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1. Lieberman: We Know Who Did It
by Gil Ronen
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman reacted Monday to the explosion in an Israeli diplomat's car in India, and apparently also to a failed attack in Georgia.
"The citizens and the state of Israel are targets of terror. We know who carried out the terror attacks and who is behind the attacks. We will not go back to business as scheduled."
A diplomat's wife was reported moderately injured in the Delhi attack.
Lieberman rejected the latest demands by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, incuding a call for Israel to declare a new moratorium on construction for Jews in Judea and Samaria.
Regarding construction in Judea and Samaria, Lieberman said: "We will not accept any diktat or precondition in Judea and Samaria, certainly not a freeze. Freezing construction is an attempt to strangle the residents who were sent there."
"There will be no freeze in a government in which we [Yisrael Beitenu] sit."
Regarding the Tal Law that allows most hareidi-religious men of army age to avoid enlistment, Lieberman said that his party will create an alternative to the law. "I have asked MK David Rotem to take care of the matter," he said.
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by Gil Ronen
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman reacted Monday to the explosion in an Israeli diplomat's car in India, and apparently also to a failed attack in Georgia.
"The citizens and the state of Israel are targets of terror. We know who carried out the terror attacks and who is behind the attacks. We will not go back to business as scheduled."
A diplomat's wife was reported moderately injured in the Delhi attack.
Lieberman rejected the latest demands by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, incuding a call for Israel to declare a new moratorium on construction for Jews in Judea and Samaria.
Regarding construction in Judea and Samaria, Lieberman said: "We will not accept any diktat or precondition in Judea and Samaria, certainly not a freeze. Freezing construction is an attempt to strangle the residents who were sent there."
"There will be no freeze in a government in which we [Yisrael Beitenu] sit."
Regarding the Tal Law that allows most hareidi-religious men of army age to avoid enlistment, Lieberman said that his party will create an alternative to the law. "I have asked MK David Rotem to take care of the matter," he said.
Tags: terror attack ,India ,Avigdor Lieberman
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2. Agreement Reached on Migron
by Gil Ronen
An agreement has been reached in the negotiations between residents of Migron and Minister Benny Begin regarding the planned eviction of residents and demolition of the structures that have been built on the site. Alternative structures will be built at permanent site not far from Migron, and the IDF will "consider positively" leaving existing structures intact.
Arutz Sheva has learned that the agreement will make it possible for residents to peacefully leave the site and avoid confrontation with demolition forces. The agreement is the result of negotiations in which the residents were represented by Attorney Yaakov Weinrot and Binyamin regional authority head Avi Roeh, vis-à-vis the government as represented by Minister Begin.
Roeh sent a letter to Min. Begin Sunday in which he enumerated the agreements reached and expressed support for them, on his own behalf and on behalf of the residents of Migron.
The compromise is based upon a statement by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, according to which alternative structures will be built at a permanent site on state lands, near Migron. The land upon which Migron currently resides will be handed over to the IDF Civil Administration, which will "consider positively" the continued use of structures that were built on plots that were owned by Arabs who left the Land of Israel long ago and can no longer claim them.
As for structures built upon plots that Migron residents claim ownership to – their future will only be decided after the courts decide in the matter.
The alternative site will be in the Yekev (winery) area about two kilometers away from the present site, and the families will only move there after completion of construction work there.
The government will ask the High Court to approve the compromise. Meanwhile, the Civil Administration will tour the Vineyard site to prepare for implementation of the compromise agreement.
The timing of the compromise may be connected to the fact that as of yesterday, the Supreme Court has a new president. The former president, Judge Dorit Beinisch, was unyielding on Migron.
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by Gil Ronen
An agreement has been reached in the negotiations between residents of Migron and Minister Benny Begin regarding the planned eviction of residents and demolition of the structures that have been built on the site. Alternative structures will be built at permanent site not far from Migron, and the IDF will "consider positively" leaving existing structures intact.
Arutz Sheva has learned that the agreement will make it possible for residents to peacefully leave the site and avoid confrontation with demolition forces. The agreement is the result of negotiations in which the residents were represented by Attorney Yaakov Weinrot and Binyamin regional authority head Avi Roeh, vis-à-vis the government as represented by Minister Begin.
