Showing posts with label Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Crickets...

June 09, 2015 Associated Press , Gaza Rockets 0 Comments
Israeli Premier Criticizes World's 'Silence' On Gaza Rockets

AP News, Jun. 7, 2015

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday criticized what he described as the world's "silence" over recent rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, drawing a quick response from his country's closest ally, the U.S.

Netanyahu, speaking at his weekly Cabinet meeting, said he hadn't heard anyone condemn three rocket attacks from Gaza over the past two weeks. The rockets caused no damage, nor any injuries.

"It will be interesting to see if this silence continues when we use all our strength in exercising our right to defend ourselves," Netanyahu said. "It should be clear: the hypocrisy that is sweeping the world will not chain our hands from defending the citizens of Israel."

In Germany, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said U.S. officials had spent "a lot of time talking about this" during Israel's recent war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

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Sunday, June 7, 2015

Another Day In Israel

June 07, 2015 Batsheva Sobelman , Gaza 0 Comments
Rocket Fired From Gaza Strip Hits Southern Israel, Officials Report

By Batsheva Sobelman, Jun. 6, 2015, Latimes.com

Rocket fired from the Gaza strip struck southern Israel Saturday, according to Israel's military.

The rocket landed in an open area near Ashkelon, a city about 10 miles from the border with Gaza, police and army officials said.

It was the third such incident in two weeks, raising concerns on both sides of the border of renewed escalation less than a year after Israel and Hamas fought a deadly summer war in which more than 2,100 Palestinians and 72 Israelis were killed.

The renewed rocket fire poses a challenge to Israel, which has repeatedly vowed zero tolerance and a swift response. It also tests the Hamas rulers of the Gaza strip, locked in a power struggle with local militant Islamic State sympathizers who have claimed responsibility for two of the recent incidents.

Israel holds Hamas responsible for any fire originating from Gaza and has typically responded with air strikes against Hamas facilities, which are usually evacuated in advance.

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Relentless!

June 03, 2015 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , President Barack Obama 0 Comments
Obama Raises Possibility Of Allowing U.N. Vote On Palestinian Statehood

By Christi Parsons And Michael A. Memoli, Jun. 2, 2015, Latimes.com

President Obama took a step toward a tougher line with Israel in an interview released Tuesday, raising the possibility that the U.S. will allow a United Nations vote on issues related to the Palestinians if the two sides make no meaningful movement toward peace.

In an interview with an Israeli television station, Obama noted that his administration has “up until this point” quashed such efforts at the U.N. while insisting that the Israelis and Palestinians must negotiate a resolution. But he said it is a challenge for the U.S. to keep demanding that the Palestinians negotiate in good faith if no one believes the Israelis are doing the same.

“How do we move off what appears right now to be a hopeless situation and move it back towards a hopeful situation?” Obama asked in the interview. “That will require more than just words. That will require some actions. And that’s going to be hard work, though, because right now I think there’s not a lot of confidence in the process.”


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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Only Another Terror State Guarantees Israel's Safety?

Only Another Terror State Guarantees Israel's Safety?

March 03, 2015 AIPAC , Iran 0 Comments
Susan Rice Tells Israel They’ll Only Be Secure Once Palestinians Have Their Own State

Mar. 2, 2015



“The only path to ensure Israel’s long-term security is to bring about a viable, sovereign, Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the democratic state of Israel.”

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Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Syria and Iran call it "an act of aggression"

December 09, 2014 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , News.yahoo.com 0 Comments
Syria, Allies Condemn Israeli Airstrikes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) 

and Russian President Vladimir Putin

Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90
By Zeina Karam, Dec. 8, 2014, News.yahoo.com

BEIRUT (AP) — Russia on Monday demanded an explanation for Israeli airstrikes on two areas near Damascus, while the Syrian and Iranian foreign ministers called it an act of aggression that proves Israel is "in the same trench" with extremist groups fighting the Syrian government.

