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1. Barak: Legalize the Ulpana Neighborhood
by Elad Benari
Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered his office on Monday to find a solution to legalize the Ulpana neighborhood in Beit El, Arutz Sheva has learned.
Five homes in the neighborhood are scheduled to be demolished next month, following an order by the Supreme Court. The issue of the homes in Beit El, one of the largest Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, is whether the five homes were built on private Arab land.
Barak has been feeling the pressure from cabinet ministers who are favoring legislation to legalize the homes before the scheduled expulsion. On Sunday, he said that the problem could be solved if the land were to be bought.
Arutz Sheva has obtained the full content of Barak’s remarks at Sunday’s cabinet meeting.
“In Beit El there are three points that are being clarified between the State and legal authorities: Jabal Al-Artis, where there are a number of trailers outside the community. There are two unfinished buildings in another part of the community, and there are the five buildings in the Ulpana neighborhood, in which people have lived for a long time and the residents themselves rented them or bought them in an orderly manner, but the issue of ownership is not clear and was not regulated. This, of course, should be given an opportunity to be clarified," he said.
“This is not about a court judgment but about a commitment by the State from a year ago,” continued Barak. “The neighborhood itself has been around since I was the Prime Minister and Defense Minister 12 years ago. The duty of the State is that if neighborhoods and buildings are on private land they need to be evacuated. It is important to understand that a government striving to live in a democracy in the 21st century cannot act differently.”
He added, “If indeed it turns out eventually that it is private land, there will probably be no choice other than evacuating it or purchasing it, there is no other way. We found 22 dunams of land in the town which could, under certain circumstances and after plans are approved, be used to build alternative homes for residents of the neighborhood.
“Of course, as far as I’m concerned, if it is found that there are purchase documents and that it was done properly and the court approves it, of course it will open the door to other things,” said Barak. “We have nothing in principle against Beit El. It is a veteran, big, and very important community. In the previous government we had similar issues in Ofra, and I am signed on the affidavits in the courtroom. In the end we are responsible for the rule of law, that the State of Israel will be normative. At the same time we are responsible to find a way to bring about a solution for the Ulpana neighborhood, and I hope a solution is found.”
On Sunday, Minister of Information and Diaspora Yuli Edelstein stated that the option of demolition of the Ulpana neighborhood is not on the agenda.
This option is not on the agenda,” Edelstein told Arutz Sheva and added that he does not think that Barak will “go out to destroy the Ulpana neighborhood at two in the morning. We’re not talking about a shed or a caravan here. This, as everyone already knows well, is a neighborhood in a city where normative families received mortgages to live. You cannot take action against them behind their back.”
On Saturday, Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe Yaalon said Barak's "private political agenda" threatened the "dissolution of the government."
Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz, who was a guest in the Ulpana neighborhood on Friday, said that "Barak is using the Defense Ministry as political tool against the settlers."
Ministers have informed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that if the neighborhood is destroyed, his coalition will follow.
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by Elad Benari
Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered his office on Monday to find a solution to legalize the Ulpana neighborhood in Beit El, Arutz Sheva has learned.
Five homes in the neighborhood are scheduled to be demolished next month, following an order by the Supreme Court. The issue of the homes in Beit El, one of the largest Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, is whether the five homes were built on private Arab land.
Barak has been feeling the pressure from cabinet ministers who are favoring legislation to legalize the homes before the scheduled expulsion. On Sunday, he said that the problem could be solved if the land were to be bought.
Arutz Sheva has obtained the full content of Barak’s remarks at Sunday’s cabinet meeting.
“In Beit El there are three points that are being clarified between the State and legal authorities: Jabal Al-Artis, where there are a number of trailers outside the community. There are two unfinished buildings in another part of the community, and there are the five buildings in the Ulpana neighborhood, in which people have lived for a long time and the residents themselves rented them or bought them in an orderly manner, but the issue of ownership is not clear and was not regulated. This, of course, should be given an opportunity to be clarified," he said.
“This is not about a court judgment but about a commitment by the State from a year ago,” continued Barak. “The neighborhood itself has been around since I was the Prime Minister and Defense Minister 12 years ago. The duty of the State is that if neighborhoods and buildings are on private land they need to be evacuated. It is important to understand that a government striving to live in a democracy in the 21st century cannot act differently.”
