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Turkey threatens 'harshest' response if Kurds try to capture Syrian border city
by DEBKAFile
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday that the Syrian Kurds and their YPG milita would face the "harshest reaction" from Turkey if they attempt to capture the city of Azaz on the Turkish border. He claimed that if not for Turkey's artillery bombardment on Sunday, the Kurds would have already captured Azaz and Tal Rifaat, another small Syrian city.
DEBKAfile's military sources: The prime minister's claim is not accurate. Unlike the "dramatic" reports from Ankara, the bombing was extremely limited and did not cause any damage. Turkey has not taken any significant step until now to counter the YPG militia's takeover of large parts of the Syria-Turkey border area.
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Israel: PA official's comments prove they don't want peace
by Arutz Sheva News
Israeli officials respond to PA Foreign Minister's declaration that there will "never" be direct talks with Israel again.
PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki
Reuters
If Israeli officials needed proof that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is not interested in peace, they found it in the remarks made Monday by the PA's Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki.
Malki, who accompanied PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas on a visit to Japan, was asked questions about the deadlock in the peace talks with Israel.
"We will never go back and sit again in direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations," he replied.
Officials in the prime minister's entourage to Berlin, where Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel, said in response that anyone who wants to resume the peace process should be aware of statements of this kind.
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Israel won't say 'Islam' in urging UN to fight 'extremism'
by Arutz Sheva News
Irony: Israeli Legal Adviser says to defeat terror 'we must be clear about ideology at its source' – but neglects to clarify which ideology.
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Ya'alon: Arabs are developing nuclear weapons
by Arutz Sheva News
Iran deal igniting a Mideast nuclear arms race, warns Ya'alon, saying Arab countries are now pursuing atomic weapons.
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Believable stupidity &Interfernece
Non-political? Rivlin bashes bill to suspend terror MKs
by Arutz Sheva News
Despite holding supposedly apolitical role as president, Rivlin slams Knesset's 'overstepping' democracy, calls for a 'liberal right.'
President Reuven Rivlin
Yaakov Naumi/Flash 90
President Reuven Rivlin on Monday evening launched a verbal fusillade against a bill that would allow the Knesset to suspend pro-terror MKs, even though the president is supposed to act as a non-political figurehead of the state.
Speaking at the launch of Dr. Yoaz Hendel's book "In an Unsown Land" at the Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, Rivlin said, "throughout this new book, arises the not unimportant question of 'to whom does liberalism belong?' ...Has liberalism transferred into the hands of the left, is it still in the hands of the right, or perhaps it will be possible to shape the Israeli future so that liberalism will belong to all those who are liberal."
He then turned his attention to the bill to suspend an MK with a vote of 90 MKs out of 120, a bill that arose after three Arab MKs earlier this month visited the families of terrorist murderers to console them and pray for the terrorists.
Rivlin called the law a breach of democracy, saying that "the law to depose a Member of Knesset oversteps the reality that the Knesset is representative of the sovereign, not the sovereign itself, and places the elected above the public. ...We cannot allow the Knesset, whose representatives are chosen by the public, to independently overturn the public's choices."
"A Knesset that is able, even if justly, to today decide upon the cessation of the office of such representatives of the public, will tomorrow, unjustly do so to others, and then where will we be?"
This is not Rivlin's first time interfering with Knesset legislation. In November 2014, he bashed the Jewish state law, which was to emphasize Israel's Jewish character while retaining the democratic rights of all citizens.
On Monday Rivlin went on to condemn the three Arab Joint List MKs from the Balad faction - Hanin Zoabi, Jamal Zahalka and Basel Ghattas - who visited the families of terrorists.
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Iran announces S-300 is now en route from Russia
by Arutz Sheva News
After years of delays due to UN sanctions and Western pressure, Iranian spokesperson says advanced missile system is on its way.
The above caption-photo not connected with this news except the S-300
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Watch: Ya'alon recalls warning Rabin against Oslo
by Arutz Sheva News
At major conference Ya'alon says Turkey can't house Hamas HQ and be friends with Israel, warns of 'organized Islamic invasion of Europe.'
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Likud) on Monday took part in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, where he recalled warning then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin against the Oslo Accords back in 1995.
Ya'alon said he warned Rabin that the Palestinian Arabs were not interested in peace as evident in their open incitement, an incitement he said has not changed in the years since.
Detailing the incitement he noted the open statements made in the Palestinian Authority (PA) speaking of an Israeli "occupation" that began in 1948, indicating that they view the entire land as theirs and do not distinguish between Judea and Samaria and the rest of Israel.
He also noted how PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas denies the existence of the Jewish people, saying Jews have a religion but no nationality, and emphasized that the continued refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish state of Israel to exist is the core of the conflict.
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Jewish leader: Meeting with Egyptian President was 'eye opening'
by Arutz Sheva News
Stephen Greenberg, chairman of the Conference of Presidents, describes Jewish leaders' visits to Turkey and Egypt.
Stephen M. Greenberg, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, spoke to Arutz Sheva on Monday about the Jewish leaders' recent visits to Turkey and Egypt.