The attacks are unlikely to have a big impact. Israel has already struck inside Syria on several occasions in the course of the country's chaotic civil war, including a series of airstrikes near Damascus in May 2013. Those strikes, according to Israeli officials, targeted shipments of Iranian-made Fateh-110 missiles bound for the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group.Israeli warplanes struck near Damascus' international airport on Sunday, as well as outside a town close to the Lebanese border.

Syria's reaction has been relatively mute; in previous cases, Damascus has vowed to retaliate without actually doing so.

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Sunday, November 30, 2014

And he's the "moderate"

November 30, 2014 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , Mahmoud Abbas 0 Comments
Abbas: Palestinians Will Never Recognize Israel As Jewish state

Times of Israel Staff, Nov. 29, 2014

“We will never recognize the Jewishness of the state of Israel,” Abbas was quoted by Channel 10 saying. The news outlet also reported that Abbas threatened to terminate all security cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank unless peace negotiations are revived. Talks collapsed in April, and Israel will not resume them so long as Abbas is partnered with the Hamas terror group in a Palestinian unity government.

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Saturday, November 22, 2014

Obama says "both sides" should pursue peace

November 22, 2014 Barack Obama , Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 0 Comments
Obama Condemns ‘Horrific Attack’ On Jerusalem Synagogue

Victor Beattle, Nov. 19, 2014, Voice of America

President Barack Obama has condemned Tuesday’s attack on a Jerusalem synagogue that killed five people, including three U.S. citizens, as a tragedy for both Israel and the United States. While Obama urged Israelis and Palestinians to lower tensions and reject violence, one regional analyst suggests this latest incident only serves to underscore the failure of the peace process.

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Tells "both sides" to seek peace in Israel-- but on Ferguson, Obama took sides

November 22, 2014 American Spectator , Barack Obama 0 Comments
Obama On Ferguson And Jerusalem

Jeffrey Lord, Nov. 20, 2014, The American Spectator

There was no Oval Office meeting or similar words of encouragement for those supporting either officer Darren Wilson or the simple concept of letting a grand jury work its will without intimidation.

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Friday, November 21, 2014

For peace, one needs a peace partner

November 21, 2014 Breitbart , Gaza 0 Comments
The Third Intifada Is About The Post Two-State Future

Joel B. Pollak, Nov. 18, 2014, Breitbart

The two-state solution is, effectively, dead. It was mortally wounded long before today's terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue, which marks a third intifada. The final straw came with the Gaza war this past summer, when Hamas rockets and tunnels showed why it would be insane to let Palestinians to rule more than a portion of the West Bank. The Obama administration's addiction to pressuring Israel has also destabilized diplomacy.
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Friday, October 31, 2014

Not surprised

October 31, 2014 Examiner.com , Hamas 0 Comments
Evidence Emerging On Hamas War Crimes

By Larry Hart, Oct. 30, 2014, Examiner.com

Now that the fighting in Gaza has stopped, at least for the time being, certain bits of information are leaking out from some of the reporters who were embedded there. Much of the information shared pretty much confirms Israel’s claims about Hamas tactics and strategy which might lead to a possible war crimes indictment.

The use of human shields, propagandizing dead and injured innocent people, including children, giving false casualty figures, all with the proper intimidation of the press to insure Hamas’ version of events are now being corroborated and so, no longer can be ignored as Israeli propaganda.
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Of the 700 journalists who reported from Gaza most, did it willingly, their left wing agendas considering Hamas the underdog against the big, bad, imperialist, capitalist, war mongering Israel. Thank God there is still some honor in the fifth estate. I was beginning to lose hope after reporting Creede Newton’s exploitation piece on three Israeli soldiers committing suicide after the war because of perceived Israeli excesses a few days ago.

