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The lawyers didn’t deny that requests were made by the prime minister but denied there was a quid pro quo.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
On Nov. 21, 2019, Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the charge of bribery in Case 4000, otherwise known as the Bezeq-Walla case. It’s the only case of three facing the prime minister with a bribery charge and therefore considered the most serious.
On Monday, the other defendants in the case, Israeli Tycoon Shaul Elovitch and his wife Iris, tried to punch a hole in the prosecution’s claim that there was bribery. Elovitch owned Israeli telecom giant Bezeq, which runs the website Walla.
Bribery wasn’t the issue, Elovitch’s two attorneys told the Jerusalem District Court on Monday morning, who didn’t deny that requests were made by the prime minister, but denied there was a quid pro quo, the essence of bribery. They said that changes made on Netanyahu’s behalf were an effort to provide more honest coverage.
According to Haaretz, Elovitch’s attorney, Jacques Chen, wrote in the statement by the defense, “it never crossed my client’s mind that by acceding to requests to ensure positive coverage for the prime minister and his family on the Walla website, or by initiating such coverage himself, he was giving a bribe.
“His intervention not only accorded with his views and positions, but was an attempt to balance, even slightly, in his mind, the website’s political line, as well as its extremely negative, petty and rankling attitude to Prime Minister Netanyahu and his family,” Chen wrote.
State prosecutors claim that Elovitch offered Netanyahu positive coverage on Walla‘s news site in exchange for regulatory favors. According to a revised indictment, the prosecution counts 230 times in which Netanyahu and his family attempted to alter Walla‘s reporting. Netanyahu was involved directly or indirectly in 155 of these instances, Haaretz reports.
Netanyahu’s lawyers made a similar statement in their defense of the prime minister, writing: “One could say that the media in Israel have for many years had a leftist bias. The prime minister believes that a major way of attaining some balance is the establishment and cementing of right-wing outlets, which can hold ongoing debates with left-wing media outlets.”
Netanyahu has been indicted in two other cases: Case 1000 and Case 2000. Case 1000 accuses Netanyahu of fraud and breach of trust for receiving gifts of cigars and champagne totaling $200,000 for various political favors. Case 2000 claims Netanyahu is guilty of attempted bribery for making a deal for favorable coverage from Yediot Aharonot publisher Arnon Mozes.
Netanyahu has rejected the accusations and calls the trials a “witch hunt” by his political opponents.
The indictments do not seem to have swayed Israel’s voters which have continued to vote for Netanyahu to be their leader. A Nov. 2019 poll, shortly after the indictments were announced, found 64% of Israelis saying it wouldn’t affect their vote.
Netanyahu has found a staunch defender in one seemingly objective observer, U.S. attorney Alan Dershowitz, who has said Israel “should be deeply ashamed” for putting Netanyahu on trial for seeking better coverage.
“Israel is the first country in modern history to ever put a political leader on trial for trying to get good media coverage or trying to eliminate negative media coverage,” Dershowitz told i24News last June.
He said the charges against Netanyahu are not crimes and if the Knesset wanted them to be crimes it would need to pass statutes to make them so, something Knesset members would never do “because if they did, half of the members of the Knesset would be in prison.”
The next court hearing will take place on Feb. 8. It will deal with all three cases. Netanyahu will be in attendance.
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“If you look at the photos, they look so happy, smiling and dancing. But behind those behind those happy, smiling faces, there are a lot of tragedies.”
By Joseph Wolkin, World Israel News
Jan. 27 marks the day the world officially remembers those who perished during the Holocaust. This year’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland.
Approximately 1.1 million souls perished in Auschwitz.
This year, Yad Vashem is marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a plethora of digital exhibitions. From the “My Lost Childhood” exhibit to the IRemember Wall and a virtual tour of the Block 27 memorial at Auschwitz.
“We have dozens upon dozens of photos of children from their homes,” Yona Kobo, the curator at Yad Vashem who created the “My Lost Childhood” exhibition, said. “If you look at the photos, they look so happy, smiling and dancing. But behind those behind those happy, smiling faces, there are a lot of tragedies.”
Child survivors from Poland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany and France were placed into homes where they could regain a sense of normal life, as well as return to their Jewish faith.
“We bridge the gap between the happy faces and what they went through,” Kobo said. “We want people to understand what it means to be a child survivor. They were robbed of everything from family members to school. People they met usually wanted to kill them.”
Many of the child survivors, once they were old enough to do so, moved to Israel in the Jewish State’s early years.
The anecdotes that Yad Vashem includes in this exhibit are highly detailed, telling not only stories of survival, but of triumph amid the worst of all scenarios. One of the heart-warming stories is of the “Buchenwald Boys,” who were moved to the children’s home in Écouis, France after the war.
“One of the stories here is about Zvi Unger, who was about 14 years old,” Kobo said. “He came from a family of nine siblings, and he lost all of them. He found himself alone at Auschwitz. He said he became some kind of an animal, only listening to his instinct and listening to no one.”
The IRemember Wall is enhanced this year to personalize the experience of remembering people who perished during the Holocaust. People who register for it can either be randomly matched with someone’s name and memory, and they can pick a specific victim who they are related to or have a personal connection with. Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names includes more than 4.8 million Jewish people who died during the Holocaust.
Finally, the digitization of Block 27 is something that Yad Vashem never did before. The block is a memorial in Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was prepared by Yad Vashem and debuted in 2013. It boasts galleries, a massive book of names of people who perished and a room dedicated to the memory of children who were murdered.
“Although we have Yom HaShoah, this is something that goes beyond Israel,” Kobo said. “We’re not only talking about the Jewish tragedy because this happened to mankind.”
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Dennis Prager: Capitol riot is 'Reichstag fire relived'
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“We’re living in a gigantic lie that is reminiscent of the Reichstag fire,” said Dennis Prager.
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
Author and talk show host Dennis Prager said the American left is using the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in the same way the Nazi Party used the 1933 Reichstag fire: as an excuse to suppress free speech and subjugate its enemies.
“This is the Reichstag fire relived,” Prager said in an interview on The Epoch Times‘ American Thought Leaders program on Thursday.
The Reichstag building, the seat of Germany’s parliament, was set ablaze one month after the Nazis came to power in 1933. The Nazis blamed their rivals, the communists.
“It didn’t matter to the Nazis who did it. What mattered was what they could use it for,” Prager said, “and they used it for the Enabling Act that they quickly rammed through parliament, and it enabled the Nazis to curtail civil liberties in the name of a national emergency caused by the burning of the Reichstag.”
Prager called the parallels between the German historical events and American current events “frighteningly accurate.”
“The curtailing of free speech was the first thing done,” he said. “Anti-Nazis, whether communist or not, could not express themselves after the fire.”
Prager said that the left is totalitarian in nature. “The left suppresses liberty everywhere it takes power. There is no exception in the last 100 years,” he said.
He said Americans should have complete freedom to say they disagree with the count of the 2020 presidential election.
“But you can’t say that. That is now the Reichstag burning excuse, the fire excuse: You say that, you’re causing riots,” he said.
Prager said that the suppression of free speech poses a much greater threat to the country than the events of Jan. 6.
“The whole point of America was freedom. The left is suppressing, oppressing the greatest feature of the United States,” he said.
He said the actions of big tech, such as the coordinated shutdown of Parler, were “obviously done in the service of the Democratic Party.”
Prager also criticized the mainstream media, saying it has “no other purpose” than to serve the Democratic Party.
“My disappointment in many fellow Americans is very deep,” Prager said, adding, “The left has made a worse America.”
“I say this with sadness. I would like to separate from the left parts of the country. You take the big cities, we’ll take the rest of the country, and we’ll see who produces happier and finer human beings in 50 years,” he said.
“I don’t know of an alternative. The gulf between left and right is greater than the gulf between north and south in the Civil War,” Prager said.
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The IDF is investigating the incident. Details on what happened have not yet been released.
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An IDF soldier was seriously injured on Wednesday by gunfire at a reconnaissance base in Israel’s south. The circumstances around the incident are not clear.
Military sources say the female soldier was discovered with several gunshot wounds and was evacuated to Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheba for treatment.
The IDF is investigating the incident.
In June, a senior IDF officer was shot and wounded in a training accident at the National Center for Ground Forces Training, also known as Tze’elim, in Israel’s south.
The officer in that case was leading the live-fire exercise when he stepped across the firing line and was shot in the stomach. His injuries were not life-threatening.
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IDF makes drug bust on Egyptian border, captured contraband worth millions
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Israeli forces periodically clash with drug smugglers on the border with Egypt.
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The IDF foiled a drug-smuggling attempt on the Egypt-Israel border and captured drugs worth millions of shekels on Monday.
IDF spotters identified a number of suspects as they tried to smuggle drugs from Egypt. Troops operating in the area fired at the smugglers.
The soldiers seized a number of bags containing drugs worth millions of shekels and a number of vehicles, which were handed over to the Israel Police.
Israeli forces periodically clash with drug smugglers on the border with Egypt, a major route for drugs, weapons and women into Israel.
In 2013, Israel completed a high-tech fence along the Egyptian border to prevent the flow of work migrants, mainly from from Africa through Egypt.
The tall fence, which includes IDF patrols dedicated to patrolling it, has also been helpful in slowing down the prolific smuggling trade from Egypt into Israel, mostly the work of local Bedouin tribes.
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Pompeo defends Trump, criticizes Voice of America for losing commitment to founding mission
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“This isn’t the Vice of America, focusing on everything that’s wrong with our great nation,” Pompeo said.
By World Israel News Staff and AP
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took to Voice of America on Monday to deliver a full-throated defense of the Trump administration’s presentation of its foreign policy and its support for democracy abroad.
Less than a week after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol to express their displeasure with the what they say is a stolen election, Pompeo told staff at the Voice of America that America retains the credibility and standing to defend democratic values abroad. And, he said, they should amplify it.
Pompeo’s speech reaffirmed his loyalty to Trump at a time when Democrats have done everything to capitalize politically on the riots, painting Trump as unstable and calling for cabinet members and Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.
In an address broadcast live across VOA’s English and foreign language services, Pompeo also stood by the parent agency’s director, Michael Pack, a conservative documentary maker who made efforts to improve VOA’s “substandard” reporting and align it with America’s interests.
The VOA has for years been criticized for acting as a voice for America’s adversaries.
VOA reaches over 350 million people around the world each week.
Pack, who only took charge in June 2020 after Senate Democrats obstructed his confirmation, worked swiftly to fire top officials at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA.
The old guard of VOA staffers complained complained that live coverage of Pompeo’s speech would violate VOA’s mandate to present unbiased news to foreign audiences. Pompeo rejected their criticism.
“It’s not fake news for you to broadcast that this is the greatest nation the world has ever known,” Pompeo said.
“I’m not saying ignore our faults. Acknowledge them. But this isn’t the Vice of America, focusing on everything that’s wrong with our great nation. It certainly isn’t the place to give authoritarian regimes in Beijing or Tehran a platform.”
But, he said VOA had forgotten its mission, allowed foreigners with suspect loyalties to represent it, and had become too focused on American deficiencies.
“We allowed security protocols to lapse, and VOA lost its commitment to its founding mission,” Pompeo said. “Its broadcasts became less about telling the truth about America, and too often about demeaning America.”
Those allegations have been forcefully denied by VOA staffers, lawmakers and others. But, Pompeo said VOA journalists should emulate his example in extolling U.S. virtues.
““Your mission is to promote democracy, freedom and American values in the world,” he said. “This is what sets VOA apart from the MSNBCs and Fox News alike. You can give voice to the voiceless in dark corners of the world. You’re the voice of American striving. You’re the voice of American exceptionalism. You’re the tip of freedom’s spear.”
In a message sent to Pack and new VOA director Robert Reilly on Friday, a lawyer for a group of VOA employees sniped that Pompeo’s plan to speak at the agency “endangers public health and safety, violates law, rule and regulation and grossly wastes government resources.”
“A broadcast speech by the outgoing secretary of state on topics on which he has been widely covered should be seen for what it is: the use of VOA to disseminate political propaganda in the waning days of the Trump administration,” said the letter, signed by attorney David Seide of the Government Accountability Project, a group set up in 1977 by the Institute for Policy Studies, a radical, left-wing organization that effectively undermined America’s attempts to counter the Soviet Union.
“As proposed, the planned coverage by language services will be one-sided and lacking the necessary objectivity protected by the firewall. It is political meddling,” Seide said.
Pompeo rejected the complaints and compared them to actions to ban Trump by Twitter and other social media outlets.
“I read that some VOA employees didn’t want me to speak today,” Pompeo said. “They didn’t want the voice of American diplomacy to be broadcast on. … the Voice of America. Think about that.”
“We are all parts of institutions with duties and responsibilities higher than any of us. And this kind of censorial instinct is dangerous,” he said. “It’s morally wrong. And it’s against your mandate. Censorship, wokeness, political correctness, it all points in one direction — authoritarianism, cloaked as moral righteousness. It’s similar to what we’re seeing at Twitter, and Facebook, and Apple, and on too many university campuses.”
There was no immediate response to the letter of complaint from VOA or from Pack, who runs the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees the network and its sister outlets.
Pack, a Trump ally and onetime associate of former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon, has made no secret of his intent to shake up the agency since he became CEO of USAGM after a long confirmation battle in the Senate that finally ended after Trump and his allies launched a series of attacks on VOA and demanded new leadership.
Biden and his team have pledged a full review of Pack’s actions and could replace him shortly after the inauguration, but it’s not entirely clear how many of his personnel decisions could be immediately reversed.
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"“This isn’t the Vice of America, focusing on everything that’s wrong with our great nation,” Pompeo said.\nBy World Israel News Staff and AP\nSecretary of State Mike Pompeo took to Voice of America on Monday to deliver a full-throated defense of the Trump administration’s presentation of its foreign policy and its support for democracy abroad.\nLess than a week after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol to express their displeasure with the what they say is a stolen election, Pompeo told staff at the Voice of America that America retains the credibility and standing to defend democratic values abroad. And, he said, they should amplify it.\nPompeo’s speech reaffirmed his loyalty to Trump at a time when Democrats have done everything to capitalize politically on the riots, painting Trump as unstable and calling for cabinet members and Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.\nIn an address broadcast live across VOA’s English and foreign language services, Pompeo also stood by the parent agency’s director, Michael Pack, a conservative documentary maker who made efforts to improve VOA’s “substandard” reporting and align it with America’s interests.\nThe VOA has for years been criticized for acting as a voice for America’s adversaries.\nVOA reaches over 350 million people around the world each week.\nPack, who only took charge in June 2020 after Senate Democrats obstructed his confirmation, worked swiftly to fire top officials at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA.\nThe old guard of VOA staffers complained complained that live coverage of Pompeo’s speech would violate VOA’s mandate to present unbiased news to foreign audiences. Pompeo rejected their criticism.\n“It’s not fake news for you to broadcast that this is the greatest nation the world has ever known,” Pompeo said.\n“I’m not saying ignore our faults. Acknowledge them. But this isn’t the Vice of America, focusing on everything that’s wrong with our great nation. It certainly isn’t the place to give authoritarian regimes in Beijing or Tehran a platform.”\nBut, he said VOA had forgotten its mission, allowed foreigners with suspect loyalties to represent it, and had become too focused on American deficiencies.\n“We allowed security protocols to lapse, and VOA lost its commitment to its founding mission,” Pompeo said. “Its broadcasts became less about telling the truth about America, and too often about demeaning America.”\nThose allegations have been forcefully denied by VOA staffers, lawmakers and others. But, Pompeo said VOA journalists should emulate his example in extolling U.S. virtues.\n““Your mission is to promote democracy, freedom and American values in the world,” he said. “This is what sets VOA apart from the MSNBCs and Fox News alike. You can give voice to the voiceless in dark corners of the world. You’re the voice of American striving. You’re the voice of American exceptionalism. You’re the tip of freedom’s spear.”\nIn a message sent to Pack and new VOA director Robert Reilly on Friday, a lawyer for a group of VOA employees sniped that Pompeo’s plan to speak at the agency “endangers public health and safety, violates law, rule and regulation and grossly wastes government resources.”\n“A broadcast speech by the outgoing secretary of state on topics on which he has been widely covered should be seen for what it is: the use of VOA to disseminate political propaganda in the waning days of the Trump administration,” said the letter, signed by attorney David Seide of the Government Accountability Project, a group set up in 1977 by the Institute for Policy Studies, a radical, left-wing organization that effectively undermined America’s attempts to counter the Soviet Union.\n“As proposed, the planned coverage by language services will be one-sided and lacking the necessary objectivity protected by the firewall. It is political meddling,” Seide said.\nPompeo rejected the complaints and compared them to actions to ban Trump by Twitter and other social media outlets.\n“I read that some VOA employees didn’t want me to speak today,” Pompeo said. “They didn’t want the voice of American diplomacy to be broadcast on. … the Voice of America. Think about that.”\n“We are all parts of institutions with duties and responsibilities higher than any of us. And this kind of censorial instinct is dangerous,” he said. “It’s morally wrong. And it’s against your mandate. Censorship, wokeness, political correctness, it all points in one direction — authoritarianism, cloaked as moral righteousness. It’s similar to what we’re seeing at Twitter, and Facebook, and Apple, and on too many university campuses.”\nThere was no immediate response to the letter of complaint from VOA or from Pack, who runs the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees the network and its sister outlets.\nPack, a Trump ally and onetime associate of former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon, has made no secret of his intent to shake up the agency since he became CEO of USAGM after a long confirmation battle in the Senate that finally ended after Trump and his allies launched a series of attacks on VOA and demanded new leadership.\nBiden and his team have pledged a full review of Pack’s actions and could replace him shortly after the inauguration, but it’s not entirely clear how many of his personnel decisions could be immediately reversed.",
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Refaelov, 34, plays for Royal Antwerp as an attacking midfielder.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
Israeli soccer player Lior Refaelov was named Player of the Year in the Belgian Pro Soccer League last week, marking the first time that the honor was bestowed upon an Israeli.
Refaelov, 34, plays for Royal Antwerp as an attacking midfielder. The Or Akiva native joined his current team in 2018, but played in Belgium for nearly a decade beforehand.
The 2020 Golden Shoe Award, which Refaelov received last Wednesday, marked the third time a Royal Antwerp has won the title. The last time a Royal Antwerp player received the award was in 1966.
“What an amazing feeling! I’m so proud and honored to achieve this beautiful trophy,” Refaelov wrote on his Instagram account.
“It means a lot for me to be part of the history of Belgian football alongside amazing players. I would like to thank my teammates…board members, fans and everyone who helped to make it happen.”
In October 2020, Refaelov scored the only goal in a 1–0 win over Tottenham Hotspur in the 2020 UEFA Europa League tournament.
At the ceremony, Peter Wandenbampt, a Belgian soccer commentator, said, “What Refaelov achieved in 2020 is phenomenal.”
“He was the man responsible for Antwerp’s two most stunning games this year – against Tottenham in the Europa League and in the Final Cup. In the Final Cup, Lior put Antwerp back on the map. [He reestablished Royal Antwerp] as a club and gave it a ticket to play in Europe once again.
Former Belgian soccer player and commentator Gert Verhein said, “Refaelov… makes the difference for Antwerp in big games… and remains a great football player.
“For such a player, you buy a ticket and come to the stadium. Even as a commentator, you enjoy it. It’s a lot of fun to watch him play.”
The 2020 Player of the Year isn’t the first time Refaelov has been named the best player in a league. In 2011, Refealov won the Israeli equivalent of the award while playing for Maccabi Haifa.
In 2014, Rafealov’s wife, Gal, was crowned the “Most beautiful soccer player’s wife” in Belgium.
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"Refaelov, 34, plays for Royal Antwerp as an attacking midfielder.\nBy Lauren Marcus, World Israel News\nIsraeli soccer player Lior Refaelov was named Player of the Year in the Belgian Pro Soccer League last week, marking the first time that the honor was bestowed upon an Israeli.\nRefaelov, 34, plays for Royal Antwerp as an attacking midfielder. The Or Akiva native joined his current team in 2018, but played in Belgium for nearly a decade beforehand.\nThe 2020 Golden Shoe Award, which Refaelov received last Wednesday, marked the third time a Royal Antwerp has won the title. The last time a Royal Antwerp player received the award was in 1966.\n“What an amazing feeling! I’m so proud and honored to achieve this beautiful trophy,” Refaelov wrote on his Instagram account.\n“It means a lot for me to be part of the history of Belgian football alongside amazing players. I would like to thank my teammates…board members, fans and everyone who helped to make it happen.”\nIn October 2020, Refaelov scored the only goal in a 1–0 win over Tottenham Hotspur in the 2020 UEFA Europa League tournament.\nAt the ceremony, Peter Wandenbampt, a Belgian soccer commentator, said, “What Refaelov achieved in 2020 is phenomenal.”\n“He was the man responsible for Antwerp’s two most stunning games this year – against Tottenham in the Europa League and in the Final Cup. In the Final Cup, Lior put Antwerp back on the map. [He reestablished Royal Antwerp] as a club and gave it a ticket to play in Europe once again.\nFormer Belgian soccer player and commentator Gert Verhein said, “Refaelov… makes the difference for Antwerp in big games… and remains a great football player.\n“For such a player, you buy a ticket and come to the stadium. Even as a commentator, you enjoy it. It’s a lot of fun to watch him play.”\nThe 2020 Player of the Year isn’t the first time Refaelov has been named the best player in a league. In 2011, Refealov won the Israeli equivalent of the award while playing for Maccabi Haifa.\nIn 2014, Rafealov’s wife, Gal, was crowned the “Most beautiful soccer player’s wife” in Belgium.",
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Horned QAnon 'Shaman' will testify against Trump
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Lawyer for poster-boy of the Capitol riots says his client is willing to testify at the impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
By World Israel News Staff
The “QAnon Shaman” who became famous from photographs of him storming the U.S. Capitol while wearing a horned bearskin headdress is prepared to testify at former President Donald Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial, Fox News reported Friday.
Jacob Anthony Chansley is one of the most visible characters among the mob that tried to take over the Capitol building January 6. Carrying an American flag and a megaphone, Chansley’s outlandish appearance included the horned helmet, his face painted red, white and blue, and going shirtless to show off massive patterned tattoos.
When Trump did not include him in the list of people who received pardons, Chansley’s lawyer, Albert Watkins, told KSDK-TV in St. Louis last week that the man who calls himself the “QAnon Shaman” regretted being “duped” by the former president and lamented “being in a position where he allowed that duping to put him in a position to make decisions he should not have made.”
The QAnon conspiracy theory alleges that a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against Trump, who was fighting the cabal.
According to the Department of Justice, Chansley is “charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.” He is one of 145 people charged so far with offenses related to the incident ranging from illegal entry to assaulting police officers. Five people including a police officer were killed during the storming of the building.
Watkins told the Associated Press that it is important for senators to hear the voice of someone who was allegedly incited by Trump. He admitted, however, that he has not yet spoken to any legislators to offer his client as a witness at the pending impeachment trial of the former president that is scheduled to begin in two weeks.
Chansley was arrested and indicted in his home state of Arizona on January 8 and is scheduled to appear in a Washington, D.C. court on Friday to be arraigned.
In the TV interview last week, Watkins said his client was practically “invited” into the Capitol by Trump and egged on to take extreme action to reverse the election results.
Chansley has been photographed in his attire at many Trump rallies, but according to a court document, the day after the Capitol riots, “Chansley called in to the Washington Field Office of the FBI to voluntarily speak with law enforcement.”
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"Lawyer for poster-boy of the Capitol riots says his client is willing to testify at the impeachment trial of Donald Trump.\nBy World Israel News Staff\nThe “QAnon Shaman” who became famous from photographs of him storming the U.S. Capitol while wearing a horned bearskin headdress is prepared to testify at former President Donald Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial, Fox News reported Friday.\nJacob Anthony Chansley is one of the most visible characters among the mob that tried to take over the Capitol building January 6. Carrying an American flag and a megaphone, Chansley’s outlandish appearance included the horned helmet, his face painted red, white and blue, and going shirtless to show off massive patterned tattoos.\nWhen Trump did not include him in the list of people who received pardons, Chansley’s lawyer, Albert Watkins, told KSDK-TV in St. Louis last week that the man who calls himself the “QAnon Shaman” regretted being “duped” by the former president and lamented “being in a position where he allowed that duping to put him in a position to make decisions he should not have made.”\nThe QAnon conspiracy theory alleges that a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against Trump, who was fighting the cabal.\nAccording to the Department of Justice, Chansley is “charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.” He is one of 145 people charged so far with offenses related to the incident ranging from illegal entry to assaulting police officers. Five people including a police officer were killed during the storming of the building.\nWatkins told the Associated Press that it is important for senators to hear the voice of someone who was allegedly incited by Trump. He admitted, however, that he has not yet spoken to any legislators to offer his client as a witness at the pending impeachment trial of the former president that is scheduled to begin in two weeks.\nChansley was arrested and indicted in his home state of Arizona on January 8 and is scheduled to appear in a Washington, D.C. court on Friday to be arraigned.\nIn the TV interview last week, Watkins said his client was practically “invited” into the Capitol by Trump and egged on to take extreme action to reverse the election results.\nChansley has been photographed in his attire at many Trump rallies, but according to a court document, the day after the Capitol riots, “Chansley called in to the Washington Field Office of the FBI to voluntarily speak with law enforcement.”",
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WATCH: Strange fog covers Tel Aviv, reaches to tops of skyscrapers
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Central Israel was covered by dense fog on Sunday morning, so thick it caused the temporary closure of Ben Gurion Airport. The fog resulted from air from the Mediterranean flowing landward, making humidity rise on the coasts.
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WATCH: Dead Sea sediment core reveals Israel may be due for THIS natural event
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A research study that dug through 400 meters of continuous core under the Dead Sea and which told the story of over 220,000 years of Earth’s history reveals that Israel could in for trouble, Haifa University Prof. Nicholas Waldmann says.
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After Jewish leader banned from ‘Palestine 101’ event, Georgia Tech adopts IHRA anti-Semitism definition
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Georgia Tech embraces the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism after Hillel director barred from “Palestine 101” event.
By Algemeiner Staff
One year after allegations that the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) had refused to protect the civil rights of Jewish students and faculty on campus, the university has reached an agreement with the complainant and has adopted the leading definition of anti-Semitism.
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), on behalf of Hillels of Georgia, had asked the US Department of Education to investigate whether Lauren Blazofsky, then the Georgia Tech Hillel director, was barred from a “Palestine 101” event because she was Jewish.
“Georgia Tech is pleased to announce that the parties have reached an agreement and the case is now closed,” the university said Tuesday morning. “We are committed to fostering thoughtful interaction, global perspective, and intercultural sensitivity, and we maintain a strong equal opportunity, nondiscrimination, and anti-harassment policy that applies to every member of the Institute community.”
“Anti-Semitism and any other forms of discrimination are not acceptable,” it continued, accepting the working definition of anti-Semitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).
“I am pleased with the outcome as it drives us toward a direction in which students can feel safe and protected on campus,” said Blazofsky, who is now Associate Director of Hillel at Emory University, to The Algemeiner. “Our goal all along was to ensure that Jewish students, along with any student on campus can rely on [Georgia Tech] to protect them when faced with anti-Semitism or discrimination. We are happy to see that the University has recognized the IHRA definition of antisemitism, as it propels us to work together moving forward to educate the community about all forms of modern antisemitism.”
The Jan. 2020 complaint had charged Georgia Tech with failing to “confront anti-Semitism and protect the rights of Jewish students and faculty.” It came after an executive order signed by President Donald Trump affirmed that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act protects against “anti-Semitic discrimination based on race, color, or national origin” at colleges and universities.
Mark Goldfeder, the attorney who handled the case, told The Algemeiner, “I think both sides were very happy with the outcome. We are glad to have GA Tech as a partner in the fight against discrimination, and believe that a unified statement on this issue will help prevent any future instances of antisemitic behavior, and ensure that if something does happen it is dealt with appropriately.”
