http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/israel-news/ en-us Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:18:45 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102742/posts Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's security forces raided a Hamas bomb factory and arrested 11 members of the rival Islamist faction in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, a senior police officer said. The raid was part of a law-and-order drive pursued by Abbas in the West Bank since he broke with Hamas over its seizure of the Gaza Strip last year and revived peacemaking with Israel. Ramadan Awad, chief of the Palestinian Authority police in Hebron, said more than 100 kg (220 lbs) of explosives were seized along with ammunition and homemade firearms. "The factory was preparing bombs... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102742/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:18:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102581/posts Jews and Arabs rioted in the mixed Jewish-Arab Israeli city of Akko over Yom Kippur. The riots started Wednesday night when an Arab man drove through the Jewish sector of the city and was confronted by Jewish youths who said he was deliberately desecrating the holiday by driving, smoking and playing loud music. The ensuing riots between Jewish and Arab youths resulted in extensive damage to property throughout the town in northern Israel. Some fresh clashes continued on Friday, but the deployment of hundreds of police officers in Akko helpes restore calm. Other mixed Jewish-Arab cities in Israel, including Jaffa,... JTA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102581/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:29:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102557/posts Moscow rejects reports that it may arm Iran, saying it has no plan to equip Tehran with the S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system. "We have declared more than once at the very highest political level that we do not intend to supply those types of armaments to countries located in regions that are, to put it mildly, unstable areas," said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko on Thursday. The Russian official added that the Kremlin makes decisions on selling such systems based on "both preserving the balance of power in the given region, and taking into account the need to... Fars News Agency http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102557/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:05:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102321/posts With the election fast approaching, and American Jews still polling strong support for Obama, I cut a YouTube video entitled "The Jewish Case Against Barack Obama." There's a 1:40 second trailer, which can be found here, as well as the video itself, which is split into three parts (total about 20 minutes). Part I discusses Obama's advisors. Part II covers his friends. Part III touches his running mate and his own statements, and concludes. Every American Jew, and every American supporter needs to watch this video before voting. Barack Obama is the most frightening candidate for pro-Israel Americans since the... YouTube.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102321/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:37:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100707/posts In Israel, Remembering The Yom Kippur War By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem ----October 8, 2008 .....As I wrote the below account 5 years ago, the first time retracing steps taken thirty-five years ago during Yom Kippur in Israel and the US in October 1973, memories began to pour back along with the anxiety and tears that we all experienced at the time. For many of us, the scars of war will never heal. Nor should they. Sitting in the relative safety of a suburban Long Island home, I first heard news reports of Arab armies attacking Israel on... Israel News Agency / Google News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100707/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:10:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100632/posts Interior Ministry, Shin Bet grant unusual plea by Tehran family to have son suffering form brain cancer treated in Jewish state. 'When a child's life is at stake religion and origin play no part,' says Minister Sheetrit A 12-year-old Iranian boy suffering from brain cancer is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Friday for emergency surgery. The boy, who already underwent surgery in Tehran, was later admitted to a Turkish hospital, but his Ankara physicians soon discovered their facility lacked the technological and medical expertise needed to properly treat him. The Turkish doctors suggested the family seek medical assistance in... YNet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100632/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 17:50:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100354/posts After Syria moved tank units up to the Lebanese Beqaa Valley border Tuesday, Oct. 7, Israel raised the alert level for Yom Kippur on its borders with Syria and Lebanon and placed its Air Force and emergency first aid teams on standby in the event of Syrian or coordinated Syrian-Hizballah attacks. Israeli embassies and Jewish institutions worldwide were also placed on high terror alert. Hizballah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah said recently that his promised retaliation for the death of Imad Mughniyeh “is coming.” There is no backing off from this decision or from carrying out the “big surprise” against the enemy,... Debka http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100354/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:58:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100240/posts The latest conflict simmering between Lebanon and Israel is all about food: Lebanese businessmen accusing Israel of stealing traditional Middle Eastern dishes like hummus. Fadi Abboud, president of the Lebanese Industrialists Association, said Tuesday his group plans to sue Israel to stop it from marketing hummus and other regional dishes as Israeli. "It is not enough they (Israelis) are stealing our land. They are also stealing our civilization and our cuisine," said Abboud. He said his group also seeks to claim the eggplant spread baba ghannouj and tabbouleh, a salad made of chopped parsley and tomatoes, as Lebanon's own. Hummus... Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100240/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 06:08:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100109/posts (IsraelNN.com) The Islamist Hamas terrorist organization has initiated an online course in explosives, military weapons and The sophisticated course includes highly detailed practical and theoretical lessons. tactics for would-be jihad fighters. Aimed at the population of the Palestinian Authority, the course is called "Get Ready" and is designed to prepare the population for war with Israel. First exposed outside Palestinian Authority and jihadist circles on Monday by Israel's Channel 10 TV, the sophisticated course includes highly detailed practical and theoretical lessons, as well as sample videos of jihadist attacks. All manner of weapons are described, analyzed and their proper use... Arutz 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100109/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 02:58:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099998/posts Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – To the dismay of many Israelis, the cabinet on Sunday voted to approve the transfer of nine acres of prime property in downtown Jerusalem to Russia. The building and garden, known as Sergei’s Courtyard, were purchased by Russian royalty in the 1800s and have passed through a number of sovereign hands through the years. For more than a decade, Moscow has been demanding that the property be handed over to the Kremlin. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in Russia this week, has told Russian officials of the Israeli government's decision to turn the land over to Russia,... cnsnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099998/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 23:52:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099813/posts Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said the security forces have arrested a group of alleged Islamist militants linked to Israeli intelligence. Mr Saleh did not say what evidence had been found to show the group's links with Israel, a regional enemy of Yemen. The arrests were connected with an attack on the US embassy in Sanaa last month which killed at least 18 people, official sources were quoted saying. Israel's foreign ministry has rejected the accusation as "totally ridiculous". BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099813/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:47:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099742/posts The Single Arab daring, waking up Web posted at: 10/2/2008 1:35:54 Arabs, Israel should sit together, says Bahrain minister Source ::: AFP dubai • The foreign minister of staunch US ally Bahrain has called for the creation of a regional grouping of Arab states with historic foe Israel, as well as Iran and Turkey, a newspaper reported yesterday. “Israel, Iran, Turkey and Arab states should sit together in one organisation,” Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmad Al Khalifa was quoted in the pan-Arab daily Al Hayat as saying. “Aren’t we all members of a global organisation called the United Nations? Why not... thepeninsulaqatar. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099742/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:13:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099694/posts Since the time of Hitler, civilization has never been so close to the brink of total catastrophe. This American election will decide whether civilization as we know it will survive. As much as economic questions are currently front and center, with blame to go all round, this is not an election primarily about corporate greed, or individuals living beyond their means, or government neglect of economic oversight. Nor is it about whether we should have gone into Iraq where, like it or not, American boots on the ground have begun to create an emerging democracy. This election is about whether... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099694/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:11:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099461/posts Five years ago, I wrote that the civilized world would benefit from the dissolution of the United Nations, already then a dysfunctional assembly of nations dominated by tyrannies and dictatorships. Since then, despite the welcome replacement of secretary-general Kofi Annan by Ban Ki-Moon and aside from a few symbolic meetings in New York condemning anti-Semitism, the situation has dramatically worsened. The newly created UN Human Rights Commission, intended to be more balanced than its predecessor, shamelessly promotes medieval anti-Semitic blood libels and demonization of Israel at levels unprecedented even by UN standards. Many of the Israel-speeches dominating the agenda could... Jerusalem post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099461/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 11:56:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099159/posts JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States will not permit Israel to attack Iran's nuclear program as long as American troops are stationed in Iraq, an Israeli television report quoting unnamed diplomatic sources said on Monday. An Israeli official accompanying Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on a visit to Moscow declined to comment on the report. Olmert flew to Moscow to press Russia not to sell advanced missiles and weapons technology to Iran and Syria reuteurs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099159/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:53:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099143/posts Russia is committed to stopping Iranian nuclearization for military purposes, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Moscow on Monday night. The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099143/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:38:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099124/posts In the end, the global jihad, and the West's fickle response to radical Islam's assault on its civilization, is about hating Jews. This truth, never wholly hidden from view, was exposed in all its ugliness in recent months with startling disclosures by former Italian president and Senator-for-life Francesco Cossiga. In a letter to Italy's Corriere della Serra in August, Cossiga acknowledged that during the early 1970s, then Italian prime minister Aldo Moro signed an agreement with Yassir Arafat's PLO and affiliated organizations that enabled the Palestinians to field terrorists, operate bases and store weapons in Italy in exchange for immunity... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099124/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 00:23:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098996/posts Two far-right parties, the Austrian Freedom Party and the Movement for Austria's Future, managed to win 29 percent of the vote in the recent general elections in Austria. This is double what they got in the elections of 2006. Both parties share the same attitudes toward immigrants, especially Muslims, and the European Union: a mixture of fear and loathing. Because the leaders of the two parties, Heinz-Christian Strache and Jorg Haider, can't stand each other, there is little chance of a far-right coalition actually taking power. Nonetheless, this is Adolf Hitler's native land, where Jews were once forced to scrub... Jerusalem Post via The Spartan Truth http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098996/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:49:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098967/posts Archaeologists excavating north of Jerusalem have found a piece of a sarcofagus - a stone coffin - belonging to a son of a High Priest. The visible inscription reads, "the son of the High Priest" - but the words before it are broken off. It thus cannot be ascertained which High Priest is referred to, nor the name or age of the deceased. Many other findings in the excavation are from the late Second Temple period, and archaeologists assume that the High Priest in question lived between 30 and 70 C.E. Yoli Shwartz, Spokesperson for the Israel Antiquities Authority, notes... arutz 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098967/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:11:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098872/posts No matter who is elected president in November, former CIA officer Robert Baer has no doubt about what will be topping his agenda: Iran. “Everything is coming to a head in the Middle East,” Baer tells Newsmax. “The days of messing around with Iran are over. We’ve been kicking this can down the road for 30 years, and now we’re at the end of the road.” The former CIA covert operative asserts that the Islamic nation of 70 million people is building an empire in the Middle East, believing it should be the “citadel of Islam.” He warns that Iran... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098872/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 19:05:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098866/posts Country's Industrialists Association says Jewish state trying to claim ownership of traditional Lebanese delicacies like tabouleh and hummus, plans international food-related suit Roee Nahmias Published: 10.06.08, 09:10 / Israel Money Lebanon is planning on filing an international law suit against Israel for violating a food copyright, Fadi Abboud, president of the Lebanese Industrialists Association, told the al-Arabiya network. The Lebanese claim is that Israel markets original Lebanese food like tabouleh, kubbeh, hummus, falafel and fattoush which the Lebanese considered their trademarks prior to the establishment of the Jewish state. Abboud explained that the fact that Israel has been marketing Lebanese... YNet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098866/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 19:02:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098586/posts   The Man Who Predicted the Yom Kippur War   By Dr. Paul KengorVision and Values | Monday, October 06, 2008 Editor’s Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. On October 6, 1973, the Egyptian army pulled off a devastating surprise attack on the nation of Israel—payback for the Arab defeat in the Six Day War of June 1967. This week marks the 35th anniversary of that surprise attack—a surprise to almost everyone. Among those who suspected something seriously amiss was an Air Force officer named Earl Tilford,... Vision and Values | Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098586/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:54:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098570/posts A video released by the Jewish Council for Education & Research which appeared to show several retired senior IDF and Mossad officials supporting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has proven to be misleading, with a number of officials who appeared in the video saying on Monday that their words were taken out of context. "It's not only misleading, it was an interview about what the next president was going to have to deal with," former deputy chief of staff Maj.-Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan told The Jerusalem Post. "And to know that they used this interview and took five seconds, and... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098570/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:40:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098549/posts On 30 September 2000, Charles Enderlin, the Jerusalem-based head of the Middle East Bureau of the French television station France 2, presented sixty seconds of footage of what he described as the killing of a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy named Muhammad al-Dura targeted by Israeli soldiers. Enderlin claimed that he had additional film material of the boy's "death throes" that was too shocking to be shown. The selectively presented photo material, accompanied by the accusation of deliberate murder of a defenseless Palestinian boy, led to mass demonstrations against Israel and the Jews in the Western world. It also contributed to riots... Institute for Global Jewish Affairs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098549/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:07:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098544/posts A video released by the Jewish Council for Education & Research which appeared to show several retired senior IDF and Mossad officials supporting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has proven to be misleading, with a number of officials who appeared in the video saying on Monday that their words were taken out of context. "It's not only misleading, it was an interview about what the next president was going to have to deal with," former deputy chief of staff Maj.-Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan told The Jerusalem Post. "And to know that they used this interview and took five seconds, and... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098544/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:01:00 GMT