Doc's Talk: Sample of today's news in Israel

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Sample of today's news in Israel

23:17
According to a Haaretz-Dialog poll, 63% of Kadima voters are of the opinion that Ehud Olmert will remain in place after the publication of the final report of the Winograd Commission on the handling of the war in Lebanon. A similar survey conducted three months ago showed that only 33% were of that opinion. (Guysen.International.News) 21:49
George Bush's visit to Israel: the head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, spoke about the American president's visit to the region: ''America has become involved in wars in the region in order to defend Israel. Bush sees Israel as a Jewish state, i.e. racist''. And he continued: ''Everyone knows what the Zionist gangs in Palestine did and how they took control of the land of the Palestinians, and killed, massacred and expelled them.'' (Guysen.International.News)
20:54
A terrorist, a member of the missile unit of the Committees of Popular Resistance, was killed by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip. IDF attacked groups who were shooting rockets and mortar shells, twice today. (Guysen.International.News)
20:46
A terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip has threatened to assassinate the American president. The Army of the Nation, close to the Al-Qaeda movement, said its desire is to fight George Bush and his supporters in Arab countries. (Guysen.International.News)
20:29
George Bush's visit to Israel: During the joint press conference with the American President, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sent messages to members of the government: ''I hope that all coalition partners will remain ... And that there will be no political crisis. I do not think anyone in a position of responsibility like mine would like to destabilize the government''. He stressed that Avigdor Lieberman and his party Yisrael Beiteinu, ''are partners in the government's success.'' (Guysen.International.News)
19:29
George Bush's visit to Israel: Ehud Olmert said during a press conference with the American president that he was ready for ''painful compromises in order to achieve the objective dreamed of for so many years''. (Guysen.International.News)
18:45
George Bush's visit to Israel: Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupoliansky, met with the American president at the King David Hotel. Lupoliansky presented Bush with a painting of a world map from 1581 in which Jerusalem is presented as the center of the world. Lupoliansky told Bush that ''the map does not claim Jerusalem as the physical center of the world, but as the spiritual centre for the three great monotheistic religions''. (Guysen.International.News)
18:35
George Bush's visit to Israel: 20,000 Hamas men in Gaza demonstrated against the American president's visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories. The demonstrators brandished signs representing George Bush as a vampire that sucks the blood of the Palestinians. (Guysen.International.News)
17:33
France: Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner sharply condemned Iranian threats against United States Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. ''I believe that this is a very dangerous attitude,'' the head of French diplomacy said. (Guysen.International.News)
17:11
An IDF operation in northern Gaza: The Israeli air force has targeted a terrorist cell responsible for a number of kassam missile shootings on Sderot on Wednesday afternoon. According to Palestinian sources, two terrorists were killed and four others wounded. (Guysen.International.News)
16:44
George Bush's visit to Israel: the American president, in his meeting with Shimon Peres, went over the goals he had set for himself in Annapolis. ''I came to deal with issues of substance in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and according to my vision of things, it is necessary to achieve the creation of two states for two peoples, and by the end of the year.'' (Guysen.International.News)
16:25
Four kassam rockets were fired from the north of the Gaza Strip onto the western Negev. One of the rockets hit the town of Sderot. There were no injured, but a building was damaged. (Guysen.International.News)
16:05
George Bush's visit to Israel: ''The United States' role is to show you the way to peace, and your role, Israelis and Palestinians, is to engage on this difficult path,'' the American president said during his meeting with his counterpart Shimon Peres in Jerusalem. (Guysen.International.News)
15:57
George Bush's visit to Israel: dozens of Israeli Arabs demonstrated at the entrance to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem against the visit of the American president. They condemn the American government policy in the Middle East. (Guysen.International.News)
15:57
George Bush's visit to Israel: dozens of Israeli Arabs demonstrated at the entrance to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem against the visit of the American president. They condemn the American government policy in the Middle East. (Guysen.International.News)
15:47
George Bush's visit to Israel: Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski just met with the American President George Bush. Lupolianski pledged to preserve the freedom of worship of all minorities, but underlined that ''Jerusalem is and should remain a united city.'' (Guysen.International.News)
15:41
IDF forces arrested three Palestinian terrorists accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at an Israeli vehicle traveling near Ramallah. No injuries or damage were reported. (Guysen.International.News)
15:08