Roeh sent a letter to Min. Begin Sunday in which he enumerated the agreements reached and expressed support for them, on his own behalf and on behalf of the residents of Migron.
The compromise is based upon a statement by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, according to which alternative structures will be built at a permanent site on state lands, near Migron. The land upon which Migron currently resides will be handed over to the IDF Civil Administration, which will "consider positively" the continued use of structures that were built on plots that were owned by Arabs who left the Land of Israel long ago and can no longer claim them.
As for structures built upon plots that Migron residents claim ownership to – their future will only be decided after the courts decide in the matter.
The alternative site will be in the Yekev (winery) area about two kilometers away from the present site, and the families will only move there after completion of construction work there.
The government will ask the High Court to approve the compromise. Meanwhile, the Civil Administration will tour the Vineyard site to prepare for implementation of the compromise agreement.
The timing of the compromise may be connected to the fact that as of yesterday, the Supreme Court has a new president. The former president, Judge Dorit Beinisch, was unyielding on Migron.
Tags: Migron
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3. Secular Schools to Mark ‘Gush Katif Day’
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Gush Katif Day will be marked for the first time by 75 secular schools on Wednesday, the date of the founding of Netzer Hazani, the Katif Bloc's first Jewish community, 34 years ago.
The community was destroyed along with nearly 20 others in the “Disengagement” expulsion program carried out in the summer of 2005 by then-Prime Ariel Sharon.
The Knesset previously passed into law that the 22nd day of the Hebrew month of Shevat, which this year falls on Wednesday, is noted as Gush Katif Day. Approximately 700 public religious high schools mark the day every year, but secular schools previously have not participated – until this year.
The decision by secular schools to mark Gush Katif Day represents a gradual change in the perception of Israel society of the national religious community, which was libeled by mainstream media following the murder of former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin 16 years ago. His convicted murderer, Yigal Amir, was religious. Contrary to initial radio reports at the time, he lived in Herzliya and not in Judea and Samaria.
Educational activities in the schools will feature a CD disk on “Gush Katif – an Israeli Story.” Approximately 120 residents of the destroyed Gush Katif communities will speak.
Activities in the schools will include games, films and stories on Gush Katif as a Zionist enterprise. School children will discuss the former residents’ struggles with personal, collective and national identities as well as the dilemma facing a Jewish democratic society.
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Gush Katif Day will be marked for the first time by 75 secular schools on Wednesday, the date of the founding of Netzer Hazani, the Katif Bloc's first Jewish community, 34 years ago.
The community was destroyed along with nearly 20 others in the “Disengagement” expulsion program carried out in the summer of 2005 by then-Prime Ariel Sharon.
The Knesset previously passed into law that the 22nd day of the Hebrew month of Shevat, which this year falls on Wednesday, is noted as Gush Katif Day. Approximately 700 public religious high schools mark the day every year, but secular schools previously have not participated – until this year.
The decision by secular schools to mark Gush Katif Day represents a gradual change in the perception of Israel society of the national religious community, which was libeled by mainstream media following the murder of former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin 16 years ago. His convicted murderer, Yigal Amir, was religious. Contrary to initial radio reports at the time, he lived in Herzliya and not in Judea and Samaria.
Educational activities in the schools will feature a CD disk on “Gush Katif – an Israeli Story.” Approximately 120 residents of the destroyed Gush Katif communities will speak.
Activities in the schools will include games, films and stories on Gush Katif as a Zionist enterprise. School children will discuss the former residents’ struggles with personal, collective and national identities as well as the dilemma facing a Jewish democratic society.
Tags: Gush Katif ,Disengagement ,schools
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4. U.S. Naval Commander Warns Against Iran's 'Suicide Ships'
by Elad Benari
Vice Admiral Mark I. Fox, Commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet, warned on Sunday against “suicide ships” Iran may plant along the Straits of Hormuz in order to use against U.S. forces that try to break the blockade in the area.
Israel’s Channel 2 News quoted Fox as having told reporters that Iran has “increased the number of submarines at their disposal and also acquired a number of ships that can be used for suicide missions when necessary.”