He added, “If indeed it turns out eventually that it is private land, there will probably be no choice other than evacuating it or purchasing it, there is no other way. We found 22 dunams of land in the town which could, under certain circumstances and after plans are approved, be used to build alternative homes for residents of the neighborhood.
“Of course, as far as I’m concerned, if it is found that there are purchase documents and that it was done properly and the court approves it, of course it will open the door to other things,” said Barak. “We have nothing in principle against Beit El. It is a veteran, big, and very important community. In the previous government we had similar issues in Ofra, and I am signed on the affidavits in the courtroom. In the end we are responsible for the rule of law, that the State of Israel will be normative. At the same time we are responsible to find a way to bring about a solution for the Ulpana neighborhood, and I hope a solution is found.”
On Sunday, Minister of Information and Diaspora Yuli Edelstein stated that the option of demolition of the Ulpana neighborhood is not on the agenda.
This option is not on the agenda,” Edelstein told Arutz Sheva and added that he does not think that Barak will “go out to destroy the Ulpana neighborhood at two in the morning. We’re not talking about a shed or a caravan here. This, as everyone already knows well, is a neighborhood in a city where normative families received mortgages to live. You cannot take action against them behind their back.”
On Saturday, Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe Yaalon said Barak's "private political agenda" threatened the "dissolution of the government."
Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz, who was a guest in the Ulpana neighborhood on Friday, said that "Barak is using the Defense Ministry as political tool against the settlers."
Ministers have informed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that if the neighborhood is destroyed, his coalition will follow.
Tags: Beit El ,Ulpana Neighborhood ,Ehud Barak
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2. PA Children's Show: Zion is a Devil with a Tail
by Elad Benari
As part of its ongoing campaign to delegitimize and demonize Israel, a Palestinian Authority TV children's program recently featured a child reciting a poem promoting Pan-Arabism. The poem, by an Egyptian writer, included words “Our enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail.”
The children’s program, entitled “The Best Home”, aired on April 7 on a PA television station run by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement. The program was documented and translated by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) research organization.
In the video clip, the host is seen asking an Arab girl, “Laila, what do you want to recite next?” to which the girl responds by reciting the following poem written by an Egyptian writer:
“When I was young I was taught that Arabness is my honor...
and that our lands extend from one end to the other,
and that our wars were for the Al-Aqsa Mosque,
and that our enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail...
Our division is by your hands [Arab rulers]. May your hands be cut off.
We are fed up with our division, while all people are uniting.”
The host then says, “Bravo, bravo, bravo.”
The PA often uses children in its anti-Israel campaign, as PMW has shown several times in the past.
Last summer PMW exposed that a PA-sponsored children’s summer camp divided its campers into three groups named after terrorists Dalal Mughrabi, Salah Khalaf and Abu Ali Mustafa.
Dalal Mughrabi carried out led the most lethal terror attack in Israelis history in 1978. 37 Israeli civilians were killed in that attack, among them 12 children.
Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad) was the head of the Black September terror group and was involved in the murder of 11 Israeli athletes in the Munich Olympics in 1972 (an attack which was reportedly funded by current PA President Mahmoud Abbas).
Abu Ali Mustafa served as General Secretary of the terror organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). He planned numerous terror attacks against Israeli civilians before being killed by the IDF in 2001.
A fourth group was named after former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat.
PMW noted that the summer camp was held under the auspices of PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who visited the camp to participate in the closing ceremonies, which he also sponsored.
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by Elad Benari
As part of its ongoing campaign to delegitimize and demonize Israel, a Palestinian Authority TV children's program recently featured a child reciting a poem promoting Pan-Arabism. The poem, by an Egyptian writer, included words “Our enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail.”
The children’s program, entitled “The Best Home”, aired on April 7 on a PA television station run by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement. The program was documented and translated by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) research organization.
In the video clip, the host is seen asking an Arab girl, “Laila, what do you want to recite next?” to which the girl responds by reciting the following poem written by an Egyptian writer:
“When I was young I was taught that Arabness is my honor...
and that our lands extend from one end to the other,
and that our wars were for the Al-Aqsa Mosque,
and that our enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail...
Our division is by your hands [Arab rulers]. May your hands be cut off.
We are fed up with our division, while all people are uniting.”
The host then says, “Bravo, bravo, bravo.”
The PA often uses children in its anti-Israel campaign, as PMW has shown several times in the past.