In adopting the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, Georgia Tech joins 35 countries and a growing number of universities and other institutions.
“Respect is a core value at Georgia Tech, and one that we recognize as critical to cultivating an inclusive, diverse, and dynamic campus community,” said Elliot Karp, CEO of Hillels of Georgia, to The Algemeiner. “We are committed to fostering thoughtful interaction, global perspective, and intercultural sensitivity, and we maintain a strong equal opportunity, nondiscrimination, and anti-harassment policy that applies to every member of the Institute community.”
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“There are assumptions right the way through about what it is to be a Jew and how Jews are thought of.”
By Shiryn Ghermezian, Algemeiner
A prominent British children’s author and playwright has decided to omit The Merchant of Venice from a young adult book he is working on, based on Shakespeare’s plays, because of its “anti-Semitic” nature.
Sir Michael Morpurgo, 77, is writing a book titled Tales from Shakespeare, a retelling of Shakespeare’s most popular plays that will be catered to a young demographic. The book, which is set to be published next year, will include Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and King Lear.
After rereading The Merchant of Venice, Morpurgo felt that he could not “honestly” retell it and thought it was “too raw to write about for children,” he told The Times in an interview published Sunday.
The main antagonist in The Merchant of Venice is Shylock, a Jewish moneylender who gives the character Antonio a loan on the condition that he can cut off a pound of Antonio’s flesh if he defaults. The play ends with Shylock — who is spat upon and insulted by Christian enemies — being ordered to convert. His daughter also runs away with a Christian and abandons her Jewish heritage.
“I did not tackle Shylock. I avoided [the play] because it worried me too much,” Morpurgo said. “There are assumptions right the way through about what it is to be a Jew and how Jews are thought of.”
“I did feel this was Shakespeare’s play and I could not tell it honestly,” he continued. “It would be offensive.”
The Merchant of Venice was a popular production in Nazi Germany, according to scholars, because Shylock’s characterization as greedy Jew was in line with the anti-Semitic propaganda of the Third Reich. The play was performed in the theaters of the Third Reich “repeatedly,” according to British novelist Howard Jacobson, who added that “in Shylock, the Nazis saw the Jew they wanted to see.”
“Hitler’s willing directors rarely failed to exploit the anti-Semitic possibilities of the play,” wrote Kevin Madigan, professor of Christian history at Harvard Divinity School.
Literary critic Harold Bloom wrote in his 1998 book Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human that “One would have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to recognize that Shakespeare’s grand, equivocal comedy The Merchant of Venice is nevertheless a profoundly anti-Semitic work.”
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"“There are assumptions right the way through about what it is to be a Jew and how Jews are thought of.”\nBy Shiryn Ghermezian, Algemeiner\nA prominent British children’s author and playwright has decided to omit The Merchant of Venice from a young adult book he is working on, based on Shakespeare’s plays, because of its “anti-Semitic” nature.\nSir Michael Morpurgo, 77, is writing a book titled Tales from Shakespeare, a retelling of Shakespeare’s most popular plays that will be catered to a young demographic. The book, which is set to be published next year, will include Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and King Lear.\nAfter rereading The Merchant of Venice, Morpurgo felt that he could not “honestly” retell it and thought it was “too raw to write about for children,” he told The Times in an interview published Sunday.\nThe main antagonist in The Merchant of Venice is Shylock, a Jewish moneylender who gives the character Antonio a loan on the condition that he can cut off a pound of Antonio’s flesh if he defaults. The play ends with Shylock — who is spat upon and insulted by Christian enemies — being ordered to convert. His daughter also runs away with a Christian and abandons her Jewish heritage.\n“I did not tackle Shylock. I avoided [the play] because it worried me too much,” Morpurgo said. “There are assumptions right the way through about what it is to be a Jew and how Jews are thought of.”\n“I did feel this was Shakespeare’s play and I could not tell it honestly,” he continued. “It would be offensive.”\nThe Merchant of Venice was a popular production in Nazi Germany, according to scholars, because Shylock’s characterization as greedy Jew was in line with the anti-Semitic propaganda of the Third Reich. The play was performed in the theaters of the Third Reich “repeatedly,” according to British novelist Howard Jacobson, who added that “in Shylock, the Nazis saw the Jew they wanted to see.”\n“Hitler’s willing directors rarely failed to exploit the anti-Semitic possibilities of the play,” wrote Kevin Madigan, professor of Christian history at Harvard Divinity School.\nLiterary critic Harold Bloom wrote in his 1998 book Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human that “One would have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to recognize that Shakespeare’s grand, equivocal comedy The Merchant of Venice is nevertheless a profoundly anti-Semitic work.”",
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U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (l) and chairman of the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad Paul Packer (second from right) at a ceremony in the City of David, Jan. 18, 2021. (U.S. embassy in Israel)
In a special ceremony in the City of David, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman dedicates a plaque commemorating the bond between Israel and the United States.
By JNS
The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, along with the United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, held a special ceremony at the City of David on Monday in recognition of the “seminal role” the archeological site plays “in connecting its visitors to the origins of the values that helped shape America.”
“The archeological discoveries at the City of David bring biblical Jerusalem back to life and reaffirm the prophetic messages of freedom, justice and peace that inspired America’s founders,” read a statement released by the embassy.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and commission chairman Paul Packer dedicated a plaque in honor of the site.
“In modern America, we are inspired by many monuments that remind us of the history of our republic,” said Friedman at the ceremony.
“I’ve often wondered what monuments inspired our Founding Fathers. When the drafters of the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that our Creator had endowed each and every American with certain unalienable rights, what monuments inspired them? I suggest that those monuments are located right here, in the ancient city of Jerusalem.”
Friedman said that he hoped that the plaque would prompt all those who read it to think of the Judeo-Christian values upon which America was founded and “how those values were inspired by ancient Jerusalem and its inhabitants.”
Friedman, the first sitting U.S. ambassador to tour the City of David, has since visited with numerous senior U.S. officials.
On June 30, 2019, he participated with other American dignitaries in the City of David’s inauguration of the “Pilgrimage Road,” the path taken by millions of pilgrims ascending from the Pool of Siloam up to the Temple more than 2,000 years ago.
In his remarks, Packer commended the City of David for its contribution to America’s heritage, adding that with the ceremony, “we are fulfilling another, larger purpose: to unify Americans around our foundational principles and values. The City of David serves as a living testament to those enduring values, and it is our duty to ensure it remains for generations to come.”
The plaque reads in part: “As the prophet Isaiah said, ‘Out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.’ The spiritual bedrock of our values as a nation comes from Jerusalem. It is upon these ideals that the American Republic was founded, and the unbreakable bond between the United States and Israel was formed. The City of David serves as a proud reminder of the glorious heritage of the United States of America.”
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A point of order brought by Sen. Rand Paul makes the chances of an impeachment trial succeeding highly improbable.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
The chances that former President Donald Trump will be impeached by the Senate have just dropped to about nil after 45 Republicans voted on Tuesday with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) on his point of order that the trial of a former officeholder who is now a private citizen is unconstitutional.
It is fair to assume that Republicans who voted that the trial is unconstitutional will not then vote to violate the Constitution by impeaching Trump. As the Democrats need 17 Republicans to join them in order to impeach, the trial appears, in the words of Paul, “dead on arrival.”
Only five Republicans voted against Paul’s point of order, including Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Paul argued on the Senate floor that “Impeachment is for removal from office, and the accused here has already left office.”
He also said that a trial flies in the face of Democratic calls for unity. “Democrats claim to want to unify the country but impeaching a former president, a private citizen, is the antithesis of unity,” he said.
Democrats say that Trump needs to answer for what they claim is his incitement of a crowd of supporters to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6 in order to prevent a joint session of Congress from certifying the electoral victory of Joe Biden.
Democrats argued that the Republicans are trying to wiggle their way out of addressing Trump’s guilt by focusing on constitutional issues.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said Tuesday that the Republicans’ argument was “flat-out wrong by every frame of analysis — constitutional context, historical practice, precedent and basic common sense.”
“The theory that the Senate can’t try former officials would amount to a constitutional get-out-of-jail-free card for any president who commits an impeachable offense,” Schumer said.
The trial is scheduled for Feb. 9.
Trump is still a powerful figure in the Republican party and remains popular with the party’s base. He recently signaled that he won’t start a third party.
It first appeared that Trump’s conviction was possible as 10 Republicans joined with Democrats to convict in the House, and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had signaled shortly after the Capitol Hill riots that he would consider impeachment.
However, McConnell sided with Paul’s point of order on Tuesday showing that passions have cooled.
“The political winds within the Republican Party have blown in the opposite direction,” said Ralph Reed, chair of the Faith and Freedom Coalition and a Trump ally.
“Republicans have decided that even if one believes he made mistakes after the November election and on Jan. 6, the policies Trump championed and victories he won from judges to regulatory rollback to life to tax cuts were too great to allow the party to leave him on the battlefield.”
AP contributed to this report.
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Chiune Sugihara defied his own government’s orders by issuing handwritten transit visas in 1940 to more than 6,000 Lithuanian Jews, enabling them to escape Nazi-occupied Europe.
By Shiryn Ghermezian, JNS
Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, a virtual event on Monday honored a hero often referred to as the “Japanese Schindler” for helping to save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.
Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania, defied his own government’s orders by issuing handwritten transit visas in 1940 to more than 6,000 Lithuanian Jews, enabling them to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. He continued to do so for over a month until the Japanese consulate was closed. More than 40,000 descendants of those Jews are believed to be alive today because of his courageous actions.
Sugihara died in 1986 at the age of 86.
The online event highlighted Sugihara’s heroic deeds and the lessons we can learn from him in battling contemporary anti-Semitism. The reception was hosted by the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement and B’nai B’rith International.
Sacha Roytman Dratwa, executive director of the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement, told JNS, “While Sugihara has gotten more attention in recent decades, particularly after Yad Vashem gave him the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ title in the 1980s, most people, including Jews, are still unaware of his heroic deeds. So, it is important that we honor those, such as Sugihara, who came to the aid of the Jewish people in the darkest hour of their history.”
“With fewer and fewer survivors of the Holocaust alive to tell their stories, it is vital that its lessons continue to be shared,” he continued. “The Sugihara lesson is about what one person can do in the face of evil—which, with anti-Semitism on the rise around the world, is as relevant as ever.”
The well-known attorney Nathan Lewin, 84, recalled his family’s personal story of how they were saved by Sugihara. He was born in Lodz, Poland, and in September 1939, when Adolf Hitler invaded, he and his family, including his maternal grandmother and uncle, smuggled across the border and made their way to Vilnius, Lithuania. Lewin was 3 years old at the time.
They hoped to travel even farther away from Hitler’s grasps but were unable to get travel documents. Lewin’s mother then went to Sugihara at the Japanese consulate and received the first handwritten “Sugihara visa” given to Jews. Sugihara’s transit visa allowed Lewin’s entire family to travel to Curaçao and Suriname via Japan.
However, Lewin and his family did not go to Suriname or Curacao but traveled to Japan and came to the United States as refugees when he was 5.
He said at the event, “It is both an honor and a blessing for me to be here today to share my admiration and thanks for an individual who embodied the role that our rabbis specified, saying you should not do a good deed with the expectation that you will be rewarded, but for the good deed itself. That is what Chiune Sugihara did.”
Lewin told JNS, “It’s necessary and important to honor those people who took personal efforts and really jeopardized their own professional status to help people who were fleeing from the Holocaust. And Mr. Sugihara did just that.”
The transit papers issued to Nathan Lewin and his parents. Credit: Courtesy.
‘He gave them hope and life’
Lewin’s daughter, Alyza Lewin, also an attorney, discussed the relevance of Sugihara’s story to combating modern-day anti-Semitism.
President of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, she told JNS: “The lesson we learn from Chiune Sugihara is that we must recognize that even if we come from different backgrounds, different faiths, different cultures, different races, different genders, different ethnicities, we are all human beings deserving of respect and fairness, entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
She further praised Sugihara, saying “at a time when Jews were being stigmatized and marginalized, he treated them as human beings. He gave them hope and life when others sought to rob them of their dignity.”
She added that Jews are again being stigmatized and marginalized today, but this time because of their ethnicity.
“Jews who take pride in our sense of Jewish peoplehood and in the Jews’ deep, religious, ethnic, cultural, and ancestral connection to the Land of Israel, are being pressured to shed that ethnic pride,” she said. “The Jewish homeland, the Jewish nation-state of Israel—where all races, religions, ethnicities and genders are equal under the law—is the only nation-state today that is targeted as illegitimate. It is the only country that some say has no right to exist. This is today’s contemporary form of anti-Semitism, and we must unite to combat it. Because anti-Semitism is not just a Jewish problem. It is a cancer that rots away at and ultimately destroys societies that fail to curb it.”
Another Holocaust survivor, Ada Winsten, whose family also obtained transit visas from Sugihara, paid tribute to the man she called “the Japanese Schindler,” saying “if not for him, I would not be here. I would not have my children [or] my grandchildren. If not for Sugihara, we would not even have this story to tell.”
The event’s keynote speaker was Ambassador Kanji Yamanouchi, Consul General of Japan in New York, who said that “by the grace of Sugihara’s pen, thousands of lives were saved.”
He added, “We must remember the Holocaust to honor those who perished and to achieve a better society. We know that no country is immune from the forces of racism and fascism. So, we have to do the right thing when necessary. Chiune Sugihara is one of those who did the right thing in the most difficult hour.”
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"Chiune Sugihara defied his own government’s orders by issuing handwritten transit visas in 1940 to more than 6,000 Lithuanian Jews, enabling them to escape Nazi-occupied Europe.\nBy Shiryn Ghermezian, JNS\nAhead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, a virtual event on Monday honored a hero often referred to as the “Japanese Schindler” for helping to save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.\nChiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat stationed in Lithuania, defied his own government’s orders by issuing handwritten transit visas in 1940 to more than 6,000 Lithuanian Jews, enabling them to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. He continued to do so for over a month until the Japanese consulate was closed. More than 40,000 descendants of those Jews are believed to be alive today because of his courageous actions.\nSugihara died in 1986 at the age of 86.\nThe online event highlighted Sugihara’s heroic deeds and the lessons we can learn from him in battling contemporary anti-Semitism. The reception was hosted by the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement and B’nai B’rith International.\nSacha Roytman Dratwa, executive director of the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement, told JNS, “While Sugihara has gotten more attention in recent decades, particularly after Yad Vashem gave him the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ title in the 1980s, most people, including Jews, are still unaware of his heroic deeds. So, it is important that we honor those, such as Sugihara, who came to the aid of the Jewish people in the darkest hour of their history.”\n“With fewer and fewer survivors of the Holocaust alive to tell their stories, it is vital that its lessons continue to be shared,” he continued. “The Sugihara lesson is about what one person can do in the face of evil—which, with anti-Semitism on the rise around the world, is as relevant as ever.”\nThe well-known attorney Nathan Lewin, 84, recalled his family’s personal story of how they were saved by Sugihara. He was born in Lodz, Poland, and in September 1939, when Adolf Hitler invaded, he and his family, including his maternal grandmother and uncle, smuggled across the border and made their way to Vilnius, Lithuania. Lewin was 3 years old at the time.\nThey hoped to travel even farther away from Hitler’s grasps but were unable to get travel documents. Lewin’s mother then went to Sugihara at the Japanese consulate and received the first handwritten “Sugihara visa” given to Jews. Sugihara’s transit visa allowed Lewin’s entire family to travel to Curaçao and Suriname via Japan.\nHowever, Lewin and his family did not go to Suriname or Curacao but traveled to Japan and came to the United States as refugees when he was 5.\nHe said at the event, “It is both an honor and a blessing for me to be here today to share my admiration and thanks for an individual who embodied the role that our rabbis specified, saying you should not do a good deed with the expectation that you will be rewarded, but for the good deed itself. That is what Chiune Sugihara did.”\nLewin told JNS, “It’s necessary and important to honor those people who took personal efforts and really jeopardized their own professional status to help people who were fleeing from the Holocaust. And Mr. Sugihara did just that.”\nThe transit papers issued to Nathan Lewin and his parents. Credit: Courtesy.\n‘He gave them hope and life’\nLewin’s daughter, Alyza Lewin, also an attorney, discussed the relevance of Sugihara’s story to combating modern-day anti-Semitism.\nPresident of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, she told JNS: “The lesson we learn from Chiune Sugihara is that we must recognize that even if we come from different backgrounds, different faiths, different cultures, different races, different genders, different ethnicities, we are all human beings deserving of respect and fairness, entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”\nShe further praised Sugihara, saying “at a time when Jews were being stigmatized and marginalized, he treated them as human beings. He gave them hope and life when others sought to rob them of their dignity.”\nShe added that Jews are again being stigmatized and marginalized today, but this time because of their ethnicity.\n“Jews who take pride in our sense of Jewish peoplehood and in the Jews’ deep, religious, ethnic, cultural, and ancestral connection to the Land of Israel, are being pressured to shed that ethnic pride,” she said. “The Jewish homeland, the Jewish nation-state of Israel—where all races, religions, ethnicities and genders are equal under the law—is the only nation-state today that is targeted as illegitimate. It is the only country that some say has no right to exist. This is today’s contemporary form of anti-Semitism, and we must unite to combat it. Because anti-Semitism is not just a Jewish problem. It is a cancer that rots away at and ultimately destroys societies that fail to curb it.”\nAnother Holocaust survivor, Ada Winsten, whose family also obtained transit visas from Sugihara, paid tribute to the man she called “the Japanese Schindler,” saying “if not for him, I would not be here. I would not have my children [or] my grandchildren. If not for Sugihara, we would not even have this story to tell.”\nThe event’s keynote speaker was Ambassador Kanji Yamanouchi, Consul General of Japan in New York, who said that “by the grace of Sugihara’s pen, thousands of lives were saved.”\nHe added, “We must remember the Holocaust to honor those who perished and to achieve a better society. We know that no country is immune from the forces of racism and fascism. So, we have to do the right thing when necessary. Chiune Sugihara is one of those who did the right thing in the most difficult hour.”",
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The one-millionth recipient of the Covid-19 vaccine in Israel was convicted of a double-homicide over 20 years ago.
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Seventy-eight years after the notorious Nazi death camp closed, archaeologists uncover ID tags of children murdered in the camp.
By World Israel News Staff
An Israeli archeological team working at the infamous Sobibor extermination camp where the Nazis murdered a quarter of a million people unearthed the identity tags worn by four young Jewish children deported by the Nazis, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Tuesday.
The personal identity tags made of metal belonged to four Dutch children aged 5–to-11 from Amsterdam and were retrieved from archaeological excavations conducted at the camp. The tags were worn like pendants around the neck and bear their names, date of birth and the name of their home town.
The archaeological dig is being carried out prior to the construction of the new visitors center at the camp by a team from Israel, Poland and Holland.
The tags appear to have been made by the parents of Lea Judith De La Penha, Deddie Zak, Annie Kapper, and David Juda Van der Velde.
“As far as we know, identity tags with children’s names have only been found at Sobibor, and nowhere else,” said Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi. “The children’s identity tags were prepared by their parents, who were probably desperate to ensure that the children’s relatives could be located in the chaos of the Second World War.”
“Lea, Annie and Deddie’s tags have enabled us to link faces and stories to the names, which until now had only been anonymous entries in Nazi lists. Archaeological excavation provides us with an opportunity to tell the victims’ stories and to honor their memory,” Haimi added.
Deddie was deported to the camp on the so-called Kindertransport, named after the large number of children it carried to their death. About a third of the 3,017 Jews deported to Sobibor from the Vught Via Westerbork concentration camp were children aged 4–to-8, many of them without parents. Deddie, 8 years old, was murdered with his family when they reached Sobibor camp on June 11, 1943.
“I have been excavating this site for 10 years, but today I broke down,” Haimi said. “We stood with the tags in the field, near the incinerators, called the center, and gave them the names. The response was immediate. We received photos of young, smiling children on our phones.”
“The hardest part was hearing that one of the children whose tag we were holding in our hand, arrived in Sobibor in a delivery of children aged 4 to 8 who were sent here to die alone. I looked at the pictures and asked myself – how can anyone be so cruel?”
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The officials did not identify the other sales that had been temporarily halted.
By Associated Press
The Biden administration has put a temporary hold on several major foreign arms sales initiated by former President Donald Trump.
Officials say that among the deals being paused is a massive $23 billion transfer of stealth F-35 fighters to the United Arab Emirates. That sale and several other massive purchases of U.S. weaponry by Gulf Arab countries had been harshly criticized by Democrats in Congress. The officials did not identify the other sales that had been temporarily halted.
The new administration is reviewing the sales but has not made any determination about whether they will actually go through, the State Department says. It calls the pause “a routine administrative action” that most incoming administrations take with large-scale arms sales.
“The department is temporarily pausing the implementation of some pending U.S. defense transfers and sales under Foreign Military Sales and Direct Commercial Sales to allow incoming leadership an opportunity to review,” the department says.
“This is a routine administrative action typical to most any transition, and demonstrates the administration’s commitment to transparency and good governance, as well as ensuring U.S. arms sales meet our strategic objectives of building stronger, interoperable, and more capable security partners,” it says.
In its waning months, the Trump administration authorized tens of billions of dollars in new arms sales, including announcing plans to send 50 F-35s to the UAE.
That announcement came shortly after Trump lost the Nov. 6 election to now-President Joe Biden and followed the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel, Bahrain and the UAE, under which the Arab states agreed to normalize relations with Israel.
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A number of houses on a London street were vandalized with crosses painted in what appears to be blood, The Algemeiner reports on Tuesday.
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A new IDF online manpower initiative has led to a stunning result, Ynet reports on Sunday.
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The Squad demands ‘immediate removal’ of Trump, GOP supporters for ‘sedition’
The "Squad" - From left, Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
“The President should be impeached and removed from office for his open sedition,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar.
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
The U.S. Congress’ progressive Squad, recently strengthened with fresh recruits, has called for the immediate removal of President Donald Trump along with all Republican lawmakers who voiced opposition to the certification of the electoral college on Wednesday.
“As a member of @HouseJudiciary, I am calling for the immediate impeachment of Donald Trump & his removal from office. I’m also calling for the expulsion of @GOP members of Congress complicit in inciting the attack on our nation’s Capitol,” tweeted Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.).
“This coup attempt is white supremacy in action,” she said in separate tweet.
Bush also had a message for Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.). “You have blood on your hands, and that’s why I’m calling for your removal from Congress,” she tweeted.
Bush posted the image of a draft resolution calling for the expulsion of “Members of the House who have sought to overturn the 2020 Presidential election.” The draft was dated January 5, the day before protestors entered the Capitol Building.
I believe the Republican members of Congress who have incited this domestic terror attack through their attempts to overturn the election must face consequences. They have broken their sacred Oath of Office. I will be introducing a resolution calling for their expulsion. pic.twitter.com/JMTlQ4IfnR — Congresswoman Cori Bush (@RepCori) January 6, 2021
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) announced that she will be drafting Articles of Impeachment.
“Today, I watched as armed terrorists stormed the United States Capitol,” said Omar.
“All leaders should denounce this coup. And the President should be impeached and removed from office for his open sedition,” she said.
Today, Rep. Omar announced articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. Full statement below. pic.twitter.com/LbEPHBkv5O — Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) January 7, 2021
“Donald J. Trump incited this violence and is directly responsible for this attempted coup,” tweeted Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).
“He must be impeached and removed from office immediately,” she said.
Our democracy is literally under assault. Donald J. Trump incited this violence and is directly responsible for this attempted coup. He must be impeached and removed from office immediately. — Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (@RepPressley) January 6, 2021
“This is on Donald Trump, period. He called folks to D.C. and gave them marching orders. He needs to be impeached and removed immediately,” tweeted Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.).
This is on Donald Trump, period. He called folks to D.C. and gave them marching orders. He needs to be impeached and removed immediately. — Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) January 6, 2021
“What we saw today was an attempted coup, performed by white supremacists, emboldened by a fascist,” tweeted Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY).
“Thankfully, myself and my staff are all safe. But we need action to remove Trump. Then we need to move to immediately and explicitly reconcile the our [sic] country’s history of racism,” he said.
What we saw today was an attempted coup, performed by white supremacists, emboldened by a fascist. Thankfully, myself and my staff are all safe. But we need action to remove Trump. Then we need to move to immediately and explicitly reconcile the our country’s history of racism. — Jamaal Bowman (@JamaalBowmanNY) January 6, 2021
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tweeted, “For now, we must focus on task at hand: to preserve the integrity of our democracy, hold accountable those responsible for their attempts to subvert our nation’s elections and shred our Constitution apart.”
“Donald Trump must be impeached,” she said.
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Har-Lev was found in his uniform after a meeting with his reserve unit on Tuesday night.
By World Israel News Staff
IDF Lt. Col. (Res.) Dr. Avi Har-Lev was found dead from a gunshot wound in the Lahav forest near his home of Sansana in the Mount Hebron district in Judea, Arutz7 reports on Wednesday.
The circumstances surrounding his death are being investigated. Terrorism was not mentioned as a cause in the Arutz7 report. However, last month, a Jewish woman, Esther Horgan, was also found dead in a forest in Israel. She had been bludgeoned to death by a rock. That turned out to be an act of terrorism. The killer was caught and confessed to his crime.
Har-Lev was found in his uniform after a meeting with his reserve unit on Tuesday night.
Mount Hebron Regional Council Chairman Yochi Dimri, who was one of those who broke the news to his family, said “I call on the security forces to carefully investigate the possibility that this was [terrorism]. Lahav forest is a commonly used route for illegal [Palestinian Arab] residents crossing from the Hebron area [over the Green Line], and it is possible that one of them spotted a Lt. Colonel in uniform and decided to attack.”
Har-Lev’s family was notified that evening. He is survived by his wife, Shulamit, and their five children: Ron, Moriya, Lavi, Maor, and Hadar Shira, two grandchildren, parents, and a brother.
Har-Lev was a gynecologist specializing in fertility. He served as director of Barziliai Hospital’s in-vitro fertilization unit in Ashkelon, the website says.
His Facebook page says he had been a research fellow at the Cleveland Clinic’s American Center for Reproductive Medicine.
Har-Lev “published more than 45 research papers and had contributed to a number of medical books,” Arutz7 reports.
“With great pain and shock we received the news of the death of dear Dr. Avi Har-Lev,” Dimri said, according to the website.
“Avi was an outstanding person, a family man: a dedicated husband, father, and grandfather. He was known and respected among his friends and thousands of patients to whom he was totally dedicated, to adding life.”
“The Har-Lev family is one of the veteran families, one of the founding families of the town of Sansana. Along with his work as director of the in-vitro fertilization department, Avi insisted on continuing his reserve duty for many years,” Dimri said.