Fox also warned of Iran’s capabilities of firing long-range missiles and said, “We are following with interest the development of missiles and rockets that can hit ships in our fleet. The Iranians can make things difficult for us during an operation and we are taking their threats seriously.”
Last week, Iranian officials said that the Islamic Republic is conducting yet more military exercises in the Straits of Hormuz and that the exercises were in response to a European boycott of Iranian oil.”
Iranian television said that the exercises would continue for a month. The report added that Iran had no plans to interfere with sea traffic through the Straits.
The Straits of Hormuz are considered an important strategic asset; 20% of the world's production of oil passes through it on oil tankers bound for the West, and Iran has threatened to close the Straits if its nuclear facilities are attacked.
In addition to the exercises, Iranian officials said last week that they had developed a new short-range missile designed to shoot down missiles fired at Iran from warships. The Zafar is a short-range anti-vessel radar-guided cruise missile, which can target small and medium-sized targets with high precision, officials said. The missile “loses altitude after being launched, and then cruises at low altitude in order to be hidden from sight of the enemy, and in the final stage identifies the target at a low altitude and destroys the target,” the official added.
On Saturday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Tehran will soon unveil “big new” nuclear achievements.
Speaking at a rally in Tehran marking the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that toppled the pro-Western monarchy and brought Islamic clerics to power, Ahmadinejad said, “Within the next few days the world will witness the inauguration of several big new achievements in the nuclear field.”
He did not specify what those big new achievements are.
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by Elad Benari
Vice Admiral Mark I. Fox, Commander of the U.S. 5th Fleet, warned on Sunday against “suicide ships” Iran may plant along the Straits of Hormuz in order to use against U.S. forces that try to break the blockade in the area.
Israel’s Channel 2 News quoted Fox as having told reporters that Iran has “increased the number of submarines at their disposal and also acquired a number of ships that can be used for suicide missions when necessary.”
Fox also warned of Iran’s capabilities of firing long-range missiles and said, “We are following with interest the development of missiles and rockets that can hit ships in our fleet. The Iranians can make things difficult for us during an operation and we are taking their threats seriously.”
Last week, Iranian officials said that the Islamic Republic is conducting yet more military exercises in the Straits of Hormuz and that the exercises were in response to a European boycott of Iranian oil.”
Iranian television said that the exercises would continue for a month. The report added that Iran had no plans to interfere with sea traffic through the Straits.
The Straits of Hormuz are considered an important strategic asset; 20% of the world's production of oil passes through it on oil tankers bound for the West, and Iran has threatened to close the Straits if its nuclear facilities are attacked.
In addition to the exercises, Iranian officials said last week that they had developed a new short-range missile designed to shoot down missiles fired at Iran from warships. The Zafar is a short-range anti-vessel radar-guided cruise missile, which can target small and medium-sized targets with high precision, officials said. The missile “loses altitude after being launched, and then cruises at low altitude in order to be hidden from sight of the enemy, and in the final stage identifies the target at a low altitude and destroys the target,” the official added.
On Saturday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Tehran will soon unveil “big new” nuclear achievements.
Speaking at a rally in Tehran marking the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that toppled the pro-Western monarchy and brought Islamic clerics to power, Ahmadinejad said, “Within the next few days the world will witness the inauguration of several big new achievements in the nuclear field.”
He did not specify what those big new achievements are.
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5. ‘Israel Can Harm Iran in Ways Prohibited in US’
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Israel is carrying out attacks on Iran that are prohibited by the United States, Newsweek-Daily Beast stated Monday in a report that also says new Mossad chief Tamir Pardo visited Washington to gauge American reactions if Israel strikes Iran.
American officials reportedly said that Pardo asked, “What is our posture on Iran? Are we [the US] ready to bomb? Would we [do so later]? What does it mean if [Israel] does it anyway?”
Under the headline “Obama’s Dangerous Game With Iran,” the article revealed what many have assumed – that the United States and Israel have different red lines on Iran; that President Barack Obama’s speech against a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria tipped the scales of distrust from Jerusalem; and Israel and the United States are sharing intelligence – but not all of it.