Last summer PMW exposed that a PA-sponsored children’s summer camp divided its campers into three groups named after terrorists Dalal Mughrabi, Salah Khalaf and Abu Ali Mustafa.
Dalal Mughrabi carried out led the most lethal terror attack in Israelis history in 1978. 37 Israeli civilians were killed in that attack, among them 12 children.
Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad) was the head of the Black September terror group and was involved in the murder of 11 Israeli athletes in the Munich Olympics in 1972 (an attack which was reportedly funded by current PA President Mahmoud Abbas).
Abu Ali Mustafa served as General Secretary of the terror organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). He planned numerous terror attacks against Israeli civilians before being killed by the IDF in 2001.
A fourth group was named after former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat.
PMW noted that the summer camp was held under the auspices of PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who visited the camp to participate in the closing ceremonies, which he also sponsored.
Tags: PA TV ,PMW ,Palestinian Media Watch
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3. Leftist Organization: No One Has a Monopoly on Grief
by Elad Benari
The leftist movement Combatants for Peace responded on Monday to the condemnation of the alternative Memorial Day ceremony it is organizing and in which it includes Israeli bereaved parents and Palestinian Authority Arab bereaved parents (parents of terrorists who were killed while fighting IDF soldiers) under the same category of remembrance and loss.
The alternative ceremony has been held for the past seven years and this year, for the second year in a row, a group of Israeli youth is planning to show up and protest the inclusion of Arabs.
On Sunday, one of the protest organizers, Nissim Eliyahu, sharply criticized the alternative ceremony and told Arutz Sheva that it is in fact a political event under the guise of a memorial event.
“They call the terrorists fighters and hold a joint ceremony,” said Eliyahu, adding he approached Combatants for Peace and asked them for clarification on this issue, but was ignored. However, he noted, the advertisement for the ceremony says that it is also meant for families of “Palestinian combatants.”
Combatants for Peace’s spokesman, Avner Horowitz, responded to Eliyahu’s remarks and said, “No one in Israel, including the organizers of the protest, has a monopoly on grief and pain. The bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families who are taking part in the ceremony chose this way to honor the death of their loved ones, because they did not find relief in the state-sponsored ceremonies that are just as political as this ceremony.”
Horowitz added, “The thousands of people who attended the Combatants for Peace ceremony in recent years attests to the growing need for such an event. For us, honoring the memory of the fallen is essentially an attempt to prevent the deaths of more people in the cycle of violence.”
He said that Combatants for Peace and all the participants in the ceremony “are committed to non-violence and act in a variety of ways to promote reconciliation and non-violence” in Israel and in Judea and Samaria.
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by Elad Benari
The leftist movement Combatants for Peace responded on Monday to the condemnation of the alternative Memorial Day ceremony it is organizing and in which it includes Israeli bereaved parents and Palestinian Authority Arab bereaved parents (parents of terrorists who were killed while fighting IDF soldiers) under the same category of remembrance and loss.
The alternative ceremony has been held for the past seven years and this year, for the second year in a row, a group of Israeli youth is planning to show up and protest the inclusion of Arabs.
On Sunday, one of the protest organizers, Nissim Eliyahu, sharply criticized the alternative ceremony and told Arutz Sheva that it is in fact a political event under the guise of a memorial event.
“They call the terrorists fighters and hold a joint ceremony,” said Eliyahu, adding he approached Combatants for Peace and asked them for clarification on this issue, but was ignored. However, he noted, the advertisement for the ceremony says that it is also meant for families of “Palestinian combatants.”
Combatants for Peace’s spokesman, Avner Horowitz, responded to Eliyahu’s remarks and said, “No one in Israel, including the organizers of the protest, has a monopoly on grief and pain. The bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families who are taking part in the ceremony chose this way to honor the death of their loved ones, because they did not find relief in the state-sponsored ceremonies that are just as political as this ceremony.”
Horowitz added, “The thousands of people who attended the Combatants for Peace ceremony in recent years attests to the growing need for such an event. For us, honoring the memory of the fallen is essentially an attempt to prevent the deaths of more people in the cycle of violence.”
He said that Combatants for Peace and all the participants in the ceremony “are committed to non-violence and act in a variety of ways to promote reconciliation and non-violence” in Israel and in Judea and Samaria.
