TEL AVIV – News reports in the Arab world claim Russia is planning to escalate its military involvement in Syria by sending in ground troops and increasing airstrikes, according to translations provided by the Middle East Research Institute (MEMRI).
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Palestinian Soccer Tournament Named After Teenage Terrorist
TEL AVIV – The newly formed “Ahmad Manasrah Football Tournament” is named after a 13-year-old terrorist who stabbed and critically wounded two people aged 21 and 13 in Jerusalem last month, Palestinian Media Watch reported. PMW found out about the event’s name through an article published on Monday in Al-Hayat al-Jadida, an official newspaper of the Palestinian Authority (PA). The terrorist was killed while fleeing the scene of the attack, while his accomplice, 15-year-old Hassan Manasrah, was shot and wounded by Israeli police. He was treated at an Israeli hospital. The soccer tournament’s name is in keeping with the PA’s policy of naming events, institutions and roads after terrorists. At least 25 schools have been named after terrorists, in addition to dozens of sporting events and summer camps. According to PMW, the PA glorifies the terrorists, holding them up as role models in hopes of inspiring their peers to carry out similar acts of terror. According to PMW: “Attacking Israelis brings honor and fame, and youth are drawn by this temptation.” As Breibart Jerusalem reported, the PA recently named a road after Muhammad Halabi, who instigated the current wave of violence when he stabbed and killed two Israelis in Jerusalem. PMW reported that a youth center in Jenin also named a football tournament after him. Not one of the Palestinian attacks on Israelis
UN Adopts 6 Resolutions On Israel In One Day, Zero On Rest Of World
TEL AVIV – The UN General Assembly adopted six resolutions against Israel in a single day on Tuesday, the NGO UN Watch reported, including a resolution calling for the return of the Golan Heights – together with its current inhabitants –to Syria. No resolutions were passed condemning China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, ISIS, or any other country that regularly violates human rights. “Surreal barely captures the scene whereby the world is under assault by terrorists killing in the name of Islam and martyrhood — as Palestinians are doing while stabbing Israeli Jews — and the UN’s response is to reflexively condemn Israel in six separate resolutions, all of which are one-sided,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. The resolutions, which are non-binding and drafted by the Palestinians and Syria, called – among other things – for Israel to end its so-called occupation and cease implementing Israeli law in Jerusalem. One resolution claimed that Israel’s hold over the Golan Heights, captured in 1967, was “a stumbling block in the way of achieving a just, comprehensive, and lasting peace in the region.” According to UN Watch, the resolution further demanded that Israel hand the land and its people over to Syria. “It’s astonishing,” said Neuer. “At a time when the Syrian regime is massacring
New York Times Headline Confuses Terrorists for Victims
TEL AVIV – The New York Times continues to lead the growing trend in global media of equating the deaths of Palestinian terrorists with the murder of innocent Israeli civilians.
Full 17% of Israeli-Arabs support Islamic State
TEL AVIV – According to an expert on Arab opinion, 17% of Israeli-Arabs support ISIS, while 57% believe that the Islamic Movement represents them, the Jerusalem Post reported.
French Jews Ask: Should We Stay Or Should We Go?
TEL AVIV – French Jews are divided about their future as they face an ever-growing threat from radical Islam. Yet, for most, even the attacks that killed 129 people on Friday have not been sufficient for them to consider emigration. Anti-Semitic attacks were part and parcel of daily life well before last week’s attacks, with the latest occurring on Wednesday evening in the southern city of Marseilles, where IS supporters stabbed a Jewish teacher in the face. Rabbi Tzion Saadoun, an openly religious Jew from the Chabad-Lubavitch community, was attacked outside his home, which is on the border between Marseilles’ Jewish and Arab neighborhoods. Still, others from the Chabad-Lubavitch community told The Times of Israel that the presence of IS terrorists in their own neighborhoods “will not affect the daily life of the Jewish community.” Following a police raid in the heavily Muslim neighborhood of Saint-Denis, local Chabad Rabbi Mendel Belinow said he was “not surprised at all” to learn that the suspected perpetrators of Friday’s attacks might be hiding out in his neighborhood, but he added that the news would not put a halt to the local Jewish community’s activities. “We are not suspending our activities and are preparing to celebrate Hanukkah as usual,” Belinow
Palestinian Official: ‘Murdering Israeli Women Is Our Right’
TEL AVIV — At a memorial honoring Palestinian terrorist Muhammad Halabi, 19, who killed two men in Jerusalem on October 3, an official from the ruling Palestinian Fatah party said he “salutes the soul of [the] martyr who detonated the Jerusalem Intifada” and declared that Palestinian “young men have the right to cause Israeli women to cry,” Palestinian Media Watch reported. Jamal Muhaisen, a member of Fatah’s Central Committee, participated in the rally that the Palestinian Ma’an news agency dubbed “a national wedding,” in reference to the Islamic tenet that 72 virgins will wed martyrs in heaven.”It is the right of our young men to cause Israeli women to cry like our women are crying, even though our women make sounds of joy after their sons’ and husbands’ deaths as Martyrs,” said Muhaisen. Halabi has gained particular eminence in Palestinian society for being the first to carry out a successful stabbing attack, now lauded as the catalyst for a string of copycat stabbings in the month and a half that followed. Halabi, who stabbed Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi and Aharon Bennett to death while they were walking with their wives and a 2-year-old child in the Old City of Jerusalem, was shot dead by Israeli police. PLO Central Committee Member and Democratic
NYT Equates Israeli Online Anti-Terrorist Game With Real Palestinian Terrorists Killing Innocents
An article published in The New York Times equates an Israeli anti-terror children’s game to Palestinian praise of a woman who attempted to murder an Israeli civilian.
EXCLUSIVE – Israelis to France: Still Want Us To Show ‘Restraint’ In Face Of Terror?
France’s “massive” retaliation for the Paris attacks has irritated Israelis who feel that when Israel responds to terror it is held to a double standard by the international community. French President Francois Hollande called the terrorist attacks an act of war and promised that France would take revenge. On Sunday, 12 aircraft – including 10 fighter jets – dropped a total of 20 bombs on Raqqa, ISIS’ de-facto capital. “It was normal to take the initiative and action and France had the legitimacy to do so. We did it already in the past. We have conducted new airstrikes in Raqqa today,” France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said. “One cannot be attacked harshly, and you know the drama that is happening in Paris, without being present and active.” Now Israelis are asking themselves how the world would respond had Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the same remarks following Palestinian terror attacks on Israelis. They have little doubt that Netanyahu would be denigrated for suggesting that it was “normal” and “legitimate” to respond the way France has. Judith Bergman, an Israeli writer and political analyst, wrote in the Israeli daily Israel Hayom, “Every time the world is hit by mass terrorism, Israel