Category Archives: Israel

Israeli investigative journalist gives interview on the Muslim Brotherhood in the West

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In the written article associated with this video, the same journalist says that civil war in Europe is inevitable, and will be worse than all the Islamic atrocities combined so far. Perhaps we can get that translated as well. But here is the broadcast part of the interview as it is, for the time being.

For those of you who did not see his documentary on jihad groups in the west, here is the segment on the USA. The segment on France, which is much more frightening apparently, is in the works I am told. But to get an idea of why this person’s opinion matters, you can see the segment that is available here:

More on the Israeli academic, Mordechai Keder and the propaganda war for Jerusalem

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A couple of days ago, we posted a translated talk by the foremost expert in Israel on Islam and Middle Eastern politics as he addressed the Israeli Parliament.

Since then, readers who are much more familiar with this man’s history than I, have sent in other videos of his interviews. This one on Al Jazeera cuts right through the BS about Jerusalem. Its quite satisfying actually.

Sometime after this, the interviewer expressed his displeasure at the Israeli expert’s failure to pretend along with muslims and leftists that history has to start exactly when its convenient to them and when that doesn’t work out, well history doesn’t matter anyway.

More recently:

Thank you Jonathan.

Berlin International Tourism Fair: Police Move In To Protect Israel Booth – from Fair’s Own Guards

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An original translation from Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin:

Security Staff Harass Israel Tourism Booth

Thursday, Police moved in at the International Tourism Fair (ITB) at Berlin fair halls – to protect the Israel booth. By Hannes Heine. March 9., 2018

Israel’s booth at the International Tourism Fair was targeted by harassers – from the security company, of all people. Photo: Macdougall/AFP

An incident occurred at the Israel booth at International Tourism Fair (ITB) at Berlin fair halls on Thursday. Three men of a security company employed by the fair loudly marched towards the booth by the Israel Tourism agency, chanting “Free Palestine”.

Police dragged the men away in the end and banned the troublemakers. A fair spokesman confirms the incident.

Visitors report that the three men were of Arabic ethnicity. It is yet unclear if they had caused trouble before or if police are investigating for causing a disturbance.

Police officers have warned repeatedly that security companies in Berlin employ young men who have connections to notorious clans and radical mosques. There was no harassment at the ITB booths of Turkey, whose military is just moving into the Kurdish-Syrian city of Afrin, or Egypt, which currently sees massive anti government protests.

Poland and Israel. An awful conflict, and Israel is simply wrong

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This is a post I have been putting off for weeks. In a way I guess, its proof that you can be critical of Israel and not be an antisemite, even though it remains true that in the staggering majority of cases it does mean exactly that.

A little while ago, the Polish government passed a very bad law for very good reasons.

In essence, it says that you cannot refer to any part of the Holocaust as being “Polish” or Auschwitz as a Polish death camp, because it was in reality, historically, and in fact a German death camp on occupied Polish territory by the Nazi government of the day.

The Poles, quite rightfully, do not wish to bear the burden of a historical atrocity for which they do not bear a responsibility.

The Israeli Government has come out strongly against this bill, and not at all for the reasons anyone should. The basic right of freedom of speech, especially political. But for another reason concerning its content.

Official statement by Polish Prime Minister:

I think it would be banal to talk about the Holocaust and its nature in this context. The fact is there are antisemites all over the world, and the Polish government explaining in very clear terms that they viewed their Jewish population as being Poles and that this was an affront and an atrocity against Polish people, is a perfectly respectable way to view this situation.

Concern should be at the enormous percentage of Islamic migrants to Europe who have been quoted very very often as saying “we love the Germans because of what they did to the Jews”.

This perception of the Poles means that they clearly see the Holocaust as an atrocity. An enormous one. And wanting to distance themselves from it is the right attitude, even if it is a spin of sorts.

And although I am not a scholar of this history to this level of detail, it is true that there are more Poles awarded the Righteous Among the Nations for people who hid, at the risk of their own lives and their families. Poland was the ONLY country in Nazi occupied Europe, where there was a death penalty for assisting Jewish people.

This can be seen clearly in Israel at the forest for the Righteous among nations at Yadvashem.

Poland: 6,706 honoured for their assistance to Jews.

