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Shortly after meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas last week, US President Donald Trump took to Twitter to say what an "honor" it had been to host the head of the PLO.
The post was retweeted thousands of times.
But hours later, Trump deleted it, giving rise to speculation that the American was angered by Abbas' bald-faced lies.
"Mr. President, I affirm to you that we are raising our youth, our children, our grandchildren on a culture of peace," Abbas claimed, as he and Trump tried to sleuth out what's holding up Mideast peace.
Abbas continued: "And we are endeavoring to bring about security, freedom and peace for our children to live like the other children in the world, along with the Israeli children in peace, freedom and security."
Many, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fired back, noting that Abbas' Palestinian Authority uses the massive amounts of foreign aid it receives to provide large stipends to Palestinian terrorists arrested by Israel.
It also routinely names Palestinian schools, parks and summer camps after the most blood-soaked terrorists - those who have managed to kill the most Jews.
Netanyahu did not even get into what Palestinian children are taught in local schools, where teachers and textbooks refer to Jews as sub-human, blood-thirsty monsters. And the incitement is even worse on after-school programming on Palestinian Authority-controlled television.
PHOTO: Twitter screenshot
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Senior Palestinian Authority official Nabil Shaath told an Israeli radio station Thursday that the Trump administration's demand that payments to terrorists' families end was "insane." (Reuters photo)
A Palestinian Official Said This U.S. Request Was 'Insane'
Senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official Nabil Shaath unequivocally rejected President Donald Trump's request to end the PA's policy of paying stipends to Palestinian terrorists and their families, calling the proposal "insane."
In an interview Thursday with Israel Radio, Shaath equated the PA's payments to Palestinian terrorists with salaries Israel provides to members of the IDF.
"It's absurd to request that we stop paying the families of prisoners," Shaath said. "That would be like asking Israel to stop paying its soldiers."
The PA official also said the American request to stop the payments to terrorists represents a tactic to undermine prospects for renewed U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.
Shaath's comments came a day after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Trump sought to "resolve" the controversial PA policy with Abbas when the two leaders met Wednesday.
The PA official's statements also follow calls by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. lawmakers for the PA to end the terror payments.
"President Abbas ... How can you speak of peace with Israel and at the same time fund murderers who spill the blood of innocent Israelis at every turn?" Netanyahu told Fox News last month.
The article was originally published at JNS.org. Used with permission.
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To the stunned approval of Israel and its supporters Facebook earlier this week shut down the official account of the ruling Palestinian faction, Fatah.
Someone apparently felt Fatah had violated Facebook community standards by posting an old photo of its former leader, Yasser Arafat, posing with a rifle next to the group’s current leader, Mahmoud Abbas.
On Wednesday, Facebook apologized for the “mishap” and reinstated the Fatah page.
“The page was removed in error and restored as soon as we were able to investigate. We apologize for this mistake,” a Facebook spokesman was quoted as saying by RT News.
Sadly, Fatah’s years of posts inciting murderous violence against Israeli Jews don’t seem to have triggered Facebook’s censors.
Is it within Facebook’s guidelines for Fatah to boast, as it did last August, of its killing of more than 11,000 Israelis, far more than any other Palestinian group?
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Israeli riot policemen secure the area following a shooting incident in what an Israeli police spokesperson described as a terrorist attack, in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem Oct. 9, 2016. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)
European Governments Defend Terrorists, Undermine Israeli Courts
"European governments should stop undermining the sovereignty of the State of Israel—the sooner the better," says a Zionist student group.
A new report released by Im Tirtzu exposes the industry of foreign government-funded lawfare that works to provide protection for Palestinian terrorists in Israeli courts.
The report focuses on the NGO "HaMoked: Center for the Defense of the Individual," which has submitted dozens of petitions to the Supreme Court on behalf of Palestinian terrorists and their families.
The report surveys the activities of HaMoked over the past two and a half years, during which the NGO has submitted nearly 60 petitions to the Supreme Court on behalf of 48 families of terrorists responsible for the murder of 50 Israelis.
Im Tirtzu said the report aims to raise public awareness about the phenomenon of foreign government-backed NGOs operating in Israel's Supreme Court in order to alter Israeli policy, specifically with regard to state-sanctioned demolitions of terrorists' homes, which is carried out as a means to deter terrorism. The flood of petitions submitted to the Supreme Court hampers the ability of the IDF and Defense Ministry to operate.
