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Russia Tells US to Be More Like Israel

Sunday, November 06, 2016 |  Israel Today Staff

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Russian President Vladimir Putin last week encouraged the United States to look to Israel as an example of how terrorism should be fought.

Speaking at the Valdai International Discussion Club, Putin was critical of what he saw as America’s weak approach to combatting ISIS and other terror groups in the Middle East, an approach the Russian leader suggested had actually enabled the rise of such groups.

In particular, Putin said Washington’s politicized focus on civilian casualties - something Israel has had to contend with in its fight against Palestinian terror - was letting the terrorists get the upper hand.

“Let’s just leave everything as it is,” Putin sarcastically quipped. “Let’s leave Raqqa alone too. Our partners keep saying, ‘We need to take back Raqqa and eliminate the nest of terrorists there.’ But there are civilians in Raqqa. So, should we not fight the terrorists at all? And when they take hostages in towns, should we just leave them be?”

Putin said that Israel, which does go to great lengths to minimize civilian casualties, offers the only model for success.

“Israel never steps back, but always fights to the end, and this is how it survives,” noted Putin. “There is no alternative. We need to fight. If we keep retreating, we will always lose.”

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Trump Insists Palestinian Terror Must Be Confronted - ISRAELTODAY

Trump Insists Palestinian Terror Must Be Confronted

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 |  Israel Today Staff

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Breaking with the traditional Western approach of trying to appease Palestinian terrorism, US presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Monday insisted violence against Israel must be confronted.

Trump was speaking at the annual gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), where he charged that “President Obama is the worst thing to happen to Israel.”

By contrast, if he wins the White House, Trump vowed a very different take at Middle East peacemaking.

The Palestinians “must come to the table willing to accept that Israel is a Jewish state and it will exist forever as a Jewish state,” he said, adding that any other type of deal “would reward Palestinian terrorism… You don’t reward behavior like that. You cannot do it. There’s only one way you treat that kind of behavior. You have to confront it.”

Trump also promised that as president he would “move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.”

Trump’s remarks won thunderous applause from an audience that many believed would be difficult to win over for the controversial billionaire.

Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton also addressed the conference. She spent most of her time on stage launched thinly veiled attacks on Trump himself, but also very subtly distanced herself from President Barack Obama’s contentious handling of Israel.

“If I am fortunate enough to be elected president,” she promised, “… we will never allow Israel’s adversaries to think a wedge can be driven between us. When we have differences, as any friends do, we will work to resolve them quickly and respectfully.”

It as almost a stab at the Obama Administration’s often harsh tone in publicly addressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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WARNING: Graphic Video Shows Barbarity of Palestinian Terror - Israel Today

WARNING: Graphic Video Shows Barbarity of 

Palestinian Terror

Monday, February 29, 2016 |  Israel Today Staff

We struggled with whether or not to post this security camera footage of Tzvika Cohen, a 48-year-old father of four, being brutally and mercilessly butchered by an ax-wielding Palestinian terrorist.

The attack occurred last Thursday at the shopping mall in the Jerusalem suburb of Ma’aleh Adumim, where Cohen worked as a security guard.

Cohen remains on life support after suffering severe injuries to his head and upper body.

The terrorist, 20-year-old Saadi Ali Abu Ahmad, was apprehended by security forces.

It was later revealed that Abu Ahmad worked at the mall, and exploited his access to carry out this horrific attack against an unarmed man.

While difficult to watch, the video shows the level of brutality present in Palestinian society, and with which Israel must contend on a daily basis.

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Jewish Rabbi: Another Forgotten Victim of Palestinian Terror - CHARISMA NEWS

Ultra orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of Toronto-born Rabbi Haim Rothman in Har Nof, Jerusalem on Oct. 24, 2015. (YouTube)

Jewish Rabbi: Another Forgotten Victim of Palestinian Terror

10/27/2015 STEPHEN FLATOW/FOR JNS.ORG  charisma news

After every Palestinian terrorist attack, the news media report the names of those killed and the number of those wounded. The names of the injured are almost never mentioned. In many cases, they are maimed for life, but nobody outside their immediate families will ever know their names or remember what happened to them.

The one tragic exception to this Rule of the Forgotten Victims is if someone who is injured in an attack later dies from his wounds. And so the name of Rabbi Haim (Howie) Rothman briefly entered the consciousness of world Jewry this week, when he passed away from the devastating injuries he suffered in the November 2014 Har Nof synagogue massacre.

Rabbi Rothman left the comforts of Toronto in 1985, to make his home in Jerusalem, where he and his wife raised 10 children and became beloved members of the Har Nof community. On Nov. 18, 2014, the Palestinian terrorists Uday Abu Jamal and Ghassan Muhammad Abu Jamal burst into a Har Nof synagogue, swinging axes and firing automatic weapons.

Some of the worshippers may have known the Jamals. The two cousins worked in one of the neighborhood's grocery stores. Some people probably see the fact that Palestinian Arabs take jobs in Jewish businesses as a sign of peaceful coexistence. Not in this case.

The Jamals murdered four rabbis (three of them American citizens) and an Israeli policemen. They also wounded seven others. Rabbi Rothman was one of those seven anonymous "others." He lingered in a deep coma for 11 months.

A fitting way to honor Rabbi Rothman and the other Har Nof victims would be to take some concrete action against those who sponsored the attack. In Gaza, Hani Thawabta, one of the leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), announced that his group claimed "full responsibility for the execution of this heroic operation." Another PFLP leader, Jamil Mizher, told reporters, "We bless the operation and the two young men who carried it out, but we have not received any confirmation that it was planned by the PFLP, even though it was consistent with the history of the PFLP." Yet another PFLP official referred to the Udays as "PFLP comrades."

The PFLP is the second-largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, is also chairman of the PLO. The PFLP has never been expelled from the PLO, despite the fact that it continues to carry out periodic terrorist attacks against Israel. On June 29, 2015, for example, the PFLP claimed responsibility for a drive-by attack on Israeli motorists near the community of Shvut Rachel. One of the Israelis was killed, four others were wounded.

The Obama administration should demand that Abbas expel the PFLP from the PLO. If he refuses, he should be declared partially responsible for the Har Nof attack, and he should be put on the "U.S. Watch List," which prohibits terrorists from entering America.

The Palestinian Authority has a policy of paying salaries to the families of Palestinian terrorists who are killed in action. Meaning that the families of the Jamals, the Har Nof killers, are now being subsidized by the PA. And since the U.S. gives the PA $500 million annually, it means that the killers' families are in effect being paid by American taxpayers. The U.S. should deduct those amounts from the PA's aid package, and send it to the families of Rabbi Rothman and the other victims.

American Jewish organizations need to press for steps such as these as quickly as possible—before Haim Rothman's name, like so many others before him, is forgotten.

Stephen M. Flatow, an attorney in New Jersey, is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. He writes this from a tense Jerusalem.

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