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"Har-Lev was found in his uniform after a meeting with his reserve unit on Tuesday night.\nBy World Israel News Staff\nIDF Lt. Col. (Res.) Dr. Avi Har-Lev was found dead from a gunshot wound in the Lahav forest near his home of Sansana in the Mount Hebron district in Judea, Arutz7 reports on Wednesday.\nThe circumstances surrounding his death are being investigated. Terrorism was not mentioned as a cause in the Arutz7 report. However, last month, a Jewish woman, Esther Horgan, was also found dead in a forest in Israel. She had been bludgeoned to death by a rock. That turned out to be an act of terrorism. The killer was caught and confessed to his crime.\nHar-Lev was found in his uniform after a meeting with his reserve unit on Tuesday night.\nMount Hebron Regional Council Chairman Yochi Dimri, who was one of those who broke the news to his family, said “I call on the security forces to carefully investigate the possibility that this was [terrorism]. Lahav forest is a commonly used route for illegal [Palestinian Arab] residents crossing from the Hebron area [over the Green Line], and it is possible that one of them spotted a Lt. Colonel in uniform and decided to attack.”\nHar-Lev’s family was notified that evening. He is survived by his wife, Shulamit, and their five children: Ron, Moriya, Lavi, Maor, and Hadar Shira, two grandchildren, parents, and a brother.\nHar-Lev was a gynecologist specializing in fertility. He served as director of Barziliai Hospital’s in-vitro fertilization unit in Ashkelon, the website says.\nHis Facebook page says he had been a research fellow at the Cleveland Clinic’s American Center for Reproductive Medicine.\nHar-Lev “published more than 45 research papers and had contributed to a number of medical books,” Arutz7 reports.\n“With great pain and shock we received the news of the death of dear Dr. Avi Har-Lev,” Dimri said, according to the website.\n“Avi was an outstanding person, a family man: a dedicated husband, father, and grandfather. He was known and respected among his friends and thousands of patients to whom he was totally dedicated, to adding life.”\n“The Har-Lev family is one of the veteran families, one of the founding families of the town of Sansana. Along with his work as director of the in-vitro fertilization department, Avi insisted on continuing his reserve duty for many years,” Dimri said.",
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'US looks like a third world country,' says Marco Rubio following Capitol breach
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Amazon’s “false accusations have incited a virtual mob and presented a risk to my family, our employees, and their families,” said Parler CEO John Matze.
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
Parler CEO John Matze and his family have left their home and gone into hiding due to death threats resulting from his company’s “highly charged” dispute with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which abruptly kicked Parler off its web servers after the Capitol riot earlier this month.
“Matze himself, as the CEO of the company AWS continues to vilify, has had to leave his home and go into hiding with his family after receiving death threats and invasive personal security breaches,” Parler said in a motion filed in U.S. district court on Friday.
The motion seeks to redact from exhibits the names and identifying information of employees of both Parler and AWS to protect these individuals from unwanted and potentially dangerous harassment.
“Parler’s company and employees have developed well-founded concerns for their safety and well-being as many of them have been harassed and threatened in the aftermath of both AWS’s highly publicized rejection of Parler from its online hosting services and the instant lawsuit which followed,” Parler said.
In a declaration filed with the court on Wednesday, Matze said, “Multiple members of Parler’s team have come to me expressing both fear for their career and fear for their lives and potentially bodily harm due to the press surrounding AWS’s claims.”
“Many employees want to resign due to the strain and pressure they feel, fearing hostility towards our company and fearing for their own safety,” he said.
Matze said that many of his employees are being harassed, and some have had to cancel their phone numbers, and family members’ phone numbers, due to the harassment.
“Some have gone so far as to leave their home state to escape,” he said, adding, “I have left my home to go somewhere safe.”
“Via messages on LinkedIn, Twitter, and email, I have received many recent threats of violence. Though most have presented no imminent threat of danger, I have seen one particular group with a history of committing murder doxing my home street on Twitter with threat accusations lobbed against me, as well as others circulating my personal passwords,” Matze said.
“AWS’s false accusations have incited a virtual mob and presented a risk to my family, our employees, and their families,” he said.
Matze said he believes AWS’s decision to terminate service to Parler was based on a desire to deny President Donald Trump a platform on social media.
He said that the AWS representative assigned to Parler was a Joe Biden supporter and that this representative was privy to inside information that Trump was considering a move to Parler.
“And in fact, AWS’s termination of Parler has had the effect of denying a large social-media platform to Trump, even while protecting a large customer—Twitter—from the increased competition that would have resulted if Trump had moved to Parler,” Matze said.
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Activists shout slogans and carry torches during the annual rally to mark the birth of Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera, Kyiv, Ukraine, Jan. 1, 2021. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
Israeli ambassador slams annual march, says it’s time for Ukraine to come to terms with its past.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Israel’s ambassador to the Ukraine criticized that country Sunday after a New Year’s Day march in the capital Kiev honored a Ukrainian national who was a Nazi collaborator.
“We strongly condemn any glorification of collaborators with the Nazi regime. It is time for Ukraine to come to terms with its past,” Ambassador Joel Lion tweeted.
On Friday several hundred people gathered in Kiev to commemorate the 112th anniversary of the birth of Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera, the Interfax news agency reported.
Born in what was then part of Poland in the Austro-Hungarian empire, Bandera was the founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) that worked with the Nazis during World War II and whose members were responsible for killing tens of thousands of Jews and other ethnic groups during the war.
Participants at the rally held flags with the symbols of Ukraine’s Svoboda Party, as well as posters depicting Bandera, Interfax reported. Svoboda is known as a far-right ultra-nationalist party in Ukraine and has been repeatedly accused of espousing anti-Semitic and fascist ideologies.
Lion’s tweet evoked angry responses from some Ukrainians who pointed out that Bandera was arrested and jailed by the Gestapo. However, the tweets didn’t mention that the Nazis released Bandera towards the end of the war to use him against the Soviets.
The tweet also got positive responses including a Ukrainian named Mykhail Ridkous who tweeted his thanks to the ambassador.
“We, Ukrainians, mostly, do not support this nazis outrage and idiots, but our politicians benefit from these marginalized people and we cannot do anything. They’re rewriting history,” Ridkous said.
There has been a reported increase in anti-Semitic attacks in Ukraine in the past years. In December the government apologized after a man filmed himself knocking over a large menorah in Kiev during Chanukah, saying there is “no place for anti-Semitism” in Ukraine. The attacker, Andrey Rachkov, filmed himself toppling the giant menorah on Dec. 10, apparently motivated by his anti-Semitic and anti-Israel ideology.
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A large quantity of ammunition of various types was seized in the suspects’ houses, the Shin Bet said Thursday.
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The Border Police’s elite undercover unit captured two terrorists who fired at Border Policemen in the Jenin area last month, the Shin Bet (Israel’s Security Agency) announced.
On December 19, 2020, during an Israeli operation on the outskirts of Jenin, a suspicious vehicle stopped near a unit of Border Policemen.
A terrorist who was sitting next to the driver got out of the vehicle, fired several bullets at the armored jeep, and then both fled the scene.
Border police and IDF forces worked to locate those involved in the shooting.
An investigation conducted by the Shin Bet led to the arrest of the terrorists by the Border Police’s undercover unit.
The troops arrived at the house of one of the terrorists in the morning, entered the house and arrested him in his room while he is in his bed.
A large quantity of ammunition of various types was seized in the suspects’ houses, the Shin Bet said Thursday.
The two suspects, 19- and 21-year-old residents of Jenin, were taken for questioning by the Shin Bet.
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The IDF answer – it mans the checkpoint at the exit from Ramallah according to “operational needs.”
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
The IDF’s checkpoint outside Ramallah was unmanned Sunday, creating a gaping hole in security, reporter Assaf Gibor writes Tuesday in Israeli weekly Makor Rishon.
The city from which Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas governs over the vast majority of Palestinians, is located only a few kilometers from Route 60, the main highway leading to Jerusalem in the area.
On the approach to the checkpoint, Gibor describes how he prepared to take out his journalist credentials to present to the soldiers, as Israeli citizens usually do given they normally aren’t allowed to travel in the area due to the danger to life and limb, but to his surprise he discovered that the booths stood empty.
There was no one opening car trunks to check for possible bombs or examining the ID cards of drivers coming through.
The IDF’s answer, he says, is that the checkpoint in question is not permanently manned but only according to operational needs.
Gibor speculates that the army may have diverted manpower to help combat the Covid-19 pandemic, as there is less movement in and out of the city since Abbas declared a state of emergency last March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
The head of the PA has extended the emergency laws in 30-day increments ever since, with the current one set until February 1. Of all the rules in place, the most pertinent in this case is that travel to and from Judea and Samaria is banned.
Palestinian employees of Israeli firms must remain in their places of work for the duration of the closure instead of returning home each night. There is also a curfew between 7:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
The authorities have been empowered to enact localized lockdowns in places where there is a breakout of Covid-19. Gibor saw a Palestinian checkpoint just a few hundred meters away from the Israeli one, but it, too, was unmanned at the time.
Although the IDF and intelligence services conduct anti-terror activities and arrests nonstop, Gibor pointed out that Abbas’ recent declaration that there will be Palestinian legislative elections in May for the first time since 2006 may restrain him now from cracking down on rival factions.
This period may thus be more dangerous to Israel than usual, as Hamas has always tried to gain more of a following in Judea and Samaria, and could now begin recruiting terrorists under the cover of political campaigning.
It is also no secret that to gain popularity on the Palestinian street, Abbas’ main Fatah movement has often glorified “resistance” against Israel. This, too, encourages terrorism, as does the PA’s monetary support for those who carry out attacks and their families.
According to the IDF’s recently released 2020 report on terrorist incidents, there were 1,500 stone-throwing and 229 Molotov cocktail attacks by Palestinians in Judea and Samaria in the past year.
However, the IDF has been accused of undercounting. According to reporter Kalman Liebskind, when he asked the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit for the full count, the numbers skyrocketed to 3,951 stonings and 698 Molotov cocktail attacks.
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"The IDF answer – it mans the checkpoint at the exit from Ramallah according to “operational needs.”\nBy Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News\nThe IDF’s checkpoint outside Ramallah was unmanned Sunday, creating a gaping hole in security, reporter Assaf Gibor writes Tuesday in Israeli weekly Makor Rishon.\nThe city from which Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas governs over the vast majority of Palestinians, is located only a few kilometers from Route 60, the main highway leading to Jerusalem in the area.\nOn the approach to the checkpoint, Gibor describes how he prepared to take out his journalist credentials to present to the soldiers, as Israeli citizens usually do given they normally aren’t allowed to travel in the area due to the danger to life and limb, but to his surprise he discovered that the booths stood empty.\nThere was no one opening car trunks to check for possible bombs or examining the ID cards of drivers coming through.\nThe IDF’s answer, he says, is that the checkpoint in question is not permanently manned but only according to operational needs.\nGibor speculates that the army may have diverted manpower to help combat the Covid-19 pandemic, as there is less movement in and out of the city since Abbas declared a state of emergency last March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.\nThe head of the PA has extended the emergency laws in 30-day increments ever since, with the current one set until February 1. Of all the rules in place, the most pertinent in this case is that travel to and from Judea and Samaria is banned.\nPalestinian employees of Israeli firms must remain in their places of work for the duration of the closure instead of returning home each night. There is also a curfew between 7:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.\nThe authorities have been empowered to enact localized lockdowns in places where there is a breakout of Covid-19. Gibor saw a Palestinian checkpoint just a few hundred meters away from the Israeli one, but it, too, was unmanned at the time.\nAlthough the IDF and intelligence services conduct anti-terror activities and arrests nonstop, Gibor pointed out that Abbas’ recent declaration that there will be Palestinian legislative elections in May for the first time since 2006 may restrain him now from cracking down on rival factions.\nThis period may thus be more dangerous to Israel than usual, as Hamas has always tried to gain more of a following in Judea and Samaria, and could now begin recruiting terrorists under the cover of political campaigning.\nIt is also no secret that to gain popularity on the Palestinian street, Abbas’ main Fatah movement has often glorified “resistance” against Israel. This, too, encourages terrorism, as does the PA’s monetary support for those who carry out attacks and their families.\nAccording to the IDF’s recently released 2020 report on terrorist incidents, there were 1,500 stone-throwing and 229 Molotov cocktail attacks by Palestinians in Judea and Samaria in the past year.\nHowever, the IDF has been accused of undercounting. According to reporter Kalman Liebskind, when he asked the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit for the full count, the numbers skyrocketed to 3,951 stonings and 698 Molotov cocktail attacks.",
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A statue of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, former head of Iran's Quds force, installed in front of a branch of Hezbollah’s Qard al-Hassan bank, in Ghobeiry, a southern suburb of Beirut, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP/Bilal Hussein)
The association, officially a non-profit charity, is one of the tools by which Hezbollah entrenches its support among the country’s Shiite population.
By World Israel News Staff and AP
Over the past year, the al-Qard al-Hasan association has seen a significant increase in clients, despite it being under U.S. Treasury sanctions since 2007.
The al-Qard al-Hasan Association is the financial arm of the terror group Hezbollah.
In the country’s wrecked economy, everyone is desperate for hard currency and liquidity as the local currency plummets in value, a crisis brought on by massive debt created by successive feckless governments.
At commercial banks, depositors stand in line for hours and fight with managers in vain to access their dollar savings. Most banks have stopped giving loans.
But at Hezbollah’s al-Qard al-Hasan people can take out small, interest-free loans in dollars, enabling them to pay school fees, get married, buy a used car or open a small business. They can also open saving accounts there.
The association, officially a non-profit charity, is one of the tools by which Hezbollah entrenches its support among the country’s Shiite population.
It is a painful irony for those who hoped the economic crisis would cause people to turn on Hezbollah, whose tentacles have reached into every aspect of Lebanese society, and now sits as a “respectable” member of Lebanon’s government, holding 14 of the 128 seats in its parliament.
Hezbollah is known to the West as a terror group. It has killed U.S. and Israeli soldiers and points a massive arsenal of missiles at the Jewish State, some 150,000, which it is constantly working to upgrade.
There were early signs, especially during protests following the devastating Beirut port explosion, that the organization would lose support among the public. The group has come under enormous criticism over the past year among Lebanese furious at the political elite.
The financial stability it’s offering appears to be mitigating that anger.
Lebanon’s economic and financial crisis is the country’s worst in modern history, with the economy contracting 19% in 2020. Tens of thousands around the country have lost their jobs, and nearly half the population of more than 6 million is in poverty.
Al-Qard al-Hasan, whose name in Arabic means “the benevolent loan,” offers interest-free loans up to $5,000 and, importantly these days, it gives them in dollars. Active for more than three decades, it is considered Lebanon’s largest non-banking financial institution giving microloans.
Israeli journalist Roi Kais writes in Kan News on Thursday of the difficulty in ridding Lebanon of Hezbollah due to these other, non-terroristic activities (though the bank is used to support terrorist financing).
“What do you think of when you hear about Hezbollah? Nasrallah? Missiles? An Iranian arm? It turns out that for many in Lebanon, the Shiite terrorist organization is both a bank and a ‘Rami Levy’ or ‘Osher Ad’ super-style,” he writes, referring to two Israeli supermarkets as an example.
“Hezbollah has an independent economic system, one that has replaced the collapsing Lebanese economy in recent months. While in Lebanese banks the dollars run out, in Hezbollah’s banks – a celebration,” he writes.
He notes that in addition to its banking, Hezbollah’s position straddling Lebanon’s borders allows it to smuggle food and other goods into the country, which it uses to prop up its support among the Shiite population.
He says Hezbollah has turned the weakest community, the Shiites, into the strongest.
In one positive note, Kais writes, “When everything in Lebanon collapses, Hezbollah is seen as exploiting the national economy for its own needs. Today, unlike in the past, there is more courage in Lebanon to talk about the issue.”
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"A statue of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, former head of Iran's Quds force, installed in front of a branch of Hezbollah’s Qard al-Hassan bank, in Ghobeiry, a southern suburb of Beirut, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP/Bilal Hussein)\nThe association, officially a non-profit charity, is one of the tools by which Hezbollah entrenches its support among the country’s Shiite population.\nBy World Israel News Staff and AP\nOver the past year, the al-Qard al-Hasan association has seen a significant increase in clients, despite it being under U.S. Treasury sanctions since 2007.\nThe al-Qard al-Hasan Association is the financial arm of the terror group Hezbollah.\nIn the country’s wrecked economy, everyone is desperate for hard currency and liquidity as the local currency plummets in value, a crisis brought on by massive debt created by successive feckless governments.\nAt commercial banks, depositors stand in line for hours and fight with managers in vain to access their dollar savings. Most banks have stopped giving loans.\nBut at Hezbollah’s al-Qard al-Hasan people can take out small, interest-free loans in dollars, enabling them to pay school fees, get married, buy a used car or open a small business. They can also open saving accounts there.\nThe association, officially a non-profit charity, is one of the tools by which Hezbollah entrenches its support among the country’s Shiite population.\nIt is a painful irony for those who hoped the economic crisis would cause people to turn on Hezbollah, whose tentacles have reached into every aspect of Lebanese society, and now sits as a “respectable” member of Lebanon’s government, holding 14 of the 128 seats in its parliament.\nHezbollah is known to the West as a terror group. It has killed U.S. and Israeli soldiers and points a massive arsenal of missiles at the Jewish State, some 150,000, which it is constantly working to upgrade.\nThere were early signs, especially during protests following the devastating Beirut port explosion, that the organization would lose support among the public. The group has come under enormous criticism over the past year among Lebanese furious at the political elite.\nThe financial stability it’s offering appears to be mitigating that anger.\nLebanon’s economic and financial crisis is the country’s worst in modern history, with the economy contracting 19% in 2020. Tens of thousands around the country have lost their jobs, and nearly half the population of more than 6 million is in poverty.\nAl-Qard al-Hasan, whose name in Arabic means “the benevolent loan,” offers interest-free loans up to $5,000 and, importantly these days, it gives them in dollars. Active for more than three decades, it is considered Lebanon’s largest non-banking financial institution giving microloans.\nIsraeli journalist Roi Kais writes in Kan News on Thursday of the difficulty in ridding Lebanon of Hezbollah due to these other, non-terroristic activities (though the bank is used to support terrorist financing).\n“What do you think of when you hear about Hezbollah? Nasrallah? Missiles? An Iranian arm? It turns out that for many in Lebanon, the Shiite terrorist organization is both a bank and a ‘Rami Levy’ or ‘Osher Ad’ super-style,” he writes, referring to two Israeli supermarkets as an example.\n“Hezbollah has an independent economic system, one that has replaced the collapsing Lebanese economy in recent months. While in Lebanese banks the dollars run out, in Hezbollah’s banks – a celebration,” he writes.\nHe notes that in addition to its banking, Hezbollah’s position straddling Lebanon’s borders allows it to smuggle food and other goods into the country, which it uses to prop up its support among the Shiite population.\nHe says Hezbollah has turned the weakest community, the Shiites, into the strongest.\nIn one positive note, Kais writes, “When everything in Lebanon collapses, Hezbollah is seen as exploiting the national economy for its own needs. Today, unlike in the past, there is more courage in Lebanon to talk about the issue.”",
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“So what President Biden wants to do is make sure those folks have better choices,” said Special Envoy Kerry.
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday sharply criticized the statements of U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, who said that American oil workers should make “better choices” and instead “go to work to make the solar panels.”
“What an arrogant, out-of-touch statement for a centimillionaire to say,” Cruz told Fox News.
“The Democratic elites have decided that blue-collar workers, that union members, that men and women with calluses on their hands, they’ve made the wrong choices, in John Kerry’s words,” he said.
Cruz said that President Joe Biden’s “radical and extreme” executive orders, such as revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, are “hurting a lot of jobs” and undermining U.S. security while increasing the nation’s reliance on foreign energy.
Cruz also said that the Biden administration’s efforts will actually cause more harm to the environment, which they aim to protect.
“The irony of what they’re doing is there will be worse pollution,” he said.
Rich, out-of-touch Dems lecture the thousands of blue-collar union members whose jobs are being deliberately destroyed by the Biden admin: Make “better choices.” While you’re at it, don’t forget “Let them eat cake!” https://t.co/NgSBxew5n3 — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 27, 2021
During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, Kerry was asked what message he had for oil and gas industry workers whose livelihoods are ending as a result of the Biden administration’s policies.
“So what President Biden wants to do is make sure those folks have better choices, that they have alternatives, that they can be the people who go to work to make the solar panels,” Kerry said.
He suggested that coal miners should switch careers and become solar power technicians.
“The same people can do those jobs, but the choice of doing the solar power one now is a better choice,” he said.
Prior to signing several executive orders on Wednesday, Biden said, “When we think of climate change, we think of it — this is a case where conscious and convenience cross paths, where dealing with this existential threat to the planet and increasing our economic growth and prosperity are one in the same.”
“When I think of climate change, I think of — and the answers to it — I think of jobs,” he said.
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In recent weeks, Iran has increased its military drills. On Saturday, the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard held a naval parade in the Persian Gulf.
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Iran’s navy began a short-range missile drill in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday and inaugurated its largest military
vessel, state TV reported, amid heightened tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program and a U.S. pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic.
The two-day missile drill was being held in the gulf’s southeastern waters and two new Iranian-made warships joined the exercise: The missile-launching Zereh, or “armor,” and the country’s largest military ship the Makran, a logistics vessel with a helicopter pad named for a coastal region in southern Iran.
President Donald Trump in 2018 withdrew the U.S. from Iran’s nuclear deal, in which Tehran had agreed to limit its uranium enrichment in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions, but which critics said gave the Islamic Republic a clear path to a nuclear bomb. Trump cited Iran’s ballistic missile program among other issues in withdrawing from the accord.
When the U.S. then ramped up sanctions, Iran gradually and publicly abandoned the deal’s limits on its nuclear development as a series of escalating incidents in an effort to pressure Europe to get the U.S. to return to the deal.
In recent weeks, Iran has increased its military drills. On Saturday, the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard held a naval parade in the Persian Gulf and a week earlier Iran held a massive drone maneuver across half the country.
Iran on occasion announces military achievements that cannot be independently verified. The country began a military sufficiency program in 1992 under which Tehran says it produces mortars to fighter jets.
State TV said the 121,000-metric ton Makran is Iran’s largest military ship at 228 meters (748 feet) long, 42 meters (138 feet) wide and 21.5 meters (70 feet) tall. The Makran, a logistics ship that supports combat ships in the fleet, can travel for nearly three years without docking and carries information collection and processing gear.
Video footage released by the military showed helicopters carrying commandos to the Makran as part of the exercise.
Last week, Iran seized a South Korean oil tanker and its crew members in the Gulf, and continues to hold the vessel at an Iranian port. The Islamic Republic has apparently sought to increase its leverage over Seoul ahead of negotiations over billions of dollars in Iranian assets frozen in South Korean banks tied to U.S. sanctions on Iran.
On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran of having secret ties with the militant al-Qaida network and imposed new sanctions on several senior Iranian officials. Iran has denied the accusation.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday said in a televised speech during a cabinet meeting that U.S. sanctions will fail. “We are witnessing the failure of a policy, the maximum pressure campaign, economic terrorism,” he said.
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he Palestinian flag moments before being taken down from the PLO Mission in Washington in advance of its being ordered closed by the Trump administration, Oct. 10, 2018. (JNS/Jackson Richman)
The Biden administration will restore U.S. assistance to the Palestinians, he said.
By JNS
The United States will renew relations with the Palestinians, including reopening the Palestine Liberation Organization mission in Washington, D.C., acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Mills told the Security Council on Tuesday.
Mills, who is serving in this interim position until U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to be America’s ambassador to Turtle Bay, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, said the Biden administration will restore U.S. assistance to the Palestinians.
The Trump administration cut off most U.S. assistance to the Palestinians, including through the Taylor Force Act, due to Palestinian leadership financially rewarding terrorists and their families. The PLO mission was closed in October 2018.
Washington’s Mideast policy “will be to support a mutually agreed, two-state solution, in which Israel lives in peace and security, alongside a viable Palestinian state,” said Mills, adding that a peace deal must be agreed to by both Israelis and Palestinians.
He also warned both sides against unilateral actions.
While Biden will encourage more Arab countries to normalize ties with Israel, that’s “no substitute for Israeli-Palestinian peace,” said Mills.
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The interior of the U.S. Capitol rotunda, taken from behind the statue of George Washington. (Wikimedia Commons)
The Great Purge, an event without precedent in American history, isn’t about one side seizing the levers of power. It is about one side denying the other side the right to even vie for power.
By Caroline Glick, Israel Hayom via JNS
U.S. President Joe Biden and the small crowd assembled on the Washington Mall for his inauguration on Wednesday celebrated the event as “democracy’s day.” But in truth, the state of democracy in America today is nothing to celebrate.
The talking heads on TV, Democrats and a smattering of anti-Trump Republicans insist that the fault for all of America’s political woes lies with former president Donald Trump and the senators and congressmen who joined him in questioning the results of the election in several swing states. For refusing to set aside evidence of widespread election fraud, they stand accused of inciting an insurrection and so endangering the foundations of American democracy.
Trump was impeached for his statements at the Jan. 6 rally, and Democrat lawmakers are calling for senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley to be expelled from the Senate for questioning the electoral college votes from states with widespread allegations of election fraud.
The accusers forget conveniently that Democrat leaders from Nancy Pelosi to Hillary Clinton have insisted since November 2016 that Trump’s electoral victory was “illegitimate” and that the job of good Americans was to “resist” his “regime.” They forget as well that Democrat lawmakers objected to the certification of the electoral college ballots in 2016. And when their objections failed to overturn the election results, a protest broke out in the visitors’ gallery of the Capitol. Several protesters were arrested.
No one in the media or in the coastal elite ever accused Pelosi and Clinton of inciting an insurrection, even as hundreds of thousands of protesters filled the streets demanding that Trump be overthrown.
Republicans still unafraid of being called domestic terrorists and insurrectionists insist that if the violent protesters in the Capitol on Jan. 6 were insurrectionists, their “insurrection” was but a pale glimmer of the insurrection mounted in the streets of America’s cities throughout the spring and summer, with the enthusiastic support and financial backing of Democrat leaders and their corporate sponsors. Seven hundred police officers were injured, dozens of citizens were killed and tens of thousands of businesses were destroyed and vandalized during the Antifa and BlackLivesMatter riots. Property damage and losses were assessed at $2 billion. Government buildings were besieged, burned to the ground and vandalized.
The truth is that both Democrats and Republicans are wrong. Politicians from all sides and at all levels of government have long questioned election results. And no matter how strident their rejection of the results may have been, their actions never undermined America’s democratic foundations.
Likewise, America has been the site of mass protests since before the Revolution. The right to protest is considered so sacred that it is protected in the First Amendment to the Constitution. There are laws governing where the line between protests and lawbreaking lies. And policing protests is as American as the protests themselves. Protests do not threaten American democracy.
The great danger to American democracy is not to be found in the streets. It is certainly not to be found in politicians debating how votes were counted and collected.
The grave danger to American democracy emanates from the unprecedented fusion between the Democratic Party and corporate America. Political philosopher Angelo Codevilla referred to this unity of forces as a ruling “oligarchy” that is replacing the American Republic.
The emerging “oligarchy” is currently enacting something that can rightly be dubbed “The Great Purge.”
The Great Purge, an event without precedent in American history, isn’t about one side seizing the levers of power. It is about one side denying the other side the right to even vie for power.
The purpose of purge is not to replace Trump loyalists with Biden loyalists in positions of power. Such replacement happens as a matter of course every time a new administration comes into office. The purpose of the purge is to “cancel” the Republican Party and its voters as a legitimate political force and so transform the United States into something approaching a one-party system. To achieve this goal, the Democrats in government and their partners in the corporate and big tech media are using their power to repress, silence, ruin and criminalize tens of millions of private citizens for the “crime” of supporting Trump and the Republican Party.
The Big Tech giants’ coordinated cancellation of all of Trump’s social media accounts almost simultaneously was the opening gambit. It was rapidly followed by Congress’s light-speed impeachment of Trump for his alleged role in fomenting the violent protest at the Capitol. Like the social media ban, the impeachment flew through with no debate, no due process and no evidence, through the good offices of Democrat lawmakers and their Republican allies who wish to make an example out of Trump. There is every reason to believe that in the coming months and years, the members of the ruling class will continue to abuse their power to destroy Trump, whether by bankrupting him or prosecuting him. They must continue to pursue him. For if he perseveres, then they will have failed.
At some point in the near future, Trump will face a Senate trial. As he left the White House on Wednesday morning, Trump had yet to secure legal counsel for the trial. The reason he has no lawyers doesn’t owe to a sudden shortage of good defense attorneys in Washington. It owes to fear of the purge. Qualified lawyers are afraid to represent him.
