Lebanese Security Arrest 36 Men in Gay Beirut Cinema

Security authorities reportedly perform rectal probes on detainees; unknown number released after exam to detect sperm.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT

 

BERLIN – Lebanese security authorities swooped in on a gay cinema in Beirut on Saturday and shut down the movie house, arresting 36 male attendees and performing anal probes on them.

Hezbollah posters on a Beirut street.

Hezbollah posters on a Beirut street. – Photo: Bloomberg

According to a report on the Gay Star News website on Monday, “an unknown number” of the 36 had been released after an unnamed doctor administered the anal exam – a procedure meant to detect sperm.

The website NOW Lebanon reported on Tuesday that the theater, Plaza Cinema, was not the first such venue that authorities had closed down.

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IDF tank-shield ‘Windbreaker’ intercepts missile

Israel’s Merkava tank escapes missile hit thanks to IDF’s High-Tech Defense System

By Yoav Zitun

The IDF‘s Windbreaker defense system has intercepted an anti-tank missile fired at a tank in the central Gaza Strip, near Kissufim on Wednesday.

Windbreaker Courtesy: Ministry of Defense

Windbreaker Courtesy: Ministry of Defense

 

An IDF inquiry suggests that the tank shield detected a missile launch during operational activity near the border fence. No injuries were reported.

The IDF considers the firing of the missile a very unusual event. Windbreaker has rarely been called into action since becoming operational two years ago. In March 2011, it successfully intercepted an RPG rocket fired at a tank. Continue Reading »

Hamas outraged at Palestinian official’s Auschwitz trip

Hamas official expresses the Islamic militant group’s official position: That Holocaust ‘is a big lie.’

 

 

Gaza’s ruling party, Hamas, has criticized a Palestinian official for visiting a memorial at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz and paying respects to its 1.5 million victims there, most of them Jews.

Auschwitz death showers – Photo: Phillip Pasmanick

 

Hamas official Fawzi Barhoum, expressing the Islamic militant group’s position, claimed Wednesday that the Holocaust “is a big lie.” He said last week’s visit to the Auschwitz by Ziad al-Bandak, an adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, went against Palestinian public opinion. Continue Reading »

U.S. Report: Obama Authorized American Support for the Syrian Rebels

U.S. President Barack Obama signed a secret order authorizing American support for rebels in Syria, sources say.

By Elad Benari

 

President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, U.S. sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama – Reuters

The sources said that Obama’s order, approved earlier this year and known as an intelligence “finding,” broadly permits the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide support that could help the rebels oust Assad.

Precisely when Obama signed the secret intelligence authorization, an action not previously reported, could not be determined and the full extent of clandestine support that agencies like the CIA might be providing also is unclear, Reuters reported. Continue Reading »

Israeli Hi-Tech Radar Will Protect US-Mexican Border

The U.S. has selected an Israeli company for the placement of a radar system to detect infiltrators at the border with Mexico.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

The United States has selected an Israeli company for the placement of a radar system to detect infiltrators at the border with Mexico.

Mexican Soldiers inspect the entrance of a cross border tunnel running to California and seized some

Mexican Soldiers inspect the entrance of a cross border tunnel running to California and seized contraband and infiltrators. – Reuters

Elta, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), won the tender with its systems that can identify individuals from distances between 300 meters and 20 kilometers (approximately 13 miles), and vehicles from twice that distance. Continue Reading »

PM: Time is running out to resolve Iran’s standoff peacefully.

Panetta suggests that the US is prepared to use military force. Says: “we have options that we are prepared to implement to ensure” Iran doesn’t obtain a nuclear weapon.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that time was running out to resolve the conflict with Iran over its nuclear program peacefully.

Netanyahu made his remarks at the opening of his meeting with visiting US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.

Leon Panetta and Binyamin Netanyahu. - Photo: Moshe Milner/GPO

Leon Panetta and Binyamin Netanyahu. – Photo: Moshe Milner/GPO

The prime minister said that Iran believed that the international community was not actually serious or committed in trying to stop it from obtaining nuclear weapons.

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IDF Implements Serious Culinary Changes

The IDF’s logistics department revamps military kitchens with a new, fresh nutritional health plan.

By Yaron Kelner

 

Forget about those fattening IDF breakfasts, from now on the mess will be serving healthier fare. A successful pilot that began in the first months of 2012 has led the highest military echelons to decide: The health food revolution would be coming to the IDF.

Marching on healthier stomachs (archives) – IDF Spokesman

Major Yossi Nidam, head of the Nutrition Department in the Logistics Branch has been examining methods to make the troops healthier. “We took part in the Wingate Institute’s ‘Healthy Lifestyle’ project which attempted to improve the field units’ physical fitness,” Nidam said. Continue Reading »

Egyptian spokesman says Morsi’s letter to Peres is a fake

Earlier, Egyptian officials played down a letter apparently sent by President Mohammed Morsi to the Israeli President but now, Morsi’s spokesman denies it. 

Yori Yalon, Daniel Siryoti and The Associated Press

 

Peres advisers say Egyptians denied the letter because it may have been perceived as sign of weakness. Dispute shows disarray in the new fractured Egyptian government.

The alleged letter of good will, sent by Morsi to President Shimon Peres.

