Gaza-based terror organization attempts to further escalate friction by urging militants to bomb Israelis; Hamas squad recently arrested in Hebron in possession of cash and explosives.
Hamas has instructed its members and affiliates in the Fatah-controlled West Bank to perform suicide attacks against Israelis in the West Bank and Jerusalem, Israeli officials told Ynet on Monday
The instructions were given to Hamas militants, mostly in the Hebron and Nablus areas, who can more easily reach Jerusalem. It is believed that Hamas will indeed attempt such attacks if they become operationally feasible.

In addition, a Palestinian security official told Ynet that the Palestinian security forces have recently arrested a Hamas squad in Hebron, finding money and explosives in their possession.

The official also noted that the squad had at least six members, who admitted that they wished to die when interrogated. It was not immediately clear if they planned on performing a suicide terror attack.

Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar said on Sunday that it was necessary to turn the current popular intifada into an armed one.

According to al-Zahar, Israeli society is generally armed – from soldiers to police officers and settlers – and so the intifada must become armed as well. 

Meanwhile, Hamas media outlets have started to call for the replacement of stabbing attacks with vehicular terror attacks. 

Fatah leader Jibril Rajoub has called recent lone-wolf attacks heroic. "I am proud of them and congratulate anyone who committed them," he said in an interview to Palestinian television. He added that Palestinian organizations have the ability to perform larger attacks, but that the world does not accept buses exploding in Tel Aviv, and so it's better to avoid them.

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Two prominent thinkers, the ultra-orthodox Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, and philosopher, jazz artist and ex-Jew Gilad Atzmon, met to discuss hard questions about Judaism, Jewish politics and the meaning of Jewishness. They shared the stage at Theatre 80 in New York City on May 6th, 2015.



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At Kristallnacht gathering, MK Zoabi compares Israel to Nazis November 8, 2015

In Amsterdam speech to event hosted by far-left Jewish group, Joint List lawmaker says Jewish state engaged in ‘ethnic cleansing’ against Palestinians

MSTERDAM — Denouncing Israel for “racist policies” against the Palestinians, firebrand MK Hanin Zoabi of the Joint (Arab) List party accused the Jewish state of crimes akin to those committed by the Nazis. She was speaking at an event marking the anniversary of Kristallnacht in the heart of Amsterdam’s decimated Jewish quarter on Sunday.

Organized by the city’s far-left Platform Stop Racism and Exclusion, the commemoration drew more than 200 attendees, with dozens of them wearing kippot or draped in Israeli flags.

Leading up to Zoabi’s speech, several organizers delivered remarks comparing the Holocaust to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. At least half a dozen pro-Israel protesters were escorted from the gathering by security personnel and uniformed Amsterdam city police, when at various points they yelled in protest of the speakers’ condemnations of Israel.

At an event devoid of signs and banners, there was not a Palestinian flag in sight as mournful Yiddish songs were performed by a klezmer trio leading up to Zoabi’s keynote speech.

“I am not an immigrant in my homeland,” chanted Zoabi to applause from the crowd, which waited almost an hour for her remarks.

Calling herself “one of 120,000 of her people who were not expelled by Israel in 1948,” Zoabi — who was born in Nazareth in 1969 — lashed the Jewish state for creating “more than 80 laws” that discriminate against Palestinians.

The Israeli rules, said Zoabi, are similar to the conditions under which Jews lived at the time of the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany.

Standing just meters from the former site of a centuries-old Jewish orphanage decimated during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, she drew parallels between Hitler’s genocide against the Jews and current Israeli policy against Palestinians and Israeli-Arabs.

“I share their struggle,” said Zoabi of Jewish victims of the Kristallnacht, or “Night of Broken Glass” pogrom, now seen as a turning point leading up to the Shoah.

“The central lesson of the Crystal Night has not been learned,” said Zoabi during her 15-minute speech, delivered in English. Accusing Israel of “ethnic cleansing” modeled on Nazism, she denounced half a dozen Israeli officials by name for what she referred to as recent efforts to “justify the use of violence toward Palestinians.

“It is okay to kill Arabs, I have actually done so several times,” Zoabi quoted Minister of Education Naftali Bennett as one example of the Jewish state perpetrating Nazi-like policies against Palestinians.

Event organizers who invited Zoabi have been commemorating Kristallnacht in Amsterdam since the early 1990s, but the fringe group, largely Jewish, only began equating the Nazi genocide with Israeli policy in 2010.

For its 2009 Kristallnacht commemoration, “Platform” hosted an imam who had accused Jews of using blood to make matzah in Damascus.

