Wednesday, October 28, 2015

France
French Foreign Minister Tried to Arrange Meeting between Netanyahu, Abbas - Barak Ravid (Ha'aretz) French Foreign Minister Fabius tried last week to arrange a meeting in Paris between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian President Abbas. A senior Israeli official said that Netanyahu agreed to the offer immediately, but Abbas has not responded to the French offer to this day.
 
Germany
 
Jordan
 
 
Partners for Peace?
Fatah: Stab the Israelis! PA: Stone the Israelis! - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (Palestinian Media Watch) While Mahmoud Abbas assures the world in English that he advocates only "peaceful resistance," both his government and members of his political party, Fatah, openly promote terror and murder of Israelis
Old City, new problems: Palestinian merchants lament decrease in tourist revenue - Adam Lucent (Al-Monitor) Due to the attacks on police and civilians, as well as demonstrations by both Jews and Arabs in the area, police presence in the Old City is extremely high. Sometimes roads and entrance gates are closed, and police checkpoints are a common sight.
Ya'alon: Israel Is Surrounded by Jihadists - Bridget Johnson (PJ Media) "The borders between ours and the Palestinian entity can't be a return to the 4 June 1967 lines. Why? Because they are indefensible borders."
 
Saudi Arabia
 
Syria
 
Turkey
 
United Kingdom
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Thursday, October 15, 2015


I keep seeing the terms “lone wolves” and “unaffiliated” or “unattached to organized opposition” to describe the perpetrators of the terror being inflicted on the population of Israel at this moment. There’s been little mention of the Palestinian leadership incitement to attacks on civilians (including children).  To read how the Palestinian Authority and Fatah; Mahmoud Abbas; the PA Ministry of Education; Hamas; and even the PA Bar Association all support, encourage, and condone the seemingly random stabbing, shooting, and murder of  Israelis (of any age) see these links:


PA Pursuing a Blatant Escalation - Amos Harel (Ha'aretz)

 

Partners for Peace?

The PA Lies to Defend Terror - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdiik (Palestinian Media Watch) The Palestinian Authority is portraying every terrorist as an innocent victim of Israel.

What Do Palestinian Terrorists Want? – Bassam Tawil (Gatestone Institute)


 

Why isn’t President Obama or Secretary of State Kerry condemning the PA’s president Abbas for inciting the attacks in Israel? On NPR on Friday, Kerry warned Abbas against incitement.  Bias and misinformation seem to be spreading. 
Kerry Links Palestinian Terror to Settlement Expansion - Elliott Abrams (Council on Foreign Relations) Secretary of State Kerry made an unhelpful, mistaken, and ill-informed comment about the current wave of Palestinian violence when he linked it to "a massive increase in settlements over the course of the last years." There has simply not been "a massive increase." There has been a steady growth in settlement population, though the bulk of that growth is in the major blocs that Israel will clearly retain in any final agreement. But any massive increase in the number of settlements or in their physical size is flatly false.    The frequent Palestinian claim that Israel is "gobbling up" the West Bank so that "peace will be impossible" is what Kerry is repeating. It's a false claim and he should know it. Kerry seems to believe that the real culprits, when Palestinians stab Israelis to death, are people who build a new housing unit in a settlement

Media Underplay Murders of Jewish Victims - Frida Ghitis (Miami Herald)






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Sunday, October 4, 2015


-The next Update will be on or about October 16.
-Two items below - the BBC Headline Shocker and the New York Times claiming accidental death due to rock throwing - are why I started this email list.
-From Stratfor: Add to your own insights on the issues with a FREE e-book, “The Geopolitics of Israel: Biblical and Modern.”

Afghanistan
Canada
Exclusive: Tories move to strip citizenship from Canadian-born terrorist -  Michael Friscolanti (Macleans) The Harper government is attempting to revoke the citizenship of a convicted terrorist who was born and raised in Canada.
Iran
Partners for Peace?
I'm sure you've read Abbas's statements at the UN regarding the Oslo accords in the New York Times and elsewhere - this while the UN raises a Palestinian flag.
Palestinian music conservatory condemned peacebuilding with Israeli musicians- Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW) The Palestinian Authority adamantly opposes peacebuilding between Israelis and Palestinians.
Arson attack at Bethlehem’s St Charbel Monastery, probably the work of Islamic fundamentalists, says Maronite leader (AsiaNews.it) Police sources said that Muslim extremist groups have been active in the area and the culprits are already knows and should “be soon apprehended.”
Palestinians: Why Our Leaders Are Hypocrites and Liars - Bassam Tawil (Gatestone Institute)
Syria
United Kingdom
Jerusalem Terror Attack: BBC Headline Shocker - Simon Plosker (Honest Reporting)
United States
New York Times Claims Palestinian Rock Throwing Attack an “Accident”- Simon Plosker (Honest Reporting) There was nothing accidental about this murder.
12 Hair-Raising Facts from Congressional Terror Report - Ryan Mauro (Clarion Project) The House released the final report of its Task Force on Combating Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel and its conclusions weren't pretty. 
U.S. House of Representatives Votes to Suspend Iran Sanctions Relief - Morgan Chalfant (Washington Free Beacon) A bill that would bar the Obama administration from releasing billions of dollars in sanctions relief to Iran before Tehran pays $43.5 billion it owes to victims of terrorism passed the House in a 251-173 vote Thursday. The bill would compel Iran to pay the legal penalties awarded to U.S. victims of Iranian terrorism and their families by U.S. courts. The White House said that President Obama would veto any legislation preventing the implementation of the nuclear deal.
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