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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu: Illegal Immigration ‘a National Calamity’
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Feb 10: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech about Israel’s economy in Tel Aviv, Israel. Netanyahu emphasized the Israel-Egypt peace treaty signed in 1979.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the infiltration of the migrants into Israel is a “national calamity in all fields — the economy, state security,” Israel Radio reports.
Saying that Israel has no obligation to advance illegal immigration into its borders, he explained that “if we do not act to stop the flood, we’ll be washed away with it.”
Netanyahu announced on Sunday that he will travel to Africa in an attempt to coordinate with state leaders the return of illegal African immigrants in Israel to their native countries. Continue Reading →
Newt speaks plainly about Israel and regional geopolitics
Prof. Alan Dershowitz- On Human Rights, The UN, and Israel
If elected, Newt will move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem within 2 hours of the inaugural address
IDF strike on ‘Martyrs brigade’ member.
Terrorist Planning Terror Attack on the Israel-Egypt Border Targeted by IAF
A short while ago, in a joint IDF-ISA activity, an IAF aircraft targeted a terrorist affiliated with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, as well as an additional terrorist in the northern Gaza Strip. These terrorists were both affiliated with a terrorist squad that intended to execute a terrorist attack against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers via the western border. A direct hit was confirmed.
One of the terrorist Isam Subahi Isamil Batash, born in 1968, from the city of Gaza was a senior operative in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. Batash was involved in numerous previous terror attacks in which terrorists from the Gaza Strip infiltrated Israel via Sinai. One such attack was the suicide bombing in Eilat (January 2007), in which three Israeli civilians were killed. In recent years, a number of Batash’s attempted attacks were thwarted
Archive: IAF Targeting Terror Facilities (Photo: IDF Website)
The IDF will not allow any attempt to harm the State of Israel and IDF soldiers, and will continue to operate against anyone who uses terror against the State of Israel. The Hamas terror organization is solely responsible for any terror activity emanating from the Gaza strip.
ISRAELI DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER DANNY AYALON EXPLAINS THE REFUGEE SITUATION
“Israel’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon explains the historical facts relating to the issue of refugees in the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The video explains the reason there are still refugees after more than six decades is because of Arab leaders’ recalcitrance to accept their brethren and the United Nations which created a separate agency with unique principles and criteria. The video also highlights the issue of the Jewish refugees who were forced out of their homes in the Arab world, and were subsequently absorbed by the State of Israel.”
NOTE: Brian of London spots the following:
At 1:15 Danny says: “Over 850,000 Jews, from ancient Jewish communities predating Islam and the Arab occupation of the Middle East, were forced out of their homes”
This is, of course, completely true and completely at odds with all Islamic teaching. I’d say this is the strongest and most negative thing about Islam I’ve ever heard any official of the Israeli Government say. But you do have to know something about Islam to understand why.
He’s telling us two absolutely correct things that are completely and utterly denied, refuted and considered blasphemy by all significant schools of Islamic jurisprudence.
- Islam, carried by Arabs, conquered and occupied the previously non-Muslim and non-Arab middle east.
- Judaism’s claim on Israel is the strongest national claim still left in the whole of the middle east because Islam has erradicated by the force of its occupation, almost every other pre-Islamic national identity. Just try to visit independent Kurdistan or the national home of the Copts.
OECD: Israel Fifth in Life Expectancy; Infant Mortality Rate Lowest; Disease Falling; Healthcare Cheaper
Let me preface this article with the following personal note.
I post a lot of what appears to be, ‘Pro Israel’ material on this site. I wouldn’t bother if Muslims and leftists didn’t irrationally attack that one tiny country which actually reflects in it’s actions, the values claimed by that very left and even Islam (when speaking to a non-Arabic audience) as their own, using it as a totem for what is often mere antisemitism. The notion that, for Muslims at least, it is intolerable to them that even a tiny patch of ground could be ruled by other than Muslims.