Between thirty and forty reporters have now come forward so far, explaining what they really saw and could not report at the time because of repercussions, which included, but not exclusive to, being forced to leave, having their equipment confiscated, or even physical intimidation. There are probably more out there that would like to come forward but don’t because they are so seriously intimidated by Hamas pressure they don’t dare risk it.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

No, it started when Obama got elected

October 28, 2014 Benjamin Netanyahu , Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 0 Comments
The Crisis In U.S.-Israel Relations Is Officially Here

Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama / AP
By Jeffrey Goldberg, Oct. 28, 2014, Theatlantic.com

The other day I was talking to a senior Obama administration official about the foreign leader who seems to frustrate the White House and the State Department the most. “The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickenshit,” this official said, referring to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, by his nickname.

This comment is representative of the gloves-off manner in which American and Israeli officials now talk about each other behind closed doors, and is yet another sign that relations between the Obama and Netanyahu governments have moved toward a full-blown crisis. The relationship between these two administrations— dual guarantors of the putatively “unbreakable” bond between the U.S. and Israel—is now the worst it's ever been, and it stands to get significantly worse after the November midterm elections. By next year, the Obama administration may actually withdraw diplomatic cover for Israel at the United Nations, but even before that, both sides are expecting a showdown over Iran, should an agreement be reached about the future of its nuclear program.

The fault for this breakdown in relations can be assigned in good part to the junior partner in the relationship, Netanyahu, and in particular, to the behavior of his cabinet. Netanyahu has told several people I’ve spoken to in recent days that he has “written off” the Obama administration, and plans to speak directly to Congress and to the American people should an Iran nuclear deal be reached.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

So when does the war resume? It will.

October 22, 2014 Breitbart.com , Hamas 0 Comments
Report: Hamas Rebuilding Gaza Terror Tunnels

By Jordan Schachtel, Oct. 20, 2014, Breitbart.com

The Gaza Strip-ruling terrorist group Hamas is reportedly rebuilding much of its tunnel network, which was used to transport weapons, murder innocents, and attempt kidnappings. Much of the tunnel network was believed to have been destroyed during the jihadi outfit’s recent 50-day war with Israel.

A report on a Hamas-affiliated website on Sunday, titled “Kassam’s Shovels Continue to Dig Tunnels After the War,” describes how Hamas terrorists are working like “beehives” to facilitate the express rebuilding of the tunnels. The site said that Hamas's motivation for finishing the laborious activity was to “see every inch they dig as a place where an Israeli soldier would be kidnapped or killed.”

A reporter from the Hamas media affiliate visited a tunnel site, where a digger told him, “We need every minute. We have a lot of work ahead of us that requires tremendous efforts and patience.” Another Hamas worker added, “Thank Allah for making us soldiers specializing in digging tunnels. True, this is hard work, but we keep in mind that we will be rewarded by Allah.”

During the 50-day war, which was coined Operation Protective Edge by the Israel Defense Force, Hamas operatives attempted to commit genocide upon a village near the Gaza border. The jihadis utilized its tunnel networks to dig underground and emerge within close proximity of Kibbutz Sufa, where according to former Israeli President Shimon Peres, the militants planned on slaughtering the entire civilian community.

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Sunday, October 5, 2014

What, if not anti-Semitism?

October 05, 2014 Al Jazeera America , Israel 0 Comments
Israel Slams Sweden Over Palestine Pledge

By Al Jazeera and agencies, Oct. 5, 2014, Aljazeera.com

Israel has summoned Sweden's ambassador in Tel Aviv after the Scandinavian country's newly elected prime minister pledged that his government would recognise a Palestinian state.

Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said Stefan Lofven was rushing to a decision without understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"Avigdor Lieberman said that he regrets that the new prime minister was in a hurry to make statements on Sweden's position regarding recognition of a Palestinian state, apparently before he had time even to study the issue in depth," Lieberman's office quoted him as saying, in a statement issued late on Saturday.

It added that Sweden's ambassador to Israel, Carl Magnus Nesser, "will be invited for a talk at the foreign ministry in Jerusalem," but did not say when.