Not to be forgotten is that President Barack Obama wants to be re-elected, and all-out war might get in his way, although a few pundits have observed that it might actually be an advantage for him if it restores the United States’ stature as a world leader for peace and freedom.
Since President Obama moved into the White House, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu increasingly felt that when the president “spoke about Iran and his opposition to the nuclearization of Iran ... the Israeli factor did not play prominently,” according to Newsweek.
Washington and Jerusalem have been in constant contact with each other, and the Obama administration has made it clear it wants to count on economic sanctions to stop Iran’s race for a nuclear weapon. “Above all, the White House doesn’t want Israel to start a war – not yet, anyway,” the magazine reported.
Regarding what the magazine called “mysterious assassins,” one of whom killed an Iranian scientist last month one day before President Obama called Prime Minister Netanyahu, the magazine stated, “Israel has no qualms about assassinating Iranians involved in nuclear research, for instance; U.S. law forbids it [because] drone strikes against jihadist leaders are considered acts of war."
“A senior U.S. intelligence official says that both sides performed a kind of ‘Kabuki dance’ on the assassinations and industrial ‘accidents’ that have increased in Iran during the past year: ‘The Israelis don’t want to say and we don’t want to know…"
‘”They knew that if we gave them certain kinds of information we’d run the risk of breaking the law. We often held things back from them—satellite imagery and other kinds of intelligence that could have helped them with their activities.”
Mossad chief Pardo’s visit to Washington was aimed at taking “the pulse of the Obama administration and determine what the consequences would be if Israel bombed Iranian nuclear sites over American objections,” Newsweek added.
It has been clear that Israel and America’s “red lines” are not the same because the United States, unlike Israel, has the military capacity and distance from Iran that allows it to wait until Iran has a nuclear weapon, a luxury Israel cannot afford.
Israeli officials have concluded that President Obama has come to realize that Iran simply is playing charades and has no intention of cooperating with inspection of its nuclear facilities.
Sources told Newsweek that it took the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad‘s brutal suppression of protests three years ago and the discovery of a new underground nuclear facility near Qom to convince President Obama to ratchet up sanctions.
He has allowed the CIA to continue its policy of covert operations while he carries out harsher sanctions to punish the Iranian economy.
Israel is more optimistic than before, and the magazine quoted a close aide to Prime Minister Netanyahu as saying, “The rhetoric from the United States today is different from what it was a year ago. Today, when you listen to Obama ... you get the feeling the Americans are ready to attack if worse comes to worst.”
The sticking point for Israel is President Obama’s refusal to promise to act militarily if sanctions fail.
“If Israel will miss its last opportunity [to attack], then we will have to lean only on the United States, and if the United States decides not to attack, then we will face an Iran with a bomb,” a former Israeli official told the magazine.
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Israel is carrying out attacks on Iran that are prohibited by the United States, Newsweek-Daily Beast stated Monday in a report that also says new Mossad chief Tamir Pardo visited Washington to gauge American reactions if Israel strikes Iran.
American officials reportedly said that Pardo asked, “What is our posture on Iran? Are we [the US] ready to bomb? Would we [do so later]? What does it mean if [Israel] does it anyway?”
Under the headline “Obama’s Dangerous Game With Iran,” the article revealed what many have assumed – that the United States and Israel have different red lines on Iran; that President Barack Obama’s speech against a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria tipped the scales of distrust from Jerusalem; and Israel and the United States are sharing intelligence – but not all of it.
Not to be forgotten is that President Barack Obama wants to be re-elected, and all-out war might get in his way, although a few pundits have observed that it might actually be an advantage for him if it restores the United States’ stature as a world leader for peace and freedom.
Since President Obama moved into the White House, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu increasingly felt that when the president “spoke about Iran and his opposition to the nuclearization of Iran ... the Israeli factor did not play prominently,” according to Newsweek.
Washington and Jerusalem have been in constant contact with each other, and the Obama administration has made it clear it wants to count on economic sanctions to stop Iran’s race for a nuclear weapon. “Above all, the White House doesn’t want Israel to start a war – not yet, anyway,” the magazine reported.