And they should be.
Cleta Mitchell has long been a fixture in Washington legal circles. A senior partner at the Foley and Lardner law firm, Mitchell was a member of Trump’s legal team in his electoral challenges in Georgia. When word got out that she was representing him, Democrat operatives from the Lincoln Project began threatening her firm with a client walkout.
The day after the Lincoln Project began threatening the firm’s business, Mitchell announced her resignation. Within an hour of her announcement, all mention of Mitchell was scrubbed from the firm’s website. One of Washington’s top attorneys had been “cancelled.”
Weeks before, the Lincoln Project did the same thing to two other law firms whose partners were representing Trump’s legal challenges to the Pennsylvania election results. The attorneys saved themselves from immediate cancellation by immediately cancelling their representation of the president of the United States.
Since Jan. 6, petitions of lawyers and law students demanding that senators Cruz and Hawley be disbarred for lawfully challenging the electoral college votes of disputed states have garnered thousands of signatures. Harvard students are demanding the university withdraw the degrees of Trump advisers and political allies.
Regular Americans who participated in the protests—outside and inside the Capitol—are also being purged. Doctors, lawyers, state lawmakers, policemen and others whose only “crime” was being present have lost their jobs after being “outed.”
Therese Duke, a nurse’s assistant from Massachusetts, was one of those “purged.” Duke participated in a protest on Jan. 5—the night before the Capitol siege—at Freedom Plaza in Washington. She was videoed as she wept, with blood flowing down her face after being punched by a policewoman. Duke’s daughter, a member of the “woke” revolution, outed her mother in a leering post on Twitter. The next day, Duke was fired from her job at University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care. She told a local newspaper that she doesn’t believe she will be able to get another job.
As bad as things are becoming in the private sector, the smoke signals being sent out of Washington are even more alarming. Since Jan. 6, Democrat lawmakers have been preparing legislation that would apply counter-terror laws passed to fight foreign terror groups abroad to investigating and fighting Americans suspected of membership in “domestic terror groups.” Former military, law enforcement and intelligence leaders are pushing for such a move.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who commanded U.S. forces in Afghanistan, spent the past year campaigning against Trump. Last week McChrystal told Yahoo News, “I see a similar dynamic in the evolution of al-Qaeda in Iraq, where a whole generation of angry Arab youth with very poor prospects followed a powerful leader who promised to take them back in time to a better place, and he led them to embrace an ideology that justified their violence. This is now happening in America.”
Former CIA director John Brennan then detailed who the enemy is. Aside from Trump and “lawmakers,” Brennan said the new enemy comprises “an unholy alliance of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists and even libertarians.”
Former FBI director James Comey made the goal of the purge explicit. “The Republican Party needs to be burned down or changed,” he told The Guardian.
He figures people would be happy to go along with that.
“Who would want to be part of an organization that at its core is built on lies and racism and know-nothingism? It’s just not a healthy political organization,” he said.
Sa’ar’s agenda bodes ill for Israel
Unfortunately for Israelis, this isn’t just America’s problem. Thanks to New Hope Party chairman Gideon Sa’ar, Israel is now importing some of the instigators of the purge. Sa’ar has reportedly hired four founders of the Lincoln Project to run his campaign against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud ahead of the March elections.
The Lincoln Project is run by former Republicans who have devoted the last four years of their lives to helping Democrats by demonizing Trump, Republicans and Republican voters. Their efforts met with negligible success in the 2020 elections. Trump increased his vote total by 11 million over 2016.
Trump didn’t lose because Republicans stopped supporting him. He lost because the Democrats massively increased their voter base. The Lincoln Project’s performance was so dismal that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demanded that it give its outstanding funds—raised from Democrat donors—to Democrat organs that had actually won the election.
But since its election failure, the Lincoln Project has come into its own. When Ocasio-Cortez said Democrats should make a database of Trump administration officials to prepare a blacklist, she was pilloried as a totalitarian. But when the “former Republicans” from the Lincoln Project said they were compiling such a list, it went over without protest. And ever since, the Lincoln Project has led the way in blacklisting and cancelling everyone from Trump’s attorneys to hotels and vacation websites that served Trump supporters who came to Washington on Jan. 6. It is now calling for the firing of everyone from a county election board chairwoman in Georgia to Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
For four years, Israelis have gasped at the similarities between the Israeli left’s unrelenting efforts to destroy Netanyahu, in partnership with the media and the legal fraternity, and the efforts of their American counterparts to destroy Trump.
Sa’ar’s decision to integrate the instigators of America’s great purge—a purge that is already endangering the democratic order of the most powerful democracy on earth—into Israel’s political bloodstream bodes ill for Israel’s future. And it most certainly tells us something alarming about the direction Sa’ar is interested in taking the country, if his campaign to become the next prime minister succeeds.
Caroline Glick is an award-winning columnist and author of “The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East.”
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"The interior of the U.S. Capitol rotunda, taken from behind the statue of George Washington. (Wikimedia Commons)\nThe Great Purge, an event without precedent in American history, isn’t about one side seizing the levers of power. It is about one side denying the other side the right to even vie for power.\nBy Caroline Glick, Israel Hayom via JNS\nU.S. President Joe Biden and the small crowd assembled on the Washington Mall for his inauguration on Wednesday celebrated the event as “democracy’s day.” But in truth, the state of democracy in America today is nothing to celebrate.\nThe talking heads on TV, Democrats and a smattering of anti-Trump Republicans insist that the fault for all of America’s political woes lies with former president Donald Trump and the senators and congressmen who joined him in questioning the results of the election in several swing states. For refusing to set aside evidence of widespread election fraud, they stand accused of inciting an insurrection and so endangering the foundations of American democracy.\nTrump was impeached for his statements at the Jan. 6 rally, and Democrat lawmakers are calling for senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley to be expelled from the Senate for questioning the electoral college votes from states with widespread allegations of election fraud.\nThe accusers forget conveniently that Democrat leaders from Nancy Pelosi to Hillary Clinton have insisted since November 2016 that Trump’s electoral victory was “illegitimate” and that the job of good Americans was to “resist” his “regime.” They forget as well that Democrat lawmakers objected to the certification of the electoral college ballots in 2016. And when their objections failed to overturn the election results, a protest broke out in the visitors’ gallery of the Capitol. Several protesters were arrested.\nNo one in the media or in the coastal elite ever accused Pelosi and Clinton of inciting an insurrection, even as hundreds of thousands of protesters filled the streets demanding that Trump be overthrown.\nRepublicans still unafraid of being called domestic terrorists and insurrectionists insist that if the violent protesters in the Capitol on Jan. 6 were insurrectionists, their “insurrection” was but a pale glimmer of the insurrection mounted in the streets of America’s cities throughout the spring and summer, with the enthusiastic support and financial backing of Democrat leaders and their corporate sponsors. Seven hundred police officers were injured, dozens of citizens were killed and tens of thousands of businesses were destroyed and vandalized during the Antifa and BlackLivesMatter riots. Property damage and losses were assessed at $2 billion. Government buildings were besieged, burned to the ground and vandalized.\nThe truth is that both Democrats and Republicans are wrong. Politicians from all sides and at all levels of government have long questioned election results. And no matter how strident their rejection of the results may have been, their actions never undermined America’s democratic foundations.\nLikewise, America has been the site of mass protests since before the Revolution. The right to protest is considered so sacred that it is protected in the First Amendment to the Constitution. There are laws governing where the line between protests and lawbreaking lies. And policing protests is as American as the protests themselves. Protests do not threaten American democracy.\nThe great danger to American democracy is not to be found in the streets. It is certainly not to be found in politicians debating how votes were counted and collected.\nThe grave danger to American democracy emanates from the unprecedented fusion between the Democratic Party and corporate America. Political philosopher Angelo Codevilla referred to this unity of forces as a ruling “oligarchy” that is replacing the American Republic.\nThe emerging “oligarchy” is currently enacting something that can rightly be dubbed “The Great Purge.”\nThe Great Purge, an event without precedent in American history, isn’t about one side seizing the levers of power. It is about one side denying the other side the right to even vie for power.\nThe purpose of purge is not to replace Trump loyalists with Biden loyalists in positions of power. Such replacement happens as a matter of course every time a new administration comes into office. The purpose of the purge is to “cancel” the Republican Party and its voters as a legitimate political force and so transform the United States into something approaching a one-party system. To achieve this goal, the Democrats in government and their partners in the corporate and big tech media are using their power to repress, silence, ruin and criminalize tens of millions of private citizens for the “crime” of supporting Trump and the Republican Party.\nThe Big Tech giants’ coordinated cancellation of all of Trump’s social media accounts almost simultaneously was the opening gambit. It was rapidly followed by Congress’s light-speed impeachment of Trump for his alleged role in fomenting the violent protest at the Capitol. Like the social media ban, the impeachment flew through with no debate, no due process and no evidence, through the good offices of Democrat lawmakers and their Republican allies who wish to make an example out of Trump. There is every reason to believe that in the coming months and years, the members of the ruling class will continue to abuse their power to destroy Trump, whether by bankrupting him or prosecuting him. They must continue to pursue him. For if he perseveres, then they will have failed.\nAt some point in the near future, Trump will face a Senate trial. As he left the White House on Wednesday morning, Trump had yet to secure legal counsel for the trial. The reason he has no lawyers doesn’t owe to a sudden shortage of good defense attorneys in Washington. It owes to fear of the purge. Qualified lawyers are afraid to represent him.\nAnd they should be.\nCleta Mitchell has long been a fixture in Washington legal circles. A senior partner at the Foley and Lardner law firm, Mitchell was a member of Trump’s legal team in his electoral challenges in Georgia. When word got out that she was representing him, Democrat operatives from the Lincoln Project began threatening her firm with a client walkout.\nThe day after the Lincoln Project began threatening the firm’s business, Mitchell announced her resignation. Within an hour of her announcement, all mention of Mitchell was scrubbed from the firm’s website. One of Washington’s top attorneys had been “cancelled.”\nWeeks before, the Lincoln Project did the same thing to two other law firms whose partners were representing Trump’s legal challenges to the Pennsylvania election results. The attorneys saved themselves from immediate cancellation by immediately cancelling their representation of the president of the United States.\nSince Jan. 6, petitions of lawyers and law students demanding that senators Cruz and Hawley be disbarred for lawfully challenging the electoral college votes of disputed states have garnered thousands of signatures. Harvard students are demanding the university withdraw the degrees of Trump advisers and political allies.\nRegular Americans who participated in the protests—outside and inside the Capitol—are also being purged. Doctors, lawyers, state lawmakers, policemen and others whose only “crime” was being present have lost their jobs after being “outed.”\nTherese Duke, a nurse’s assistant from Massachusetts, was one of those “purged.” Duke participated in a protest on Jan. 5—the night before the Capitol siege—at Freedom Plaza in Washington. She was videoed as she wept, with blood flowing down her face after being punched by a policewoman. Duke’s daughter, a member of the “woke” revolution, outed her mother in a leering post on Twitter. The next day, Duke was fired from her job at University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care. She told a local newspaper that she doesn’t believe she will be able to get another job.\nAs bad as things are becoming in the private sector, the smoke signals being sent out of Washington are even more alarming. Since Jan. 6, Democrat lawmakers have been preparing legislation that would apply counter-terror laws passed to fight foreign terror groups abroad to investigating and fighting Americans suspected of membership in “domestic terror groups.” Former military, law enforcement and intelligence leaders are pushing for such a move.\nGen. Stanley McChrystal, who commanded U.S. forces in Afghanistan, spent the past year campaigning against Trump. Last week McChrystal told Yahoo News, “I see a similar dynamic in the evolution of al-Qaeda in Iraq, where a whole generation of angry Arab youth with very poor prospects followed a powerful leader who promised to take them back in time to a better place, and he led them to embrace an ideology that justified their violence. This is now happening in America.”\nFormer CIA director John Brennan then detailed who the enemy is. Aside from Trump and “lawmakers,” Brennan said the new enemy comprises “an unholy alliance of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists and even libertarians.”\nFormer FBI director James Comey made the goal of the purge explicit. “The Republican Party needs to be burned down or changed,” he told The Guardian.\nHe figures people would be happy to go along with that.\n“Who would want to be part of an organization that at its core is built on lies and racism and know-nothingism? It’s just not a healthy political organization,” he said.\nSa’ar’s agenda bodes ill for Israel\nUnfortunately for Israelis, this isn’t just America’s problem. Thanks to New Hope Party chairman Gideon Sa’ar, Israel is now importing some of the instigators of the purge. Sa’ar has reportedly hired four founders of the Lincoln Project to run his campaign against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud ahead of the March elections.\nThe Lincoln Project is run by former Republicans who have devoted the last four years of their lives to helping Democrats by demonizing Trump, Republicans and Republican voters. Their efforts met with negligible success in the 2020 elections. Trump increased his vote total by 11 million over 2016.\nTrump didn’t lose because Republicans stopped supporting him. He lost because the Democrats massively increased their voter base. The Lincoln Project’s performance was so dismal that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demanded that it give its outstanding funds—raised from Democrat donors—to Democrat organs that had actually won the election.\nBut since its election failure, the Lincoln Project has come into its own. When Ocasio-Cortez said Democrats should make a database of Trump administration officials to prepare a blacklist, she was pilloried as a totalitarian. But when the “former Republicans” from the Lincoln Project said they were compiling such a list, it went over without protest. And ever since, the Lincoln Project has led the way in blacklisting and cancelling everyone from Trump’s attorneys to hotels and vacation websites that served Trump supporters who came to Washington on Jan. 6. It is now calling for the firing of everyone from a county election board chairwoman in Georgia to Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.\nFor four years, Israelis have gasped at the similarities between the Israeli left’s unrelenting efforts to destroy Netanyahu, in partnership with the media and the legal fraternity, and the efforts of their American counterparts to destroy Trump.\nSa’ar’s decision to integrate the instigators of America’s great purge—a purge that is already endangering the democratic order of the most powerful democracy on earth—into Israel’s political bloodstream bodes ill for Israel’s future. And it most certainly tells us something alarming about the direction Sa’ar is interested in taking the country, if his campaign to become the next prime minister succeeds.\nCaroline Glick is an award-winning columnist and author of “The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East.”",
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It means a rough road ahead for U.S.-Israel relations as the Democratic party has veered increasingly into anti-Israel territory.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
It couldn’t be worse news for Israel supporters. While the races have not yet been officially called, it seems clear that Georgia has not only elected its Jeremiah Wright, but also the Jewish candidate who gave him moral cover.
The two Republican incumbents, Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Sen. David Perdue, went down to defeat against Democrat challengers Rev. Raphael Warnock, 51, senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, and Jon Ossoff, 33, a documentary filmmaker.
Democratic control of the executive and legislative branches means a rough road ahead for U.S.-Israel relations as the Democratic party has veered increasingly into anti-Israel territory – a space in which Georgia’s new senators will feel right at home.
None more so than Warnock. As he ran for Senate, a raft of his anti-Israel statements came to light over the years, from his 2008 defense of Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the 2018 accusation he made from the pulpit that Israeli soldiers were “shoot[ing] down unarmed Palestinian sisters and brothers like birds of prey.”
Only last year, Warnock signed a statement comparing Israeli control of Judea and Samara to apartheid South Africa.
Loeffler zeroed in on Warnock’s remarks in her campaign, tweeting on Nov. 10: “Reverend Warnock has a long history of anti-Israel extremism. He defended Jeremiah Wright’s anti-Semitic comments. He embraced the anti-Zionist BLM organization. And he thinks Israel is an ‘oppressive regime’ for fighting back against terrorism.”
In came Ossoff to defend the indefensible, telling the Forward on Nov. 18, “Kelly Loeffler’s baseless attacks on the Reverend make me sick.”
“Reverend Warnock is a beloved friend and ally of Georgia’s Jewish community and a friend of Israel,” he said.
The only thing more disgraceful than Warnock’s smoking pile of anti-Semitism was Ossoff’s attempt to blow it out.
No one who knew anything about Israel would have bought Ossoff’s defense. The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), an organization representing over 1,500 traditional rabbis, sure didn’t.
“We have thousands of years of experience with hateful rhetoric of this nature, and the deadly consequences of allowing it to flourish uncontested,” said CJV President Rabbi Pesach Lerner in an open letter on Dec. 18, adding that Warnock’s statements were “tainted with classic anti-Semitic tropes familiar to every Orthodox rabbi.”
“Only a fool, or someone callously unconcerned for the safety of Israel and the Jewish community, would grant credence to what he says on the campaign trail today to Jewish audiences, over what he said just a year ago in front of his own, supportive congregation,” Lerner added.
A fool or someone callously unconcerned. That describes Ossoff to a tee, who although he is Jewish, is a proud supporter of J Street.
J Street is a radical organization which pushes Dr. Kevorkian-style policy prescriptions for the Israeli side of the Arab-Israel conflict. It supports the “right of return” of Palestinian “refugees,” an idea which even far left politicians in Israel agree is madness.
In February of last year, J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami kissed and embraced PA President Mahmoud Abbas – at the UN appropriately enough. Abbas sits atop a hateful, anti-Semitic regime that denies the Holocaust, indoctrinates racism and swears never to stop paying its people for killing Jews.
In short, if you’re on J Street’s side, you’re not on Israel’s side. J Street, it should be noted, happily contributed to both Warnock and Ossoff’s campaigns.
If there’s a glimmer of good news in this otherwise dismal result, it’s that Warnock will only serve for two years before he has to run again as he’s filling out the term of former Sen. Johnny Isakson, who retired early for health reasons.
David Isaac is managing editor of World Israel News.
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Billionaire Sheldon Adelson “saw in the State of Israel not only the realization of an historical promise to a unique and deserving people, but also a gift from the Almighty to all of humanity,” says bereaved wife Miriam.
By World Israel News Staff
Dr. Miriam Adelson announced the death of her husband and Las Vegas Sands Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sheldon G. Adelson on Tuesday.
“It is with unbearable pain that I announce the death of my husband, Sheldon G. Adelson, of complications from a long illness.
“Sheldon was the love of my life. He was my partner in romance, philanthropy, political activism and enterprise. He was my soulmate.
“To me – as to his children, grandchildren, and his legions of friends and admirers, employees and colleagues – he is utterly irreplaceable.
“Much has been written and said about how Sheldon, the son of poor immigrants, rose to the pinnacle of business success on the strength of grit and genius, inspiration and integrity. His was an all-American story of entrepreneurship. When Sheldon launched a new venture, the world looked on with anticipation.
“In our amazing 32-year adventure together, I was fortunate to witness the beauty of Sheldon’s private side.
“He was an American patriot: a U.S. Army veteran who gave generously to wounded warriors and, wherever he could, looked to the advancement of these great United States. He was the proudest of Jews, who saw in the State of Israel not only the realization of an historical promise to a unique and deserving people, but also a gift from the Almighty to all of humanity.
“And Sheldon was kind. He gave readily of his fortune to charitable causes that may literally be countless, as he expected no credit and often preferred anonymity. Although bluff in build and speech – and, in the last two decades, beset by painful sickness – Sheldon was always sensitive to the needs of others.
“Visit any of our hotels and you will immediately notice the extraordinarily high ceilings, exquisitely designed by Sheldon at a sacrifice of lucrative space. He wanted all of our guests – no matter their means – to feel like kings, to breathe free in gorgeous tranquility. When the COVID-19 crisis hit and those hotels went dark, he insisted that our tens of thousands of Team Members continue getting their wages and medical insurance.
“Each of those people, and millions of other beneficiaries of Sheldon’s largesse, are his testimonials.
“But he went beyond bettering the lives of individuals: He crafted the course of nations. Some of the historical changes that he helped effect – in the United States, Israel and elsewhere – are publicly known. Others are not. For Sheldon, recognition of his own indispensable role was unimportant. What counted was that good be done. He cared about standing up for what was right, even if that meant standing alone. His ideal day’s end was in the company of family and friends, not statesmen or celebrities.
“Sheldon and I grew up on coasts: him in Boston, me in Haifa. Together we sailed across oceans, pushed back the Pearl River Delta to help develop Macao’s future, recreated the Venice lagoon canals in Las Vegas. To me, Sheldon had power and depth and mystery like the sea. His devotion lifted me up, like waves, through challenges both personal and professional.
“And now he is gone. The supporting waters have vanished heavenward. Only a vast, dry seabed remains. The loss is colossal.
“Farewell, my darling, my one true love. After gaining and giving so much, you have earned this rest.”
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A mild explosion occurred outside the Israeli embassy in New Delhi. No injuries were reported.
Just after 5 p.m. on Friday, a low-intensity IED blast was reported outside the Israeli embassy in New Delhi. To date, it appears there were no injuries.
Four or five cars were damaged, according to initial reports, and the area is filled with broken glass.
“No injury reported, nor any damage to property witnessed except to window panes of 3 vehicles. Initial impressions suggest mischievous attempt to create a sensation,” the Delhi Police said, India Times reported.
“According to preliminary reports, the Police Control Room was informed of a ‘bomb blast’ in the area and senior officials, including deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Pramod Kushwah, rushed to the spot, officials said,” the India Times report said.
“The incident is being investigated by Indian authorities who are in contact with the relevant Israeli officials,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry said. “The foreign minister is being updated regularly and has ordered all necessary security steps be taken.”
The area has been cordoned off and a police investigation in underway.
This is the second explosion in eight years near the Israel embassy. On February 13, 2012, a bomb was placed on the car of Israeli diplomat Tal Yehoshua Koren, who was wounded in the attack.
Friday’s blast occurred on the 29th anniversary of the establishment of full diplomatic relations on January 29, 1992.
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Palestinian security personnel borrowed a page from Israeli plainclothes security forces as depicted in the hit Netflix series Fauda.
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Return to Iran deal would create regional arms race, says ex-Secretary of State Kissinger
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“I don’t believe that the spirit [of the deal], with a time limit and so many escape clauses, will do anything other than bring nuclear weapons all over the Middle East,” Kissinger said.
By Algemeiner Staff
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that a return to the “spirit” of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal would lead to the spread of the weapons throughout the Middle East, in virtual remarks Monday.
“We should not fool ourselves,” he said. “I don’t believe that the spirit [of the deal], with a time limit and so many escape clauses, will do anything other than bring nuclear weapons all over the Middle East and therefore create a situation of latent tension that sooner or later will break out.”
The comments came during an interview with Dennis Ross, who has advised several U.S. presidents on the Middle East, at a virtual event held by the Jewish People Policy Institute. Kissinger served as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
“In principle I could imagine negotiating with the current regime if it changes its attitudes, but they don’t seem to find it possible to give up this combination of Islamist imperialism and threat,” said Kissinger.
The 97-year-old former diplomat also said that that there was a “window of opportunity for a new Middle East” after the recent normalization agreements between Israel and states like United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco.
“The Arab states have learned or have come to the conclusion that their national interests transcend their ideological interests,” Kissinger said. “Their survival as societies cannot be maintained in a state of constant tensions with the West and with Israel.”
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Jewish Agency cuts ties with Christian Zionist group accused of proselytizing
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Chairman of the Jewish Agency, Isaac Herzog, speaks during a rally in Jerusalem on Jan. 5, 2020. (Flash90/Hadas Parush)
Return Ministries and the Jewish Agency both said that Beynenu’s claim that Return Ministries was proselytizing was false and did not represent the reality on the ground at Bikat Kinarot.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
The Jewish Agency announced in a statement on Monday that it has cut ties with Return Ministries, a Canadian Christian Zionist organization that came under fire for reportedly attempting to proselytize new Jewish immigrants.
Although the Jewish Agency said an internal investigation found “no evidence of any direct missionary activity,” the Agency decided to end its relationship with the group because Return Ministries “erroneously took credit in their [social] media posts for involvement in areas such as Aliyah, specifically with proselytizing lone soldiers and new olim [immigrants].”
But despite Monday’s statement that the Agency cut ties with the group, Chaim Malesprin, the head of Return Ministries in Israel, said that the Agency had not reached out to his organization.
“We have not received any formal eviction notice or formal complaint of any kind at all,” Malesprin told WIN on Wednesday. “We’ve worked together with the Jewish Agency for five years and put 13 million shekels into this joint partnership.”
“Numerous Christian groups feel an impulse or duty to proselytize and missionize. That is definitely not Return Ministries, and as is stated in our curriculum, that is not our standpoint, not how we operate or how we teach. We are bridge builders.”
A November 2020 video from missionary watchdog group Beynenu claimed that Return Ministries was actively working on the site of the Jewish Agency’s Bikat Kinarot campus, which houses new immigrants and lone soldiers, to convert vulnerable Jews to Christianity.
The video depicted Malesprin, a Messianic Jew, giving a tour of the Bikat Kinarot campus and implying that the Christian group was responsible for “taking care” of new Jewish immigrants.
Screenshots from Return Ministries’ site explained that the organization was “providing accommodation” for new arrivals to Israel, and “connecting them with community.”
“Since our grand opening, only a few years ago, we have helped thousands of Jewish immigrants and Israelis in need, settle and grow roots in the land of Israel, alongside the Israeli Ministry of Absorption and the Jewish Agency…” the site read.
Return Ministries and the Jewish Agency both say that Beynenu’s claim that Return Ministries was proselytizing was false and did not represent the reality on the ground at Bikat Kinarot.
A statement at the time from the Jewish Agency downplayed Return Ministries involvement at the campus, saying that the group’s volunteers “generally assist with maintenance and gardening work” and were “strictly prohibited from engaging in any missionary activity.”
“I am pleased that in the end the Jewish Agency made the right decision to terminate this relationship,” Shannon Nuzsen, founder and director of Beynenu, told WIN in a statement.
“We are grateful for, and appreciate our non-Jewish friends of all faiths that stand with us. But, for the protection of the Jewish people it is the job of Jewish leadership to ensure that certain lines in this relationship are not crossed.”
“Beyneynu simply brought to light, through presenting the video evidence, that these lines were indeed being crossed at the Jewish Agency program at Bikat Kinarot.”
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The proposed international governmental corporation would prevent being “at the mercy of market forces” in future pandemics, he said.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed Monday to a group of six heads of state that they join Israel in establishing a joint corporation to research and produce vaccines against future pandemics.
In their seventh video meeting on ways to handle the coronavirus that started sweeping through the world a year ago, Netanyahu explained his idea to the leaders of Greece, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Australia and the Czech Republic.
“We will encounter more viruses…. We must start planning for the next years,” Netanyahu said, suggesting that uniting their forces in a government-funded non-profit organization would enable them to “reach a reasonable economic and scientific volume.”
It could not be a private company, he said, just as a country’s air force isn’t private.
With the exception of Australia, which has 26 million residents, the countries are small but advanced, and this can be used to the world’s advantage, he said.
“Most of us have populations of five to 12 million people,” he noted. “I suggest we discuss the creation of an international corporation for research and production. We all have research, science and technological capabilities. We have to develop these abilities, we can’t be at the mercy of market forces.”
Such preparedness in terms of research, production and supply would first help their own countries and then the rest of the world, he said.
Israel has reportedly paid top dollar for millions of doses of the vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech, which was the first to hit the world market under American FDA emergency-use protocols. It is also paying with information, having contracted with Pfizer to share weekly statistics on those who are ill and those who receive the vaccine.
The exact details of what data will be shared is unknown, however, worrying those who fear a breach of medical confidentiality. The agreement does state that Pfizer must abide by Israel’s Privacy Protection Law that prevents the pharmaceutical giant from using the data for anything other than improving public health, and it cannot expose any individual patient or allow any third party to do so.
The prime minister also urged the leaders to set personal examples and receive their inoculation publicly along with senior health officials, to generate public trust in the vaccine. Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein were the first to get the Pfizer vaccine in Israel.