The anti-Israel group has little engagement with Amsterdam’s tiny, mainstream Jewish community, almost all of whom live several miles south of the former Jewish quarter, emptied out during the war.

Scarcely before he finished shouting in Dutch, “This is a Jewish monument,” one elderly male protester was surrounded by four yellow-clad security personnel, and huddled off the scene.

During Zoabi’s speech itself, additional pro-Israel protesters were removed for shouting over her allegations against Israel, while other attendees made clucking noises during Zoabi’s conclusion.

Zoabi, who is currently under investigation in Israel for incitement to violence, quoted several statistics from a recent Israel Democracy Institute report about Jewish Israelis’ perception of Arabs.

She also warned of “great forces” that seek to silence pro-Palestinian voices in Amsterdam and elsewhere in Europe.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/mk-zoabi-compares-israel-to-nazis-at-kristallnacht-...

jmjcare wrote on Nov 9^th, 2015 at 12:57pm:


This is the same woman who supports Hamas when the execute people without trial and then drag the bodies around behind motocycles. She also supports the people that abducted tortured and murdered three teenage Israeli's and sees nothing wrong with it.

Steampipe wrote on Nov 9^th, 2015 at 3:15pm:



Just another sick muslim on the loose.

Israel suspends meetings with EU after Brussels’ move to label settlement products
Published time: 11 Nov, 2015

Israel is to temporarily suspend several meetings with European counterparts in protest of the decision to label goods that come from Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Israeli Foreign Ministry denounced the labeling initiative as “discriminatory.”

“Because of the latest EU decision, Israel is suspending its diplomatic dialogue with the EU in various forums which had been scheduled to take place in the coming weeks," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. This will concern discussions on political issues in the Middle East, human rights and international organizations.

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely added the response is to be regarded “a very strong message” to its European partners.

“We say you can't be involved in what is going on in the Middle East while you are taking such an extreme step of labeling products... boycotting us,” Hotovely stressed, as quoted by AP.

Earlier on Wednesday the Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a harshly-worded official statement concerning the EU’s decision.

Israel condemns that “the EU has chosen, for political reasons, to take such an exceptional and discriminatory step, inspired by the boycott movement, particularly at this time, when Israel is confronting a wave of terrorism targeting any and all of its citizens,” the statement reads.

The statement also reproached Brussels that “there are over 200 other territorial disputes worldwide, including those occurring within the EU or on its doorstep” adding that the labeling policy “may also have implications for Israel-EU relations.”

On Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry summoned the European Union’s ambassador to Israel, Lars Faaborg, to explain the decision, reported the Jerusalem Post.

The official EU position is that all territories taken by Israel in 1967 – including East Jerusalem, Golan Heights and the West Bank – are occupied and therefore not part of Israel, implying that products originating from there cannot be marked as ‘Made in Israel.’ On Wednesday the EU provided legal guidelines explaining how to handle such goods coming from territories not part of Israel in 1967.

READ MORE: Israel legalizes 800 homes in W. Bank settlements, says homes aren’t newhttps://www.rt.com/news/320283-israel-legalizes-hundreds-settlements/

Israeli politicians widely condemned the labeling move as anti-Israeli.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked called the decision 'anti-Israel and anti-Jewish,’ and said she plans to look into possible legal action against the EU, Jerusalem Post reported. ‘The European hypocrisy and their hatred of Israel has crossed every line,’ she stated. ‘It's interesting that they do not label products from the Western Sahara or [northern] Cyprus.’

However, former FM and now member of the Knesset Tzipi Livni doubted the EU’s decision would have such disastrous outcomes as expected. She noted it is up to every single European country to adopt it or not. “Israel must go from country to country and convince them not to adopt the decision,” she said, as quoted by the Post. “In order for that to happen, we need the right policy. We must say the prime minister's policy is really two states, and prove it, so they will understand there is no reason to push us into a corner.”

Since the labeling issue first emerged in 2012, the EU has attempted to downplay it as a technical and not a political matter. Brussels has insisted it does not imply a boycott of Israel, but rather a solution to inform consumers where these products originally come from.

The disputed territories have been under Israeli control since the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and neighboring Arab countries. UN Resolution 242 demands the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from the territories occupied in the conflict. Israel disagrees with the wording of the resolution, and says the territories are in dispute.

READ MORE: Jews only: Arabs facing discrimination in Israeli property markethttps://www.rt.com/news/317544-discrimination-palestine-israel-jaffa/


https://www.rt.com/news/321636-israel-settlements-labelling-products/

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Its nice to see Israel still kicking Mussey ass, good stuff.