Dan Smith
http://bit.ly/1p5CB94, August 24, 2014

An analysis of the damage assessment data collected – on the Gaza War – by the UN Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (which has never been biased in Israel’s favor), confirms that Israel attacked Hamas targets in a restrained manner:

*Israel did not retaliate by rote against Hamas’ systematic attacks on civilian targets; Israel bombed areas which harbored Hamas missile launching grounds and facilities, command posts, terrorists homes and hideouts, operational bases, weapon inventory and tunnels.

*Most of the damage concentrated in very limited areas of 25 square meters of less, while most of Gaza was not damaged at all or in a very limited manner.  Less than 5% of Gaza was hit by The Israel Defense Forces.
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Bare Naked Islam July 13/13

Below is a summary of the video in Arabic that reveals an agreement made between Barack Hussein Obama and Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood to give 40% of Sinai to Hamas in exchange for $8 billion allegedly already paid to Morsi/Muslim Brotherhood by Obama.

No wonder Obama is asking the Egyptian Army to release Morsi:
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This is a Google translation of the story which appears in French from Poste deVeille in Canada:

h/t Susan K

Summary:
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By: Jameel@Muqata, JP

PA President Mahmoud Abbas has refused an offer by a senior Egyptian official to resettle “Palestinian refugees” in the Sinai, according to a report in the Middle East Monitor on Monday.

According to Abbas, the plan was first proposed in 1956 by Egypt, and was just put back on the the table again, in an attempt to help resolve the Arab-Israel conflict.

The idea was that the PA would receive a 618 square mile area adjacent to Gaza (the Gaza strip is 139 square miles) to resettle Arabs who claim refugee status. This would finally resolve the entire Palestinian refugee issue.

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Former Islamic Radical: We Must Undermine The Ideology ISIS Believes is a Noble, Higher Calling

Townhall

Maajid Nawaz is a former radical leader who once believed in building a Islamic caliphate through terrorism. After stint in prison, he had a change of heart and when he got out, he founded the first anti-radicalization think-tank.
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Communities that don’t build tend to wither away, said former Judea and Samaria Council head Dani Dayan – and there is no building going on.
By Yaakov Levi, INN

Former Judea and Samaria Council head Dani Dayan warned that those who opposed the designation of 4,000 dunams (988 acres) of land in Gush Etzion as state land, along with other plans such as the continued development of Jewish settlement in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria, are seeking to demoralize and eventually destroy the entire settlement movement.

Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Dayan said that the bureaucratic snafu that was holding up development of plans in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria was choking off the life-force of these communities. “For months the government committees and the Housing Ministry have not issued any tenders for construction. It’s true that development plans made in the past are now bearing fruit, but without new tenders construction will soon dry up,” he said.
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JPOST

Kerry says killers of journalists James Foley and Steve Sotloff will be held accountable ‘no matter how long it takes.’

WASHINGTON – The US seeks to destroy the metastasizing Islamic State, President Barack Obama said from Eastern Europe on Wednesday, reacting angrily to the murder of a second American citizen at its hands in two weeks.
The killers of journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff taking refuge in Syria will be held accountable, “no matter how long it takes,” US Secretary of State John Kerry echoed from Washington, calling Sotloff’s murder an act of evil.
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New Poll: 60% Pal. Arabs Reject Accepting Existence of Israel

ZOA

New York, September 3, 2014: A recent poll has shown that a large majority of Palestinian Arabs — 60% — reject permanently accepting Israel’s existence and instead suggest their leaders “work toward reclaiming all of historic Palestine, from the river to the sea.” The poll, conducted throughout the Palestinian Authority (PA) territories, commissioned by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and conducted during June 15-17, showed that 55% of Palestinian Arabs in Judea/Samaria and 68% in Gaza rejected statehood alongside Israel, supporting instead Palestinian statehood in place of Israel.
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Shurat Hadin alleges that Mashaal is “liable for Hamas’s war crime of execution without due process”; request uses Hamas leader’s Jordanian citizenship against him, since Jordan is member of ICC.

JPOST

Khaled Mashaal
Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal holds a press conference in the Qatari capital Doha on July 23, rejecting a cease-fire in the Gaza battles.. (photo credit:AFP)

The Shurat Hadin civil rights group announced on Wednesday that it has formally requested that the International Criminal Court prosecutor open an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal during Operation Protective Edge.

The original basis of the request, filed late Tuesday, was using Mashaal’s Jordanian citizenship against him since Jordan, unlike Israel and “Palestine,” has been a member of the ICC since April 11, 2002 and recognizes its jurisdiction over its citizens.
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Canadian military supplies reach Kurds as emergency aid is sent to northern Iraq

Australia could bolster role in Iraq

Dutch government to transport weapons and munition to Kurds

Germany is giving Support for Kurds

By Robert K. Vincent

Writing in the Wall Street Journal on June 17, Bret Stephens, in his column entitled, “The Pace of Obama’s Disasters”, made a strange comment in passing in his otherwise excellent appraisal of the Obama administration’s foreign policy failures, which read as follows:

“…Yet when it comes to leadership, we have our very own Clement Attlee at the top, eager to subtract the burdens of international responsibility so he can get on with the only thing that really animates him, which is building social democracy at home.”[Emphasis added.]

This is a common sentiment among many commentators today: Obama ‘doesn’t care about foreign policy’. However, a closer look at his presidency would reveal quite the opposite. Obama cares more about foreign policy than anything else, so long as it relates to Israel. This focus of his on Israel, moreover, is hardly benign; here too, it is quite the opposite. Indeed, this writer would submit that Obama’s intention to weaken our ally, Israel, is the central feature of his presidency.
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MOSAIC PUBLISHED A MAJOR ARTICLE ON THIS TOPIC WHICH THEY DESCRIBE AS FOLLOWS.