Almost 30% of the population has already received the first inoculation, and over 300,000 have been given the second and final jab. Israel has also pre-bought millions of the vaccine varieties being produced by AstraZeneca and Moderna, with the latter expected to send its first major batch of more than half a million doses over the coming weeks.
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The Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court issued a gag order on the details of the investigation.
By Aryeh Savir, TPS
The police are investigating an incident in which an Arab threatened a policewoman with a knife in Kafr Qassem last week as a terrorism incident, it stated a week after the attack.
The police stated Wednesday that following the incident on Thursday night, during which the police arrested a 17-year-old resident of the Palestinian Authority (PA) after threatening a policewoman with a knife outside the police station in Kafr Qassem, “the suspicion of a nationalist motive has increased.”
No one was injured in the incident.
The Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court issued a gag order on the details of the investigation.
The circumstances of the case are being investigated, the police stated.
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“The United States must not tolerate anybody who provides support to these radical Islamic terrorists,” said Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.).
By JNS
A bill that would impose American sanctions on supporters of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) or their affiliates has been reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Brian Mast (R-Fla.) reintroduced the Palestinian International Terrorism Support Prevention Act on Thursday. Hamas and PIJ are U.S.-designated terrorist groups.
The bill passed the House in 2019 but died in the U.S. Senate.
If enacted, the bill would require the president to submit to Congress an annual report for the next three years identifying foreign persons, agencies or instrumentalities of a foreign state who knowingly and materially assist Hamas, the PIJ or an affiliate or successor of one of those organizations.
It would also require the president to report to Congress on each government that provides support for acts of terrorism and provides material support to Hamas, PIJ or any affiliate or successor organization.
Additionally, the president would need to prohibit that government’s transactions in foreign exchanges that are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and prevent that government’s transfers of credits or payments between financial institutions subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
“The terrorist group Hamas is well known for firing rockets and digging terror tunnels into Israel and using Gazans, including women and children, as human shields. It is critical that the United States and our allies continue to isolate groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad by cutting them off at the source,” said Gottheimer in a statement.
“This bill will strengthen sanctions to weaken these terrorist groups that threaten our ally Israel, undermine peace and further destabilize the Middle East,” he continued. “This bipartisan legislation, which has already passed the House unanimously, also contains important humanitarian considerations.”
Mast explained that “following my service in the Army, I chose to volunteer alongside the Israeli Defense Forces because our countries share the common ideals of freedom, democracy and mutual respect for all people. Hamas preaches destruction to Israel and death to the values we hold dear in the United States. The United States must not tolerate anybody who provides support to these radical Islamic terrorists.”
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Arab Israeli actor and director Mohammed Bakri at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Mar. 18, 2011. (Flash90/Abir Sultan)
The film, which is presented as a documentary but makes unsubstantiated claims about IDF soldiers committing a massacre in Jenin during the Second Intifada, has been the subject of court battles for decades.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
Israeli Arab director Mohammed Bakri’s 2002 film Jenin, Jenin cannot be screened in Israel and all copies of the movie in the Jewish State should be seized, ruled Israel’s Lod District Court on Monday.
Judge Halit Salash also ruled that Bakri must pay 175,000 shekels in damages to Nissim Magnaji, a former IDF soldier depicted in Jenin, Jenin. Magnaji filed a libel suit against Bakri in 2017, asking for 2.6 million shekels in compensation.
The film, which is presented as a documentary but makes false allegations of a massacre committed by IDF soldiers in Jenin during the Second Intifada, has been the subject of court battles for decades.
The “Jenin massacre” has been described a modern-day blood libel, started by senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat who falsely told CNN on April 7, 2002 that 500 Palestinians had been killed in the Jenin refugee camp. In reality, Israel used ground troops instead of the air force in order to minimize civilian casualties. As a result, over 20 IDF soldiers were killed in booby trapped buildings.
When the film was originally released in 2002, Israel’s Film Censorship Board banned it. A Supreme Court ruling swiftly overturned the ban.
Soon after, five IDF reservists sued Bakri for libel, claiming that Jenin, Jenin falsely accused them of participating in war crimes during Operation Defensive Shield.
In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that although Bakri’s allegations in the film were false, he was not guilty of libel as he had not specifically mentioned or depicted any of the reservists who sued.
As the film was criticized for its one-sided depiction of events and its inaccuracy, Bakri’s attorney, Avigdor Feldman, told Haaretz, “Bakri doesn’t say anything in this film. The people who talk are those he filmed.”
“So the residents of the refugee camp say things which sometimes are true and sometimes not. It’s a movie. It reflects the subjective understanding of the speakers. Sometimes they say things that are harsher [than they actually were] because that is how he experienced it.”
Monday’s ruling, however, found that Bakri was responsible for slandering Maganji, who appeared in archival footage used in the film.
“The plaintiff, a private person who was called by the State of Israel to a military service during Operation Defensive Shield, and finds himself being presented in the film in question, as someone who steals the entire property of another person – a helpless old person – as part of an alternative reality, completely the product of the defendant’s imagination,” said Salash.
Salash slammed Bakri for “not checking, even slightly, the claims of the people he interviewed, but chose to present them as part of a film presuming to reflect facts and reality.”
IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi praised the decision, calling it a “a sharp and clear message backing IDF fighters in the past, present and future, as well as for bereaved families.”
Right-wing NGO Im Tirtzu said that while they’re pleased with the decision, based on previous court decisions, the group was not ready to celebrate just yet. “We hope that the ombudsman and the State Attorney’s Office will stand by the fighters even when the lying director Bakri will petition the High Court,” they said.
“Unfortunately, to this day the High Court has proven whose side its on time and time again.”
Joint List MK Aida Touma-Suleiman said the decision was an attempt to “silence” Bakri’s “exposure of the true wicked and criminal face of the occupation.”
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“Your suffering is our pleasure”: The anti-Zionist glee at Sheldon Adelson’s death.
By Ben Cohen, JNS
When the former Conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died in 2013, there were some on the Left who regarded her passing as a moment for celebration. Social-media channels filled up with jokes and messages that were variously gleeful, mocking or vengeful, all posted by individuals who, if you asked them, would confidently tell you that they were fighting for a more just and equitable world.
This sinister wave of joy at Thatcher’s death was shocking to many, including the late political theorist Professor Norman Geras of the University of Manchester. As a man of the left, Geras had been an arch-opponent of Thatcher on every major issue to confront Britain during the turbulent 1980s. But the sheer pleasure of some left-wingers at her death more than 20 years after the day she left office—“a day on which many, including me, were delighted to see her go,” wrote Geras—left him little short of disgusted.
I thought of Geras’s riposte to those who rejoiced at Thatcher’s death, which I’ll be quoting from momentarily, when I saw some of the reaction to the sad passing of Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire Jewish philanthropist, on Jan. 11. Specifically, I noticed the kind of abuse that was piled on Thatcher after she died, also written and posted by people who would confidently tell you, if you asked them, that they were fighting for a more just and equitable world.
As the observations in this piece are primarily directed at those who mocked and insulted Adelson on the very day that he passed, regrettably I have to cite some of what they said.
Rebecca Vilkomerson, the former executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace—an organization whose benign-sounding name masks the fact that its sole purpose to advocate for Israel’s elimination—posted on an otherwise censorious Twitter that Adelson’s death was “a present for my birthday.” Another user tweeted, “Now do Kissinger,” referring to the 97-year-old Jewish former U.S. Secretary of State. In response, the left-wing group IfNotNow chimed in with Bimheira B’yameinu—a Hebrew phrase meaning “speedily in our days” that appears frequently in Jewish liturgy, in reference to the rebuilding of Jerusalem.
That was right after the same group issued a blood-chilling cry of joy at the news that Adelson had died. “Adelson dedicated his life and wealth to empowering the far-right in the U.S. and in Israel,” IfNotNow foamed on Twitter. “Yimakh shemo. May his legacy be erased.”
For those who don’t know, the Hebrew words yimakh shemo mean “may his name be erased.” I remember my grandfather telling me when I was a kid that these were not words to be used lightly; they were reserved for the historic persecutors of the Jewish people, individuals like Martin Luther, Bogdan Chmielnicki and Adolf Hitler. I suspect that many other readers were given the same counsel. The idea of uttering these words in relation to another Jew whose politics you don’t like, or to an elected politician you campaigned against, is anathema to the Jewish ethical tradition that groups like IfNotNow apparently believe they represent.
Back, then, to Norman Geras’s dissection of those who celebrated the death of Thatcher, shortly after she suffered from a stroke itself triggered by a lengthy and exhausting bout of illness. “[W]hen Margaret Thatcher died she was an old and ill woman, with people around her who cared about her,” he observed. “To take pleasure at this is an inhumanity that does no credit to those who so indulge themselves. They forget the simplest and most enduring of human truths for an ugly temporary pleasure.”
That does not mean, of course, that extraordinary political leaders and business moguls like Thatcher and Adelson cannot be criticized. “A person’s death is typically the time when his or her life is written about and assessed most actively,” wrote Geras. “Some of the assessments are positive and no one asks that these should be toned down or made neutral. There is, equally, no reason for negative, or disparaging, even damning, judgments of the same record to be avoided. It is a political or other reputation and legacy that is being judged, and it would be ‘stacking the deck’ of public discussion to regard the expression of positive viewpoints about the life of the deceased as legitimate but critical opinions as out of order.”
However, argued Geras, “[T]o publicly rejoice at the death of a democratic political opponent, talk of dancing on her grave, hold street parties for the occasion, and so forth, is contemptible. It says more about the morality inspiring those who engage in such activities than it does about the object of them.”
Heaping a curse traditionally reserved for the genocidal foes of the Jewish people upon Adelson—as IfNotNow shamefully did—is reminiscent of the online mob that laughed about “dancing on Thatcher’s grave.” In the process, as Geras pointed out, we learn far more about those who utter the curse than about the person or persons on the receiving end.
Their shrieks of hatred were not about Thatcher’s relentless campaign against the organized labor movement, or Adelson’s financial backing of Donald Trump—legitimate, relevant elements of the debate about their legacies that will earn rebuke on the left as much as they will win admiration on the right.
These fanatics are far more primeval than that. For there is a disturbing pattern on the far-left of the Jewish community of sadistically celebrating the deaths of mainstream communal figures who are generally respected and often revered. When the great writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel died in 2016, other stalwarts of the anti-Zionist left stepped forward to express satisfaction at the news. With Wiesel as with Adelson, their invective was soaked in a hostility to the Zionist movement that seeped into a frankly disturbing detestation of the deceased person.
That such sentiments were expressed about Adelson less than a week after a far-right mob attempted to sack the U.S. Capitol is a salutary reminder that the same squealing delight at an adversary’s pain or suffering or loss can be found on the extreme left.
“Consider that one day it will be you who are dying, and whatever you have done or failed to do in your life, you will deserve the love of those who feel it for you and something better than cruel glee from those who don’t,” Geras advised those who enjoyed themselves at Thatcher’s passing. Those who did the same with Sheldon Adelson, may his memory be blessed, should pay heed.
Ben Cohen is a New York City-based journalist and author who writes a weekly column on Jewish and international affairs for JNS.
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But the sheer pleasure of some left-wingers at her death more than 20 years after the day she left office—“a day on which many, including me, were delighted to see her go,” wrote Geras—left him little short of disgusted.\nI thought of Geras’s riposte to those who rejoiced at Thatcher’s death, which I’ll be quoting from momentarily, when I saw some of the reaction to the sad passing of Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire Jewish philanthropist, on Jan. 11. Specifically, I noticed the kind of abuse that was piled on Thatcher after she died, also written and posted by people who would confidently tell you, if you asked them, that they were fighting for a more just and equitable world.\nAs the observations in this piece are primarily directed at those who mocked and insulted Adelson on the very day that he passed, regrettably I have to cite some of what they said.\nRebecca Vilkomerson, the former executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace—an organization whose benign-sounding name masks the fact that its sole purpose to advocate for Israel’s elimination—posted on an otherwise censorious Twitter that Adelson’s death was “a present for my birthday.” Another user tweeted, “Now do Kissinger,” referring to the 97-year-old Jewish former U.S. Secretary of State. In response, the left-wing group IfNotNow chimed in with Bimheira B’yameinu—a Hebrew phrase meaning “speedily in our days” that appears frequently in Jewish liturgy, in reference to the rebuilding of Jerusalem.\nThat was right after the same group issued a blood-chilling cry of joy at the news that Adelson had died. “Adelson dedicated his life and wealth to empowering the far-right in the U.S. and in Israel,” IfNotNow foamed on Twitter. “Yimakh shemo. May his legacy be erased.”\nFor those who don’t know, the Hebrew words yimakh shemo mean “may his name be erased.” I remember my grandfather telling me when I was a kid that these were not words to be used lightly; they were reserved for the historic persecutors of the Jewish people, individuals like Martin Luther, Bogdan Chmielnicki and Adolf Hitler. I suspect that many other readers were given the same counsel. The idea of uttering these words in relation to another Jew whose politics you don’t like, or to an elected politician you campaigned against, is anathema to the Jewish ethical tradition that groups like IfNotNow apparently believe they represent.\nBack, then, to Norman Geras’s dissection of those who celebrated the death of Thatcher, shortly after she suffered from a stroke itself triggered by a lengthy and exhausting bout of illness. “[W]hen Margaret Thatcher died she was an old and ill woman, with people around her who cared about her,” he observed. “To take pleasure at this is an inhumanity that does no credit to those who so indulge themselves. They forget the simplest and most enduring of human truths for an ugly temporary pleasure.”\nThat does not mean, of course, that extraordinary political leaders and business moguls like Thatcher and Adelson cannot be criticized. “A person’s death is typically the time when his or her life is written about and assessed most actively,” wrote Geras. “Some of the assessments are positive and no one asks that these should be toned down or made neutral. There is, equally, no reason for negative, or disparaging, even damning, judgments of the same record to be avoided. It is a political or other reputation and legacy that is being judged, and it would be ‘stacking the deck’ of public discussion to regard the expression of positive viewpoints about the life of the deceased as legitimate but critical opinions as out of order.”\nHowever, argued Geras, “[T]o publicly rejoice at the death of a democratic political opponent, talk of dancing on her grave, hold street parties for the occasion, and so forth, is contemptible. It says more about the morality inspiring those who engage in such activities than it does about the object of them.”\nHeaping a curse traditionally reserved for the genocidal foes of the Jewish people upon Adelson—as IfNotNow shamefully did—is reminiscent of the online mob that laughed about “dancing on Thatcher’s grave.” In the process, as Geras pointed out, we learn far more about those who utter the curse than about the person or persons on the receiving end.\nTheir shrieks of hatred were not about Thatcher’s relentless campaign against the organized labor movement, or Adelson’s financial backing of Donald Trump—legitimate, relevant elements of the debate about their legacies that will earn rebuke on the left as much as they will win admiration on the right.\nThese fanatics are far more primeval than that. For there is a disturbing pattern on the far-left of the Jewish community of sadistically celebrating the deaths of mainstream communal figures who are generally respected and often revered. When the great writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel died in 2016, other stalwarts of the anti-Zionist left stepped forward to express satisfaction at the news. With Wiesel as with Adelson, their invective was soaked in a hostility to the Zionist movement that seeped into a frankly disturbing detestation of the deceased person.\nThat such sentiments were expressed about Adelson less than a week after a far-right mob attempted to sack the U.S. Capitol is a salutary reminder that the same squealing delight at an adversary’s pain or suffering or loss can be found on the extreme left.\n“Consider that one day it will be you who are dying, and whatever you have done or failed to do in your life, you will deserve the love of those who feel it for you and something better than cruel glee from those who don’t,” Geras advised those who enjoyed themselves at Thatcher’s passing. Those who did the same with Sheldon Adelson, may his memory be blessed, should pay heed.\nBen Cohen is a New York City-based journalist and author who writes a weekly column on Jewish and international affairs for JNS.",
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A former IDF paratrooper took second place at the World Series of Poker Circuit Online Main Event.
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“We ignore this Iran-Al-Qaeda nexus at our own peril,” Pompeo said.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo presented a detailed account Tuesday about how the Al-Qaeda Islamic terror group has taken root in Iran and poses a renewed threat to the world.
“Al-Qaeda has a new home base: it is the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Pompeo told reporters in a speech to the National Press Club in Washington. “We need to acknowledge it. We must confront it. Indeed, we must defeat it.”
“We ignore this Iran-Al-Qaeda nexus at our own peril,” Pompeo said. “Let’s not tolerate Iran giving al-Qaeda a second wind. Let’s not downplay the danger of Sunni-Shia cooperation in terror.”
In a thinly veiled message to the incoming Biden Administration, Pompeo said there could be no hesitation in confronting the threat posed by the terror group responsible for the 9/11 attacks on American soil that killed almost 3,000 people.
“The time is now for America and all free nations to crush the Iran-Al-Qaeda axis,” Pompeo told the reporters. “Let’s not lie to the American people about Iranian moderation and pretend appeasement will work.”
Pompeo said America had to look at the situation “as it is, not as we wish it to be.”
The outgoing secretary of state said the terror group founded by Osama Bin Laden has had a relationship with Iran for the past three decades, and the assassination in Tehran last August of top Al-Qaeda leader Abu Muhammad al-Masri was no surprise.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has given a new operational headquarters to the terrorist network with more American blood on its hands than any other – people who are plotting fresh atrocities from Tehran even as we speak,” Pompeo said.
Al-Masri had been planning terrorist attacks against Israelis and Jewish targets around the world, and his killing came on the anniversary of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya that killed more than 200 people. Abdullah is believed to have been the mastermind behind the attacks.
Pompeo announced new sanctions on Iran-based al-Qaeda leaders including leaders of al-Qaida Kurdish Battalions that operate on the border between Iran and Iraq and a top al-Qaeda leader Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi, adding that there is now a $7 million reward for information that leads to the location or identification of al-Maghrebi.
“We want to bring him home to America for justice,” Pompeo said.
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President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP/Patrick Semansky)
Have Democrats run roughshod over the U.S. Constitution in an effort to elect their man? The question deserves at least a hearing.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
At noon on Wednesday, Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States. He enters office under a cloud. Over 30% of Americans don’t trust that the elections were accurate, according to a Dec. 9 NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. That number rises to 72% when speaking of Republicans.
Even before courts rejected the Trump lawyers’ appeals, the mainstream media refused to take seriously allegations of election fraud, injecting opinion into straight news stories. Though the word “claims” already conveys the idea that something is not verified, the media felt it necessary to add “baseless” or “false” whenever it appeared, as in “baseless claims” and “false claims” of election fraud.
In an election where there was an unprecedented number of unverified mail-in ballots, ballot harvesting and electronic voting, it is very difficult to prove fraud, especially in a short timeframe.
However, what is visible to the naked eye doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. It is clear that Democrats worked hard to weaken ballot integrity and they did so under the cover of Covid.
John Perazzo writes in FrontPage Mag, “Beginning more than a year ago, Democrats filed nearly 300 lawsuits in dozens of states – most notably all of the key battleground states – in an effort to change election laws and regulations in ways that would benefit Democrat candidates.”
Critics have argued that electoral changes made in key battleground states were unconstitutional, citing Article II, Section 1, Clause 2, which says only state legislatures may make changes to election law.
Conservative pundit Mark Levin says such rule changes were made in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona. He goes so far as to call Biden “illegitimate.”
Have Democrats run roughshod over the U.S. Constitution in an effort to elect their man? The question deserves at least a hearing.
Other evidence of fraud appears circumstantial, though taken together gathers weight, i.e., President Trump won more votes than any previous incumbent seeking re-election; states where Trump was leading suddenly stopped counting on Election Night; Trump’s support among blacks and Hispanics grew; Trump won 18 of 19 bellwether counties; Republicans won all 27 House races that were ‘toss-ups’ even as Trump lost, and so on.
Where Biden found the numbers to win were in Democratic cities in battleground states. It was in these places on Election eve that voting was stopped.
“After official vote counting had been suspended, tabulations of votes took place that have astounded statisticians and computer experts. These experts have not been able to explain them except as a result of fraud,” writes Claes G. Ryn, professor of politics and founding director of the new Center for the Study of Statesmanship at The Catholic University of America.
We are not taking sides on this matter, but while the media can ignore such things, the 74 million people who voted for Trump have not.
Biden enters the White House facing a fractured country. So deep is the distrust that the Defense Department ordered 25,000 National Guard service members into Washington to protect the incoming president and then proceeded to vet every one of them, fearing an insider attack.
It falls to Biden to rebuild trust in America’s institutions. He says he wants to.
In his inauguration speech, Biden stressed the importance of unity, saying “This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge, and unity is the path forward and we must meet this moment as the United States of America.”
Worryingly, his actions speak louder than his words. Biden has already stoked the flames of division by sitting back passively as the House impeached Trump for the second time. Sen. Lindsey Graham was right when he begged Biden to intercede and stop it; that it would only antagonize Trump supporters more.
Biden did nothing, standing aside to let Pelosi, et al., do their worst.
How he governs will also determine how quickly the country heals. But here, too, Biden has done nothing to ease concerns. He has already announced he’s shutting down the Keystone Pipeline, that he’s returning to the Paris Climate Accord, and, most worrisome for Israel, that he’s going back to the Iran deal.
“I have a very ambitious, very progressive agenda,” Biden told NBC’s Lester Holt.
That doesn’t sound like he’s playing to the middle.
David Isaac is managing editor of World Israel News.
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Biden and the Democrats celebrated their democratic victory with barbed wire, troops in the streets, political terror, and the threat of even more political repression to come.
By Daniel Greenfield
On a cold, windy day with a small group of spectators watching from behind barbed wire, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. swore another in a long series of false oaths before his motorcade passed between a long row of soldiers with their backs to him looking outward for threats.
No inauguration has been this empty in a century of American history. And at no inauguration have the spectators been outnumbered by a raw display of armed force. American presidents have been inaugurated in wartime and during actual national emergencies with a better turnout.
Through world wars and wars on terror, Washington D.C. has remained a national capital where the hundreds of millions of taxpayers who labor to pay for its grand edifices, free museums, and lavish lifestyles could briefly come to enjoy a little of the life lived by the ruling class in the Imperial City. Now the ruling class has made it clear that it doesn’t want peasants entering D.C.
Even as Biden’s team prepped the executive orders that would end the national emergency at the border and shut down construction of the wall, new walls topped by razor wire were rising across the imperial city. The new Fortress of Government sealed off two miles of the National Mall and parts of downtown D.C. and filled it with more soldiers than are deployed in Iraq.
The Secret Service designated green and red zones. Some 25,000 National Guard members were dispatched from Vermont, Maine, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Colorado to prepare for a fake invasion that never came. But the armored vehicles and heavy weaponry did come. President Trump had wanted a military parade that would show America’s strength to the world. Biden held his own military parade to intimidate his fellow Americans.
Democrats had deployed more soldiers in D.C. than they had in Iraq and Afghanistan while authorizing them to use lethal force and investigating their politics before the deployment. The radical leftists who had resisted using the military to fight terrorism or secure the border from invasion were eager to deploy the military against the people of the United States of America.
The handfuls of ordinary people who arrived, as Americans always do, to attend the inauguration of a new president were confronted with heavy weapons and barbed wire.
D.C. had become a Baghdad and Berlin of checkpoints, choking off access to much of the city, closing roads, bridges, and metro stations. Soldiers could be seen on every corner, and the 25,000 troops were bolstered by 4,000 Marshalls, and a motley crew of local forces, including 200 members of the NYPD, 40 members of the Chicago police, New Jersey and Maryland state troopers, Miami-Dade cops, and other law enforcement officers who were needed back home.
Twenty-four people were shot in Chicago this weekend and murders are already up 125% this year in New York City. Those officers could have done more good at home, but Democrats don’t care about murder victims in urban areas, instead redeploying officers to D.C. in a show of force.
Biden took office in a city under military occupation whose businesses were closed and boarded up. The D.C. government had tried to force hotels to shut down. The hotels didn’t close, but there were hardly any people. Instead the hotels were filled with soldiers tramping through their lobbies. Any tourists that did come found nothing to see except barricades and barbed wire.
Sometimes what you don’t see is more important than what you do see.
Filling D.C. with soldiers meant that no one was going to measure Biden’s crowds. The only crowds were heavily armed and had been ordered to come. The complete lack of enthusiasm for the new one-party state that was getting its Mussolini on was the dog that didn’t bark.
Questioning Biden’s election has been deemed to be incitement. It’s enough to get you censored, deplatformed, and fired by the companies standing behind him. The election challenges have been used as the pretext for a military occupation of Washington D.C. But the cloud of a disputed election, like the winter clouds overhead, still hung over the inauguration.
No crowds, just soldiers
There were no crowds, just soldiers. After the military and police contingent, the second-largest group there for the inauguration wasn’t Biden’s civilian supporters, but his propagandists. With few people, the media had to work twice as hard to manufacture the illusion that this was a popular leader taking office instead of a usurper imposed by Amazon, Google, Facebook, and the rest of the political, cultural, and economic oligarchy which owns the media on America.
CNN, a subsidiary of AT&T, had already gushed about “Joe Biden’s arms embracing America.” MSNBC, a subsidiary of Comcast, compared Biden to God. “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” The only wounds being bound up were those of the ruling class which had temporarily lost electoral power to an army of flyover country workers and peasants, only to reclaim it with sedition, wiretapping, abuse of power, billions of dollars, and soldiers in the street.
Popular leaders, elected or unelected, might have troops in their cities, but they also have adoring crowds to cheer them on. Biden’s only cheers were coming from employees of huge corporations whose jobs depend on praising him as the greatest thing since SuperPACs.
Biden couldn’t manage the cheering crowds that greeted even the most mediocre presidents on their arrival. The band might as well have struck up a rousing chorus of “Hail to the Thief.”
Jokes like that are all but illegal these days even though they were ubiquitous during the Bush and Trump administrations. But jokes only need to be banned when they’re too close to the truth. The hysterical fascist theater with troops in the streets and fawning praise on the lips of the press are all efforts to overcompensate for the hollow man taking a false oath on a bible.
This isn’t the pageantry of Stalin or Hitler. It’s the weary theater of Brezhnev, a senescent leader of a decaying regime being propped up by desperate threats of force by the nomenklatura. Even though the media has told us more about Biden’s dogs than it has about any of the Americans killed by Islamic terrorists enabled by the open borders that Biden just reinstated, no one cares.
Biden isn’t a charismatic leader. He isn’t moving the cause forward. He’s a placeholder for a ruling class that wants homes in Dupont Circle that it buys by selling out America to China, by ruining our economy with environmental consulting gigs and racial contract quotas, and for all the manifold ways which the swamp is coming back as Biden’s wetlands restoration project.
“Hail to the Thief” is as much their anthem as it is Biden’s. They fought to keep hold of D.C., the center of their power base not because they care about its history or that of this country, but because it’s where they network, collaborate, and do their dirty little deals at our expense.
The troops in the street are their warning to the rest of the country about who is really in charge.
And it isn’t Joe Jr, who, along with his criminal family, will be allowed to dip their beaks in cash and cocaine until they’re sopping wet, along with every aide, staffer, and associate. Biden will be fawned over, his idiot wife will be dubbed a doctor, and the investigations involving his son and brother will be swiftly dropped. And when the time is right, Kamala Harris will step into his place.
When the Soviet Union was entering its last days, one leader quickly made way for another. The parade of old Communist hacks in their dotage became a procession of political funerals. Generations after the revolution and the purges, the only thing anyone in Moscow believed in was the power and decadence of the ruling class. That and the threat America posed to them.
These are still the only three things that Washington D.C.’s ruling class believes in anymore.
Democrats and their media claim that this charade is a “victory for democracy.”
“We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated,” Amanda Gorman, the Harvard youth poetess, sonorously recited her tin-eared Maoist verses at the inauguration.