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4. Arab Fires at IDF at Joseph's Tomb
by Gil Ronen
An Arab fired at IDF soldiers who were providing security for Jews who came to pray at Joseph's Tomb Monday night. No one was hurt.
The shot apparently came from an Arab who was among a group of about 15 Arabs who were seen in the Balata neighborhood at the time. It is not clear whether the IDF chased after the shooter.
About 1,200 Jews entered Joseph's Tomb to pray at the holy site Monday night.
Last week, the IDF cancelled a plan to allow the family of murdered yeshiva student Ben-Yosef Livnat to pray in his memory at the Tomb. Livnat was gunned down by Palestinian Authority police when he tried to pray at the Tomb one year ago.
Initially, the IDF said it would allow a large memorial yarzeit ceremony to take place last week. It then changed its mind and said only Livnat's family would be allowed into the Tomb, because of security considerations, and in the end it cancelled the yarzeit memorial event altogether.
Instead, the IDF said, only the previously scheduled entry into the Tomb – the one that took place Monday – would be allowed.
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by Gil Ronen
An Arab fired at IDF soldiers who were providing security for Jews who came to pray at Joseph's Tomb Monday night. No one was hurt.
The shot apparently came from an Arab who was among a group of about 15 Arabs who were seen in the Balata neighborhood at the time. It is not clear whether the IDF chased after the shooter.
About 1,200 Jews entered Joseph's Tomb to pray at the holy site Monday night.
Last week, the IDF cancelled a plan to allow the family of murdered yeshiva student Ben-Yosef Livnat to pray in his memory at the Tomb. Livnat was gunned down by Palestinian Authority police when he tried to pray at the Tomb one year ago.
Initially, the IDF said it would allow a large memorial yarzeit ceremony to take place last week. It then changed its mind and said only Livnat's family would be allowed into the Tomb, because of security considerations, and in the end it cancelled the yarzeit memorial event altogether.
Instead, the IDF said, only the previously scheduled entry into the Tomb – the one that took place Monday – would be allowed.
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5. UN Amb. Prosor Explodes ‘Myths’ of PA-Israeli ‘Struggle’
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor broke down several myths Monday in an “Open Debate on the Situation in the Middle East" in the United Nations Security Council.
After quoting Winston Churchill’s statement, “In the time that it takes a lie to get halfway around the world, the truth is still getting its pants on,” Prosor methodically brought up and broke down myths that he said have fertile ground in the Middle East. “Facts often remain buried in the sand. The myths forged in our region travel abroad – and can surprisingly find their way into these halls,” He said.
-- Myth number one: “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is the central conflict in the Middle East. If you solve that conflict, you solve all the other conflicts in the region.” Prosor told the Council members. “The truth is that conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Bahrain, and many other parts of the Middle East have absolutely nothing to do with Israel.
“It is obvious that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict won’t stop the persecution of minorities across the region, end the subjugation of women, or heal the sectarian divides. Obsessing over Israel has not stopped Assad’s tanks from flattening entire communities. On the contrary, it has only distracted attention from his crimes.
"Thousands are being killed in Syria, hundreds in Yemen, dozens in Iraq — and yet, this debate again repeatedly is focusing on the legitimate actions of the government of the only democracy in the Middle East. And dedicating the majority of this debate to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, month after month after month after month, has not stopped the Iranian regime’s centrifuges from spinning.
-- Myth number two: “There is a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.”
The Ambassador pointed out that even the Deputy Head of the Red Cross Office and “numerous international organizations have said clearly that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza.”
He added, Gaza’s real GDP grew by more than 25 percent during the first three quarters of 2011. There is not a single civilian good that cannot enter Gaza today. Yet, as aid flows into the area, missiles fly out. This is the crisis in Gaza.”
-- Myth number three: “Settlements are the primary obstacle to peace.”
Prosor said he can save time for the UN Human Rights Council, which has proposed another ‘fact-finding’ mission to Israel – this time to explore Israeli settlements. He said that “the facts have already been found,” explaining that when Egypt and Jordan controlled Judea, Samaria and Gaza between 1948 and 1967, “The Arab World did nothing – it did not lift a finger – to create a Palestinian state. And it sought Israel’s annihilation when not a single settlement stood anywhere in the West Bank or Gaza.
