PMW’s ‘Puppet Show’ Report Shuts Down PA Website

APalestinian Media Watch (PMW) report on a PA puppet show encouraging children to replace cigarettes with guns led to one PA website shutdown and a probe of an NGO.

By Chana Ya’ar

 

One non-governmental organization website has been shut down, and a second NGO is under investigation by funding agency “Save the Children UK” following an article published by Arutz Sheva quoting a report by media watchdog agency the Palestinian Media Watch.

כל אחד רוצה להיות שאהיד. ילדים במסיבת הסיום

'Until I die as a shahid.' Gaza kids during party

Earlier this week, the PMW had reported on two Palestinian Authority NGOs that were spreading hate speech and promoting violence against Jews and Israel. Continue Reading »

Report: Turkey probes IHH head for ties to al-Qaida

The head of the organization that sponsored the ill-fated 2010 flotilla to the Gaza Strip is being investigated for allegedly financing al-Qaida through his organization • Bulent Yildirim is being probed by a specially authorized Istanbul prosecutor.

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

The head of the Turkish organization that sponsored the 2010 flotilla to the Gaza Strip is being investigated for allegedly financing al-Qaida through his organization, the Turkish daily Haberturk reported on Friday.

Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) President Bulent Yildirim is being investigated by a specially authorized prosecutor in Istanbul over allegations of “providing financial aid to al-Qaida via his foundation” in absolute secrecy, without official numbering and identification, Haberturk reported.

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Violence erupts on Gaza border

Palestinian snipers open fire at farmers near Gaza fence, open fire at firefighters extinguishing blaze.

 

 

IDF troops exchanged fire with Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip on Thursday night.

A Palestinian sniper in southern Gaza fired at a tractor traveling on a road in Kibbutz Nir Oz close to the border fence. The driver of the tractor was not injured, but the sniper’s fire shattered the vehicle’s windshield.

Palestinian terrorists fire a mortar shell in Gaza - Photo: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters
Palestinian terrorists fire a mortar shell in Gaza – Photo: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa / Reuters

IDF soldiers arrived at the scene, evacuating the man to safety.

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Katsav threatened in prison

Five inmates caught threatening former president: ‘Don’t go to the canteen, we’ll get you’. Perpetrators punished with loss of privileges

By Meir Turgeman

 

 

Former president Moshe Katsav has become a target of other inmates at the Maasiyahu Prison, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Friday.

According to residents of the prison’s religious wing, for three nights shouts and insults were aimed at the former president by inmates of the adjacent wing. Five prisoners have been disciplined in the matter and had their privileges revoked.

The shouts began one evening last week. According to one prisneor, Katsav with sitting in the religious wing when prisoners next door began swearing at him, calling his name and hurling sexual insults and threats. Continue Reading »

Israel-Loving Ex-Terrorist in Open Visit

The ‘Son of Hamas’ who helped Israel’s war on terror has made his first open visit, expresses love for Israeli people.

 

By Maayana Miskin

 

 

Mosab Hassan Yousef’s life has been far from simple. Born in Ramallah to the founder and leader of Hamas, he made an about-face as a young adult and for several years helped Israel fight terrorism.

Yousef later converted to Christianity and moved to the United States. He wrote a book about his life story, titled Son of Hamas.

Now he is making his first open trip to Israel, as a guest of Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara. Continue Reading »

‘Olmert bombed Syria reactor despite US push for diplomacy’

In exclusive interview with ‘Post’, former US foreign policy advisor Elliott Abrams defends Netanyahu over critical State Comptroller report, says more important than preparation is the right people making the right decisions.

 

By HERB KEINON

 

Former  prime minister Ehud Olmert decided in September 2007 to bomb the al-Kabir nuclear facility in Syria after then-president George W. Bush told him the US had opted for the diplomatic route and was trying to get the International Atomic Energy Agency to close the site, Elliott Abrams told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

Asked about Wednesday’s Israeli State Comptroller’s Report chastising the government for a haphazard decision-making process, Abrams said Bush was provided with impeccable options, policy papers and intelligence.“We Continue Reading »

Settlement Committee won’t cut Barak’s authority

Despite expected establishment of committee on settlement affairs, Defense Ministry sources say Ehud Barak’s jurisdiction over settlement matters will not diminish

By Attila Somfalvi

 

The Government is expected to approve the establishment of a Ministerial Committee for Settlement Affairs led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during its Sunday session. However, sources in the Defense Ministry have said that the PM’s move, which is meant to placate right-wing ministers and settlers, will not rescind Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s authority over settlement matters.

The committee, which was established last week as the settlement regulation bill failed to pass its Knesset vote, will be authorized to present government policy pertaining to unregulated construction on private and State land, including fundamental issues that will reach the courts. Continue Reading »

Haaretz Reporter: “Israelis Believe There is no Peace Partner”

At American Jewish Journalists’ Conference, Haaretz reporter says: PA incitement is not important enough for his paper to report.

By Mark Langfan

 

 

Today, in his on-the-record remarks in front a conference of American Jewish journalists at the annual American Jewish Press Association convention, Chemi Shalev, a veteran Haaretz reporter, calmly stated that PM Netanyahu has no Israeli domestic pressure to make concessions in the peace process.

