Category Archives: Israel
So glad I found me, somebody to hate!
Latma shows its genius again
H/T to J Freedom
Iran’s president gets a walking ovation at Durban III
Judean Women Look Through the Crosshairs
From Israel national News:
(Please click the above link for the whole article)
As the Arabs in Judea and Samaria threaten to storm communities, the women at Pnei Kedem in Gush Etzion are learning to shoot.
By Gil Ronen
First Publish: 9/22/2011, 4:48 PM
As the Arabs in Judea and Samaria threaten to storm Jewish communities, the women at Pnei Kedem in Gush Etzion, in the Judean hills, are learning to shoot firearms.
The extra precaution is due to concerns that Arabs will descend on communities en masse, spreading IDF forces too thin to effectively block them. In such a scenario, the civilians in some communities may have to fend for themselves.
The IDF has been given instructions to fire only at Arab intruders’ legs, even if they enter the communities. The women in the pictures don’t appear to be aiming at the lower body, though. A point for thought for potential invaders…
Photos: Nati Shochat, Flash 90
OVER 1000 FINNS MARCHED FOR ISRAEL……..
1,000 Finns rally for an undivided Jerusalem
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
09/22/2011 13:13
A contingent over over 1,000 Finns showed up last week at rally in Helsinki to call for Jerusalem to remain the undivided capital of the Jewish state.
Jouni Suninen, a pro-Israel activist who attended the rally in Helsinki, told The Jerusalem Post via e-mail on Wednesday, “ I went there to support the undivided Jerusalem. There were many speakers. I remember Gideon Bolotowski from the Helsinki Jewish Community, Pekka Sartola who has written many books from Israel/ Palestine, MEP (member of European Parliament) Hannu Takkula, in Finland , and well known singer Viktor Klimenko, and some 3-4 other speakers whom I did not know before.
“They spoke briefly and right to the point, expressing in clear terms why Jerusalem must not be divided. In the end a manifest was read, directed to President Halonen and the Finnish Government. It was summary of the speeches held.”
Suninen, who traveled from his hometown Kouvola to attend the rally last week in Helsinki, said that the “Finns are against division of Jerusalem if they know Middle East political history, the Balfour Declaration, the San Remo Convention and the Palestine Mandate. They are for division if they do not know these things.”
Most Finns, he added, “do not know, unfortunately, although we are working hard to spread correct information. Then there are of course religious people who trust on Bible and are against division for religious reasons.”
Finland defends Durban participation
How Does an Arab Celebrate Statehood? Video
As their leaders asked the UN to recognize a PA state, Arabs in Hevron engaged in rock-throwing. Video shot by Hevron Jewish residents, IDF.
Arabs throw rocks at 20 month old baby
Please click over to Israel National News (INN) for the story and details.
Israeli Marseille consulate evacuated after bomb threat
From the Jerusalem Post:
By REUTERS AND JPOST.COM STAFF
09/20/2011 12:59
09/20/2011 12:59
Anonymous call to police says bomb located in van parked outside consulate in French city; sappers find fake device and call off alert.
The Israeli Consulate in Marseille, France was temporarily evacuated on Tuesday after local police received an anonymous threat that their was a bomb near the building and sappers discovered a suspicious device in a van parked outside, AFP reported.
A bomb disposal squad who arrived on the scene found a fake bomb in the vehicle parked outside the consulate. The mock bomb consisted of a pressure cooker with wires protruding, marked with radiation warning stickers.
Michael Coren on the new Turkish Ottomanism
Egypt declares Camp David accords with Israel ‘not a sacred thing’
Egypt’s prime minister triggered angry consternation in Israel on Thursday after declaring that the historic Camp David accords underpinning peace between the two countries were “not a sacred thing”.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, embrace as US President Jimmy Carter applauds during a White House announcement of a Middle East peace agreement reached at the Camp David Summit earlier that year in 1978 Photo: AP
Dramatically heightening tensions during an increasingly volatile time in Israel’s relations with the Arab world, Essam Sharaf’s suggestions that the 32-year treaty could be revised prompted disbelief in the Jewish state.
“The Camp David agreement is not a sacred thing and is always open to discussion with what would benefit the region and the case of fair peace,” Mr Sharaf told Turkish television. “We could make a change if needed.”
Coming just days after an angry mob stormed the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Israeli officials said they were staggered more by the timing of Mr Sharaf’s comments than their actual content. “Less than a week ago, we had the problem with the embassy,” an Israeli official said. “I don’t think a responsible prime minister should say things like that.”
Reeling from a noxious diplomatic row with Turkey and fearing that an expected Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN next week will heighten its growing sense of isolation.
On Thursday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, raised the stakes by repeating his intention to deploy warships in the Mediterranean to challenge Israeli “aggression”. Continue Reading →
NEW TERROR CELL DISRUPTED BY SHIN BET IN NORTHERN ISRAEL
The fifth column gets smacked.
Yes, and these terrorists look amazingly like the ones that we have here in Europe as well. Funny how that is. KGS
Security forces arrested five Arab-Israeli residents of Daburiyya in the North this month on suspicion of plotting to carry out terrorist attacks on multiple targets, police announced on Thursday.
The arrests were carried out by the northern police district’s central unit in coordination with the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency).
“They planned to attack and IDF soldier and a Border policeman who lived in the village, and selected ‘candidates’ from which they planned to steal weapons and carry out future attacks,” police said.
The suspects are affiliated with the Salifia Jihadiya jihadi group, police added.
Israel evacuates embassy in Jordan ahead of protests
From The Jerusalem Post
Israel tells diplomats in Amman to come home as Facebook page calls for protest under the banner:”No Zionist embassy on Jordanian territory”; decision comes days after protesters storm mission in Cairo.
Israel evacuated its embassy in Jordan Wednesday evening, hours before a Facebook organized march under the banner (in Arabic) of “No Zionist embassy on Jordanian territory.”
Unlike in Egypt, where diplomats lived with their families, in Amman the Israeli delegation serves without their families, and comes home for weekends.
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This is interesting. On Israel’s legal right to exist
Turkey Dispatches 3 Warships to Eastern Mediterranean
Israel national News:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dispatched 3 warships to the Eastern Mediterranean to ‘defend against Israeli vessels’
By Gavriel Queenann
First Publish: 9/12/2011, 8:01 PM
Turkish Warfare
Wikicommons
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dispatched 3 warships to the Eastern Mediterranean to ‘defend against Israeli vessels’ and ensure ‘freedom of navigation’ for his country’s ships, Today’s Zaman reported.
The move, only the latest in Erdogan’s bellicose rhetorical assault on Israel, comes on the same day he called Israel’s boarding of the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara in 2010 “grounds for war” adding only Turkey’s “greatness and patience” had averted conflict. Continue Reading →