iran escalates.

By Elad Benari

 

Britain is considering stationing warplanes in the Persian Gulf as the confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program continues, The Independent reported on Thursday.

British Prime Minister David Cameron

British Prime Minister David Cameron – Reuters

The possible deployment of the Eurofighter Typhoons follows talks with the United Arab Emirates to bolster the UK’s presence in the region, said the newspaper.

The decision on whether to send the planes at such a volatile time will be made by British Prime Minister David Cameron, after further talks with the rulers of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Continue Reading »

Hezbollah utilizes advanced video surveillance along border with Israel

Cameras placed on tree trunks & branches provide live video coverage 24/7  to a Hezbollah command center in one of its nearby Shiite villages.

Senior IDF officer: Israel to greatly reduce use of cluster bombs in any future war with Hezbollah.

By Daniel Siryoti, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

 

 

Hezbollah’s intelligence unit has recently completed deploying an array of advanced surveillance cameras along the Israel-Lebanon border, the Lebanese daily Almustaqbal reported on Wednesday.

IDF soldiers at the Lebanese-Israeli border. – Photo: Reuters

The cameras, which were placed on tree trunks and branches, provide live video coverage 24 hours a day to an operations center in one of the nearby Shiite villages in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel.

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American Voters in Israel Voted Romney 6:1

80,000 Americans from Israel have submitted their ballots.
Exit polls show voters overwhelmingly favored Mitt Romney.

By Gil Ronen

 

iVoteIsrael, the leading organization facilitating the ability of Americans in Israel to vote in the US elections, has successfully completed its campaign to make voting from Israel more accessible to as many Americans in Israel as possible.

“iVoteIsrael is proud to announce that 80,000 Americans from Israel have already submitted their ballots to their local county board of elections in any of the 49 states where we successfully registered voters from,” commented Elie Pieprz, national director of iVoteIsrael.   “This represents an unprecedented increase in voter participation from the 20,000 or so that voted in 2008.” Continue Reading »