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Islamic Jihad Predicts Hamas-Fatah Pact Will Fail
Islamic Jihad says agreement between Hamas and Fatah will fail, cites the five-week period set by the sides to form unity government.
By Elad Benari
First Publish: 4/24/2014, 3:46 AM
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal with Mahoud Abbas
Flash 90
The Islamic Jihad terrorist group predicted on Wednesday that the reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah would likely fail, reports the Ma’an news agency.
The reason for the impending failure, a senior member of the group said, is the five-week period set by the sides to form a national unity government.
Senior member of Islamic Jihad Khalid al-Batsh warned on his Facebook page that the five-week period could lead to another freeze in the implementation of the reconciliation agreement.
More@ http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/179859
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From Both sides?
Kerry Calls For 'Compromises' From Both Sides
John Kerry
Reuters
US Secretary of State John Kerry
Kerry admits talks at a 'difficult point' after PA-Hamas unity deal leads to talk suspension, adds 'there's always a way forward.'
...Netanyahu noted that Hamas's "covenant calls for Muslims to fight and kill Jews. Hamas has fired more than 10,000 missiles and rockets at Israeli territory and has not halted terrorist actions against Israel even for a minute."
Kerry's even-handed call for "compromise" from both Israel and the PA seems to be a step back from State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki's criticism of the PA on Wednesday following the unity deal.
"It's hard to see how Israel can be expected to negotiate with a government that does not believe in its right to exist," said Psaki....
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The Jewish Press » » Kerry’s Talks Achieve Peace Between Hamas and Fatah
The Palestinian Authority has granted itself its death wish, unless Obama wants to make a death wish for Israel.
Published: April 23rd, 2014
Abbas and Hanieyh on poster, next to a picture of Arafat.
Photo Credit: Flash 90
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Liberman Calls for Investigation Against Arab MK
Foreign Minister says MK Basel Ghattas should be investigation over call on Christian Arabs to refuse to enlist.
By Ido Ben Porat
First Publish: 4/24/2014, 3:14 AM
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman
Flash 90
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman called on Wednesday for an investigation to be opened against Arab MK Basel Ghattas (Balad), who several months ago called on Christian Arabs to refuse to enlist into the IDF and to burn their draft summonses.
Liberman called on the Attorney General to open an investigation "on suspicion of incitement and sedition against MK Basel Ghattas who called on young Christians to burn those enlistment orders."
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Waiting for the Palestinian Godot
Why are we repeatedly surprised every time Mahmoud Abbas fails to sign a peace agreement with Israel?
By Ari Shavit
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There are some moments a journalist will never forget. In early 1997, Yossi Beilin decided to trust me, and show me the document that proved that peace was within reach. The then-prominent and creative politician from the Labor movement opened up a safe, took out a stack of printed pages, and laid them down on the table like a player with a winning poker hand.
Rumors were rife about the Beilin-Abu Mazen agreement, but only a few had the opportunity to see the document with their own eyes or hold it in their hands. I was one of those few. With mouth agape I read the comprehensive outline for peace that had been formulated 18 months earlier by two brilliant champions of peace -- one, Israeli, and one, Palestinian. The document left nothing to chance: Mahmoud Abbas is ready to sign a permanent agreement. The refugee from Safed had overcome the ghosts of the past and the ideas of the past, and was willing to build a joint Israeli-Palestinian future, based on coexistence. If we could only get out from under the Likud’s thumb, and get Benjamin Netanyahu out of office, he will join us, hand in hand, walking toward the two-state solution. Abbas is a serious partner for true peace, the one with whom we can make a historic breakthrough toward reconciliation.
We understood. We did what was necessary. In 1999, we ousted Likud and Netanyahu. In 2000, we went to the peace summit at Camp David. Whoops, surprise: Abbas didn’t bring the Beilin-Abu Mazen plan to Camp David, or any other draft of a peace proposal. The opposite was true: He was one of the staunchest objectors, and his demand for the right of return prevented any progress.
But don’t believe we’d give up so quickly. During the fall of 2003, as the Geneva Accord was being formulated, it was clear to us that there were no more excuses, and that now, Abbas would sign the new peace agreement and adopt its principles. Whoops, surprise: Abu Mazen sent Yasser Abed Rabbo (a former Palestinian Authority minister) instead, while he stayed in his comfy Ramallah office. No signature, no accord.
But people as steadfast as us don’t give up on our dreams. So in 2008 we got behind Ehud Olmert, and the marathon talks he held with Abbas, and the offer that couldn’t be refused. Whoops, surprise: Abu Mazen didn’t actually refuse, he just disappeared. He didn’t say yes, he didn’t say no, he just vanished without a trace.
Did we start to understand that we were facing the Palestinian Yitzhak Shamir? No, no, no. In the summer of 2009, we even supported Netanyahu, when he made overtures to Abbas with his Bar-Ilan speech, and the settlement freeze. Whoops, surprise: the sophisticated objector didn’t blink, or trip up. He simple refused to dance the tango of peace with the right-wing Israeli leader.
Have we opened our eyes? Of course not. Again, we blamed Netanyahu and Likud, and believed that in 2014, Abu Mazen wouldn’t dare to say no, not to John Kerry. Whoops, surprise: In his own sophisticated, polite way, Abbas has said no in recent months to both Kerry and Barack Obama. Again, the Palestinian president’s position is clear and consistent: The Palestinians must not be required to make concessions. It’s a complicated game – squeezing more and more compromises out of the Israelis, without the Palestinians granting a single real, compromise of their own.