Second is the Netherlands, with 5,595 and they did not have the death penalty for assisting Jewish people.

Remember, for Poland, this was at the cost of their lives if caught. Imagine yourself in this position. Refusing to help Jews under these conditions would not necessarily be antisemitism. It would just be a wise health decision.

Given this, the Poles have earned a right to distance themselves from Nazi atrocities and socialist ‘human-perfecting’ programs.

fact-sheet sent to journalists by Omri Ceren, a Managing Director at The Israel Project

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Last night Iran attacked Israel with a drone dispatched from Syria, the first time Iranian soldiers have used Iranian weapons to attack Israel.

Updated timeline:

1st the Iranians launched an attack drone into Israel, which the Israelis tracked and shot down [a]. 2nd the Israelis sent jets into Syria to hit the Iranian command center that had sent the drone, at the Tiyas Airbase in Syria [b]. 3rd forces backing Bashar al-Assad fired off “dozens” of anti-aircraft missiles, including into Israeli territory, which forced Israeli communities to go into lockdown and the pilots of one F-16 to abandon the jet [c][d][e]. 4th the Israelis sent eight jets into Syria to target a dozen Syrian and Iranian military facilities (lists and descriptions of the targets: [f][g]). 5th Assad forces fired off another 15-20 anti-aircraft missiles, again forcing Israeli communities to go into lockdown [h][i].

Resources about the Iranian drone used in the attack (specific drone, suicide drone program, media coverage):

(1) The drone was similar to the advanced American UAV seized by Iran – The drone emulated Western technology [j]. The structure and sophistication were similar to the American UAV Iran seized in 2011 [k][l], including a “low signature” aimed at avoiding detection [m]. There are rumors but no confirmation it was armed [n].

(2) Iran has an advanced drone program, including suicide drones it distributes to proxies, according to the US military and EU – In 2012 Hezbollah threatened to use suicide drones to target Israeli civilian nuclear infrastructure [o]. Iran subsequently developed and distributed suicide drones to Hezbollah, according to the US Army, and to the Houthis, according to the EU [p][q]. By 2015 Hezbollah had a full-blown advanced drone base operating in Lebanon [r]. In 2017 Iranian allies and proxies fired drones toward U.S.-backed forces in Syria and into Israel [s][t]. The Iranians released footage of one of their drones shadowing American forces the day before that attack [u]. Last week Iran opened a line to mass-produce offensive drones meant to be loaded with precision bombs [v].

(3) The Israelis released footage of the drone attack after Iranian state media and some Western outlets said it never happened – Iranian state television is saying that Israel fabricated the attack, a claim that has been conveyed by several Western media outlets [w][x][y]. The Israelis have published video of the incursion and interception [z]. The link is at the bottom or you can click on this screengrab:

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[b]https://twitter.com/Elizrael/status/962189203852414976
[c] https://twitter.com/Elizrael/status/962335413464715265
[d] https://twitter.com/LTCPeterLerner/status/962347823390973953
[e] https://twitter.com/IsraelBreaking/status/962171659712126976
[f] https://twitter.com/Hammurabi_News/status/962378968782528512/photo/1
[g] https://twitter.com/IsraelBreaking/status/962377942289481729
[h] http://hosted2.ap.org/ARLID/a5050f4ad4f44dafab85bb41a15281cf/Article_2018-02-10-ML-Israel-Syria/id-29147ec7d9de460d852d9c5319764bf4
[i] https://twitter.com/LTCPeterLerner/status/962222472140599296
[j] https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-caused-serious-harm-to-syrias-air-defenses-says-iaf-second-in-command/
[k] https://twitter.com/lenababou/status/962401448532369409
[l] https://twitter.com/TimesofIsrael/status/962400933471600640
[m] https://twitter.com/yossi_melman/status/96232527108812800
[n] https://twitter.com/JSchanzer/status/962394466739945472
[o] http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/the-real-purpose-of-the-hezbollah-drone.premium-1.472441
[p] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/8/iran-creating-suicide-drones-us-army-report-warns/
[q] http://www.conflictarm.com/download-file/?report_id=2465&file_id=2467
[r] http://www.businessinsider.com/hezbollahs-secret-drone-base-2015-4
[s] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-usa-syria/u-s-downs-pro-syrian-drone-that-fired-at-coalition-forces-spokesman-idUSKBN18Z2CP
[t] http://nationalinterest.org/feature/israel-almost-shot-down-russian-drone-17390
[u] http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iranian-drone-shadows-u-s-forces-syria-day-attack/
[v] https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-announces-mass-production-of-bomb-carrying-drones/
[w] http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/02/10/551904/Bahram-Qassemi-Iran-drone-Syria-Israel
[x] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iran-syria/iran-sneers-at-reports-of-israel-downing-iranian-drone-state-tv-idUSKBN1FU0FF
[y] https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/962363239014322177
[z] https://twitter.com/LTCJonathan/status/962305194615853057

