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TEL AVIV – Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters sang that Palestinians will “take back the land, from the Jordan river to the sea,” a battle cry routinely used by terrorists that ultimately calls for the elimination of Israel. Together with anti-Israel far-left British filmmaker Ken Loach, Waters appeared at the UK Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s (PSC) Nakba Day 2020 event, where he claimed that “the Israel lobby and the Israeli government and the Israeli special whatever they are called… [are] trying so hard to destroy the voices of support [for Palestinians],” the UK’s Jewish Chronicle reported. The Palestinian “Nakba” commemorates...

The Palestinian parliament is continuing to reject any Jewish right to the “land of Palestine”, meaning the entire land of Israel, including the sovereign territory of the State of Israel. At a special meeting in Gaza on Thursday held on the occasion of Nakba Day, the Palestinian parliament stated that the entire “land of Palestine” is an Islamic endowment, and the Jews have no right to even a single inch of it. Nakba Day is the day on which Arabs mourn what they view as the “disaster” of the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. It is marked...

Palestinian Arab activists and radical leftists have uploaded an edited video that claims to show security camera footage of the IDF shooting two Arab youths, in an incident that took place last Thursday, on “Nakba Day.” The youths hurled rocks at IDF soldiers at the Bitunia checkpoint, not far from Beit El. The footage appears to show them dropping to the ground as they walked away from the IDF position. The IDF said that the video is heavily edited in order to give a false picture of what really took place. “On Thursday, a violent and illegal disturbance took place...

Israeli-Arab lawmakers lined up to incite against Israel on Tuesday saying the creation of the Jewish state was the "equivalent to the destruction of the First and Second [Jewish] Temples." Attending an event held in Aljoun near Umm al-Fahm, the Arab Knesset members were joined by the leader of the Islamic Movement's Northern Branch, Raed Salah, and the head of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, Mohammed Zidan. "I feel an atmosphere of victory," MK Jamal Zahalka said, referring to the end of a mass hunger strike by Arab security prisoners in Israeli prisons.. "They won a battle for their rights...

The Knesset’s Labor, Welfare and Health Committee is holding a discussion Tuesday on the repeated attacks by Arabs on Hadassah Hospital at Har HaTzofim (Mt. Scopus). In the lead-up to the debate, an interesting discussion regarding the possible culpability of Eskimos has developed. ..... Another physician member of the Labor, Welfare and Health Committee, MK Dr. Afu Agbariya of the communist Hadash party, protested in a letter to the committee that the attackers might not be Arabs at all. “How can the committee determine that the rocks were thrown by Arabs before the relevant bodies’ responses are heard?”, he asked....

JERUSALEM -Masked Palestinians whirling slingshots clashed with Israeli riot police in two Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem on Saturday after the shooting death of a teenage stone thrower. It was a sign of rising tensions on the eve of Palestinian commemorations of their uprooting during Israel's 1948 creation. The possibility of escalation comes at a critical time for U.S. Mideast policy. President Barack Obama's envoy to the region, George Mitchell, resigned Friday, and the U.S. president may now have to retool the administration's incremental approach to peacemaking. Obama is to deliver a Mideast policy speech in the coming week. Mitchell held...

Nakba Day By Ari Bussel One lesson from the 9/11 attacks on the United States is that we did not have human intelligence in the Muslim community. Developing such assets requires time. In the military one plans for the unexpected, often training for worse case scenarios. Readiness is priceless, although the hope among civilized nations is never to need to resort to war. To these two seemingly very simple processes, intelligence gathering and preparedness, allow me to add implementing lessons learned. In the military, one debriefs after operations (both successful and failures), derives lessons and implements them. There is quite...