Regarding what the magazine called “mysterious assassins,” one of whom killed an Iranian scientist last month one day before President Obama called Prime Minister Netanyahu, the magazine stated, “Israel has no qualms about assassinating Iranians involved in nuclear research, for instance; U.S. law forbids it [because] drone strikes against jihadist leaders are considered acts of war."
“A senior U.S. intelligence official says that both sides performed a kind of ‘Kabuki dance’ on the assassinations and industrial ‘accidents’ that have increased in Iran during the past year: ‘The Israelis don’t want to say and we don’t want to know…"
‘”They knew that if we gave them certain kinds of information we’d run the risk of breaking the law. We often held things back from them—satellite imagery and other kinds of intelligence that could have helped them with their activities.”
Mossad chief Pardo’s visit to Washington was aimed at taking “the pulse of the Obama administration and determine what the consequences would be if Israel bombed Iranian nuclear sites over American objections,” Newsweek added.
It has been clear that Israel and America’s “red lines” are not the same because the United States, unlike Israel, has the military capacity and distance from Iran that allows it to wait until Iran has a nuclear weapon, a luxury Israel cannot afford.
Israeli officials have concluded that President Obama has come to realize that Iran simply is playing charades and has no intention of cooperating with inspection of its nuclear facilities.
Sources told Newsweek that it took the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad‘s brutal suppression of protests three years ago and the discovery of a new underground nuclear facility near Qom to convince President Obama to ratchet up sanctions.
He has allowed the CIA to continue its policy of covert operations while he carries out harsher sanctions to punish the Iranian economy.
Israel is more optimistic than before, and the magazine quoted a close aide to Prime Minister Netanyahu as saying, “The rhetoric from the United States today is different from what it was a year ago. Today, when you listen to Obama ... you get the feeling the Americans are ready to attack if worse comes to worst.”
The sticking point for Israel is President Obama’s refusal to promise to act militarily if sanctions fail.
“If Israel will miss its last opportunity [to attack], then we will have to lean only on the United States, and if the United States decides not to attack, then we will face an Iran with a bomb,” a former Israeli official told the magazine.
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6. Muslim Extremists Number One Terror Threat, Canada Warns
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Muslim extremists are the “leading threat to Canada’s national security,” warned Ottawa’s Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, but the country's mainstream media whitewashed his report.
He presented a 36-page report entitled "“Building Resilience Against Terrorism,” led off by pinpointing Islamist extremism in general and “’homegrown’ Sunni Islamist extremists” in particular as having “identified Canada as a legitimate target or [having] directly threatened our interests.”
He said that “recurring instances of violence linked to Sunni Islamist extremism have punctuated the development of the terrorist threat since at least the 1970s….Despite having been under intense pressure for the past decade, foreign-based Sunni Islam…extremist groups have explicitly identified Canada as a legitimate target for attacks or have taken actions that threaten Canada’s international interests."
"Al Qaeda, led by Ayman al Zawahiri since the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011, remains at the forefront of Sunni Islamist extremism and continues to serve as an ideology and inspiration for potential terrorists worldwide.”
Toews pointed out that terrorist threats also come from other groups as well and are not confined only to Muslim extremists. While citing Hizbullah and other terrorist groups as posing a threat, he added, “Other nationalist, politico-religious, or multi-issue groups continue to employ terrorist tactics in support of their aims… The threat to Canada from terrorism has three main components: violent Sunni Islamist extremism – both at home and abroad, other international terrorist groups, and domestic, issue-based extremism.”
Canada’s mainstream media almost completely ignored the Sunni Muslim threat in their reports on Toews’ presentation.
The Canadian Broadcasting Company told its readers and listeners that “Canadian agencies will co-ordinate better to prevent terrorism under a new strategy.” It quoted him as saying that “no government can guarantee it will be able to prevent all terrorist attacks all the time” but that “Canada is committed to taking all reasonable measures to address terrorism in its many forms."
The CBC report made no mention of Muslim terrorist threats.
The Canadian Press, the major syndicated national news services in Canada, reported that while Toews said the counterterrorist strategy is aimed at “foiling everything from Islamic terrorist threats to ‘lone wolf’ attackers,” but otherwise emphasized that he said, "Terrorism is not specific to any one religion, community or ethnic group.”