Iran is Israel’s main adversary in the Middle East – supporting Hamas and Islamic Jihad, backing Hizballah and trying to build nuclear weapons • But Iran is not as strong as it seems, and it has problems with many disaffected and large minorities • Iran has been meddling in our backyard for long enough, it’s time to hit back • Nicholas Saidel explains how we can do it

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Jerusalem and Washington blindsided each other during the Gaza war, and their dysfunctional ties now threaten Israel’s sought-after diplomatic and psychological victory over Hamas

by Isi Leibler

From the outset of Operation Protective Edge, Jewish renegades have been increasingly propelled into the limelight. One example was a recent letter published as an advertisement in The New York Times, signed by 300 descendants of Holocaust survivors from all over the world. It condemned the Israeli “massacre of Palestinians in Gaza” which amounted to the “genocide of Palestinian people.” It also decried the “extreme racist dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli society, which has reached a fever pitch” and called for boycotting, divesting from, and sanctioning the Jewish state.

This initiative typifies the efforts by small groups of fanatical Jewish deviants scattered throughout the world who seek to demonize Israel. It is not a new phenomenon in Jewish history, originating from the early days of the Diaspora. It reached a critical level during the Middle Ages when Jews were regarded as pariahs and the Church held them accountable for all the woes facing mankind, including plagues, droughts and other natural disasters.

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Deputy Minister Ofir Akunis criticizes EU and U.S. for condemning Israel’s designation of areas in Gush Etzion as state land.

By Hezki Ezra, INN

Ofir Akunis

By Ted Belman. What the EU is saying is what they have always said, is that the only borders they accept and the borders that both sides agree to. This in fact is what Res 242 provides and what the US has always said. But they are wrong to refer to the ’49 Armistice Lines as “the ’67 Borders”. The US, particularly this administration, has always been against settlement activity. There is nothing wrong with declaring it ‘state land” after due process. Israel is called upon to do this all the time. What the US is doing is attempting to intimidate Israel from building settlements. They recognize that the more Israel builds, the more difficult it will be to reach a peace agreement. Israel’s position is the less she builds the more difficult it will be to arrive at a peace agreement. The weaker Israel is the more intransigent the Arabs are. They do not want a peace agreement with Israel. What America is trying to do is to prevent Israel from doing what it is legally entitled to do.

There is no prospect for peace so long as the Arabs supported by the US demand the the settlement be based on the ’67 lines even with swaps. Israel will never agree to it. Given that reality there is no reason for Israel to stop building.

EU releases statement slamming Israel for choosing “this delicate moment” to make announcement, says it won’t recognize “any changes to pre-1967 borders.”
By MICHAEL WILNER, HERB KEINON, TOVAH LAZAROFF, GIL HOFFMAN, JPOST
The United States is concerned that Israel expanded its holding of state land in the West Bank by close to 1,000 acres for a new settlement city and that plans are pending for additional building activity in east Jerusalem.

US Ambassador Dan Shapiro “relayed our concerns over the weekend,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters in Washington on Tuesday, as she called on Israel to reverse Sunday’s decision regarding the land located in the Gush Etzion bloc, in an area known as Gva’ot.
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At cost of $100,000 per interceptor, defense minister says Iron Dome is expensive, but prevented greater economic losses.

Itay Blumenthal, YNET

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon commented on the defense budget and the cost of Operation Protective Edge during Calcalist’s Economic Forum Tuesday, and said that though military expenses are high, the expense is required to deal with the new form of terror threats Israel is faced with.

“The direct cost of the operation stands at more than $9 billion,” the defense minister said, adding that dealing with terror is “expensive,” and that even if the “defense budget would be tripled it would still not be a waste of money.”
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DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 2, 2014, 9:40 PM (IDT)

Credible information has reached Saudi, British and Australian agencies that two al Qaeda branches – IS in Iraq and Syria and AQAP at its base in Yemen – have wrapped up plans to roll out coordinated terrorist spectaculars around the 13th anniversary of the September 11, 2011 attacks on New York and Washington. According to DEBKAfile’s counterterrorism sources, they are preparing to strike simultaneously in the Middle East and a West European city. Next, they will go for US targets in the Middle East and Europe.

In the estimate of Islamist experts, the IS and AQAP have decided to delay direct terrorist action in the United States, calculating that an attack on America will have a greater shock impact some time after the first cycle of outrages, toward the end of 2014 or early 2015.
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Calm when it comes to Putin, ISIS and Hamas, but furious with Israel.

By Bret Stephens, WSJ, Sept. 1, 2014

Barack Obama “has become ‘enraged’ at the Israeli government, both for its actions and for its treatment of his chief diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. ” So reports the Jerusalem Post, based on the testimony of Martin Indyk, until recently a special Middle East envoy for the president. The war in Gaza, Mr. Indyk adds, has had “a very negative impact” on Jerusalem’s relations with Washington.

Think about this. Enraged. Not “alarmed” or “concerned” or “irritated” or even “angered.” Anger is a feeling. Rage is a frenzy. Anger passes. Rage feeds on itself. Anger is specific. Rage is obsessional, neurotic.

And Mr. Obama—No Drama Obama, the president who prides himself on his cool, a man whose emotional detachment is said to explain his intellectual strength—is enraged. With Israel. Which has just been hit by several thousand unguided rockets and 30-odd terror tunnels, a 50-day war, the forced closure of its one major airport, accusations of “genocide” by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, anti-Semitic protests throughout Europe, general condemnation across the world. This is the country that is the object of the president’s rage.
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