A Swedish foreign ministry spokesman said Nesser had been summoned to the ministry on Monday.

Social Democrat leader Lofven - who narrowly won last month's general election - said in his inaugural speech on Friday that his government wanted to bolster a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

No timeframe for the formal recognition of a Palestinian state has been announced. The decision does not need parliamentary approval to be enforced.

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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Bibi unchained!

September 28, 2014 Benjamin Netanyahu , Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 0 Comments
Netanyahu Hits Back At Abbas For ‘Slanderous’ UN ‘Genocide’ Speech

Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel 
By Times of Israel Staff, Sept. 27, 2014, Timesofisrael.com

Ahead of his own scheduled speech at the United Nations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Saturday to “repel the slanders and lies spewed” against the state of Israel by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in his speech to the General Assembly on Friday. Abbas in his address accused Israel of committing genocide against residents of the Gaza Strip during the IDF’s 50-day-long operation in the Palestinian enclave which came to an end last month.

Netanyahu further claimed that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had “deceived” the international community when he suggested Saturday that an agreement over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program could end the more than three-decade deep-freeze in relations between Washington and Tehran and mark “the beginning of a path toward collaboration and cooperation.”

“After the deceitful speech of the Iranian president and Abbas’s inciting words, I will tell the truth of the citizens of Israel to the whole world,” Netanyahu said. The prime minister is set to address the General Assembly on Monday, and to meet with US President Barack Obama on Wednesday.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Palestinians celebrate; Israelis stoical

August 27, 2014 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , Ruth Eglash 0 Comments
Israel, Hamas Reach Cease-fire deal Brokered By Egypt

Source:  www.politico.com / AP
By William Booth and Ruth Eglash, Aug. 26, 2014, Washingtonpost.com

GAZA CITY — Palestinians in the Gaza Strip poured into the streets Tuesday to celebrate the announcement that Hamas and Israel had agreed to an open-ended cease-fire after 50 days of warfare that has killed more than 2,200 people.

“We have won,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri exulted at a news conference in front of Shifa Hospital. He said the group’s fighters had accomplished “what no Arab army has done. We have defeated them,” referring to Israel.

His exuberance aside, officials from Hamas and another Gaza-based militant group, Islamic Jihad, said the cease-fire agreement essentially brings Israel and Palestinians back to terms agreed on in the truce signed after the 2012 Gaza war.

A senior official in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, speaking about the latest cease-fire on the condition of anonymity, said Hamas had gained little, if anything, from the conflict, which has left vast tracts of Gaza in ruins.

“Hamas is now finally accepting a cease-fire proposal that was first proposed by Egypt on July 15,” the official said. “There is nothing more to the proposal than there was a month and a half ago.”

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Maybe they were misdiagnosed

August 20, 2014 Gaza , Hamas 1 Comments
Gaza: Corpses Caught Moving When They Forget Cameras Are On Them



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Saturday, August 16, 2014

Not reading, writing, math?

August 16, 2014 Education , Gaza 0 Comments
Jihad Taught At UN School In Gaza

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Jimmy Carter is smiling

August 16, 2014 Al Jazeera America , America.aljazeera.com 0 Comments
Al Jazeera: Campaign To Boycott Israel Gains Ground 

By Patricia Sabga, Aug. 13, 2014, America.aljazeera.com

On July 8, 2014, the day Israel launched its most recent Gaza offensive, “Long Live Palestine boycott Israel”, a Buycottapp campaign that helps consumers avoid purchasing products seen to profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands, had attracted a mere 470 supporters. A little over a month later, with the Palestinian death toll creeping toward 2,000, and horrific images of dead and maimed Palestinians filling mainstream and social media platforms, “Long Live Palestine boycott Israel” had surpassed a quarter-million followers, making it the fastest growing campaign on Buycott’s platform.