Prosor charged that the Arab world’s “primary obstacle to peace is not settlements [but]…is the so-called ‘claim of return’ – and the Palestinian’s refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
He said that claims that Israel is “Judaizing Jerusalem” are “accusations [that] come about 3,000 years too late. It’s like accusing the NBA of Americanizing basketball.” Prosor also said that the percentage of Arab residents in Jerusalem has grown from 26 percent in 1967 to 35 percent during the period that Israel supposed has been exercising “ethnic cleansing.”
-- Another myth the Security has overlooked for the past 64 years, when Israel was reestablished as a state. is the “one great untold story, or – to be more specific – …more than 850,000 untold stories [of] Jews…uprooted from their homes in Arab countries,” he said.
Prosor pointed out, “These were vibrant communities dating back 2,500 years [but]…were wiped out. Age-old family businesses and properties were confiscated. Jewish quarters were destroyed. Pogroms left synagogues looted, graveyards desecrated and thousands dead."
“The pages that the UN has written about the Palestinian refugees could fill up soccer stadiums, but not a drop of ink has been spilled about the Jewish refugees.
-- He told the Council he “saved the most obvious myth for last: the myth that peace can somehow be achieved between Israelis and Palestinians by bypassing direct negotiations. History has shown that peace and negotiations are inseparable."
“Palestinian leaders continue to pile up new pre-conditions for sitting with Israel. They are everywhere except the negotiating table.“
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor broke down several myths Monday in an “Open Debate on the Situation in the Middle East" in the United Nations Security Council.
After quoting Winston Churchill’s statement, “In the time that it takes a lie to get halfway around the world, the truth is still getting its pants on,” Prosor methodically brought up and broke down myths that he said have fertile ground in the Middle East. “Facts often remain buried in the sand. The myths forged in our region travel abroad – and can surprisingly find their way into these halls,” He said.
-- Myth number one: “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is the central conflict in the Middle East. If you solve that conflict, you solve all the other conflicts in the region.” Prosor told the Council members. “The truth is that conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Bahrain, and many other parts of the Middle East have absolutely nothing to do with Israel.
“It is obvious that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict won’t stop the persecution of minorities across the region, end the subjugation of women, or heal the sectarian divides. Obsessing over Israel has not stopped Assad’s tanks from flattening entire communities. On the contrary, it has only distracted attention from his crimes.
"Thousands are being killed in Syria, hundreds in Yemen, dozens in Iraq — and yet, this debate again repeatedly is focusing on the legitimate actions of the government of the only democracy in the Middle East. And dedicating the majority of this debate to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, month after month after month after month, has not stopped the Iranian regime’s centrifuges from spinning.
-- Myth number two: “There is a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.”
The Ambassador pointed out that even the Deputy Head of the Red Cross Office and “numerous international organizations have said clearly that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza.”
He added, Gaza’s real GDP grew by more than 25 percent during the first three quarters of 2011. There is not a single civilian good that cannot enter Gaza today. Yet, as aid flows into the area, missiles fly out. This is the crisis in Gaza.”
-- Myth number three: “Settlements are the primary obstacle to peace.”
Prosor said he can save time for the UN Human Rights Council, which has proposed another ‘fact-finding’ mission to Israel – this time to explore Israeli settlements. He said that “the facts have already been found,” explaining that when Egypt and Jordan controlled Judea, Samaria and Gaza between 1948 and 1967, “The Arab World did nothing – it did not lift a finger – to create a Palestinian state. And it sought Israel’s annihilation when not a single settlement stood anywhere in the West Bank or Gaza.
Prosor charged that the Arab world’s “primary obstacle to peace is not settlements [but]…is the so-called ‘claim of return’ – and the Palestinian’s refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
He said that claims that Israel is “Judaizing Jerusalem” are “accusations [that] come about 3,000 years too late. It’s like accusing the NBA of Americanizing basketball.” Prosor also said that the percentage of Arab residents in Jerusalem has grown from 26 percent in 1967 to 35 percent during the period that Israel supposed has been exercising “ethnic cleansing.”
-- Another myth the Security has overlooked for the past 64 years, when Israel was reestablished as a state. is the “one great untold story, or – to be more specific – …more than 850,000 untold stories [of] Jews…uprooted from their homes in Arab countries,” he said.
Prosor pointed out, “These were vibrant communities dating back 2,500 years [but]…were wiped out. Age-old family businesses and properties were confiscated. Jewish quarters were destroyed. Pogroms left synagogues looted, graveyards desecrated and thousands dead."
