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| January 3, 2013
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IDF arrest raid in Jenin turns into riot

Attempt by IDF to arrest wanted militant in Jenin leads to some 500 Palestinians rioting in the streets hurling firebombs, rocks & burning tires.

IDF dog bites Palestinian woman & 23-year-old shot in leg

By Gili Cohen and

 

An Israel Defense forces arrest raid in the West Bank early Thursday turned into a violent confrontation with local Palestinians, for the second time this week.

Border Police officers entered the Jenin refugee camp before dawn to arrest a wanted Palestinian militant suspected of involvement in terrorist activities.

Palestinians throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers in West Bank village of Tamoun

Palestinians throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers in West Bank village of Tamoun – Photo: AP

A demonstration broke out during the raid, the IDF said, with some 500 Palestinians hurling stones, firebombs, and burning tires in the streets. Continue Reading »

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| January 1, 2013
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PA report: Palestinian population to outnumber the Jews by 2020

At the end of 2012 the estimated number of Palestinians in the world is 11.6 million, of whom 4.4 million are living in the Gaza Strip, West Bank & East Jerusalem & another 1.4 million living inside Israel.

By DPA

 

The number of Arabs and Jews in Israel and the occupied areas will be equal by 2016, but the number of Arabs will exceed that of Jews by 2020, a report by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said Monday.

Fatah supporters wave flags during a rally marking the 48th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah

Fatah supporters waving flags during a rally marking the 48th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement in the West Bank town of Bethlehem December 31, 2012.

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| December 31, 2012
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Israeli Astrologist sees Oslo Accords Disintegrating

Israel Hayom’s Astrologist Tova Safra consulted the stars to see what 2013 holds for the Oslo Accords signed by Israel and the Palestinians in 1993.

 

2013 will be a bad year for the Oslo Accords, astrologist Tova Safra predicted on Friday in the Israeli daily Israel Hayom, which is owned by Jewish U.S. casino mogul Sheldon Adelson.

Oslo Accords

President Clinton presides over the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, a time that brought hope for peace and revitalized Israeli youth culture, paving the way for hip-hop to take hold in Israel. – Photo by AP

Safra consulted the stars to see what the new year holds for the agreement signed by Israel and the Palestinians in 1993, and made a number of less-than-encouraging predictions. Continue Reading »

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| December 27, 2012
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Trouble-making Palestinians, Why the Arabs Hate And Kill Them

The Arab League did not hold an emergency meeting to discuss what Palestinians describe as “massacres ” against the refugees in a Syrian camp, home to more than 50,000 people. Those who meddle in the internal affairs of Arab countries should not be surprised when bombs start falling on their homes. Palestinians are not always innocent victims. They bring tragedy on themselves and then want to blame everyone else but themselves.

By Khaled Abu Toameh

 

More than 800 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds others injured since the beginning of the crisis in Syria nearly two years ago.

In the past two weeks, thousands of Palestinians were forced to flee the Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus after Syrian jets bombed their homes, killing dozens of people. Continue Reading »

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| December 22, 2012
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5 Palestinians wounded by IDF on Gaza border

IDF says troops reacted ‘according to set procedures’ when the Gazans did not heed calls to exit the border fence area.

Gaza medics say the men are lightly to moderately wounded & not in life threatening condition.

By Reuters

 

Israel Defense Forces troops patrolling the border with the Gaza strip on Friday shot and wounded five Palestinians who were in an area on the Gaza side which Israel deems off limits, the IDF and Gaza medics said.

An IDF patrol vehicle near the Israel-Gaza border.

An IDF patrol vehicle near the Israel-Gaza border. – Photo by Eliyahu Hershkovitz

Gaza medical officials said the five agricultural workers suffered light to moderate wounds and were not in a life threatening condition. Continue Reading »

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| December 19, 2012
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Polls: Palestinians prefer violence and majority support Hamas

Poll shows that Palestinian Authority’s failure to educate its population for peace has set the stage for perpetual conflict.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Two new public opinion polls reveal that in the wake of the recent Gaza war, Palestinians are even more in favor of violence against Israel, and would hand Hamas the reins of the Palestinian Authority if elections were held today.

A poll conducted by the Ramallah-based Arab World for Research & Development found that an overwhelming 87.7 percent of Palestinian Arabs either agree or strongly agree that “armed struggle, as adopted by Hamas, is the best means of achieving Palestinian independence.” Continue Reading »

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| December 18, 2012
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Syrian Rebels Control Damascus’ Palestinian Refugee Camp

Rebels have taken control of the Yarmouk ‘camp’ which is home to thousands of ‘Palestinian refugees’.

Defectors of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) called to arrest group’s head Ahmed Jibril who fled Yarmouk .

By Elad Benari

 

Syrian rebels have taken full control of the Yarmouk refugee camp in southern Damascus, rebel and Palestinian Authority Arab sources said on Monday.

View of the Syrian capital Damascus

View of the Syrian capital Damascus – AFP/File

The takeover of the camp, which is home to thousands of people who are recognized as “Palestinian refugees,” came after days of heavy fighting which pitted rebels against fighters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. Continue Reading »

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| December 17, 2012
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Syria: Palestinians sheltering terrorists become ‘victims’

Syria’s Foreign Minister tells UN Chief Ban that Palestinians shouldn’t offer ‘shelter or assistance to terrorist groups’ 

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According to state television, Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid Moallem told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that Palestinians living in the country should not offer “shelter or assistance to terrorist groups” in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus.

הלחימה נמשכת. שכונת מגורים אחרי הפצצה של צבא אסד (צילום: רויטרס)

Bombing aftermath – Photo: Reuters

Moallem’s comments came after Ban’s spokesman said the secretary general was concerned at reports of an air strike by President Bashar Assad’s forces on Yarmouk refugee camp on Sunday in which 25 people were reportedly killed.