Greenberg described the meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with whom Israel is trying to re-establish diplomatic ties, as a "bridge building meeting" and a "very good meeting".
"[Erdogan] certainly indicated that there was a thaw in the relationship between Turkey and Israel, and he said the thaw would get a little warmer as time went on," he added.
The meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi was "eye opening", Greenberg said.
"The meeting with President Sisi, to me, was something I had never envisioned," he added. "[Sisi] was overtly clear about the strong ties between Israel and Egypt."
The Egyptian president also replied "I'm in" when told about a possible Middle Eastern alliance involving Israel, Greece and Cyprus, said Greenberg.
The Egyptians were "overly gracious", he continued, describing the Turkey meeting as "good" and the meeting with Sisi as "excellent".
Greenberg called for more support for Sisi's government by both Israel and the United States.
"I also think it would be very important for the American administration to welcome President Sisi at some point to the United States. That would be a major boost to them," he added.
Greenberg said the United States should "exert whatever assets what we have" to have more influence on the Middle East.
"That was the message we got from both [Egypt and Turkey]. They really would like there to be a closer relationship between what's going on in this part of the world and the United States of America."
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A gentleman's guide to wife-beating
by Arutz Sheva News
PA mufti of Gaza on official TV teaches men how to 'discipline' women, instructing them to 'hit her, don't make her ugly.'
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A mixed bag..she makes some good point but then she makes one or two,not so good Statement. but I feel she is genuinely trying to address certain issues which is a positive step in the right direction-given her past anti-Israeli stance..but she needs to go further..
Watch: Power says 'UN attempts to delegitimize Israel'
by Arutz Sheva News
US Ambassador to UN speaks about UN bias against Jewish state in address to Israeli students at American International School.
US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power is addressing students at the Israel Middle East Model UN Conference in Even Yehuda, Israel, in a key speech during her visit to the Jewish state.
Power noted on the serious problems facing the world, especially highlighting the plight of those escaping war zones in the Middle East.
She slammed UN member states who "cross the line" from legitimate criticism of Israel into "attempts to delegitimize the state of Israel itself." Power added that UN bias eventually undermines the legitimacy of the UN itself.
Likewise she noted the discrimination being suffered in the UN by ZAKA, a disaster response team, since being nominated in 2013. It was blocked five times by the UN, "simply because ZAKA is an Israeli organization." Now through Israeli and US lobbying efforts, ZAKA a few weeks ago finally won the accreditation it deserves.
According to Power, the problem is not the UN, but rather the "players" who are present there, and she went on to call for improving the world and international relations so as to improve the UN, which she reminded the audience is itself merely a forum.
She called to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calling for the two-state solution dividing Israel and stating that some day, members of the Model UN may sit at the real UN behind the placard "Palestine."
Addressing the lethal attack by Arab Israeli terrorist Nashat Milhem in Tel Aviv last month in which he gunned down three Israelis, she spoke about how one member of the Model UN from Milihem's hometown showed "courage" by coming to the Model UN and saying that terrorism doesn't define all members of the town. Many residents of Arara were shown to have cooperated in hiding Milhem.
Speaking about the lack of representation of women in the UN and governments worldwide, she praised Israel's Knesset for having women as a fourth of its members, whereas the Congress only has women as a fifth of its members.
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Ex-pope's 'intense' relationship with married woman revealed
by Arutz Sheva News
Letters received by BBC document how Pope John Paul II held a 30-year-old eyebrow-raising relationship with a woman.
Pope John Paul II in Jerusalem, 2000
Flash 90
Pope John Paul II had a close relationship with a married woman which lasted over 30 years according to letters which feature in a documentary being shown by the BBC on Monday.
While the documentary does not claim he broke his vow of celibacy with Polish-born philosopher and writer Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, the tone of some of his letters to her points to intense feelings between them, the broadcaster says.
The two spent camping and skiing holidays together and went on country walks.
In one letter from September 1976, he calls her a "gift from God."
"My dear Teresa," he writes. "You write about being torn apart, but I could find no answer to these words."
Also in September 1976, he writes: "Already last year I was looking for an answer to these words, 'I belong to you,' and finally, before leaving Poland, I found a way - a scapular."
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Why are Arabs on a killing spree? Watch this cartoon
by Arutz Sheva News
Cartoon uploaded to social media is a prime example of the incitement machine that exhorts Arabs to attack.
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PA claims ownership of Jordan Valley in international ploy
by Arutz Sheva News
Playing the wounded victim, PA asks international community to stop Israel from taking PA land known as the Jordan Valley.
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where's the Media and Left's Outrage?
Two hospitals bombed in Syria, 19 killed; Russia blamed
by Arutz Sheva News
Hospitals in Aleppo and Idlib provinces hit by air strikes and rocket artillery observers blame Russian jets, say attack was deliberate.
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good move
BDS to become criminal offence in England
by Arutz Sheva News
Government calls for end of ethical (unethical?) boycotts, claims it endangers national interests, undermines good community relations.
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Russia 'no plans to stay in Syria long-term'
by Arutz Sheva News
Prime Minister makes statements three days after warning of possible World War.
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