This sentiment was echoed in 2016 by Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman. "There is currently a war of legal attrition being waged by international bodies funded by other international elements, including European countries" he said.
Millions to Defend Terrorists
According to the report, in 2012-2016, HaMoked received over NIS 15,500,000 ($4,080,000) from the European Union (EU), United Nations (U.N.) and 11 European governments: Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Holland, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom.
In addition, in 2008-2012, HaMoked received nearly NIS 3,000,000 ($790,000)) from the New Israel Fund; and in 2014, NIS 3,300,000 ($870,000) from a Palestinian foundation based in Ramallah.
HaMoked also filed petitions against the demolition of the homes of the terrorists who kidnapped and murdered teenagers Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar and Naftali Frankel in Gush Etzion in 2014, and the terrorists who murdered Rabbi Moshe Twersky, Rabbi Calman Levine, Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, Chaim Rotman and Zidan Saif in an attack on a synagogue in Har Nof, Jerusalem, in the fall of 2014.
'Murdered for the Second Time'
Devorah Gonen, the mother of Danny Gonen, who was murdered by a terrorist while hiking near the village of Dolev in 2015, said: "We feel as if our loved ones were murdered a second time. This is a dangerous snowball; today they are defending terrorists in court, and I fear that the next step will be even more extreme. It is sad that we need to beg in order to end this absurdity in which an Israeli organization defends, and at times justifies, those who murdered our loved ones."
Im Tirtzu CEO Matan Peleg said that the findings of the report highlight the need for the Israeli judicial system to adopt a new approach in dealing with political NGOs that serve the agendas of foreign governments.
"The judiciary needs to toughen its stance against foreign government-funded organizations that utilize their extensive bank accounts to harm the State of Israel," said Peleg. "Increasing transparency and applying heavy court fees on these organizations, which for all intents and purposes act as foreign agents in the Supreme Court, are only some of the measures that need to be taken in order to protect Israel's legal system."
"European governments should stop undermining the sovereignty of the State of Israel—the sooner the better. Providing assistance to terrorists and their families not only encourages terror, but poses a real threat to democracy," Peleg concluded.
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“Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shown unto me in saving my life.” Genesis 19:19 (The Israel Bible™)
Israeli security forces at the scene where a suspect terrorist opened fire at the Sarona Market shopping center in tel Aviv, on June 8, 2016. The suspect shot and killed four people, in a suspected terror attack in the center of the city. (Photo: Gili Yaari/Flash90)
Amid the tragedy that followed Wednesday night’s shooting, one victim saw God’s hand as he survived two gunshot wounds to the head.
Asaf Bar was with his girlfriend at the Max Brenner cafe in Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market when two Palestinian terrorists, also dining at the restaurant, opened fire in their direction. According to The Jerusalem Post, Bar was shot in the head twice, yet somehow he not only survived the terrible ordeal, but remained conscious throughout the evening, including the ride to the hospital.
His girlfriend immediately called to notify the Bar family their son had been wounded. Upon receiving the news, they rushed from Haifa to be with Asaf.
Bar’s father, Avner, and sister, Dana Cohen, shared the victim’s experience with Israeli media.
Avner Bar, father of Asaf Bar who was wounded in yesterday’s shooting attack, together with Asaf’s sister, Dana Cohen, speak with the press at Ichilov Hospital where Asaf is hospitalized, on June 9, 2016. A suspect shot and wounded 9 people, 4 of them have died of their wounds, at the Sarona Market shopping center in tel Aviv, on June 8. (Photo: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
“Asaf was sitting [in the restaurant] with his girlfriend. They were there eating a breakfast meal, and the perpetrator, the first thing he did was to shoot two bullets at Asaf,” they said.
“[Asaf] saw the two terrorists and they were laughing. In his description he said they were wearing suits – this was at the table next to them,” Avner said. “In photographs [the terrorists] are seen getting up, taking a step, and aiming a gun half-a-meter away from Asaf.”
Despite Bar’s horrific encounter with his would-be killers, God’s mighty hand clearly played a part in saving the boy’s life.
“I feel like [my] boy is here as a gift from God,” his father marveled.
In a voice that evoked appreciation for the medics caring for Asaf, Avner explained his son’s current medical standing. “He spoke to us now, he can move all his body parts. One bullet remains in his head and the other was removed”
“It was [truly] a miracle that he came out of this,” Avner emphasized.
