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| November 15, 2012
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Putin urges Jerusalem to avoid escalation

 

Russian President  Putin calls on Israel and Palestinians to ‘do everything to return situation to its normal course’

By: AFP

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday urged both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinians to avoid escalating Gaza violence that has killed 15 Palestinians and three Israelis.

Calls for restraint. Putin Photo: AP

Vladimir Putin – Photo: AP

“The president of Russia called on the parties to exercise restraint and avoid the path of escalating violence, whose victims include civilians, and to do everything to return the situation to its normal course,” the Kremlin said following a telephone conversation between Putin and Netanyahu

Earlier, Russia strongly condemned Israel’s “disproportionate” use of force in air strikes on the Gaza Strip while calling on Palestinian terrorists to halt firing rockets at the Jewish state. Continue Reading »

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| November 15, 2012
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BBC suckered…AGAIN – Miraculous Recovery by Injured Gaza Man?

 

Pallywood is in high gear as Gazans dupe BBC viewers in time-honored style. Is BBC part & party to Gaza’s disinformation policy?

By Gil Ronen

 

Barely one day into the fighting in Hamas-run Gaza, the locals are hard at work playing the victim for the world’s press.

Footage from the BBC captured by watchdog group Honest Reporting shows a heavy man lying on the ground and being carried away by residents, apparently after being injured by an Israeli attack.

Moments later, that same man again fills the frame, except he is walking about and obviously unhurt.

The widespread staging of such victim situations is a favored tactic of Arabs fighting Israel and has come to be known as “Pallywood.” Continue Reading »

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| November 15, 2012
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IDF spokesman: “We must be strong in both defense & offense.”

Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai addresses Operation Pillar of Defense: ‘Difficult days are ahead, top priority is to restore peace to south’

By Attila Somfalvi

 

With the southern border under attack, IDF spokesman Brigadier-General Yoav Mordechai addressed Operation Pillar of DefenseThursday at Ynet’s studio, trying to map out what lies ahead.

The Iron Dome air defense system – Photo: AFP

“There was a plan,” Mordechai explained, referring to the operation. “In fact the plan was to give out an impression of a lull – defense officials kept a low profile, the IDF chief of staff was at a drill in the Jordan valley the day before, and there was a sense that life was getting back on track – and then the operation was launched with the assassination of Jabari, who had blood on his hands. Continue Reading »

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| November 15, 2012
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Report: Israel’s Ambassador to Egypt Summoned to Jerusalem

Egyptian media reports that Israeli ambassador Yaakov Amitai has left Cairo after being recalled by the foreign ministry.

By Elad Benari

 

Israeli ambassador to Egypt, Yaakov Amitai, reportedly left Cairo on Wednesday night, the website of the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper reported.

Sources at the Cairo International Airport told the newspaper that Amitai left on a Jordanian Airlines flight.

Amitai, who has been Israeli ambassador to Egypt since December 2011, was summoned earlier by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, which sought to convey the Egyptian authorities’ condemnation of the Israeli air raids on Gaza.

At the same time, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi recalled the Egyptian ambassador to Israel, Atef Mohamed Salem, in a move of protest against Israel. Continue Reading »

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| November 15, 2012
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Three killed in Kiryat Malachi as Gaza Rocket Hits Building

As Gaza Terrorists fire 132 rockets into Southern Israel in 24 hours since IDF launches operation to root out terror, the IAF hits over 100 terror targets in Strip

Palestinians report 13 killed

By JPOST.COM STAFF, YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

Gaza terrorists continued to fire rockets into southern Israel on Thursday morning killing three people and injuring two others in Kiryat Malachi. In total, some 132 rockets have been fired from Gaza into the South in the 24 hours after the IDF launched a campaign Wednesday to root out the terror infrastructure in the coastal territory, beginning with the targeted killing of Ahmed Jabari, the chief of Hamas’s military wing. Continue Reading »

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