Israel is a country like many others. Better than some and worse than others. There is always room for improvement in any nations bureaucracy as well as its institutions and culture. Israel is no exception. But the criticisms leveled at Israel usually have nothing to do with any of it, or if it does, the facts are manufactured and when they are not, they are out of context and certainly there are other nations so vastly worse in the same aspect that there is no other explanation for singling out Israel other than antisemitism.
As a result, from time to time, it feels necessary to point out what Israel achieves. A nation less than 100 years old, that has not, until very recently at least, been exploiting vast strategic resources such as petrochemicals, and one with the most diverse cultures and peoples on earth.
From Barry Rubin:
By Barry Rubin
An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report just released says:
–Israeli life expectancy is among the highest in the world (81.6 years in 2009) and fifth among OECD countries
–The infant mortality rate is among the lowest in the world (3.8 deaths per 1,000 births);
—A significant improvement has been recorded in the treatment of chronic diseases.
– A significant drop has been seen in mortality rates from heart disease, cancer, and stroke.
– At the same time, healthcare spending per capita is 30% lower than the OECD average.
In short, the world’s most demonized country has a lot to teach the world and especially the Middle East. But instead we are seeing movements and regimes that are economically and socially disastrous being glorified.
Incidentally, if you had any illusions about the “moderation” of the Palestinian Authority–and the meaning of recognizing “Palestine” as a state–note that its diplomatic mission to the United Kingdom has been censured for having a map of Palestine on its website that includes all of Israel as a Palestinian state.
Report on Islamic antisemitism on US campus
Arabs use bribery to gain UN votes against Israel
Israel Today:
While there is little need to provide incentives for most nations to vote against Israel at the UN General Assembly, some Arab states are nevertheless bribing countries that traditionally side with the Jewish state in order to make passage of anti-Israel resolutions more one-sided.
That according to Johnson Toribiong, president of the Pacific island nation of Palau, who was in Israel for an official state visit last week.
Toribiong told Israel’s Yediot Ahronot newspaper that he was recently offered $50 million by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to start voting against Israel at the UN.
“We told them: ‘Forget it. We will not vote against Israel for anything in the world’,” Toribiong said.
Toribiong was accompanied by Iolu Johnson Abil, president of Vanuatu, another Pacific island nation. Palau, Vanuatu, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and a number of other Pacific micro nations are firm supporters of Israel at the UN as result of their strong Christian faith.
That nations are trying to buy UN General Assembly votes against other nations speaks loudly about the state of affairs at the world body. What speaks even louder is that these allegations of severe impropriety are being completely ignored by the UN and the international community.
And it’s not the first time.
When the Solomon Islands, another Pacific island nation, suddenly began voting against Israel in 2009, many wondered why. Like other Christian island nations, the Solomon Islands had always backed the Jewish state. Later it was discovered that Iran’s foreign ministry had bribed the impoverished Solomon Islands with a $200,000 check and technological aid.
Charles Krauthammer debunks Obama’s rather peculiar claim that he has done more for Israeli security than any other admin.
Explosions rocking Tehran spark warning of ‘big event’ Read more: Explosions rocking Tehran spark warning of ‘big event’
This is a part of the article from
WND.COM
Posted: November 28, 2011
8:44 pm Eastern
By Reza Kahlili
© 2011 WND
Editor’s Note: The writer is the author of “A Time to Betray,” a book about his double life as a CIA agent in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
Two massive blasts on Nov. 12 that hit near Tehran, the Iranian capital, and rocked the city may have been an attempt to assassinate the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had been scheduled to be there at the time of the explosions, sources suggest.
Now the question is whether the Iranians will retaliate.
At the time of the explosions, Iranians found themselves wondering if Israel had attacked. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s recent report on Iran’s nuclear weapons program and the warnings of military action by Israeli officials have alarmed Iranians about the possibility of war.
The simultaneous explosions, which hit the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ base 28 miles west of Tehran, not only shook the surrounding area but were heard and felt throughout Tehran, even breaking car and building windows.
Rockets fired into Israel from Lebanon
More info at the Jerusalem Post:
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