UPDATE:

From the United States administration:

Defense Dept:

The Department of Defense did not participate in this military operation… Israel is our closest security partner in the region and we fully support Israel’s inherent right to defend itself against threats to its territory and its people… We share the concerns of many throughout the region that Iran’s destabilizing activities that threaten international peace and security, and we seek greater international resolve in countering Iran’s malign activities.

State Dept:

The United States is deeply concerned about today’s escalation of violence over Israel’s border and strongly supports Israel’s sovereign right to defend itself. Iran’s calculated escalation of threat and its ambition to project its power and dominance, places all the people of the? region — from Yemen to Lebanon — at risk.? The U.S. continues to push back on the totality of Iran’s malign activities in the region and calls for an end to Iranian behavior that threatens peace and stability.

 

Ben Shapiro on Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal capital

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Only one was honest about it

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Meanwhile,

President Trump announces policy on status of Jerusalem

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Ever since the Trump visit to the KSA, things have gotten far better over there

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Saudi Arabia’s Top Cleric: Fighting Jews Forbidden, Hamas a Terror group

The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia issued a ruling forbidding war against the Jews and proclaiming that Hamas is a terror group.

 

The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, issued a surprising religious ruling, saying that fighting against Israel was inappropriate and that Hamas is a “terror organization.”

 

The Muslim cleric issued the ruling while answering a question on a television program regarding the Palestinian riots surrounding the Temple Mount in July, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported.

 

Israel’s Communications Minister Ayoub Kara welcomed the unexpected decision and invited the Mufti to visit Israel.

“We congratulate Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia as well as the head of Ulema (Islamic scholars), for his fatwa [Muslim religious ruling] forbidding the fight against the Jews and forbidding to kill them,” Kara, a Druze, tweeted on Monday.

More here:

(If I were Iran I would be planning a vacation deep underground.)

 

Priti Patel forced to resign over unofficial meetings with Israelis

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From the Guardian:

Theresa May loses second cabinet minister in a week as strongly pro-Brexit international development secretary departs

Priti Patel has been forced to resign after failing to be candid with Theresa Mayover unofficial meetings with Israeli ministers, businesspeople and a senior lobbyist.

 

The international development secretary is the second cabinet minister to leave the government in a week and her loss will reinforce the impression that Theresa May’s government is in freefall.

 

Downing Street called Patel back from a trip to Uganda and Ethiopia on Wednesday after six days of revelations including an undisclosed meeting with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, organised by Lord Polak, an experienced Tory lobbyist.

H/T Egri Nok

 

 

MAJOR NEWS: United States withdraws from UNESCO for its ludicrous anti Israel bias

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From State.Gov:

Press Statement

Heather Nauert
Department Spokesperson
Washington, DC
October 12, 2017

On October 12, 2017, the Department of State notified UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova of the U.S. decision to withdraw from the organization and to seek to establish a permanent observer mission to UNESCO. This decision was not taken lightly, and reflects U.S. concerns with mounting arrears at UNESCO, the need for fundamental reform in the organization, and continuing anti-Israel bias at UNESCO.

The United States indicated to the Director General its desire to remain engaged with UNESCO as a non-member observer state in order to contribute U.S. views, perspectives and expertise on some of the important issues undertaken by the organization, including the protection of world heritage, advocating for press freedoms, and promoting scientific collaboration and education.

Pursuant to Article II(6) of the UNESCO Constitution, U.S. withdrawal will take effect on December 31, 2018. The United States will remain a full member of UNESCO until that time.

H/T M., ML.