Sunday’s air strike on Yarmouk, carried out by the Syrian military, was the first against the country’s Palestinian refugee camps, whose residents are divided over the 21-month conflict between rebels and regime forces. Continue Reading »

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| December 14, 2012
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Oren: Israel must prepare for summons to appear before the ICC

Amb. to the US, Michael Oren says Israel can’t discount possibility that the Palestinians, now empowered by the UN, will take action at int’l criminal court.

By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER, JPOST CORRESPONDENT

 

WASHINGTON – The Israeli government needs to be prepared for the Palestinians to take action against it at the International Criminal Court, Israel’s top US envoy said Wednesday afternoon, as tensions mount between the parties over settlement construction in the West Bank.

Ambassador to US Michael Oren - Photo: Hyungwon Kang/Reuters

Ambassador to US Michael Oren – Photo: Hyungwon Kang/Reuters

Disagreements between the Palestinian Authority and Israel have been intensifying in the wake of  PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s successful bid for non-member state recognition at the UN last month.

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| December 11, 2012
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Lieberman: Abbas won’t see transfer of PA tax funds for at least 4 months

FM says PA won’t see ‘one red cent’ of tax revenues, & repeats threats to ‘bring down Hamas’, at an Yisrael Beitenu Hanukkah event.

Lieberman says some EU foreign ministers ‘take Israel’s destruction for granted.’

 

Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday evening that “the Palestinians won’t see one red cent” of the tax revenues that Israel collects on their behalf for at least the next four months.

Avigdor Lieberman at an election convention - Olivier Fitoussi - December 4, 2012.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman speaking at an election convention in Jerusalem, December 4, 2012. – Photo by Olivier Fitoussi

 

Lieberman’s remarks, made during a Hanukkah candle-lighting event for his party, Yisrael Beitenu in Tel Aviv, were in reference to Israel confiscating some NIS 460 million in tax revenues collected for the Palestinian Authority in November, in order to offset the PA’s debt to Israel’s Electric Corporation.  Continue Reading »

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| December 11, 2012
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Palestinian NGO offices raided by Israel’s IDF

IDF sweep, raiding 3 civil society organizations in Ramallah, is the 1st of its kind since the West Bank gov’t won int’l recognition at the UN General Assembly.

By Reuters

 

Israeli soldiers raided the offices of three civil society organizations on Tuesday in the heart of Ramallah, the de facto Palestinian capital in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Palestinians celebrating in Ramallah after the PA was given status as a UN non-member state.

Palestinians celebrating in Ramallah after the PA was given status as a UN non-member state. – Photo by Reuters

Entering before dawn, troops wrenched open the doors of the Women’s Union, the Palestinian NGO Network and Addameer, an advocate for Palestinians in Israeli jails, confiscating five computers from the latter group. Continue Reading »

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| December 9, 2012
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Any new Palestinian state will inherit ample water supply

The national religious party’s warning that Israel will be losing 1/2 of its water source if the West Bank becomes a Palestinian state is a slight exaggeration.

As it turns out Israel has other viable options to replace forfeited water source.

 

 

The national-religious Habayit Hayehudi party last week released a video warning of the dangers Israel would face following the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank.

Eden mineral water on sale in Israel, May 15, 2010

Eden mineral water. – Photo by Ofer Vaknin

Among the central warnings featured in the video was that the territory to be allotted to the Palestinians contains reservoirs that supply about half of Israel’s drinking water. Continue Reading »

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| December 9, 2012
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Palestinians and What The UN Bought

There has been no mention of peace process or coexistence with Israel. The belligerent and defiant tone of Fatah officials sent the message that the Palestinians are now headed toward confrontation with Israel — not peace.

by Khaled Abu Toameh

Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders say they are already preparing for the next war with Israel. They say that their groups still have many rockets that will be used against Israel in the future.

As one Hamas official put it, “In the next war with Israel, Israelis will be forced to flee not only their homes, but the whole country.”

Fatah is also preparing for a possible confrontation with Israel, both on the ground and in the international arena. Continue Reading »

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| December 7, 2012
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NABBED: 9 Illegal Arabs Crammed Behind Truck Wall

Israel Security personnel apprehend 9 PA entrants crammed behind a false wall attempting to sneak into Israel illegally.

By Maayana Miskin

 

Guards at a Samaria (Shomron) checkpoint found nine Palestinian Authority residents hidden in one truck on Friday morning. The men were attempting to enter Israel illegally in order to look for work.

Guards became suspicious when they noticed a wall behind seats in the truck that seemed out of place. They found an opening in the wall and saw the nine would-be entrants hiding behind it.

An initial investigation revealed that the driver, an Israeli Arab man from Baqa al-Gharbiya, had charged each of the PA men 200 shekels in exchange for sneaking them into Israel. Continue Reading »

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| December 5, 2012
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Netanyahu to Czech Republic for support at UN: Thank You!

In visit to Prague, PM says UN vote ‘completely ignored Israel’s security needs’.

Czech Republic only European country that rejected UN resolution, to protect Israel.

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Prague on Wednesday to thank his counterpart Petr Necas for friendship and courage in his country’s vote at the UN against recognizing a Palestinian state.

The Czech Republic was the only European country and one of nine that voted last week to reject the resolution upgrading the Palestinians’ status to a nonmember observer state. It passed 138-9, with 41 abstentions.

Netanyahu in Prague - AP

Czech Republic’s Prime Minister Petr Necas, right, talks to Benjamin Netanyahu, at the government headquarters in Prague, Dec.

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