But where is this democracy? Where are the adoring crowds, the joyous mobs celebrating and the people cheering the tremendous victory of the democracy of Google, Facebook, Amazon, AT&T, Comcast and their D.C. lobbyists and associates over the Rust Belt and the flyovers?
Biden and the Democrats celebrated their democratic victory with barbed wire, troops in the streets, political terror, and the threat of even more political repression to come.
Working to ‘detox the disiniformation’
“There is a broader societal issue that is going to take years to detox the disinformation,” Ben Rhodes, the Obama adviser who had boasted of creating a media echo chamber, ranted on Comcast’s MSNBC. On that same state TV news network, John Brennan warned that “because of this growth of polarization in the United States” members of the Biden team would be “moving in laser-like fashion” to “root out an insidious threat to our democracy”.
Democracy is in a state of permanent emergency that requires locking down D.C., filling it with soldiers, walls, and barbed wire, and investigating political crimes. And D.C. will do everything it can to end the threat that Americans pose to democracy even if its ruling class has to live in its green zone surrounded by troops and barbed wire until democracy is saved from Americans.
Biden, we are told by the political interests and corporations advocating this, is incredibly popular. But the crowds of his devotees can’t be allowed to come to Washington D.C. Anyone who doubts that Biden is incredibly popular is inciting violence and will have to be rooted out as an insidious threat to our democracy. The more people doubt Biden’s popularity, the longer D.C. will have to be under military occupation until finally no one doubts his legitimacy in office.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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"Biden and the Democrats celebrated their democratic victory with barbed wire, troops in the streets, political terror, and the threat of even more political repression to come.\nBy Daniel Greenfield\nOn a cold, windy day with a small group of spectators watching from behind barbed wire, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. swore another in a long series of false oaths before his motorcade passed between a long row of soldiers with their backs to him looking outward for threats.\nNo inauguration has been this empty in a century of American history. And at no inauguration have the spectators been outnumbered by a raw display of armed force. American presidents have been inaugurated in wartime and during actual national emergencies with a better turnout.\nThrough world wars and wars on terror, Washington D.C. has remained a national capital where the hundreds of millions of taxpayers who labor to pay for its grand edifices, free museums, and lavish lifestyles could briefly come to enjoy a little of the life lived by the ruling class in the Imperial City. Now the ruling class has made it clear that it doesn’t want peasants entering D.C.\nEven as Biden’s team prepped the executive orders that would end the national emergency at the border and shut down construction of the wall, new walls topped by razor wire were rising across the imperial city. The new Fortress of Government sealed off two miles of the National Mall and parts of downtown D.C. and filled it with more soldiers than are deployed in Iraq.\nThe Secret Service designated green and red zones. Some 25,000 National Guard members were dispatched from Vermont, Maine, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Colorado to prepare for a fake invasion that never came. But the armored vehicles and heavy weaponry did come. President Trump had wanted a military parade that would show America’s strength to the world. Biden held his own military parade to intimidate his fellow Americans.\nDemocrats had deployed more soldiers in D.C. than they had in Iraq and Afghanistan while authorizing them to use lethal force and investigating their politics before the deployment. The radical leftists who had resisted using the military to fight terrorism or secure the border from invasion were eager to deploy the military against the people of the United States of America.\nThe handfuls of ordinary people who arrived, as Americans always do, to attend the inauguration of a new president were confronted with heavy weapons and barbed wire.\nD.C. had become a Baghdad and Berlin of checkpoints, choking off access to much of the city, closing roads, bridges, and metro stations. Soldiers could be seen on every corner, and the 25,000 troops were bolstered by 4,000 Marshalls, and a motley crew of local forces, including 200 members of the NYPD, 40 members of the Chicago police, New Jersey and Maryland state troopers, Miami-Dade cops, and other law enforcement officers who were needed back home.\nTwenty-four people were shot in Chicago this weekend and murders are already up 125% this year in New York City. Those officers could have done more good at home, but Democrats don’t care about murder victims in urban areas, instead redeploying officers to D.C. in a show of force.\nBiden took office in a city under military occupation whose businesses were closed and boarded up. The D.C. government had tried to force hotels to shut down. The hotels didn’t close, but there were hardly any people. Instead the hotels were filled with soldiers tramping through their lobbies. Any tourists that did come found nothing to see except barricades and barbed wire.\nSometimes what you don’t see is more important than what you do see.\nFilling D.C. with soldiers meant that no one was going to measure Biden’s crowds. The only crowds were heavily armed and had been ordered to come. The complete lack of enthusiasm for the new one-party state that was getting its Mussolini on was the dog that didn’t bark.\nQuestioning Biden’s election has been deemed to be incitement. It’s enough to get you censored, deplatformed, and fired by the companies standing behind him. The election challenges have been used as the pretext for a military occupation of Washington D.C. But the cloud of a disputed election, like the winter clouds overhead, still hung over the inauguration.\nNo crowds, just soldiers\nThere were no crowds, just soldiers. After the military and police contingent, the second-largest group there for the inauguration wasn’t Biden’s civilian supporters, but his propagandists. With few people, the media had to work twice as hard to manufacture the illusion that this was a popular leader taking office instead of a usurper imposed by Amazon, Google, Facebook, and the rest of the political, cultural, and economic oligarchy which owns the media on America.\nCNN, a subsidiary of AT&T, had already gushed about “Joe Biden’s arms embracing America.” MSNBC, a subsidiary of Comcast, compared Biden to God. “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” The only wounds being bound up were those of the ruling class which had temporarily lost electoral power to an army of flyover country workers and peasants, only to reclaim it with sedition, wiretapping, abuse of power, billions of dollars, and soldiers in the street.\nPopular leaders, elected or unelected, might have troops in their cities, but they also have adoring crowds to cheer them on. Biden’s only cheers were coming from employees of huge corporations whose jobs depend on praising him as the greatest thing since SuperPACs.\nBiden couldn’t manage the cheering crowds that greeted even the most mediocre presidents on their arrival. The band might as well have struck up a rousing chorus of “Hail to the Thief.”\nJokes like that are all but illegal these days even though they were ubiquitous during the Bush and Trump administrations. But jokes only need to be banned when they’re too close to the truth. The hysterical fascist theater with troops in the streets and fawning praise on the lips of the press are all efforts to overcompensate for the hollow man taking a false oath on a bible.\nThis isn’t the pageantry of Stalin or Hitler. It’s the weary theater of Brezhnev, a senescent leader of a decaying regime being propped up by desperate threats of force by the nomenklatura. Even though the media has told us more about Biden’s dogs than it has about any of the Americans killed by Islamic terrorists enabled by the open borders that Biden just reinstated, no one cares.\nBiden isn’t a charismatic leader. He isn’t moving the cause forward. He’s a placeholder for a ruling class that wants homes in Dupont Circle that it buys by selling out America to China, by ruining our economy with environmental consulting gigs and racial contract quotas, and for all the manifold ways which the swamp is coming back as Biden’s wetlands restoration project.\n“Hail to the Thief” is as much their anthem as it is Biden’s. They fought to keep hold of D.C., the center of their power base not because they care about its history or that of this country, but because it’s where they network, collaborate, and do their dirty little deals at our expense.\nThe troops in the street are their warning to the rest of the country about who is really in charge.\nAnd it isn’t Joe Jr, who, along with his criminal family, will be allowed to dip their beaks in cash and cocaine until they’re sopping wet, along with every aide, staffer, and associate. Biden will be fawned over, his idiot wife will be dubbed a doctor, and the investigations involving his son and brother will be swiftly dropped. And when the time is right, Kamala Harris will step into his place.\nWhen the Soviet Union was entering its last days, one leader quickly made way for another. The parade of old Communist hacks in their dotage became a procession of political funerals. Generations after the revolution and the purges, the only thing anyone in Moscow believed in was the power and decadence of the ruling class. That and the threat America posed to them.\nThese are still the only three things that Washington D.C.’s ruling class believes in anymore.\nDemocrats and their media claim that this charade is a “victory for democracy.”\n“We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated,” Amanda Gorman, the Harvard youth poetess, sonorously recited her tin-eared Maoist verses at the inauguration.\nBut where is this democracy? Where are the adoring crowds, the joyous mobs celebrating and the people cheering the tremendous victory of the democracy of Google, Facebook, Amazon, AT&T, Comcast and their D.C. lobbyists and associates over the Rust Belt and the flyovers?\nBiden and the Democrats celebrated their democratic victory with barbed wire, troops in the streets, political terror, and the threat of even more political repression to come.\nWorking to ‘detox the disiniformation’\n“There is a broader societal issue that is going to take years to detox the disinformation,” Ben Rhodes, the Obama adviser who had boasted of creating a media echo chamber, ranted on Comcast’s MSNBC. On that same state TV news network, John Brennan warned that “because of this growth of polarization in the United States” members of the Biden team would be “moving in laser-like fashion” to “root out an insidious threat to our democracy”.\nDemocracy is in a state of permanent emergency that requires locking down D.C., filling it with soldiers, walls, and barbed wire, and investigating political crimes. And D.C. will do everything it can to end the threat that Americans pose to democracy even if its ruling class has to live in its green zone surrounded by troops and barbed wire until democracy is saved from Americans.\nBiden, we are told by the political interests and corporations advocating this, is incredibly popular. But the crowds of his devotees can’t be allowed to come to Washington D.C. Anyone who doubts that Biden is incredibly popular is inciting violence and will have to be rooted out as an insidious threat to our democracy. The more people doubt Biden’s popularity, the longer D.C. will have to be under military occupation until finally no one doubts his legitimacy in office.\nDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.",
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“They are prepared to tear up the Constitution in an effort to remove him by any and all means,” said Attorney Alan Dershowitz.
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
Attorney and Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz condemned recent efforts to remove President Donald Trump by “overzealous advocates” that wish to “weaponize” the Constitution for political gain.
“They are prepared to tear up the Constitution in an effort to remove him by any and all means,” wrote Dershowitz in a Gatestone Institute report on Monday.
“They are prepared to ignore the First Amendment, distort the 25th Amendment, stretch the criteria for impeachment, and permit House impeachment without a Senate trial,” he said.
Dershowitz said the efforts to remove Trump, if successful, would do more damage to the rule of law than did the protestors who entered the Capitol Building on Jan. 6.
“What they want to do is to impeach President Trump without giving him an opportunity to defend himself at a Senate trial,” said Dershowitz, pointing to the fact that a trial could not realistically be expected to begin before Trump leaves office on Jan. 20.
“This would be analogous to a prosecutor deciding to indict someone and then deny him a trial at which he could disprove his guilt or prove his innocence. That would be a core denial of due process, as would impeaching a president based on a majority of the House while denying him a trial in the Senate that requires a two-thirds super majority to remove,” he said.
Dershowitz also said that impeachment, according to the Constitution, is a process that clearly applies only to sitting officeholders, not to private citizens who may have once held office.
He cited Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, which reads, “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
On Sunday, Dershowitz told Fox News, “To impeach a president for having exercised his First Amendment rights would be so dangerous to the Constitution. It would lie around like a loaded weapon, ready to be used by either party against the other party, and that’s not what impeachment or the 25th Amendment were intended to be.”
Dershowitz said his goal is to “protect the Constitution from overzealous advocates that want to weaponize it in the interests of temporary political gain.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has said the House will proceed with legislation to impeach Trump as she pushes Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to force him out.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) announced last week that she was beginning to draft Articles of Impeachment.
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‘We are hermetically sealing the state,’ Netanyahu says, as Cabinet votes to shut down airport
“We are sealing our skies, except for limited exceptions, in order to prevent the entry of the virus mutations,” Netanyahu said.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
Israel’s government agreed on Sunday to stop flights to and from Ben Gurion Airport, effectively “sealing our skies,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. The closure will begin Monday at midnight and last through the end of January.
The cabinet approved the following steps:
1. A ban on incoming planes to Israel except for cargo flights, firefighting flights and flights for emergency medical evacuation
2. A temporary restriction on permits for operating Israeli airlines
3. A reduction in exceptions for departure by air from Israel so as to include the following cases only: Medical treatment, judicial proceedings to which the person is a party or must participate in, or the funeral of a close relative.
“We are sealing our skies, except for limited exceptions, in order to prevent the entry of the virus mutations, and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign… so that more Israelis are vaccinated soon,” Netanyahu said at the meeting.
Israel has already encountered the effects of the UK variant in which one man infected 700 people. In another case, a traveler returning from Dubai to Israel infected 180. It is unknown if that individual was carrying a variant of the disease.
The UK variant is expected to be the dominant strain in Israel in a few weeks. So far, only the UK strain and the South African strain have been found in Israel, according to a member of Israel’s coronavirus task force.
However, the South African strain has raised fears in Israel and around the world given that its mutations center around the spike protein and may enable it to evade antibodies created by the new vaccines.
Netanyahu pitched the closure in a positive light. “We are ahead of the whole world; no country has done what we are going to do now. We are hermetically sealing the state.”
“Only in this week of the closing of the sky, another million Israelis will be vaccinated,” he added.
In a decision opposed by the Minister of Aliyah and Integration, the cabinet also blocked the entry of new immigrants, (or “Olim”), for the first time in the history of the state. According to Israel’s Law of Return, every Jew has the right to come to Israel and claim citizenship. The law is considered to be a central tenet of the Jewish State.
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During Saturday’s protests, over 3,700 people were detained demonstrating for the release Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
By Associated Press
Allies of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who faces years in prison, called for new protests next weekend to demand his release, following a wave of demonstrations that turned out tens of thousands across the country in a defiant challenge to President Vladimir Putin.
Mass rallies took place Saturday in over 100 cities in what observers said was the largest outpouring of anger in years, and Navalny’s supporters urged protesters to keep up the pressure.
Navalny strategist Leonid Volkov tweeted Monday for more demonstrations on Jan. 31 in “all Russian cities. … For Navalny’s freedom. For our freedom. For justice.”
During Saturday’s protests, over 3,700 people were detained, according to OVD-Info, a human rights group that monitors political arrests. The group said the number was a record in its nine years of work. More than 1,400 detentions occurred in Moscow alone — also a record, according to Russian media.
Some of those detained were released without charges, but many others faced court hearings. In Moscow, courts have handed jail terms ranging from seven to 15 days to at least 30 detainees and fined 64 others.
Asked about Saturday’s protests, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that “all people have the right to express their point of view within limits, outlined by law.” He referenced the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and said that those taking part in it were facing “between 15 and 25 years, as if for domestic terrorism.”
“They also came out with political slogans. But outside the law. Why should everything outside the law be allowed here? No,” Putin said.
The Russian protests and crackdown appeared to have further strained Russia-U.S. relations.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price on Saturday condemned “the use of harsh tactics against protesters and journalists” and urged authorities to release Navalny and “all those detained for exercising their universal rights.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused Washington of interfering with Russia’s “internal affairs,” after the U.S. Embassy in Moscow put a warning on its website detailing times and places of rallies in different Russian cities and urging U.S. citizens to avoid them.
On Monday, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov lodged a protest to the U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan in connection to “social media posts in support of unlawful rallies” by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
The ministry said it has also deemed the statement of the U.S. State Department spokesman “inappropriate.”
Authorities also launched more than a dozen criminal investigations in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities on charges of inciting unrest, involving minors in illegal activity, violence against police, blocking roads, hooliganism and damaging property. Navalny’s team said Russia’s Investigative Committee also is probing violations of virus-related restrictions.
Dozens of Navalny associates in various cities were detained in the days before the protests. Alexander Peredruk, senior partner of the Apologia of Protest legal aid group involved in the defense of over 1,000 detainees from the Saturday protests, called the authorities’ response “unprecedented.”
Poisoning and Prison
Navalny, an anti-corruption campaigner and Putin’s fiercest critic, was arrested Jan. 17 as he returned to Russia from Germany, where he had spent nearly five months recovering from nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin. Russian authorities deny the accusations.
He was ordered jailed for 30 days but faces years in prison, with authorities accusing him of violating the terms of a suspended sentence in a 2014 conviction for financial misdeeds. Navalny has said the conviction was politically motivated.
Navalny’s arrest and the detention of demonstrators sparked outrage both at home and abroad, and some Western officials suggested imposing additional sanctions on Russia for its jailing of Navalny.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki urged the immediate and unconditional release of Navalny, as well as those who were detained in the crackdown. Psaki did not say when President Joe Biden plans to speak to Putin.
Biden was asked if he would put sanctions on the people involved in the poisoning and arrest of Navalny and what that means for prospects of the extension of the New START nuclear arms treaty with Russia.
“I find that we can both operate in the mutual self-interest of our countries as a New START agreement and make it clear to Russia that we are very concerned about their behavior,” he said, whether it involved Navalny or some other issue.
The European Union’s foreign ministers on Monday condemned his arrest and the detention of thousands at the protests. “The Council considered it completely unacceptable, condemned the mass detentions, and the police brutality over the weekend,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said after chairing the meeting in Brussels.
The ministers, however, stopped short of weighing new sanctions. Borrell said “there has not been any concrete proposal on the table,” but added that the ministers are “ready to act, depending on the circumstances.”
In Russia, public indignation was further fueled by an investigation Navalny’s team released into what they called “Putin’s palace.” A two-hour video posted on YouTube on Jan. 19 alleged a lavish “palace” was built for Putin on the Black Sea through an elaborate corruption scheme. It has since received over 86 million views.
The Kremlin has denied the estate had anything to do with the president. Speaking to students via video on Monday, Putin himself addressed the allegations, calling them an attempt to “brainwash our citizens” and saying that “none of what is mentioned there as my property has ever belonged, and doesn’t belong, to me or my close relatives.”
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"During Saturday’s protests, over 3,700 people were detained demonstrating for the release Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\nBy Associated Press\nAllies of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who faces years in prison, called for new protests next weekend to demand his release, following a wave of demonstrations that turned out tens of thousands across the country in a defiant challenge to President Vladimir Putin.\nMass rallies took place Saturday in over 100 cities in what observers said was the largest outpouring of anger in years, and Navalny’s supporters urged protesters to keep up the pressure.\nNavalny strategist Leonid Volkov tweeted Monday for more demonstrations on Jan. 31 in “all Russian cities. … For Navalny’s freedom. For our freedom. For justice.”\nDuring Saturday’s protests, over 3,700 people were detained, according to OVD-Info, a human rights group that monitors political arrests. The group said the number was a record in its nine years of work. More than 1,400 detentions occurred in Moscow alone — also a record, according to Russian media.\nSome of those detained were released without charges, but many others faced court hearings. In Moscow, courts have handed jail terms ranging from seven to 15 days to at least 30 detainees and fined 64 others.\nAsked about Saturday’s protests, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that “all people have the right to express their point of view within limits, outlined by law.” He referenced the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and said that those taking part in it were facing “between 15 and 25 years, as if for domestic terrorism.”\n“They also came out with political slogans. But outside the law. Why should everything outside the law be allowed here? No,” Putin said.\nThe Russian protests and crackdown appeared to have further strained Russia-U.S. relations.\nU.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price on Saturday condemned “the use of harsh tactics against protesters and journalists” and urged authorities to release Navalny and “all those detained for exercising their universal rights.”\nKremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused Washington of interfering with Russia’s “internal affairs,” after the U.S. Embassy in Moscow put a warning on its website detailing times and places of rallies in different Russian cities and urging U.S. citizens to avoid them.\nOn Monday, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov lodged a protest to the U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan in connection to “social media posts in support of unlawful rallies” by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.\nThe ministry said it has also deemed the statement of the U.S. State Department spokesman “inappropriate.”\nAuthorities also launched more than a dozen criminal investigations in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities on charges of inciting unrest, involving minors in illegal activity, violence against police, blocking roads, hooliganism and damaging property. Navalny’s team said Russia’s Investigative Committee also is probing violations of virus-related restrictions.\nDozens of Navalny associates in various cities were detained in the days before the protests. Alexander Peredruk, senior partner of the Apologia of Protest legal aid group involved in the defense of over 1,000 detainees from the Saturday protests, called the authorities’ response “unprecedented.”\nPoisoning and Prison\nNavalny, an anti-corruption campaigner and Putin’s fiercest critic, was arrested Jan. 17 as he returned to Russia from Germany, where he had spent nearly five months recovering from nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin. Russian authorities deny the accusations.\nHe was ordered jailed for 30 days but faces years in prison, with authorities accusing him of violating the terms of a suspended sentence in a 2014 conviction for financial misdeeds. Navalny has said the conviction was politically motivated.\nNavalny’s arrest and the detention of demonstrators sparked outrage both at home and abroad, and some Western officials suggested imposing additional sanctions on Russia for its jailing of Navalny.\nWhite House press secretary Jen Psaki urged the immediate and unconditional release of Navalny, as well as those who were detained in the crackdown. Psaki did not say when President Joe Biden plans to speak to Putin.\nBiden was asked if he would put sanctions on the people involved in the poisoning and arrest of Navalny and what that means for prospects of the extension of the New START nuclear arms treaty with Russia.\n“I find that we can both operate in the mutual self-interest of our countries as a New START agreement and make it clear to Russia that we are very concerned about their behavior,” he said, whether it involved Navalny or some other issue.\nThe European Union’s foreign ministers on Monday condemned his arrest and the detention of thousands at the protests. “The Council considered it completely unacceptable, condemned the mass detentions, and the police brutality over the weekend,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said after chairing the meeting in Brussels.\nThe ministers, however, stopped short of weighing new sanctions. Borrell said “there has not been any concrete proposal on the table,” but added that the ministers are “ready to act, depending on the circumstances.”\nIn Russia, public indignation was further fueled by an investigation Navalny’s team released into what they called “Putin’s palace.” A two-hour video posted on YouTube on Jan. 19 alleged a lavish “palace” was built for Putin on the Black Sea through an elaborate corruption scheme. It has since received over 86 million views.\nThe Kremlin has denied the estate had anything to do with the president. Speaking to students via video on Monday, Putin himself addressed the allegations, calling them an attempt to “brainwash our citizens” and saying that “none of what is mentioned there as my property has ever belonged, and doesn’t belong, to me or my close relatives.”",
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Tulsi Gabbard blasts the new House rules that get rid of "gendered language" on Tucker:
"It’s the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women to deny the biological existence of women." pic.twitter.com/eoQEl1QNWR
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 5, 2021
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‘We’ll see each other again,’ Trump promises as he boards Marine One
President Donald Trump waves as he boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP/Alex Brandon)
“We love the American people, and again, it has been something very special. And I just want to say goodbye but hopefully it’s not a long term goodbye. We’ll see each other again,” Trump said.
By World Israel News Staff and AP
Donald Trump pumped his fist and waved as he departed the White House on Marine One Wednesday for the last time as president.
“It’s been a great honor, the honor of a lifetime. The greatest people in the world, the greatest home in the world,” Trump told reporters before heading to Marine One, rotors whirring, on South Lawn.
“We love the American people, and again, it has been something very special. And I just want to say goodbye but hopefully it’s not a long term goodbye. We’ll see each other again.”
Trump will be the first president in modern history to boycott his successor’s inauguration, insisting that the election was stolen. While supporters have argued there is much circumstantial evidence of fraud, the Trump administration found it difficult proving widespread fraud and U.S. courts rejected the administration’s appeals.
After a Jan. 6 rally got out of hand and a group of Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol, Trump agreed to call it quits in his effort to contest the election.
Although Trump was expected to remain his party’s de facto leader, following the Capitol riot his future with the Republican party is unclear.
He still retains enormous popularity among his followers, however, who view him as fighting for the little guy against an entrenched Washington elite inhabiting both sides of the aisle, which appears to them out-of-touch with the electorate.
Trump highlighted his achievements in a video released on Wednesday morning.
“Four years ago, we launched a great national effort to rebuild our country, to renew its spirit, and to restore the allegiance of this government to its citizens. In short, we embarked on a mission to make America great again — for all Americans,” he said.
He spoke of putting America first, and restoring the principle “that a nation exists to serve its citizens.”
Trump talked about his administration’s tax cuts and elimination of “job-killing regulations,” how it fixed “broken trade deals” and left the Paris Climate Accord, and how he turned the U.S. into an energy leader. “Powered by these policies, we built the greatest economy in the history of the world,” he said.
The outgoing president also spoke of the Abraham Accords, which saw peace deals brokered between Israel and four Muslim countries, which even staunch critics, including incoming president Joe Biden were forced to admit was an achievement.
The president has proven a remarkable ally of Israel. In his four years in office, he oversaw major changes, including the transfer of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, the recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights and the rejection of the notion that Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria was illegal.
Marine One headed to Joint Base Andrews where Air Force One was parked, a dramatic backdrop against the rising sun. A red carpet has been placed on the tarmac for Trump to walk as he boards the plane. Four U.S. Army cannons were waiting to fire a 21-gun salute to the president.
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People shelter in the House gallery as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
An explosive device was found at the Capitol in an unprecedented scene as protesters infiltrated the Senate and House floors.
By Associated Press
At least one explosive device has been found near the U.S. Capitol amid a violent occupation of the building by supporters of President Donald Trump.
Law enforcement officials said the device was no longer a threat Wednesday afternoon.
That’s according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Thousands of supporters of the president occupied the Capitol complex as lawmakers were beginning to tally the electoral votes that will formalize President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
Vice President Mike Pence has called on protesters to leave the Capitol immediately, going further than Trump, who merely called for his supporters to “remain peaceful.”
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More vaccines on the way, but short supply puts temporary halt to vaccinating new people in order to keep enough for the required second dose.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Israel has successfully vaccinated about 16% of its population with the first of two required inoculations against the coronavirus, but with supplies running low new vaccinations are not being given, Israel Hayom reported Wednesday.
About 1.5 million Israelis have so far received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine produced by the American company Pfizer. Of those vaccinated so far, 65% are aged 60 and over, and 35% are younger comprising medical and other essential workers, and others who received vaccinations at hospitals or other vaccination stations.
Although the Health Ministry designated Israel’s older and at-risk populations to receive the first doses, many young people queued up for vaccinations at day’s end. Israel made what Health Minister Yuli Edelstein called the right decision in deciding to vaccinate anyone who showed up rather than lose perishable doses.
The Ministry of Health warned about an expected shortage of doses, having to reserve the remaining 1.5 million shots of the Pfizer vaccine for the second follow-up vaccination required three weeks after the first injection.
All four of Israel’s health maintenance organizations (HMOs) said they are currently completing the appointments for the final first doses, but would soon stop in order to ensure there is enough vaccine available for the second doses for those 1.5 million Israelis who already received it.
Israel also ordered 6 million doses of the vaccine produced by the American company Moderna, which announced Monday that it had received approval for use in Israel. The first shipment of Moderna vaccines is expected to land in Israel this week, but Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said that the main shipments of Moderna vaccines – enough to inoculate 3 million Israelis – were not expected until March.
Like the Pfizer vaccine, the Moderna treatment also requires two doses administered several weeks apart.
In a statement Monday, Moderna said it expects about 100 million doses to be available in the United States by the end of the first quarter of 2021, with 200 million doses total available by the end of the second quarter. Moderna reported that approximately 18 million doses have been supplied to the U.S. government to date.
Israel’s vaccination campaign launched on Dec. 19, and HMOs are gearing up to administer the second shot beginning next week.
The Maccabi health fund announced that more than 80% of its members in the at-risk groups have already booked an appointment for the vaccine and 400,000 of its members have received the first dose. Maccabi said the second round of vaccinations will begin on Sunday and they are expecting to vaccinate up to 40,000 patients daily.