Toews' report specifically focused on Sunni Muslim extremists. He stated that while “Al Qaeda affiliates may pose a threat of terrorist attacks from abroad, violent ‘homegrown' Sunni Islamist extremists are posing a threat of violence within Canada.…"
“A number of individual extremists from Western countries have attempted terrorist attacks, inspired by but not directly connected to Sunni Islamist extremists abroad. In 2006, 18 individuals were arrested in Ontario for participating in a terrorist group whose intent was to bomb a number of symbolic Canadian institutions.
“Radicalized Canadians have also travelled to global hot spots like Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, training or fighting with Sunni Islamist extremist groups. These individuals could participate in terrorism abroad, return to Canada and push others to violence, or return to Canada to carry out terrorist activities on Canadian soil.”
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Muslim extremists are the “leading threat to Canada’s national security,” warned Ottawa’s Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, but the country's mainstream media whitewashed his report.
He presented a 36-page report entitled "“Building Resilience Against Terrorism,” led off by pinpointing Islamist extremism in general and “’homegrown’ Sunni Islamist extremists” in particular as having “identified Canada as a legitimate target or [having] directly threatened our interests.”
He said that “recurring instances of violence linked to Sunni Islamist extremism have punctuated the development of the terrorist threat since at least the 1970s….Despite having been under intense pressure for the past decade, foreign-based Sunni Islam…extremist groups have explicitly identified Canada as a legitimate target for attacks or have taken actions that threaten Canada’s international interests."
"Al Qaeda, led by Ayman al Zawahiri since the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011, remains at the forefront of Sunni Islamist extremism and continues to serve as an ideology and inspiration for potential terrorists worldwide.”
Toews pointed out that terrorist threats also come from other groups as well and are not confined only to Muslim extremists. While citing Hizbullah and other terrorist groups as posing a threat, he added, “Other nationalist, politico-religious, or multi-issue groups continue to employ terrorist tactics in support of their aims… The threat to Canada from terrorism has three main components: violent Sunni Islamist extremism – both at home and abroad, other international terrorist groups, and domestic, issue-based extremism.”
Canada’s mainstream media almost completely ignored the Sunni Muslim threat in their reports on Toews’ presentation.
The Canadian Broadcasting Company told its readers and listeners that “Canadian agencies will co-ordinate better to prevent terrorism under a new strategy.” It quoted him as saying that “no government can guarantee it will be able to prevent all terrorist attacks all the time” but that “Canada is committed to taking all reasonable measures to address terrorism in its many forms."
The CBC report made no mention of Muslim terrorist threats.
The Canadian Press, the major syndicated national news services in Canada, reported that while Toews said the counterterrorist strategy is aimed at “foiling everything from Islamic terrorist threats to ‘lone wolf’ attackers,” but otherwise emphasized that he said, "Terrorism is not specific to any one religion, community or ethnic group.”
Toews' report specifically focused on Sunni Muslim extremists. He stated that while “Al Qaeda affiliates may pose a threat of terrorist attacks from abroad, violent ‘homegrown' Sunni Islamist extremists are posing a threat of violence within Canada.…"
“A number of individual extremists from Western countries have attempted terrorist attacks, inspired by but not directly connected to Sunni Islamist extremists abroad. In 2006, 18 individuals were arrested in Ontario for participating in a terrorist group whose intent was to bomb a number of symbolic Canadian institutions.
“Radicalized Canadians have also travelled to global hot spots like Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, training or fighting with Sunni Islamist extremist groups. These individuals could participate in terrorism abroad, return to Canada and push others to violence, or return to Canada to carry out terrorist activities on Canadian soil.”
Tags: Global Jihad ,Canada
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7. Arabs Ask Government: Save Us from Our Violence
by Gil Ronen
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu participated Monday in a session of a parliamentary committee of inquiry chaired by MK Ahmed Tibi of Raam Taal, devoted to the problem of rampant violence in the Arab sector.
Violence has become so widespread within the Arab sector that even MKs like Tibi, who make a career out of publicly humiliating the institutions of the state of Israel, have been forced to ask the state to help them deal with it.