The reason?  It is because “Israelis believe Israel has no Palestinian partner for peace.” Shalev, US Editor and a veteran foreign policy analyst, further explained, “Israelis are very happy with the status quo.” Continue Reading »

Alert System Texts You When Your Dog Feels Threatened

For owners worried about their dog’s safety, a new system developed in Israel is able to recognize when a dog feels threatened or is stressed

 

Dog may be man’s best friends, but while most people would not leave their children home alone, dogs are often left unattended.

For owners worried about their dog’s safety, a new system developed in Israel is able to recognize when a dog feels threatened or is stressed and then send an SMS to the pet owner’s mobile phone.

According to Bio-Sense, the company behind the technology, “to a human being, all barks sound the same; science tells us they are not.” Continue Reading »

White House Pours Cold Water on Pollard Release Plea

Ahead of meeting between Obama and Peres on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney tells reporters, “Our position [on Pollard] has not changed and will not change today” • Peres still asks Obama to give Pollard clemency, expresses optimism.

By Yoni Hirsch, Yori Yalon and Israel Hayom Staff

 

 

The White House’s position on granting clemency to convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard has not changed “and will not change today,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday, essentially pouring cold water on any prospects for Pollard’s release after 26 years in a U.S. prison.

Carney’s comments came just a few hours before President Shimon Peres met U.S.

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Israel is less peaceful than Syria and Iran, study finds

 

‘Perhaps in some parallel universe,’ scoffs Foreign Ministry spokesman

 

The Global Peace Index ranked Israel as one of the least peaceful countries in the world in an annual study released this week, lower than Iran, Egypt or Syria.

The index, known as the GPI, ranked 158 countries and listed Israel at 150. Only one other Middle Eastern country, Iraq — number 155 — ranked lower.

Israel’s ranking placed it behind Iran, which ranked 128th. Syria, where an estimated 13,000 people have been killed in unrest in the past 15 months, ranked 147th. Egypt was listed at number 111. Continue Reading »

Iran: We caught ring of assassins hired by Israeli network

Announcement in Iranian media marks 2nd wave of arrests of alleged assassins accused of killing nuclear scientists; Tehran says it is committed to bring to justice “terrorists” who “martyred scientists in cold blood.”

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

Iranian security forces on Thursday announced the arrest of a ring of assassins which it says were responsible for the recent killings of nuclear scientists, Iranian media reported. Police also sought to directly tie the suspects to Israel, alleging that they were “hired by an Israeli spy network,” according to state news agency IRNA.

Iranian nuclear scientist assassination - Photo: REUTERS

Iranian nuclear scientist assassination - Photo: REUTERS

Tehran has in the past accused Israel of being behind the killings of several of its nuclear scientists.

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Jihad: Rabbis teach racism to Israeli kids

Top Islamic Jihad operative accuses rabbis of treating Palestinians like ‘snakes, bugs,’ says Palestinians have right to teach about ‘thieving Israeli enemy’

Elior Levy

 

 

A top Islamic Jihad operative on Wednesday accused Israeli rabbis of teaching hatred and racist values to children, a statement made in response to a recent report that Gaza kindergartens indoctrinate students into becoming terrorists.

Palestinian boy dressed as IDF soldier

Palestinian boy dressed as IDF soldier

“(Rabbis) treat Palestinian children and women as if they were snakes and bugs,” Khader Habib, a leader of the Gaza group told Ynet. “They don’t see them as normal people.”

Photographs released earlier this week showed a graduation ceremony celebrated at a Gaza preschool, during which the children donned army uniforms, carried rifles and staged scenes of torture purportedly inflicted on Palestinian prisoners by Israeli troops. Continue Reading »

Int’l Aid Groups Blame Israel That Gaza Water Unfit to Drink

Two international aid organizations claim that Gaza’s water is unfit to drink, but they blame Israel for the problem.

By Chana Ya’ar

 

 

Two international aid organizations claim that Gaza’s water is unfit to drink. But instead of blaming the Hamas terrorist rulers who have maintained a choke hold on the region since June 2007, the groups claim Israel is responsible for the contamination.

The “Save the Children” foundation and “Medical Aid for Palestinians” charity insist that Israel’s blockade of Gaza prevents “crucial sanitation equipment from getting in,” the BBC reported Thursday. “The blockade must be lifted ‘in its entirety,’” wrote the BBC, quoting a report by the charities, “Gaza’s Children: Falling Behind.” Continue Reading »

Aid groups urge Israel to lift Gaza blockade

Meanwhile, Israeli farmer comes under sniper fire while ploughing field near Gaza-Israel border • Netanyahu spokesman: All cargo going into Gaza must be checked because Gaza is controlled by Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist organization.

Reuters and Israeli Hayom Staff

 

 

Fifty international aid groups and U.N. agencies issued a joint appeal on Thursday calling on Israel to lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip. On the same day, an Israeli farmer was wounded by sniper fire from Gaza.

“For over five years in Gaza, more than 1.6 million people have been under blockade in violation of international law. More than half of these people are children.

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