“The pages that the UN has written about the Palestinian refugees could fill up soccer stadiums, but not a drop of ink has been spilled about the Jewish refugees.
-- He told the Council he “saved the most obvious myth for last: the myth that peace can somehow be achieved between Israelis and Palestinians by bypassing direct negotiations. History has shown that peace and negotiations are inseparable."
“Palestinian leaders continue to pile up new pre-conditions for sitting with Israel. They are everywhere except the negotiating table.“
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6. Palestinian Authority Arab Stabs Tel Aviv Cabbie
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Security officials have arrested a Palestinian Authority Arab for brutally attacking a Tel Aviv area cab driver before dawn Tuesday.
The Arab, who has been living in the "Triangle" area without a work permit, flagged down the taxi in Tel Aviv and stabbed the driver several times in the upper body when they arrived at Kfar Saba, located several miles to the north and near the Palestinian Authority city of Kalkilya.
The attacker fled, and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) clamped a gag order on details. Police arrested the Arab in mid-morning, and the victim is being treated for critical injuries. He was not robbed, and the assault is an apparent terrorist attack. The driver was able to call his company's dispatcher, and the vehicle was found by using the car's GPS system.
The alleged assailant fled the scene but was arrested.
Last Thursday, an Arab stabbed a married yeshiva student in the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood of Jerusalem. Two young Arabs were arrested.
Earlier this month, an Arab terrorist used an axe to attack a 65-year-old man near the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. The attacker fled but was later caught. The victim suffered moderate wounds and was treated at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Security officials have arrested a Palestinian Authority Arab for brutally attacking a Tel Aviv area cab driver before dawn Tuesday.
The Arab, who has been living in the "Triangle" area without a work permit, flagged down the taxi in Tel Aviv and stabbed the driver several times in the upper body when they arrived at Kfar Saba, located several miles to the north and near the Palestinian Authority city of Kalkilya.
The attacker fled, and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) clamped a gag order on details. Police arrested the Arab in mid-morning, and the victim is being treated for critical injuries. He was not robbed, and the assault is an apparent terrorist attack. The driver was able to call his company's dispatcher, and the vehicle was found by using the car's GPS system.
The alleged assailant fled the scene but was arrested.
Last Thursday, an Arab stabbed a married yeshiva student in the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood of Jerusalem. Two young Arabs were arrested.
Earlier this month, an Arab terrorist used an axe to attack a 65-year-old man near the Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. The attacker fled but was later caught. The victim suffered moderate wounds and was treated at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.
Tags: Palestiniian Authority ,terror arrest ,taxi
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7. Abbas Blocks Websites that Criticize Him
by Gil Ronen
The Palestinian Authority (PA) under Fatah's Mahmoud Abbas has instructed Internet providers to block access to news websites that criticize Abbas, Bethlehem based Ma'an News reported.
As many as eight news outlets have been rendered unavailable after technicians at the Palestinian Telecommunications Company, or PalTel, used software called Squid to cause the sites to return error pages.
The decision to begin blocking websites "marks a major expansion of the government's online powers," wrote Ma'an, adding that "experts say it is the biggest shift toward routine Internet censorship in the Palestinian Authority’s history. Aside from one incident in 2008, Palestinians have generally been free to read whatever they wanted."
The affected websites are Amad, Fatah Voice, Firas Press, In Light Press, Karama Press, Kofia Press, Milad News and Palestine Beituna. The sites focus on internal Fatah issues, and some of them "have been described as loyal to Muhammad Dahlan," a former Fatah leader and critic of Abbas.
Ma'an reported that "As far back as June 2011, the Palestinian Authority was complaining about its inability to shut down alleged Dahlan media based abroad... Four of those sites are now being blocked."
Officials familiar with the order say it came from Ahmad al-Mughni, the PA's attorney general. Al-Mughni dismissed these claims and refused to take questions from Ma'an.
In Washington, a spokeswoman said the State Department was "concerned about any reports regarding the use of technologies to restrict access to information. The United States advocates Internet freedom."
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by Gil Ronen
The Palestinian Authority (PA) under Fatah's Mahmoud Abbas has instructed Internet providers to block access to news websites that criticize Abbas, Bethlehem based Ma'an News reported.
As many as eight news outlets have been rendered unavailable after technicians at the Palestinian Telecommunications Company, or PalTel, used software called Squid to cause the sites to return error pages.