Data released by the Ministry of Public Security shows that in 2011, Arabs – who make up less than 20% of Israel's citizens – were the perpetrators in 67% of the murder cases and in 70% of the attempted murders, as well as 52% of the arson cases and 36% of the robberies.
While crime in general was on the decline in Israel in 2011, it spiked by 8% in the Arab sector. Of 126 people murdered in 2009, 61 were Arabs. In 41% of 7,097 police investigations regarding aggravated assault, the suspect was an Arab. According to the police statistics, while there are relatively few complaints regarding domestic violence in the Arab sector, the actual incidence of the problem is much higher among Arabs than in the rest of the population.
Prime Minister Netanyahu pointed to a connection between unemployment statistics and violence. "The Arab sector is starting to live an unbearable life as regards crime, murder, murder of women, robberies and harassment," he said.
Netanyahu said that the Arab sector had become "a wild West." Solutions could be provided by increased education, entrepreneurship, employment of women and law enforcement, he said. However, he added – this works both ways, as violence prevents progress in education and employment.
Dealing with the problem requires resources, Netanyahu explained. "Resources come from determining priorities and increasing the budget. I have asked the Director of the Prime Minister's Office to look at all of the collection agencies in the Arab sector – what their ability is to increase collection – and only then will I talk to the Finance Minister."
Netanyahu said that national (or "civilian") service in the Arab sector, as an alternative to military and national service in other sectors, would go a long way toward promoting the sector's interests. The Arab MKs and other dignitaries reacted negatively to the idea.
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by Gil Ronen
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu participated Monday in a session of a parliamentary committee of inquiry chaired by MK Ahmed Tibi of Raam Taal, devoted to the problem of rampant violence in the Arab sector.
Violence has become so widespread within the Arab sector that even MKs like Tibi, who make a career out of publicly humiliating the institutions of the state of Israel, have been forced to ask the state to help them deal with it.
Data released by the Ministry of Public Security shows that in 2011, Arabs – who make up less than 20% of Israel's citizens – were the perpetrators in 67% of the murder cases and in 70% of the attempted murders, as well as 52% of the arson cases and 36% of the robberies.
While crime in general was on the decline in Israel in 2011, it spiked by 8% in the Arab sector. Of 126 people murdered in 2009, 61 were Arabs. In 41% of 7,097 police investigations regarding aggravated assault, the suspect was an Arab. According to the police statistics, while there are relatively few complaints regarding domestic violence in the Arab sector, the actual incidence of the problem is much higher among Arabs than in the rest of the population.
Prime Minister Netanyahu pointed to a connection between unemployment statistics and violence. "The Arab sector is starting to live an unbearable life as regards crime, murder, murder of women, robberies and harassment," he said.
Netanyahu said that the Arab sector had become "a wild West." Solutions could be provided by increased education, entrepreneurship, employment of women and law enforcement, he said. However, he added – this works both ways, as violence prevents progress in education and employment.
Dealing with the problem requires resources, Netanyahu explained. "Resources come from determining priorities and increasing the budget. I have asked the Director of the Prime Minister's Office to look at all of the collection agencies in the Arab sector – what their ability is to increase collection – and only then will I talk to the Finance Minister."
Netanyahu said that national (or "civilian") service in the Arab sector, as an alternative to military and national service in other sectors, would go a long way toward promoting the sector's interests. The Arab MKs and other dignitaries reacted negatively to the idea.
Tags: Israeli Arabs ,Ahmed Tibi ,murder
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8. Abbas: We Won't Recognize Israel as a Jewish State
by Elad Benari
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday that the PA will not meet Israel’s demand that it recognize Israel as the Jewish State, Kol Yisrael radio reported.
According to the report, Abbas explained this statement using the reasoning that once that the PA agrees to this requirement, there would be no value to the million and a half PA Arabs living in Israel, and no refugee would be allowed to come back to Israel, in keeping with the PA demand that Israel allow millions of Arab refugees to return to their old homes in Israeli cities as part of a future agreement.
Abbas made the comments during a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, the report said, and added that Israel still refuses to stop building in Judea and Samaria. He said that one day PA Arabs will wake up and find a Jewish settlement in the heart of the PLO’s Muqata headquarters in Ramallah.
