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Jordan Says Israel Threatens Christian Sites in Jerusalemby Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Jordan’s King Abdullah warned the Archbishop of Canterbury on Sunday that Israel threatens to evict Muslims and Christians from eastern Jerusalem. The king also said Jordan will act to protect non-Jewish holy sites in the Palestinian Authority area, where it had closed all non-Muslim sites before Judea and Samaria were restored to Israel in the Six-Day War in 1967. King Abdullah also told Archbishop Rowan Williams that Western churches could play an important role in supporting peacemaking efforts in the Middle East. Jordan has offered a plot of land in the Jordan Valley for the Anglican church, which on Sunday laid the foundation stone for a church at the Baptism site. Until eastern Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria were restored to Israel in 1967, Jordan had closed off all Jewish and Christian sites, except for tours by visting dignitaries. Although King Abdullah warned that Israel is threatening against Muslims and Christians, the number of Christians in Jerusalem during the Jordanian rule actually dwindled from 25,000 in 1949 to fewer than 13,000 in 1967, when the Jewish State re-opened Christian holy sites. For more on this story: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136139#replies
Rivlin: Israel Pays Price of World's "Double Moral Standard"by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Meeting with foreign ambassadors in the Knesset on Tuesday, Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin (Likud) said, "If the trend doesn't change, the U.S. and Britain will be next in line" to pay the price for the world's double standards, and for their willingness to fight, in the war against terrorism. |
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"According to the standards laid down by the Goldstone investigation," Rivlin said, "Winston Churchill should have been charged with war crimes, as should the American and British armies in Iraq. In the meanwhile, though, only Israel is paying the price of the double standard that does not differentiate between attacker and victim, or between terrorism and self-defense." The Goldstone Commission, charged by the United Nations with investigating Israel's counter-terrorist Cast Lead offensive against Hamas-run Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009, accused Israel of war crimes, attacks upon civilians, and the like. "If the trend doesn't change," Rivlin continued, "the next in line to be accused will be the members of the militaries of Great Britain, the U.S., and the other countries of the free world." For more on this story: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136165#replies
Britain Is New Hamas Hubby Malkah Fleisher (IsraelNN.com) In the last 10 years, London has become the primary worldwide bastion of Hamas, according to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, a non-governmental organization dedicated to the memory of fallen Israeli Intelligence Community agents. Britain in recent years has constituted a legal threat to Israeli officials who are being accused of harming PA Arabs. An arrest warrant issued in December against opposition leader Tzipi Livni is just one instance of an aggressive stance toward the Jewish State. In 2005, General Doron Almog was informed by Israel's ambassador to Britain that he may be arrested if he exited his plane in London. He chose to stay aboard and return to Israel after having traveled to England to raise money for a charity. The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center report shows that these incidents are not accidental, but rather concentrated political activity by the Hamas terror organization. The findings say London has become the epicenter of Hamas' political, legal, and propaganda campaigns in Europe. Hamas operatives note that they have been particularly successful, with the assistance of the Muslim Brotherhood, in controlling the discourse regarding Arabs in Israel, and initiating widespread anti-Zionism throughout the country. For more on this story: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136170#replies
Purim Preparations Worldwideby Maayana Miskin (IsraelNN.com) Jewish communities around the world are making final preparations Friday for the holiday of Purim, which will begin on Saturday night after the Sabbath. Planned events include parties, communal meals, and parades. INN brings you a sampling: In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Jewish community is planning public festivities. “The famous Brazilian carnival just ended, so we at Bnei Akiva Rio will try and show the Jewish community what the real happiness of Judaism is,” explained World Bnei Akiva emissary Baruch Avivi. In North Miami Beach, members of one synagogue have decided to coordinate their costumes. Young Israel attendees will all dress as members of a wedding party. In Milan, Italy, youth groups are teaming up to create a Purim movie. Each chapter has produced a short film illustrating one chapter from the Book of Esther, which is read during the holiday. For more on this story:
Ahmadinejad Maneuvering Hizbullah and Israel into War?by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is reportedly angling to start another war between Israel and the Lebanese Hizbullah terrorist group in order to deflect attention away from his own lack of popularity at home. Ahmadinejad has faced constant friction from grassroots opposition movements since last June, when lopsided election results re-electing the president raised red flags among suspicious voters, who suspected the government had rigged the polls. “As Israel is beating the war drums four years after its humiliating military defeat against Hizbullah, many believe that Ahmadinejad might exploit another conflict between Israel and the militant group as a way of resolving his own lack of legitimacy inside Iran,” wrote Iran's Green Voice newspaper. The publication, which represents the “green” anti-government protest movement in Iran, noted that many Hizbullah terrorists were involved in the violent post-presidential election crackdowns on protestors who demonstrated for weeks against the results. The newspaper identified as one example Hossein Manif Ashmar, a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard force that attacked the northern Tehran campaign office of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi on election day, June 12, 2009. The paper said Ashmar, who has been living in the country since the mid-1990s, also works at Hizbullah headquarters in Iran. Two of his brothers died as “shaheeds” (martyrs) – both as members of the Hizbullah terrorist group. For more on this story: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136233#replies
Iran: Arab Resistance Key to Demise of World Powersby Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Iran’s senior nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalil, says that Palestinian Authority resistance is the key to freedom for Muslims and the demise of western dominance. Jalil also is the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC). He told the government-controlled Fars News Agency Sunday, that world powers should accept their fate. Speaking to an international conference on “National and Islamic Solidarity for the Future of Palestine” in Tehran, he insisted that "the era of supremacy of certain power clubs has ended.” According to Jalil, “Palestine and the resistance are symbols and keys to an understanding of the relations dominating the world. Palestine is the key to resistance, standing and honor which will spread throughout the world day by day." He reasoned that world powers are worried that Arab resistance in Judea, Samaria and Gaza will become a model in international relations. Jalil also charged that the "power club” fighting terrorism “officially supported and equipped a terrorist group [Israel] and this signals the end of the era belonging to the 'power club.'" For more on this story: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136255#replies
Anti-Semitism Rising in France, Canadaby Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) Anti-Semitism in France is strongly on the rise, according to the 2009 annual report released late last week by the Jewish Community Protection Service (SPCJ). The organization reported that 832 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded in France in 2009, as compared with 474 such incidents in 2008 - a 75% increase. The statistics were gleaned from records in the organization's Aid to Victims Department, which cross-checked the figures with data published by the French Ministry of Home Affairs. Included were “statistics, comments, analyses and extracts from sentences handed out by courts in cases involving anti-Semitism,” according to the Council Representing Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF). CRIF President Richard Prasquier attributed the increase to the French population's anger at Israel during its counter-terrorist operation in Gaza, Cast Lead, last January. There were 354 anti-Semitic incidents recorded in January 2009 alone - a “totally unacceptable transposition to France of the Israel-Palestine conflict,” Prasquier said. He added that “anti-Semitic words and deeds on a daily basis, often under the cover of anti-Zionism, have become a major and worryingly trivial fact of life.” In 2007, the number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded by the French Interior Ministry was 386, a lower figure than had been recorded in previous years. But the trend had already begun to change long before the Operation Cast Lead was carried out; the 2008 figures were already 22 percent higher than those of the previous year. For more on this story:
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