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"More vaccines on the way, but short supply puts temporary halt to vaccinating new people in order to keep enough for the required second dose.\nBy Paul Shindman, World Israel News\nIsrael has successfully vaccinated about 16% of its population with the first of two required inoculations against the coronavirus, but with supplies running low new vaccinations are not being given, Israel Hayom reported Wednesday.\nAbout 1.5 million Israelis have so far received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine produced by the American company Pfizer. Of those vaccinated so far, 65% are aged 60 and over, and 35% are younger comprising medical and other essential workers, and others who received vaccinations at hospitals or other vaccination stations.\nAlthough the Health Ministry designated Israel’s older and at-risk populations to receive the first doses, many young people queued up for vaccinations at day’s end. Israel made what Health Minister Yuli Edelstein called the right decision in deciding to vaccinate anyone who showed up rather than lose perishable doses.\nThe Ministry of Health warned about an expected shortage of doses, having to reserve the remaining 1.5 million shots of the Pfizer vaccine for the second follow-up vaccination required three weeks after the first injection.\nAll four of Israel’s health maintenance organizations (HMOs) said they are currently completing the appointments for the final first doses, but would soon stop in order to ensure there is enough vaccine available for the second doses for those 1.5 million Israelis who already received it.\nIsrael also ordered 6 million doses of the vaccine produced by the American company Moderna, which announced Monday that it had received approval for use in Israel. The first shipment of Moderna vaccines is expected to land in Israel this week, but Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said that the main shipments of Moderna vaccines – enough to inoculate 3 million Israelis – were not expected until March.\nLike the Pfizer vaccine, the Moderna treatment also requires two doses administered several weeks apart.\nIn a statement Monday, Moderna said it expects about 100 million doses to be available in the United States by the end of the first quarter of 2021, with 200 million doses total available by the end of the second quarter. Moderna reported that approximately 18 million doses have been supplied to the U.S. government to date.\nIsrael’s vaccination campaign launched on Dec. 19, and HMOs are gearing up to administer the second shot beginning next week.\nThe Maccabi health fund announced that more than 80% of its members in the at-risk groups have already booked an appointment for the vaccine and 400,000 of its members have received the first dose. Maccabi said the second round of vaccinations will begin on Sunday and they are expecting to vaccinate up to 40,000 patients daily.",
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WATCH: Trump permanently suspended from Twitter, blocked by Facebook and Instagram
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President Donald Trump bade farewell as his term came to an end, saying “four years ago we launched a great national effort to rebuild our country, to renew its spirit and to restore the allegiance of this government to its citizens.”
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“Does someone have to die” for normalization to finally occur, asked the head of the Young Settlements Forum.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Hundreds of people from the Hebron Hills region protested Tuesday night in Jerusalem against the years-long delay in legalizing the fledgling communities of Judea and Samaria.
Joining several hunger strikers who camped out near the prime minister’s office for almost two weeks, leaders from the Yesha Council and Young Settlements Forum expressed their anger and pain over the lack of basic infrastructure and security in settlements that in many cases have existed for decades.
Denouncing all the excuses that the pioneers have heard over the years for the lack of normalizing their status, Young Settlements Forum head Ori Bartfeld said, “What needs to happen here, does someone God forbid have to die?”
“Does someone have to be killed for lack of security in order for the West Bank outposts to be legalized?”
Addressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly, he said, “Week after week, authorization has been on your desk and has not moved forward,” he charged.
He then referred to the upcoming elections and made a threat that Netanyahu might care about more than others. “We will no longer be a playing card in your campaigns – Vote for me today and afterward I will authorize you.”
South Hebron Hills Regional Council head Yochi Damri based his argument on the humanitarian angle after making the point that the “young settlements” moniker was a misnomer.
“We are not young settlements,” he said. “These are 20-year-old localities that are already marrying children and raising grandchildren.
“Mr. Defense Minister and Prime Minister, we understand that there are elections now, but put politics aside for the human side. Put the disagreements aside and listen to the children, to the parents, to the mothers and fathers. They want to live with water, electricity, sewage, [cellular] communications. Prime Minister, you proved how a small country could lead the world in receiving vaccines because you wanted to and you could. Here, too, you can regulate the young settlement now!”
The youngest speaker was one of the children Damri had referenced. Twelve-year-old Ayelet Hashachar Amitai from the settlement of Asael, tugged at heartstrings when she said in a half-crying voice that for 10 years her family has lived in a small mobile home and, “We want to live a more normal life…. So that we can take a shower without being afraid that the lights will go out in the middle, or that the water will run out. So that we won’t be afraid in the house because we have no security fence.”
Turning to Netanyahu and Benny Gantz as well, she ended with a plea.
“Honorable prime minister and defense minister, I can’t wait any longer for regularization! I want to grow up like a girl in any other place. Please tell me – what are you waiting for?”
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Sources tell New York Times Trump considering unprecedented move before he leaves office.
By World Israel News Staff
President Donald Trump has talked with some of his aides about issuing himself a presidential pardon before he leaves office, the New York Times reported Thursday.
Two people with knowledge of the discussions told the Times that Trump has had several conversations since the November 3 election, suggesting that he could take the step and asking how it would affect him legally and politically. However, it is unknown if Trump discussed the issue since the storming of the Capitol Building on Wednesday, the report said.
Presidents at the end of their term traditionally issue a slew of pardons, and Trump has already issued several including former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Charles Kushner, father of Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Trump “has long maintained he has the power to pardon himself, and his polling of aides’ views is typically a sign that he is preparing to follow through on his aims … increasingly convinced that his perceived enemies will use the levers of law enforcement to target him after he leaves office,” the report said.
Following the attack Wednesday on the Capitol, Democratic Party leaders and some Republicans have called for Trump to be removed from office before president-elect Joe Biden is sworn in on January 20, either by having Republicans invoke the 25th amendment of the constitution claiming Trump is unfit for office, or by a Democratic-led impeachment.
However, both moves are doubtful given there are only 12 days left until the Biden inauguration, giving Trump time to issue more presidential pardons.
The report noted that no sitting president has ever pardoned himself, leaving a huge question mark over the legality of such a move that would immediately be tested by the courts.
“Presidential self-pardon could create a dangerous new precedent for presidents to unilaterally declare they are above the law and to insulate themselves from being held accountable for any crimes they committed in office,” the report said.
The subject is not new. Two years ago Trump tweeted about the possibility, but shunned it at the time saying there was no need.
“As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?” Trump tweeted on June 4, 2018.
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Top UK Jewish group slams leading daily for claim that Israel is denying Covid-19 vaccine to Palestinians
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The article blamed Israel for the lack of vaccines in the Palestinian Authority-ruled areas.
By Benjamin Kerstein, Algemeiner
A leading Jewish group in the United Kingdom blasted a major British newspaper on Monday for an article blaming Israel for the lack of coronavirus vaccines in Palestinian areas of Judea and Samaria and Gaza, saying that the piece had “provided grist to the mill of far-right and far-left antisemites alike.”
The story, published Sunday, in the Observer, a sister paper of the left-leaning daily the Guardian, was headlined “Palestinians excluded from Israeli Covid vaccine rollout as jabs go to settlers,” and featured a lead photo of an ultra-Orthodox Jew being vaccinated.
The article blamed Israel for the lack of vaccines in the Palestinian Authority-ruled areas. “Israel transports batches of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine deep inside the West Bank. But they are only distributed to Jewish settlers, and not the roughly 2.7 million Palestinians living around them who may have to wait for weeks or months,” authors Oliver Holmes and Hazem Balousha wrote.
As the Board and Deputies and other critics noted, the responsibility and authority to acquire and distribute vaccines in these areas belongs to the PA, not Israel. This much was partly indicated in the article, which noted that the PA “has not officially asked for help from Israel” and it was the PA’s decision to cut off coordination with Israel last year.
Sheila Gewolb, the Senior Vice President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said in a statement, “We are extremely troubled by the Observer’s blatantly false headline claiming that Israel has ‘excluded’ Palestinians from its Covid-19 vaccination program.”
“The Palestinian Authority is responsible for vaccinations provided to Palestinians in both the West Bank and Gaza,” she noted. “As reported within the same article, the PA has not even asked Israel for help in this regard, looking to source the vaccines elsewhere.”
“The Observer’s headline — and the picture alongside it, of an Orthodox Jew being vaccinated in Israel — has provided grist to the mill of far-right and far-left antisemites alike, who seek to take anything positive Israel does and twist it beyond recognition,” Gewolb asserted. “The paper should change this headline immediately and issue an apology.”
Shany Mor, a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute, claimed on Twitter that such stories are not atypical at the Guardian and the Observer, saying they constitute a “sub-genre” that presents a “false story of Israeli medical malpractice which is supposed to prove the innate moral rot of the Jewish state.”
These stories, he said, always involve “1) Crazy Jewish doctors doing something fishy. 2) Broad hints that their motivations are racist supremacy. 3) Heroic humanitarians bravely standing up to the nefarious Jewish plot.”
He cited previous false stories such as a 2009 claim that Israel harvests Palestinians’ organs, a 2013 claim that Israel forced contraceptives on Ethiopian citizens, and a 2014 claim that Israel deliberately targeted Gaza hospitals — each of them discredited.
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The pandemic has created many challenges for people and, with Israel under lockdown once again, Serenity House is a way for people to safely see others.
By Joseph Wolkin, World Israel News
A startup in Tel Aviv-Yafo is changing the way people work and connect during the coronavirus pandemic. Serenity House, which is just a 10-minute walk from the Jaffa Port, is helping to support peoples’ mental health during this difficult time of isolation — through connection.
Serenity House is both a space and a community that sits at the intersection of spirituality and practicality. It’s vision is to bridge the gap between what people consider two separate worlds, by taking concepts from mysticism, yoga, and mindfulness and articulating these as practical tools for their community to apply to their businesses, projects and ventures.
The pandemic has created many challenges for people, and with Israel under lockdown once again, this is a way for people to safely see others. It provides a unique and serene environment that allows them to work “from home” and connect with others in the international community.
Mikayla Bogart, one of Serenity House’s founders, believes this trend could spread across the globe once the coronavirus pandemic regulations are lifted.
“The community we’ve been able to build through the seger (lockdown) is amazing,” Bogart, who runs Serenity House with Hayley Alexander and Arye Shabati, said.
“Once regulations are lifted, we are going to have different in-person offerings in terms of retreats, workshops, yoga classes, meditation classes and we will offer the space to be rented for other practitioners to host their own offerings. We really see this space as a physical place for others to share their gifts with the international community living in Tel Aviv.”
Shabati introduced Alexander and Bogart to one another as he opted to focus on different ventures. But the introduction went perfectly, almost like the meeting of “soulmates,” as Bogart put it.
Serenity House will offer multiple packages, including co-working spaces, an all-purpose room, a wellness space and an exclusive space for companies to rent out. Throughout each month, they have plenty of programs too, such as yoga, professional development workshops, round table discussions and more.
“We want this space to serve as a foundation and an opportunity for people who have amazing content to have the right environment to deliver it in,” said Bogart, who is originally from Boston. Their goal is to create a global community of people championing each other to co-create great and impactful things, and enjoy doing it, believing that a shared knowledge economy is the only way we will be able to shape the world we want to live in.
The concept is not one that has been utilized on a large scale before. Groups like WeWork offer a shared office space, but none have done so with both a focus on the individual while offering a wide variety of programs at a low cost.
Bogart moved to New York City after college to work in digital advertising. But at some point, she found herself dreaming of something more and began a personal journey looking for a deeper meaning in her life.
“I had a dream that I was blissfully living in Israel,” Bogart said. “I woke up the next morning and told my parents I was moving.”
She began working in Sport Events planning while studying to get her certification in Mind, Body Health coaching. Eventually, Bogart went back to university for a master’s degree in organizational behavior and development. Then she went to Peru to become a certified yoga instructor.
“During the first lockdown, I used my yoga teacher certification to start offering Zoom classes to provide people with some mental sanity,” she said.
Alexander grew up in Sydney, Australia. She, too, began her professional career in marketing before moving into creative business communications and solutions. But while diving deeper into her yoga practice, she too realized that traditional corporate office life was not the only path for her.
After a few trips and completing her Yoga Teacher Certification in Bali, Alexander – also prompted by a dream – moved to Tel Aviv, where she became a corporate project manager and learning specialist before a grand departure to join the Desert Ashram community in Shitim in southern Israel, where she worked as the Workshop Producer and Yoga and Meditation facilitator.
“When I finally returned to Tel Aviv, I wasn’t looking to go back to a big office corporation,” Alexander said of life during the coronavirus pandemic. “I heard of Mikayla through the grapevine, and people kept telling me I had to meet this girl. I told her about this creative accountability program I wanted to do within the space, and she suggested we sit down to have a meet and greet.”
Now, in the middle of yet another lockdown in Israel, the dynamic duo are finding a way forward. They are staying connected online, creating yoga videos on Instagram, providing access to people growing new ventures, and providing fresh approaches for people to “look at a new way to walk through the world,” as Alexander puts it. They are excited about inviting a mix of people into the space, from solopreneurs to corporates to healers, to find what it is that each is looking to create and express.
This small business could play a major role for Tel Avivians looking to leave their homes and have social interactions once again. Specifically, as Israel prepares to reopen its economy, Serenity House’s brand could certainly pick up steam.
“We want people to have all types of tools that will allow people to grow into the best versions of themselves and reach their full potential” Bogart said.
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It provides a unique and serene environment that allows them to work “from home” and connect with others in the international community.\nMikayla Bogart, one of Serenity House’s founders, believes this trend could spread across the globe once the coronavirus pandemic regulations are lifted.\n“The community we’ve been able to build through the seger (lockdown) is amazing,” Bogart, who runs Serenity House with Hayley Alexander and Arye Shabati, said.\n“Once regulations are lifted, we are going to have different in-person offerings in terms of retreats, workshops, yoga classes, meditation classes and we will offer the space to be rented for other practitioners to host their own offerings. We really see this space as a physical place for others to share their gifts with the international community living in Tel Aviv.”\nShabati introduced Alexander and Bogart to one another as he opted to focus on different ventures. But the introduction went perfectly, almost like the meeting of “soulmates,” as Bogart put it.\nSerenity House will offer multiple packages, including co-working spaces, an all-purpose room, a wellness space and an exclusive space for companies to rent out. Throughout each month, they have plenty of programs too, such as yoga, professional development workshops, round table discussions and more.\n“We want this space to serve as a foundation and an opportunity for people who have amazing content to have the right environment to deliver it in,” said Bogart, who is originally from Boston. Their goal is to create a global community of people championing each other to co-create great and impactful things, and enjoy doing it, believing that a shared knowledge economy is the only way we will be able to shape the world we want to live in.\nThe concept is not one that has been utilized on a large scale before. Groups like WeWork offer a shared office space, but none have done so with both a focus on the individual while offering a wide variety of programs at a low cost.\nBogart moved to New York City after college to work in digital advertising. But at some point, she found herself dreaming of something more and began a personal journey looking for a deeper meaning in her life.\n“I had a dream that I was blissfully living in Israel,” Bogart said. “I woke up the next morning and told my parents I was moving.”\nShe began working in Sport Events planning while studying to get her certification in Mind, Body Health coaching. Eventually, Bogart went back to university for a master’s degree in organizational behavior and development. Then she went to Peru to become a certified yoga instructor.\n“During the first lockdown, I used my yoga teacher certification to start offering Zoom classes to provide people with some mental sanity,” she said.\nAlexander grew up in Sydney, Australia. She, too, began her professional career in marketing before moving into creative business communications and solutions. But while diving deeper into her yoga practice, she too realized that traditional corporate office life was not the only path for her.\nAfter a few trips and completing her Yoga Teacher Certification in Bali, Alexander – also prompted by a dream – moved to Tel Aviv, where she became a corporate project manager and learning specialist before a grand departure to join the Desert Ashram community in Shitim in southern Israel, where she worked as the Workshop Producer and Yoga and Meditation facilitator.\n“When I finally returned to Tel Aviv, I wasn’t looking to go back to a big office corporation,” Alexander said of life during the coronavirus pandemic. “I heard of Mikayla through the grapevine, and people kept telling me I had to meet this girl. I told her about this creative accountability program I wanted to do within the space, and she suggested we sit down to have a meet and greet.”\nNow, in the middle of yet another lockdown in Israel, the dynamic duo are finding a way forward. They are staying connected online, creating yoga videos on Instagram, providing access to people growing new ventures, and providing fresh approaches for people to “look at a new way to walk through the world,” as Alexander puts it. They are excited about inviting a mix of people into the space, from solopreneurs to corporates to healers, to find what it is that each is looking to create and express.\nThis small business could play a major role for Tel Avivians looking to leave their homes and have social interactions once again. Specifically, as Israel prepares to reopen its economy, Serenity House’s brand could certainly pick up steam.\n“We want people to have all types of tools that will allow people to grow into the best versions of themselves and reach their full potential” Bogart said.",
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The commander of the troops shot the terrorist as one of his soldiers, a female, blocked the assailant.
By World Israel News Staff
IDF troops thwarted an attempted stabbing attack at Gitai Avisar Junction, near Ariel in Samaria, which is southwest of the Arab-populated town of Nablus, or Shechem, at around noon on Tuesday.
IDF troops at a military post spotted the assailant who attempted to stab two IDF soldiers who were guarding the junction.
One of the soldiers blocked the assailant’s multiple stabbing attacks, and the commander of the troops who was at the scene fired towards the assailant and neutralized him. No IDF injuries were reported.
Israel’s N12 website reports that the incident began when a male and female soldier crossed the intersection of Giti Avisar to inspect a suspicious vehicle. When the terrorist passed, they perceived something suspicious ion his behavior, turned to him and recognized that he had a knife drawn directly at the female soldier.
She said later she fought and pushed the terrorist away with her hand and then with her rifle.
As this went on, the troop commander took a step back and looked for an open angle to fire at the terrorist without hitting his soldier. He finally succeeded in getting off a shot.
Preliminary documentation from the scene shows the terrorist lying on the floor after being neutralized.
The female soldier is a lone soldier from England, meaning she immigrated to serve in the IDF without her immediate family as support.
Yossi Dagan, head of the Shomron Regional Council, arrived at the scene of the attack and talked to the soldiers, N12 reports.
“You are heroes, thanks to you a much bigger attack was avoided,” he said. “The residents of Samaria and the entire State of Israel thank you.”
Addressing the government, he said, “The response of the government and the guidance of the political echelon to the army should be a determined action within the villages from which the perpetrators emerge to make it clear that we will not permit harm to life’s routine and certainly not to human lives.”
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Malka Leifer appeared for a 20-minute hearing where the 74 charges against her were read in court for the first time.
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A former teacher extradited from Israel after a six-year legal battle appeared in an Australian court Thursday to face child sex abuse charges.
Malka Leifer, 54, appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court by video link from a police station where she is in COVID-19 quarantine.
Wearing a headscarf, she sat with her head in her hands during the 20-minute hearing where the 74 charges against her were read in court for the first time. She did not respond when Magistrate Johanna Metcalf asked if she could see and hear the proceedings.
Guards in the room with Leifer confirmed that the audio-visual link was working.
She previously has maintained her innocence against accusations of sexually abusing several former students at a Jewish school in Melbourne.
The 74 charges include 11 of rape and three of sexually penetrating a child. There were also 47 counts of indecent assault and 13 of committing an indecent act with a child. It was not immediately clear what the maximum penalty would be that she could face.
Her lawyer Tony Hargreaves told the court Leifer had serious mental health issues and asked that she be transferred to prison because the police station did not have the required facilities. She also had strict religious beliefs that required special arrangements in custody, Hargreaves said.
She did not apply for bail and is due to face court again on April 9.
Australia’s Attorney-General Christian Porter had earlier noted her arrival in Australia marked the end of a long legal battle and would relieve her alleged victims. “It is now important that the legal processes are allowed to proceed in Victoria without commentary which could affect that process,” he said in a statement.
The protracted court case and repeated delays over her extradition had drawn criticism from Australian officials as well as the country’s Jewish leaders.
As accusations against her began surfacing in 2008, the Israeli-born Leifer left the school and returned to Israel. The two countries have an extradition treaty, but critics, including Leifer’s accusers, said Israeli authorities had dragged out the case, while Leifer claimed she was mentally unfit to stand trial.
Her alleged crimes occurred between January 2004 and March 2008 in the Melbourne suburb Elsternwick, where the Adass Israel School is based.
The crimes also allegedly occurred in another three Melbourne suburbs as well as the rural towns of Rawson and Blampied in Victoria state, court documents show.
Last year, an Israeli psychiatric panel determined Leifer was lying about her mental condition, setting in motion the extradition. In December, the Supreme Court rejected a final appeal against her extradition, and Israel’s justice minister signed the order to send her to Australia.
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"Malka Leifer appeared for a 20-minute hearing where the 74 charges against her were read in court for the first time.\nBy Associated Press\nA former teacher extradited from Israel after a six-year legal battle appeared in an Australian court Thursday to face child sex abuse charges.\nMalka Leifer, 54, appeared in Melbourne Magistrates Court by video link from a police station where she is in COVID-19 quarantine.\nWearing a headscarf, she sat with her head in her hands during the 20-minute hearing where the 74 charges against her were read in court for the first time. She did not respond when Magistrate Johanna Metcalf asked if she could see and hear the proceedings.\nGuards in the room with Leifer confirmed that the audio-visual link was working.\nShe previously has maintained her innocence against accusations of sexually abusing several former students at a Jewish school in Melbourne.\nThe 74 charges include 11 of rape and three of sexually penetrating a child. There were also 47 counts of indecent assault and 13 of committing an indecent act with a child. It was not immediately clear what the maximum penalty would be that she could face.\nHer lawyer Tony Hargreaves told the court Leifer had serious mental health issues and asked that she be transferred to prison because the police station did not have the required facilities. She also had strict religious beliefs that required special arrangements in custody, Hargreaves said.\nShe did not apply for bail and is due to face court again on April 9.\nAustralia’s Attorney-General Christian Porter had earlier noted her arrival in Australia marked the end of a long legal battle and would relieve her alleged victims. “It is now important that the legal processes are allowed to proceed in Victoria without commentary which could affect that process,” he said in a statement.\nThe protracted court case and repeated delays over her extradition had drawn criticism from Australian officials as well as the country’s Jewish leaders.\nAs accusations against her began surfacing in 2008, the Israeli-born Leifer left the school and returned to Israel. The two countries have an extradition treaty, but critics, including Leifer’s accusers, said Israeli authorities had dragged out the case, while Leifer claimed she was mentally unfit to stand trial.\nHer alleged crimes occurred between January 2004 and March 2008 in the Melbourne suburb Elsternwick, where the Adass Israel School is based.\nThe crimes also allegedly occurred in another three Melbourne suburbs as well as the rural towns of Rawson and Blampied in Victoria state, court documents show.\nLast year, an Israeli psychiatric panel determined Leifer was lying about her mental condition, setting in motion the extradition. In December, the Supreme Court rejected a final appeal against her extradition, and Israel’s justice minister signed the order to send her to Australia.",
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Friends launch crowdfunding campaign to help the family of Moshe Harazi, who died when hospital staff failed to notice his ventilator detached.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Friends of a coronavirus patient who died in a Tel Aviv hospital when staff failed to notice his ventilator hose had disconnected have started a crowdfunding campaign to support his family, Kan News reported Wednesday.
Moshe Harazi, 47, died last Friday when the ventilator that was helping him breath detached and medical staff failed to notice the alarm from the breathing machine until it was too late.
Married and a father of five, the funds will go to help his widow Tali and their five children, the eldest of whom is 21 and the youngest only 6 years old.
Family members set a goal for the crowdfunding campaign of 300,000 shekels ($92,000) to support the family.
Harazi had been in good health with no background illnesses when he was infected with the coronavirus. He had been hospitalized in the intensive care ward at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital where like at hospitals across the country medical teams have been struggling to keep up with the record numbers of Israelis who are critically ill with the virus.
“Hours after the campaign opened and tens of thousands of shekels have already been raised,” family member Vered Mishalof told Kan News, adding the funds will “give some kind of base point for the children who are left orphaned without a father.”
On Tuesday evening Ichilov director general Professor Ronni Gamzu, the former head of Israel’s national coronavirus task force, visited the family home for the second time in as many days, telling the mourners he expressed his pain and promised to continue sharing the findings from the hospital’s internal investigation into the death.
As of Wednesday afternoon Health Ministry statistics showed that 1,904 Israelis are currently hospitalized with coronavirus, with 1,185 listed in serious condition.
Of those in serious condition, 388 are in critical condition with 309 of them connected to ventilators to assist their breathing.
Israel’s death toll from the pandemic stands at 4,144, with 275 people dying of the virus since Friday.
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"Medical team in the coronavirus unit of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, May 4, 2020. (Flash90/Yossi Aloni)\nFriends launch crowdfunding campaign to help the family of Moshe Harazi, who died when hospital staff failed to notice his ventilator detached.\nBy Paul Shindman, World Israel News\nFriends of a coronavirus patient who died in a Tel Aviv hospital when staff failed to notice his ventilator hose had disconnected have started a crowdfunding campaign to support his family, Kan News reported Wednesday.\nMoshe Harazi, 47, died last Friday when the ventilator that was helping him breath detached and medical staff failed to notice the alarm from the breathing machine until it was too late.\nMarried and a father of five, the funds will go to help his widow Tali and their five children, the eldest of whom is 21 and the youngest only 6 years old.\nFamily members set a goal for the crowdfunding campaign of 300,000 shekels ($92,000) to support the family.\nHarazi had been in good health with no background illnesses when he was infected with the coronavirus. He had been hospitalized in the intensive care ward at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital where like at hospitals across the country medical teams have been struggling to keep up with the record numbers of Israelis who are critically ill with the virus.\n“Hours after the campaign opened and tens of thousands of shekels have already been raised,” family member Vered Mishalof told Kan News, adding the funds will “give some kind of base point for the children who are left orphaned without a father.”\nOn Tuesday evening Ichilov director general Professor Ronni Gamzu, the former head of Israel’s national coronavirus task force, visited the family home for the second time in as many days, telling the mourners he expressed his pain and promised to continue sharing the findings from the hospital’s internal investigation into the death.\nAs of Wednesday afternoon Health Ministry statistics showed that 1,904 Israelis are currently hospitalized with coronavirus, with 1,185 listed in serious condition.\nOf those in serious condition, 388 are in critical condition with 309 of them connected to ventilators to assist their breathing.\nIsrael’s death toll from the pandemic stands at 4,144, with 275 people dying of the virus since Friday.",
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A Syrian war monitor said the attack comes less than 48 hours after a visit by top leaders of the Iranian military.
By Aryeh Savir, TPS
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) on Wednesday night conducted a series of strikes against several targets in southern Syria, the country’s state media reported.
SANA news quoted a Syrian military source who said that many of the missiles launched during the attack were intercepted.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) quoted its sources in the country who reported hearing several explosions over Damascus, caused by the IAF attack on military positions in the Al-Kiswah area in southern Damascus.
No further details were available on the number of casualties and material damage caused by these attacks.
The SOHR noted that the attack comes less than 48 hours after a visit by top leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the area.
The Al-Kiswah area, where Iranian militias and their proxies are based, has previously been targeted in Israeli strikes.
Another attack on the radar system battalion in the west of Al-Dour village in Al-Suwaidaa, where Iranian militias and groups of the Lebanese Hezbollah are located, left casualties, the SOHR reported.
Israel has remained silent on the reports.
This is Israel’s second reported attack in Syria in a week.
Israel has significantly stepped up its strikes against Iranian and Hezbollah targets in Syria in recent weeks.
In a summary of 2020, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi noted that “the Iranian establishment in Syria is in a clear slowdown, but we still have a long way to go to complete the goals in the arena.”
“We have struck over 500 targets this year, on all fronts, in addition to multiple clandestine missions,” he said.
In general, Iran and Hezbollah’s military build-up in Syria remains a red line for Israel. The IAF has carried out thousands of attacks to thwart the Iranian entrenchment in the war-torn country.
Israeli leaders have repeatedly declared that they will not tolerate an Iranian threat on its northern border with Syria and will take all necessary measures to ensure that such a menace does not emerge.