 

Hours after the President’s Office announced on Tuesday that President Shimon Peres received a letter of goodwill from his Egyptian counterpart Mohammed Morsi, a spokesman for Morsi sharply rejected the announcement.

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Bulgaria police release new image of Burgas suicide bomber

Image of Burgas Terror Bomber along with Accomplices To Be Released soon

By Atara Arbesfeld

 

On Tuesday, Bulgarian Tourism Minister Delian Dobrev announced that forensic experts will soon be able to generate an image of the suicide bomber who killed six in the July 18 bus attack against Israelis in Burgas, according to the AFP.

 

A computer-generated image of the suicide bomber in the July 18, 2012 terror attack.

A computer-generated image released by Bulgarian police of the suicide bomber in the July 18, 2012 terror attack in Burgas. – Photo by AP

 

“The investigation into the attack is making progress and we have succeeded in recreating 95 percent of the face of the murderer,” Dobrev reportedly told President Shimon Peres of Israel during a meeting in Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

Romney’s integrity invokes Erekat’s fury

How could Romney possibly praise Israel’s culture over the ‘Palestinians’? Is he not aware of Palestinian poetry, music and art? Let’s just take a look at Palestinian culture.

By Ruthie Blum
At a fundraiser at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on Monday, U.S. presidential contender Mitt Romney made a few statements that got Palestinians’ blood boiling. It was bad enough, as far as they were concerned, that the Republican candidate had asserted, at the previous day’s press conference, that Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish state. But when he had the gall to praise Israel as an economic wonder in the face of adversity, well, that was going way too far.
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Israeli Arabs against mandatory service calls

Mandatory volunteering would increase the socioeconomic gaps, & that Arab communities lacks proper infrastructure, claims student union rep.

 

Israeli Arabs spoke out Tuesday against civilian national service, saying that “compulsory volunteerism” would only exacerbate extensive socioeconomic gaps between Arabs and Jews.

The comments came in response to proposals by Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin on Monday night to encourage Israeli Arabs, who make up 20.6 percent of Israel’s population, to undertake national civilian service.

Israeli-Arab lab tech volunteer at Hadassah - Photo: Sarah Levin

Israeli-Arab lab tech volunteer at Hadassah – Photo: Sarah Levin

Speaking to Arab council heads in Kafr Kasim at a Ramadan iftar meal, which breaks the daily fast, Rivlin said that Israeli Arabs would benefit from undertaking civilian national service within their local communities, and that their contributions would also bolster the Arab sector, which lacks manpower. Continue Reading »

Prime Minister & Defense Minister tell Panetta: Israel has the right to defend itself

Panetta arrives in Israel for quick visit to discuss the Israeli-American disagreements over whether to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.

By Amos Hare

 

U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta arrived in Israel last night for a brief visit that will focus on the American-Israeli dispute over whether to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak plan to stress that Israel reserves the right to defend itself, and to make its own decision on whether to attack.

Another major topic of discussion will be efforts to prevent Syria’s chemical weapons from reaching Lebanon.

Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak

Iran’s heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak – Photo by AP /ISNA,Hamid Foroutan

A senior government official told Haaretz that even if Jerusalem attacks Iran over Washington’s objections, he doesn’t think the United States will turn its back on Israel. Continue Reading »

Israeli Soldiers Caught in Crossfire on Egyptian Border

IDF soldiers were caught in a crossfire between drug smugglers & Egyptian soldiers Wednesday morning. No Israeli injuries reported.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Israeli soldiers were caught in apparent crossfire between Egyptian soldiers and drug smugglers Wednesday morning. No Israeli injuries were reported.

Egyptian soldiers spotted and shot at drug smugglers trying to cross into Israel, and several bullets hit an Israeli bus carrying soldiers.

Assuming they were under a terrorist attack, the Israeli soldiers fired back and wounded at least one Egyptian soldier. The IDF still is investigating to determine whether the shots fired at the bus were accidental or not. Continue Reading »

Lebanon: Cosmetics & Medical sector flooded with Israeli products

‘Campaign to Boycott Israel’ Supporters in Lebanon learn that beauty market has been ‘invaded’ by Israeli-made wares.

By Ynetnews

Therapeutic and cosmetic laser surgery is an integral part of a booming medical tourism industry in Lebanon. But unknown to most patients, the Lebanese market hosts a wide variety of medical equipment originating in Israel.

Beauty before boycott?

Beauty before boycott?

According to Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar online newspaper, the boycotted products make their way into the Lebanese market disguised as imports from the US, Europe, and Dubai. They are marketed through reputable local distributors authorized by Lebanon’s health ministry.

The issue is under investigation and scrutiny of the Campaign to Boycott Israel Supporters in Lebanon, which found that the Lebanese market has been “invaded” by four such Israeli companies. Continue Reading »

No Injuries after IDF Force Attacked by Gaza Mortars

Gaza Terrorists fired 5 mortar shells at an IDF force operating near central Gaza on Monday. No physical injuries or damage.

By Elad Benari

 

 

Palestinian Authority Arab terrorists fired five mortar shells on Monday afternoon at an IDF force that was operating near the Kissufim crossing in central Gaza.

The IDF Spokesman said that there were no physical injuries or damage. The soldiers fired shots towards suspicious areas after the attack.

The terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza have upped their attacks in recent days. An Israeli woman suffered light injuries while running for shelter during a Sabbath rocket attack on the city of Sderot. Continue Reading »