The decision to begin blocking websites "marks a major expansion of the government's online powers," wrote Ma'an, adding that "experts say it is the biggest shift toward routine Internet censorship in the Palestinian Authority’s history. Aside from one incident in 2008, Palestinians have generally been free to read whatever they wanted."
The affected websites are Amad, Fatah Voice, Firas Press, In Light Press, Karama Press, Kofia Press, Milad News and Palestine Beituna. The sites focus on internal Fatah issues, and some of them "have been described as loyal to Muhammad Dahlan," a former Fatah leader and critic of Abbas.
Ma'an reported that "As far back as June 2011, the Palestinian Authority was complaining about its inability to shut down alleged Dahlan media based abroad... Four of those sites are now being blocked."
Officials familiar with the order say it came from Ahmad al-Mughni, the PA's attorney general. Al-Mughni dismissed these claims and refused to take questions from Ma'an.
In Washington, a spokeswoman said the State Department was "concerned about any reports regarding the use of technologies to restrict access to information. The United States advocates Internet freedom."
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8. ‘Reclaiming Land of Israel Continues on Yom HaAtzmaut’
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The struggle for reclaiming all of the Land of Israel continues even on “Independence Day,” Yom HaAtzmaut, say Women in Green.
Under the Banner "We Safeguard You, Beloved Land,” the nationalist group is planning to rally on the hills of Netzer, in Gush Etzion, on Yom HaAtzmaut in a continuing battle to keep Arabs from confiscating the land.
"The Arabs, who realized that the central Yom HaAtzmaut event in Gush Etzion will be held there, blocked the upper entrance with boulders,” according to Women in Green, whose activists moved the boulders and opened all the trails.
Organizers said events in Netzer will take place from noon until 14:30 .m. but that preparations are not simple. A tractor was brought in to level the area so that children can jump and down on inflatable playground equipment.
A special attraction will be the magician Rabbi Victor Attia.
Water will be supplied by the irrigation pipes that, all year long, water the hundreds of trees that activists planted to guard the Jewish lands from an Arab takeover. Visitors will be able to tour all the areas redeemed by the plantings, in all-terrain vehicles .
Canvas sheeting will provide shade for the barbecuers, and Adam Tzachi will perform "We Sing to You, Beloved Land" at 3:30 p.m.
Women and Green said Netzer is only one of hundreds of areas that Arabs and Bedouin confiscate on a daily basis in the Negev, Judea and Samaria and the Galilee.
“In recent months, Arabs with European funding and with the encouragement and participation of international anarchists have succeeded in plowing and planting hundreds of acres of wheat throughout the entire Judea region,” said Women in Green. “Now, they are fencing off areas with fences that were donated to them by international anti-Israel organizations."
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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The struggle for reclaiming all of the Land of Israel continues even on “Independence Day,” Yom HaAtzmaut, say Women in Green.
Under the Banner "We Safeguard You, Beloved Land,” the nationalist group is planning to rally on the hills of Netzer, in Gush Etzion, on Yom HaAtzmaut in a continuing battle to keep Arabs from confiscating the land.
"The Arabs, who realized that the central Yom HaAtzmaut event in Gush Etzion will be held there, blocked the upper entrance with boulders,” according to Women in Green, whose activists moved the boulders and opened all the trails.
Organizers said events in Netzer will take place from noon until 14:30 .m. but that preparations are not simple. A tractor was brought in to level the area so that children can jump and down on inflatable playground equipment.
A special attraction will be the magician Rabbi Victor Attia.
Water will be supplied by the irrigation pipes that, all year long, water the hundreds of trees that activists planted to guard the Jewish lands from an Arab takeover. Visitors will be able to tour all the areas redeemed by the plantings, in all-terrain vehicles .
Canvas sheeting will provide shade for the barbecuers, and Adam Tzachi will perform "We Sing to You, Beloved Land" at 3:30 p.m.
Women and Green said Netzer is only one of hundreds of areas that Arabs and Bedouin confiscate on a daily basis in the Negev, Judea and Samaria and the Galilee.
“In recent months, Arabs with European funding and with the encouragement and participation of international anarchists have succeeded in plowing and planting hundreds of acres of wheat throughout the entire Judea region,” said Women in Green. “Now, they are fencing off areas with fences that were donated to them by international anti-Israel organizations."
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