George Bush's visit to Israel: Hamas has described Bush as a terrorist and said that his visit aims to "bury the Palestinian cause". (Guysen.International.News)
14:38
While in Israel, the visit of George Bush has been in the headlines, but in the United States it is taking second place to the Democratic and Republican primary. As a reminder, contrary to expectations, Hillary Clinton won the race in New Hampshire against Barack Obama, after being defeated in Iowa. On the Republican side Senator McCain is back in the race. (Guysen.International.News)
13:41
Iran has accused the United States of having rigged the video attesting to the naval confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz. A commander of the Iranian Navy has indicated that these images came from American archives, in which dummy dialogues were added. Tensions are running high between Washington and Tehran after an incident this weekend in which Iranian speedboats approached three U.S. warships, threatening to fire. (Guysen.International.News)
13:24
Israel had allegedly planned to attack a vessel carrying about twenty Skud missiles sent by North Korea to Syria, during the First Gulf War. The Japanese newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, claims that Mossad agents had placed sensors on the boat so that the Air Force could bomb it. The attack was apparently cancelled at the last minute by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, under pressure from Washington. (Guysen.International.News)
12:46
Explosions heard in the north: the IDF has reassured the population they fell within the scope of Unifil activity. International forces stationed in southern Lebanon neutralized explosive devices. (Guysen.International.News)
11:27
The IDF has welcomed the recent wave of terrorists who surrendered to the Palestinian police. However, a military official said that Israel has no illusions: the Palestinians will not cease their terrorist activities completely, but their stay in prison and confiscation of their weapons, significantly reduce their influence on the ground. He added that Israel reserves the right to operate in the territories under Palestinian control, if necessary for security purposes. (Guysen.International.News)
10:54
Hamas wants to renew dialogue with Fatah through Riyadh. According to the Emirate newspaper Al Khalij, the Saudi foreign minister, Saud al-Faisal, told the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, that his country would resume its mediation if Hamas fulfils 3 conditions. The terrorist organization must approve the Saudi peace initiative unconditionally, respect previous agreements signed between the PLO and Israel, and allow Mahmoud Abbas to return to the control of official institutions in the Gaza Strip. (Guysen.International.News)
10:09
Terrorists fired a new salvo of 3 kassams on Israel. One of the rockets hit the roof of a house in Sderot, a couple with a 2 week old baby was inside and was not injured. The woman is in shock. Since the beginning of the morning, no less than nine kassams, and several mortar shells were fired from the Gaza Strip. (Guysen.International.News)
09:27
The latest kassam rocket that struck in Israel, hit a chicken coop Kibbutz Nahal Oz. The building was empty, and was badly damaged. (Guysen.International.News)
08:27
The release of Marwan Barghouti is not on the agenda, according to a source in the Prime Minister's Office. A senior official denied reports on Tuesday in the Arab media that Israel would consider releasing the former head of the Tanzim, but not the Lebanese murderer Samir Kuntar, as part of an exchange of prisoners. (Guysen.International.News)
08:18
One dead and 4 wounded in an IDF raid north of the Gaza Strip: the Israeli army shelled a group of terrorists from the Saladin Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, which fired kassams on the western Negev, a little earlier. (Guysen.International.News)
07:48
A salvo of 5 kassams has landed in the western Negev. Three missiles landed Zikim area and two near Sderot. There were no injuries. (Guysen.International.News)
06:42
Syria: the Foreign Minister, Walid Muallem, refuted on Tuesday, ''the idea of the existence of a Syrian-Iranian axis, parallel to the axis between Saudi Arabia and Egypt''. (Guysen.International.News)
05:50
Israeli imports reached a record level in 2007 of $48.5 billion dollars, according to the economic daily, The Marker. (Guysen.International.News)
05:28
Tourism Minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, said on Tuesday night that his party, Yisrael Beitenu, would leave the coalition government at the end of the week, if negotiations of the key points of the peace process with the Palestinians, were held. (Guysen.International.News)
04:57
United States: the Senator of the State of New York, Hillary Clinton, won the Democratic Party primary in New Hampshire with 39% of the vote. Her most serious rival, Barack Obama, won 37% of the vote. (Guysen.International.News)
04:27
Iraq: the American army announced on Tuesday the start of a military operation in the entire territory of Iraq, Operation Phantom Phoenix. Its goal is for American and Iraqi soldiers aim to dislodge the Al-Qaida terrorists from their last hiding places. (Guysen.International.News)
03:13
United States: the Senator from Arizona, John McCain, won the Republican Party's primary in New Hampshire. (Guysen.International.News)
02:15
The two Katyusha-type rockets that hit in the north, on Tuesday, were not detected by the IDF warning system. Military leaders said that bad weather conditions were probably at the root of this dysfunction. (Guysen.International.News)

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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