That groundswell is just one measure of the growing reach of BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions), a global, citizen-led movement that advocates using economic pressure to force Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian lands, tear down the West Bank barrier, grant full rights to Palestinians living in Israel and uphold the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes.

Launched in 2005 by Palestinian groups frustrated by the failure of Western governments to persuade Israel to tear down the West Bank barrier (deemed illegal by the International Criminal Court), the BDS movement harnesses citizen power to advance its goals. “It’s a way to put pressure on the Israeli government, similar to the South African anti-apartheid movement, when governments have been unwilling to do so, like our government has,” said Rebecca Vilkomerson, executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace, a nonprofit that spearheaded the US-based BDS coalitionWe Divest.

BDS advocates a three-pronged approach that includes boycotting products, companies and sporting, cultural and academic institutions seen as profiting from Israel’s violation of Palestinian human rights; divesting from corporations viewed as complicit with such policies; and sanctioning Israel.

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Friday, August 15, 2014

Selective outrage

August 15, 2014 Greek Cyprus , Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 0 Comments
Victor Davis Hanson: Occupation of Cyprus Underscores Hypocrisy Of Gaza Outrage

By Victor Davis Hanson, Aug. 14, 2014, Townhall.com

LIMASSOL, Cyprus -- Cyprus is a beautiful island. But it has never recovered from the Turkish invasion of 1974. Turkish troops still control nearly 40 percent of the island -- the most fertile and formerly the richest portion.

Some 200,000 Greek refugees never returned home after being expelled from their homes and farms in Northern Cyprus.

The capital of Nicosia remains divided. A 112-mile demilitarized "green line" runs right through the city across the entire island.

Thousands of settlers from Anatolia were shipped in by the Turkish government to occupy former Greek villages and to change Cypriot demography -- in the same manner the occupying Ottoman Empire once did in the 16th century. Not a single nation recognizes the legitimacy of the Turkish Cypriot state. In contrast, Greek Cyprus is a member of the European Union.

Why, then, is the world not outraged at an occupied Cyprus the way it is at, say, Israel?

Nicosia is certainly more divided than is Jerusalem. Thousands of Greek refugees lost their homes more recently, in 1974, than did the Palestinians in 1947.

Turkey has far more troops in Northern Cyprus than Israel has in the West Bank. Greek Cypriots, unlike Palestinians, vastly outnumbered their adversaries. Indeed, a minority comprising about a quarter of the island's population controls close to 40 percent of the landmass. Whereas Israel is a member of the U.N., Turkish Cyprus is an unrecognized outlaw nation.

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"Our production continues – from the workshop to the battlefield"

"Our production continues – from the workshop to the battlefield"

August 15, 2014 Bob Unruh , Hamas 0 Comments
Hamas: We're Building More Rockets

By Bob Unruh, Aug. 14, 2014, Wnd.com

The radical Muslims of Hamas in the Gaza Strip claim they have been building missiles to restock the cache they launched against Israel.

“Your defeatist leadership claimed to have destroyed our rocket capability,” said a member of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, in remarks directed at Israel. “However, despite the aggression, our production continues – from the workshop to the battlefield.”

Hamas and Israel agreed to five more days of cease-fire just as a 72-hour truce wound down Wednesday night. The war began five weeks ago when Israel responded to the regular rocket attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians.

The Hamas boasts were reported by Al-Aqsa TV, the Hamas channel, in a segment that aired Wednesday, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.

MEMRI said that according to the narrator, “the surprises offered by the Al-Qassam Brigades” go far beyond the tunnels.

A member of the unit said: “Despite the aggression, production continues – from the workshops to the battlefield.”

Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida said Israel “threatens us with a ground offensive.”

“We say to him: You are threatening us with something we are anticipating, you son of a Jew?”

A reporter then explains, “When the Al-Qassam Brigades say something, they mean it.”

Obeida declared: “The enemy should know that we have already compensated for the equipment and ammunition we lost in the war.”



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