He said that the PA leadership intends to send a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and emphasize that it will resume peace talks with Israel only if it stops building Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria, accepts the principle of two states along the 1949 armistice lines (the so-called 1967 borders), and release prisoners, especially those who were imprisoned before the second intifada began in 2000. Abbas stressed that the PA will await Netanyahu’s response and added that if its demands are rejected it will once again turn to the UN to pursue a unilateral statehood bid.
Abbas’ comments come less than a week after he signed an agreement with the Hamas terror group in Doha. The reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Abbas’ Fatah faction calls for Abbas to head an interim government, which will be made up of "independent technocrats." The new PA interim government is to be presented on February 18 in Cairo.
Abbas has claimed the agreement does not contradict with the peace process, but at the same time has continued to present Israel with preconditions for peace talks, as he has done for almost three years since Netanyahu took office.
While Fatah is often considered the “moderate” of the two factions, Fatah official Nabil Shaath said last week the new interim PA government "need not recognize Israel."
"It is the PLO, not the PA, that recognizes Israel," Shaath insisted in an interview with the Hamas-affiliated Arabic-language Al Quds, in an attempt to justify forming a unity government with Hamas, which continues to call for Israel's destruction.
Shaath's statements run counter to clear conditions set by the Quartet for Middle East Peace - the European Union, Russia, United Nations, and United States - for Hamas to be included in a PA government.
Quartet officials have said Hamas must recognize Israel's right to exist, formally abandon terrorism and violence, and uphold agreements signed by previous PA governments with Israel and any other entity.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister’s Office responded to Abbas’ Sunday comments and said that his speech turns away from peace. Instead of negotiating to end conflict, the PMO said, Abbas prefers to join the terrorist group Hamas which embraces Iran.
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by Elad Benari
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday that the PA will not meet Israel’s demand that it recognize Israel as the Jewish State, Kol Yisrael radio reported.
According to the report, Abbas explained this statement using the reasoning that once that the PA agrees to this requirement, there would be no value to the million and a half PA Arabs living in Israel, and no refugee would be allowed to come back to Israel, in keeping with the PA demand that Israel allow millions of Arab refugees to return to their old homes in Israeli cities as part of a future agreement.
Abbas made the comments during a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, the report said, and added that Israel still refuses to stop building in Judea and Samaria. He said that one day PA Arabs will wake up and find a Jewish settlement in the heart of the PLO’s Muqata headquarters in Ramallah.
He said that the PA leadership intends to send a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and emphasize that it will resume peace talks with Israel only if it stops building Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria, accepts the principle of two states along the 1949 armistice lines (the so-called 1967 borders), and release prisoners, especially those who were imprisoned before the second intifada began in 2000. Abbas stressed that the PA will await Netanyahu’s response and added that if its demands are rejected it will once again turn to the UN to pursue a unilateral statehood bid.
Abbas’ comments come less than a week after he signed an agreement with the Hamas terror group in Doha. The reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Abbas’ Fatah faction calls for Abbas to head an interim government, which will be made up of "independent technocrats." The new PA interim government is to be presented on February 18 in Cairo.
Abbas has claimed the agreement does not contradict with the peace process, but at the same time has continued to present Israel with preconditions for peace talks, as he has done for almost three years since Netanyahu took office.
While Fatah is often considered the “moderate” of the two factions, Fatah official Nabil Shaath said last week the new interim PA government "need not recognize Israel."
"It is the PLO, not the PA, that recognizes Israel," Shaath insisted in an interview with the Hamas-affiliated Arabic-language Al Quds, in an attempt to justify forming a unity government with Hamas, which continues to call for Israel's destruction.
Shaath's statements run counter to clear conditions set by the Quartet for Middle East Peace - the European Union, Russia, United Nations, and United States - for Hamas to be included in a PA government.
Quartet officials have said Hamas must recognize Israel's right to exist, formally abandon terrorism and violence, and uphold agreements signed by previous PA governments with Israel and any other entity.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister’s Office responded to Abbas’ Sunday comments and said that his speech turns away from peace. Instead of negotiating to end conflict, the PMO said, Abbas prefers to join the terrorist group Hamas which embraces Iran.
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