Take heed: Twenty years of fruitless talks have led to nothing. There is no document that contains any real Palestinian concession with Abbas’ signature. None. There never was, and there never will be.
During the 17 years that have gone by since Beilin took that document out of his safe, he’s gotten divorced, remarried, and had grandchildren. I also divorced, remarried, and brought (more) children into the world. Time passes and the experiences we’ve accumulated have taught both Beilin and me more than a few things. But many others haven’t learned a thing. They’re still allowing Abbas to make fools of them, as they wait for the Palestinian Godot, who will never show up.
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Hamas TV clip:
"Our harvest is your heads" -
Hamas TV celebrates killing Israeli soldiers
Hamas leader Haniyeh announced 9 days ago:
Hamas policy is to kidnap Israeli soldiers
Haniyeh announced 9 days ago that the unity agreement with Fatah was imminent
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
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[Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), Apr. 23, 2014]
Palestinian Media Watch reported that during the Gaza War, Hamas broadcast numerous TV clips celebrating the killing of Israeli soldiers and civilians.
Although the world was surprised by the unity agreement announced yesterday between Hamas and Fatah, the official PA daily had already reported nine days ago that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh announced a unity agreement was about to be finalized and implemented. In addition the Hamas head reiterated that kidnapping Israeli soldiers continues to be Hamas policy.
The following is the text in the official PA daily from April 16, 2014:
"Yesterday morning [April 15, 2014], Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of the deposed Hamas government in Gaza, said that the next stage would be the implementation of the reconciliation [between Fatah and Hamas] agreed on in the past, and the announcement of the end of the schism... Haniyeh emphasized that the next stage would be unlike those that preceded it, and would not [consist] of meetings alone, but of progress, through intensive steps, toward the completion of reconciliation and the implementation of that which has been agreed on.
He [Haniyeh] added: 'The kidnapping of Israeli soldiers is part of the agenda of the Palestinian resistance and of the Hamas movement, and will continue as long as there are Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prisons.'
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 16, 2014]
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=11284
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Fatah's military wing: "Armed resistance” until Israel is destroyed
"Armed resistance until the liberation of all of Palestine" The period of "calm has ended" (April 23, 2014)
Israel is monstrous mosque-eating soldier
Cartoon repeats PA libel that Israel is planning to destroy Jerusalem mosques (April 22, 2014)
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Russian Military Exercise 'Against Ukrainian Machine'
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu announced, Thursday, that his country's army has started a military exercise on the border with Ukraine in response to the escalation of tension in the area, including a Ukrainian campaign against pro-Russian separatists in the eastern part of Ukraine.
Shoygu told Russian media, "We were forced to respond to the Ukrainian war machine."
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Al Qaeda isn’t on the run. Detroit is bankrupt.
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Russia Set to Boost Space Cooperation With India, China
Oleg Ostapenko
18:47 24/04/2014
MOSCOW, April 24 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is set to develop its space cooperation with India and China, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos Oleg Ostapenko said on Thursday.
“Recently, we received an invitation from Japan to discuss an array of questions,” he added.
The announcement was made amid threats of Russia’s western partners to freeze or cut cooperation with Russia amid tensions over Ukraine and Crimea secession. NASA threatened to cut space ties with Russia, but Roscosmos has yet received no official notifications.
The Russian space chief said that despite belligerent rhetoric, Russia’s space cooperation with European partners remains unharmed.
“We are now communicating with the space agencies of France, Germany and, particularly, with the European [Space Agency],” he told journalists.
Russia and its BRICS partners India and China have a long history of cooperation, including in space.
In July 2004, Russia and India signed a protocol to boost cooperation in space including space launches and joint development of the GLONASS satellite navigation system.
Deputy head of Roscosmos Sergey Savelyev said in mid-April that Russia and China are coordinating on major future research projects in space and agreed last year to expand it.
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Radicals' behaviour in Ukraine poll run-up 'reinforces Russian doubt'
April 24, 17:42
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Eastern Ukrainian region announces mobilization
April 24, 17:25
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East Ukraine tension mirrors mistrust of Kiev leaders, OSCE head says
April 24, 17:13
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Crimean Military Dolphins to Serve in Russian Navy
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Largest oil field in 20 years discovered in Russia
April 21, 2014
Velikoye, an oil field with a projected reserve of 300 million tons of oil and 90 billion cubic meters of natural gas, is the largest found in Russia in the last 20 years. It is located in the Astrakhan Region and belongs to the small firm AFB. The project is in the exploratory
Source: Russia Beyond the Headlines -
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· Dutch fighter jets intercept 2 Russian bombers in their airspace
By Lindsay Isaac and Greg Botelho, CNN
· (CNN) -- Dutch fighter jets scrambled Wednesday to intercept a pair of Russian military aircraft that entered their airspace, a fairly routine action that comes amid heightened tensions between Russia and NATO, a Dutch official said.
· More@ http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/23/world/europe/russian-bombers-intercepted/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
· Military jets from the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom were scrambled to escort Russian bombers away from their airspace in the latest wildfire sparked by the confrontation between Russia and the West over Ukraine.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/british-danish-dutch-jets-chase-away-bombers/#hGjSGUEOmTW37yRz.99
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A New 'Popular Revolution' In China?
Military jets from the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom were scrambled to escort Russian bombers away from their airspace in the latest wildfire sparked by the confrontation between Russia and the West over Ukraine.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/british-danish-dutch-jets-chase-away-bombers/#hGjSGUEOmTW37yRz.99
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