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"A Syrian war monitor said the attack comes less than 48 hours after a visit by top leaders of the Iranian military.\nBy Aryeh Savir, TPS\nThe Israeli Air Force (IAF) on Wednesday night conducted a series of strikes against several targets in southern Syria, the country’s state media reported.\nSANA news quoted a Syrian military source who said that many of the missiles launched during the attack were intercepted.\nThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) quoted its sources in the country who reported hearing several explosions over Damascus, caused by the IAF attack on military positions in the Al-Kiswah area in southern Damascus.\nNo further details were available on the number of casualties and material damage caused by these attacks.\nThe SOHR noted that the attack comes less than 48 hours after a visit by top leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the area.\nThe Al-Kiswah area, where Iranian militias and their proxies are based, has previously been targeted in Israeli strikes.\nAnother attack on the radar system battalion in the west of Al-Dour village in Al-Suwaidaa, where Iranian militias and groups of the Lebanese Hezbollah are located, left casualties, the SOHR reported.\nIsrael has remained silent on the reports.\nThis is Israel’s second reported attack in Syria in a week.\nIsrael has significantly stepped up its strikes against Iranian and Hezbollah targets in Syria in recent weeks.\nIn a summary of 2020, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi noted that “the Iranian establishment in Syria is in a clear slowdown, but we still have a long way to go to complete the goals in the arena.”\n“We have struck over 500 targets this year, on all fronts, in addition to multiple clandestine missions,” he said.\nIn general, Iran and Hezbollah’s military build-up in Syria remains a red line for Israel. The IAF has carried out thousands of attacks to thwart the Iranian entrenchment in the war-torn country.\nIsraeli leaders have repeatedly declared that they will not tolerate an Iranian threat on its northern border with Syria and will take all necessary measures to ensure that such a menace does not emerge.",
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President Donald Trump waves as he boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP/Alex Brandon)
“We love the American people, and again, it has been something very special. And I just want to say goodbye but hopefully it’s not a long term goodbye. We’ll see each other again,” Trump said.
By World Israel News Staff and AP
Donald Trump pumped his fist and waved as he departed the White House on Marine One Wednesday for the last time as president.
“It’s been a great honor, the honor of a lifetime. The greatest people in the world, the greatest home in the world,” Trump told reporters before heading to Marine One, rotors whirring, on South Lawn.
“We love the American people, and again, it has been something very special. And I just want to say goodbye but hopefully it’s not a long term goodbye. We’ll see each other again.”
Trump will be the first president in modern history to boycott his successor’s inauguration, insisting that the election was stolen. While supporters have argued there is much circumstantial evidence of fraud, the Trump administration found it difficult proving widespread fraud and U.S. courts rejected the administration’s appeals.
After a Jan. 6 rally got out of hand and a group of Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol, Trump agreed to call it quits in his effort to contest the election.
Although Trump was expected to remain his party’s de facto leader, following the Capitol riot his future with the Republican party is unclear.
He still retains enormous popularity among his followers, however, who view him as fighting for the little guy against an entrenched Washington elite inhabiting both sides of the aisle, which appears to them out-of-touch with the electorate.
Trump highlighted his achievements in a video released on Wednesday morning.
“Four years ago, we launched a great national effort to rebuild our country, to renew its spirit, and to restore the allegiance of this government to its citizens. In short, we embarked on a mission to make America great again — for all Americans,” he said.
He spoke of putting America first, and restoring the principle “that a nation exists to serve its citizens.”
Trump talked about his administration’s tax cuts and elimination of “job-killing regulations,” how it fixed “broken trade deals” and left the Paris Climate Accord, and how he turned the U.S. into an energy leader. “Powered by these policies, we built the greatest economy in the history of the world,” he said.
The outgoing president also spoke of the Abraham Accords, which saw peace deals brokered between Israel and four Muslim countries, which even staunch critics, including incoming president Joe Biden were forced to admit was an achievement.
The president has proven a remarkable ally of Israel. In his four years in office, he oversaw major changes, including the transfer of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, the recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights and the rejection of the notion that Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria was illegal.
Marine One headed to Joint Base Andrews where Air Force One was parked, a dramatic backdrop against the rising sun. A red carpet has been placed on the tarmac for Trump to walk as he boards the plane. Four U.S. Army cannons were waiting to fire a 21-gun salute to the president.
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"‘We’ll see each other again,’ Trump promises as he boards Marine One\nPresident Donald Trump waves as he boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP/Alex Brandon)\n“We love the American people, and again, it has been something very special. And I just want to say goodbye but hopefully it’s not a long term goodbye. We’ll see each other again,” Trump said.\nBy World Israel News Staff and AP\nDonald Trump pumped his fist and waved as he departed the White House on Marine One Wednesday for the last time as president.\n“It’s been a great honor, the honor of a lifetime. The greatest people in the world, the greatest home in the world,” Trump told reporters before heading to Marine One, rotors whirring, on South Lawn.\n“We love the American people, and again, it has been something very special. And I just want to say goodbye but hopefully it’s not a long term goodbye. We’ll see each other again.”\nTrump will be the first president in modern history to boycott his successor’s inauguration, insisting that the election was stolen. While supporters have argued there is much circumstantial evidence of fraud, the Trump administration found it difficult proving widespread fraud and U.S. courts rejected the administration’s appeals.\nAfter a Jan. 6 rally got out of hand and a group of Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol, Trump agreed to call it quits in his effort to contest the election.\nAlthough Trump was expected to remain his party’s de facto leader, following the Capitol riot his future with the Republican party is unclear.\nHe still retains enormous popularity among his followers, however, who view him as fighting for the little guy against an entrenched Washington elite inhabiting both sides of the aisle, which appears to them out-of-touch with the electorate.\nTrump highlighted his achievements in a video released on Wednesday morning.\n“Four years ago, we launched a great national effort to rebuild our country, to renew its spirit, and to restore the allegiance of this government to its citizens. In short, we embarked on a mission to make America great again — for all Americans,” he said.\nHe spoke of putting America first, and restoring the principle “that a nation exists to serve its citizens.”\nTrump talked about his administration’s tax cuts and elimination of “job-killing regulations,” how it fixed “broken trade deals” and left the Paris Climate Accord, and how he turned the U.S. into an energy leader. “Powered by these policies, we built the greatest economy in the history of the world,” he said.\nThe outgoing president also spoke of the Abraham Accords, which saw peace deals brokered between Israel and four Muslim countries, which even staunch critics, including incoming president Joe Biden were forced to admit was an achievement.\nThe president has proven a remarkable ally of Israel. In his four years in office, he oversaw major changes, including the transfer of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, the recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights and the rejection of the notion that Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria was illegal.\nMarine One headed to Joint Base Andrews where Air Force One was parked, a dramatic backdrop against the rising sun. A red carpet has been placed on the tarmac for Trump to walk as he boards the plane. Four U.S. Army cannons were waiting to fire a 21-gun salute to the president.",
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Amnesty International irrationally demands Israel supply Covid vaccines to Palestinians who are the responsibility of the Palestinian Authority.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is expecting delivery of 4 million doses of the Russian coronavirus vaccine, but that did not stop human rights organizations from launching a false information campaign on Tuesday accusing Israel of withholding vaccines from the PA, which is neither under its jurisdiction, nor its responsibility.
Israel has been heralded for its ‘light-speed’ rollout of its vaccination program, including to its Arab citizens. Rather than send a congratulatory note, Amnesty International has chosen to bludgeon Israel with its own success, blaming it for the failure of the PA to inoculate its own population.
Amnesty International tweeted: “While Israel celebrates a record-setting vaccination drive, millions of Palestinians living under Israeli control in West Bank & Gaza Strip will receive no vaccine or wait much longer – there could hardly be a better illustration of how Israeli lives are valued above Palestinian.”
Amnesty ignored the widely reported fact that the PA did not want Israeli assistance with the vaccine. A PA Ministry of Health official told The Jerusalem Post in late December: “We are working on our own to obtain the vaccine from a number of sources… We are not a department in the Israeli Defense Ministry. We have our own government and Ministry of Health, and they are making huge efforts to get the vaccine.”
Under the terms of the Oslo Accords, the PA has since the 1990s maintained responsibility for health services of the Palestinian population.
Neither did Amnesty appear to have checked with the PA before tweeting its statement, either unaware or ignoring the fact that a month ago the PA announced it was expecting 4 million doses of the Russian vaccine and was negotiating on its own for additional vaccines from other suppliers.
“Minister of Health Mai Alkaila confirmed that the vaccine should arrive in Palestine by early next year and said that Palestine is in touch with Russia, Moderna and AstraZeneca,” the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Dec. 12, adding that the Palestinians were not interested in the Pfizer vaccine currently being distributed in Israel because like many other locations in the world, they did not have the deep freezers needed to store the doses.
The widely publicized Palestinian plans also had no effect on Kenneth Roth, director of the group Human Rights Watch, which is known for its long-running campaign to have Israel kicked out of FIFA, the world soccer federation.
“Someone doesn’t want you to know about Israel’s discriminatory treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in distributing the Covid vaccine,” Roth tweeted Sunday, following with more tweets claiming that “as the occupying power it has not vaccinated a single Palestinian.”
Israel has plans to vaccinate all its 9.3 million citizens no matter what their ethnicity, and the current program of vaccinating those aged 60 and above is being given an additional impetus by the government to focus on Israel’s Arab communities, who make up roughly 20% of the population.
Amnesty and HRW have gained a reputation for hostility toward Israel, constantly issuing reports condemning Israeli actions while downplaying or ignoring Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians and Palestinian human rights abuses against their own populations.
Amnesty was criticized last year when one of its former employees helped turn in a peace activist to Hamas for the ‘crime’ of talking peace with Israelis on a Zoom call at the start of the pandemic.
Although Amnesty then called for his release, Journalist Rami Aman was held in a Hamas jail for six months and convicted of “weakening revolutionary spirit” before being released. There is no record of any action taken against the former Amnesty employee, Hind Khoudray, who turned Aman into Hamas.
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Lin Halfon, 26, an Israeli woman who made news in Dec. 2019 when she was arrested for stealing millions from her husband Richard Rappaport, 76, a Tampa businessman, has pled guilty to lesser charges and will be sent back to Israel.
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The IDF arrived as the 25-year-old hiker was attacked by five Arabs who threw rocks and beat him.
By TPS
An Israeli man was lightly injured on Monday when he was attacked by a group of Arabs while taking a stroll near the community of Har Bracha, in Samaria.
The man, 25, was on a hike when he was attacked by five Arabs who threw rocks and beat him.
He was subsequently rescued by the IDF and an Israeli civilian security team and was treated by an MDA team which evacuated him to a hospital for further treatment or injuries to his face.
The IDF has surrounded the nearby Arab village of Arak Burin and is searching for the attackers.
The attack arrives a little over a month after Muhammad Maruh Kabha brutally murdered Esther Horgan.
He told Shin Bet interrogators that he “decided to carry out a terrorist attack after he was influenced … – by the death of a security prisoner he knew, Kamal Abu Wa’er,” who died in prison from cancer, proving that Palestinian Authority (PA) incitement in the media and its spread of the Abu Wa’er libel prompted the crime.
Horgan was a beloved mother of six from Samaria.
Abu Wa’er, who was serving six life sentences for involvement in the murder of at least four Israelis, recently died of cancer in prison.
During his illness, the PA and Fatah launched an incitement campaign citing top officials who falsely claimed Israel was denying him proper treatment, and once Abu Wa’er had died, they intensified the libel that his death was caused by “deliberate medical neglect.”
Apparently believing this to be true, Kabha decided to kill an Israeli in revenge, and when he “identified a Jewish woman walking alone,” he took a rock and bludgeoned her to death.
The PA “does everything it can to demonize Israel and create hate among Palestinians,” the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) noted in its report.
“One means is the spreading of libels, and one of those libels is that Israel treats imprisoned Palestinian terrorists inhumanely. For years, the PA has purported that Israel ‘tortures”’ terrorist prisoners, gives them experimental drugs rather than try to cure their illnesses, does Nazi-like experiments on them, intentionally infects them with diseases, deliberately neglects them medically, and refrains from treating severe diseases like cancer to cause their ‘slow death,’” PMW explained.
PMW note that the International Red Cross regularly visits the imprisoned terrorists and does not accuse Israel of treating sick terrorist prisoners improperly.
In June 2020 a Red Cross official told PA TV “we visited more than 90% of those who are in these [20 different] prisons.”
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The prime minister and those with him remained in the secure area for about 45 minutes under the protection of the General Security Services, or Shabak.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
On Jan. 2, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara and other people who were with them were taken to a secure compound within his official Jerusalem residence when demonstrators burst through a police barricade, website N12 reported.
The prime minister and those with him remained in the secure area for about 45 minutes under the protection of the General Security Services, or Shabak.
The incident occurred after eight demonstrators reportedly broke through a police checkpoint on Smolenskin street near the official residence. Once the area was deemed safe the prime minister was given the all-clear.
Thousands took part in the demonstration last Saturday, the 28th week in a row of protests in front of the prime minister’s residence on Balfour street in Jerusalem, according to N12. “The demonstrators blocked the back entrance to the residence, at the corner of Balfour and Smolenskin streets, and waved a sign bearing the words ‘Balfour Siege,'” N12 reports.
The protesters say the large numbers and the particularly high emotions at last Saturday’s protest were due to an attempt by unnamed suspects to burn down a protest tent in the area.
The attempt to burn the tent of the “No way” movement, one of the protest organizers, took place on Thursday evening. A protester smelled smoke and two suspects were spotted. The police later apprehended them. One of the suspects admitted to the act under interrogation and was freed on bail.
Another of the organizations behind the protests, the “Black Flags” movement rejected the report that Netanyahu was forced into a safe room.
“Netanyahu’s attempts to compare the demonstrators to Trump supporters are a direct continuation of the Netanyahu family’s incitement campaign. Tomorrow there will be demonstrations for the 29th week in a row, 29 weeks in which there were more than 400 documented attacks against the demonstrators. We will continue to fight for Israeli democracy in non-violent protest. – As always,” the group said in a statement on Friday.
The “Crime Minister” movement also denied the secure compound report, saying: “The prime minister’s incitement and lies against the demonstrators crossed a red line today. No checkpoint was breached and the demonstrators demonstrated legally on a public street outside one of the entrances, and we have documentation of this.
“It is inconceivable that the media give a hand to the lies without checking the facts. For half a year we have been holding a non-violent protest in Balfour and will continue to protest this way every Saturday in Balfour until the corrupt [PM] goes away,” the Crime Minister group said.
The group’s claim of non-violence, however, is contradicted by numerous reports of violent clashes between police and protesters during the months of protests.
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Thieves steal charity money and religious objects, trash Torah scrolls in Petah Tikvah synagogue break-in.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
At two synagogues in Petah Tikvah that were broken into, thieves robbed boxes of charity money, threw the Torah scrolls on the floor and stole the valuable religious decorations, the Srugim news website reported Monday.
Police opened an investigation into the thefts at the Ahavat Daniel and Chen Hatzafon synagogues, where the perpetrators broke into the ark containing the Torah scrolls and threw them on the floor, but they stole the silver ornaments that traditionally adorn the scrolls.
“The burglars were not satisfied with taking the money but also looted Torah scrolls,” Petah Tikvah Mayor Rami Greenberg said in a statement. “An incident like this cannot be tolerated, which is why city security officials and the police will do everything possible to bring the vandals to justice.”
Yisrael Friedman, chairman of the local branch of the United Torah Judaism political party, said that the images of the desecration of the synagogues hurt everyone with a Jewish heart and that the fact that there were several synagogues indicated that it was a calculated and planned act.
Although Torah scrolls are expensive, costing approximately 85,000 shekels ($26,000) and up, their large size and greater difficulty to resell may have prompted the thieves to leave them behind.
Dropping a Torah scroll on the floor is considered a tragedy and traditionally the person responsible, and sometimes all of those who were present at the time of the incident, are obligated to fast during daylight hours for 40 days. However, in modern times the fasting is reduced and supplemented or replaced by giving to charity.
A member of one of the synagogues filmed the damage with his smartphone, sobbing as he described the vandalism and showing a Torah scroll on the floor.
“Sick minds broke into the synagogue and desecrated the holy house,” the man said. “How are people able to do such a thing?”
With Israel under a national coronavirus lockdown, indoor prayer and group Torah study has been banned and most synagogues have been complying with health regulations – meaning the building had been empty of people.
“It’s not enough that God has given us the coronavirus,” he cried. “To desecrate like this. To break things like this. To destroy like this,” he said as he showed the broken door to the synagogue office and cupboards that had been broken into.
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Louis Mann, 28, had traveled from Poland to England when he spouted a horrific rant in front of Holocaust victims.
By Algemeiner Staff
A British man who engaged in a tirade of racial abuse punctuated by Nazi salutes while on a flight from Poland in Oct. 2019 has avoided a jail sentence.
Louis Mann, 28, had traveled from Warsaw in Poland to Liverpool in England when he spouted the horrific rant in front of Holocaust victims, the UK newspaper Metro reported.
Liverpool Crown Court was told how Mann was a medical student studying in Poland, had mental health difficulties and had been groomed by far-right extremists.
Prosecutor Zillah Williams said: “The defendant was a passenger on a Wizz Air flight from Poland, Warsaw, to Liverpool on October 19, 2019. The flight arrived at Liverpool John Lennon Airport at 5:37pm.”
She said the offense for which Mann was charged took place when the flight had landed in Liverpool. “The flight was full and passengers reported that during the flight Mr. Mann had had to be repeatedly asked to sit down, to fasten his seatbelt and to refrain from making rude and offensive gestures,” Williams explained.
Mann then began what was described to the court as a “tirade of racial and religious abuse by words and gestures.”
“He was standing in the aisle of the flight making a Nazi salute and was shouting: ‘Anglo-Saxon race, we are superior,’” Ms Williams said.
Mann was shouting abuse about “Jewish n__ lovers” and “Slavic race traitors.” Even after police boarded the plane at Liverpool, the abuse continued during Mann’s arrest.
As Mann was transported to the custody suite, he told one of the arresting police officers, “You’re alright, you’re Aryan.”
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Israel’s Ministry of Health reported Monday’s corona numbers at 9,589 infections.
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Israeli police officers clash with Ultra Orthodox, or haredi, Jewish men during enforcement of coronavirus emergency regulations, in the neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, Jan. 24, 2021. (Flash90/Yonatan Sindel)
Four police injured as ultra-Orthodox try to break through a security line and open a religious school despite coronavirus lockdown.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Crowds of ultra-Orthodox Jews clashed with police Sunday in the cities of Jerusalem and Ashdod as security forces attempted to enforce coronavirus health orders barring the opening of schools and synagogues.
The clashes came after some rabbinical leaders of small sects called on their faithful to reopen religious schools in violation of lockdown orders imposed across the country to battle a third wave of coronavirus infections in Israel.
In the port city of Ashdod, four people were arrested as they tried to break through a police line surrounding a religious school in an attempt to open it, Ynet reported. Police have repeatedly been attacked when trying to shut down schools in Ashdod that remained open despite the closure order.
Similar clashes occurred in the ultra-Orthodox Mea She’arim neighborhood of Jerusalem where followers of the Satmar sect tried to hold prayers in their synagogue. Health restrictions that closed the school system also included a ban on indoor gatherings of more than five people, forcing synagogues to hold prayers outdoors in small groups.
Police said rioters in Jerusalem threw rocks and bottles at them and dumped bleach and garbage on the officers from surrounding balconies, while some in the crowd called the police “Nazis.” At least four police officers were injured and one ultra-Orthodox youth was arrested.
Despite ultra-Orthodox communities being among the most infected, several rabbis ordered their followers to ignore the closure and hold classes and prayers as normal. On Saturday evening the leader of the Vizhnitz Hasidim in the city of Bnei Brak, Rabbi Rabbi Yisroel Hager, said ultra-Orthodox schools associated with his movement should stay open and if the police complained, his followers should not attack the police or call them “Nazis,” but instead send the police directly to his house.
After an outcry from other religious leaders including religious members of the Knesset, Hager backed down and issued another statement that the schools should stay home and his faithful should get vaccinations. Despite the reverse call, police were out in force in Bnei Brak Sunday morning to ensure the schools stayed closed.
Deputy Commissioner Ziv Sagiv told Israel Army Radio that the police expected there would be attempts to violate the lockdown order.
“The police will have to deal with where civilian leadership has failed,” Sagiv said. “We have no choice, in some places we will have to show strength.”
Israel is entering a third week of a national lockdown during a third wave of coronavirus infections. Aside from schools, most retail businesses are closed along with entertainment venues, hair salons and health clubs, with Israelis restricted to remain within one kilometer of their homes unless they are working in permitted industries, shopping for food or getting health care.
While most of the ultra-orthodox leaders have been instructing their followers to obey health restrictions, some of the more radical sects have flaunted the regulations leading to repeated clashes – especially in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, where a mob of ultra-Orthodox attacked a police car Thursday evening and a small riot ensued.
Police are not authorized to close down schools and can only give the institution a 5,000 shekel ($1,700) fine. A bill is expected to be tabled in the Knesset Monday both to double the fines and to give police the power to close schools, although the religious Shas and United Torah Judaism parties that are part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s coalition government are expected to oppose the legislation, Ynet reported.
Former education minister Naftali Bennett of the right-wing Yemina Party, who identifies with the “national religious” stream of orthodox Jewry, said no institution was above the law regardless of religion or ethnicity.
“An institution that breaks the law, no matter what sector, should not receive money from the state,” Bennett told Army Radio.
One of the more prominent faces of the ultra-Orthodox community is Yehuda Meshi Zahav, founder and chairman of the Zaka rescue organization, whose parents died from coronavirus in the past week after his younger brother succumbed to the disease last month.
Meshi Zahav described the anguish of losing so many close members of his family to the virus and his frustration that members of fringe ultra-Orthodox communities refused to abide by the health regulations.
“Violators of the guidelines do not understand what [hospital] corona wards look like… they are causing death,” he told Israel Army Radio.
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"Israeli police officers clash with Ultra Orthodox, or haredi, Jewish men during enforcement of coronavirus emergency regulations, in the neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, Jan. 24, 2021. (Flash90/Yonatan Sindel)\nFour police injured as ultra-Orthodox try to break through a security line and open a religious school despite coronavirus lockdown.\nBy Paul Shindman, World Israel News\nCrowds of ultra-Orthodox Jews clashed with police Sunday in the cities of Jerusalem and Ashdod as security forces attempted to enforce coronavirus health orders barring the opening of schools and synagogues.\nThe clashes came after some rabbinical leaders of small sects called on their faithful to reopen religious schools in violation of lockdown orders imposed across the country to battle a third wave of coronavirus infections in Israel.\nIn the port city of Ashdod, four people were arrested as they tried to break through a police line surrounding a religious school in an attempt to open it, Ynet reported. Police have repeatedly been attacked when trying to shut down schools in Ashdod that remained open despite the closure order.\nSimilar clashes occurred in the ultra-Orthodox Mea She’arim neighborhood of Jerusalem where followers of the Satmar sect tried to hold prayers in their synagogue. Health restrictions that closed the school system also included a ban on indoor gatherings of more than five people, forcing synagogues to hold prayers outdoors in small groups.\nPolice said rioters in Jerusalem threw rocks and bottles at them and dumped bleach and garbage on the officers from surrounding balconies, while some in the crowd called the police “Nazis.” At least four police officers were injured and one ultra-Orthodox youth was arrested.\nDespite ultra-Orthodox communities being among the most infected, several rabbis ordered their followers to ignore the closure and hold classes and prayers as normal. On Saturday evening the leader of the Vizhnitz Hasidim in the city of Bnei Brak, Rabbi Rabbi Yisroel Hager, said ultra-Orthodox schools associated with his movement should stay open and if the police complained, his followers should not attack the police or call them “Nazis,” but instead send the police directly to his house.\nAfter an outcry from other religious leaders including religious members of the Knesset, Hager backed down and issued another statement that the schools should stay home and his faithful should get vaccinations. Despite the reverse call, police were out in force in Bnei Brak Sunday morning to ensure the schools stayed closed.\nDeputy Commissioner Ziv Sagiv told Israel Army Radio that the police expected there would be attempts to violate the lockdown order.\n“The police will have to deal with where civilian leadership has failed,” Sagiv said. “We have no choice, in some places we will have to show strength.”\nIsrael is entering a third week of a national lockdown during a third wave of coronavirus infections. Aside from schools, most retail businesses are closed along with entertainment venues, hair salons and health clubs, with Israelis restricted to remain within one kilometer of their homes unless they are working in permitted industries, shopping for food or getting health care.\nWhile most of the ultra-orthodox leaders have been instructing their followers to obey health restrictions, some of the more radical sects have flaunted the regulations leading to repeated clashes – especially in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, where a mob of ultra-Orthodox attacked a police car Thursday evening and a small riot ensued.\nPolice are not authorized to close down schools and can only give the institution a 5,000 shekel ($1,700) fine. A bill is expected to be tabled in the Knesset Monday both to double the fines and to give police the power to close schools, although the religious Shas and United Torah Judaism parties that are part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s coalition government are expected to oppose the legislation, Ynet reported.\nFormer education minister Naftali Bennett of the right-wing Yemina Party, who identifies with the “national religious” stream of orthodox Jewry, said no institution was above the law regardless of religion or ethnicity.\n“An institution that breaks the law, no matter what sector, should not receive money from the state,” Bennett told Army Radio.\nOne of the more prominent faces of the ultra-Orthodox community is Yehuda Meshi Zahav, founder and chairman of the Zaka rescue organization, whose parents died from coronavirus in the past week after his younger brother succumbed to the disease last month.\nMeshi Zahav described the anguish of losing so many close members of his family to the virus and his frustration that members of fringe ultra-Orthodox communities refused to abide by the health regulations.\n“Violators of the guidelines do not understand what [hospital] corona wards look like… they are causing death,” he told Israel Army Radio.",
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Pandemic pushes memorial services online as the world recalls the Nazi program to exterminate an entire people.
By World Israel News Staff
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in commemoration of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, was marked Wednesday by online events with the coronavirus pandemic forcing the cancellation of large memorial services commemorating the Nazi genocide of the Jews in World War II.
The worldwide event was enshrined by a United Nations resolution in 2005, the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camp where 1 million Jews from all over Europe were murdered in gas chambers or starved to death, along with an additional 100,000 victims from Poland, Russia and elsewhere.
In a statement on its website, the UN said this commemoration comes “against a global context of rising anti-Semitism and increasing levels of disinformation and hate speech.”
“Holocaust education and remembrance is even more urgent, as is the development of a historical literacy to counter repeated attempts to deny and distort the history of the Holocaust,” the UN statement said.
“Remembering the Holocaust is a moral duty. Not only to pay tribute to victims. But also to renew our allegiance to our deepest human values,” tweeted Charles Michel, President of the European Council. “We, Europeans, have a special responsibility to fulfill this duty. Anti-Semitism has no place in our societies.”
Eisenhower: ‘The things I saw beggar description”
The Holocaust Museum in Washington posted a note on its Facebook page, showing Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower at the at Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945, the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by the U.S. Army.
“Eisenhower had studied his World War II enemy, but he was unprepared for the Nazi brutality he witnessed,” the museum said. “What he witnessed changed him. He saw bodies piled like wood and living skeletons struggling to survive. Eisenhower also saw another danger. He foresaw a day when the horrors of the Holocaust might be denied.”
In his notes on the visit to the camp, Eisenhower wrote:
“The things I saw beggar description … The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where they were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, [General] George Patton would not even enter. He said that he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.'”
The annual ceremony at the Auschwitz memorial in Poland has been moved online due to the coronavirus pandemic. The director of the Auschwitz Museum, Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, described the horror of the number of young children murdered in the camp by the Nazis.
“Over 200,000 children were murdered in Auschwitz. Completely innocent, good, curious about life, loving their closest ones, trusting children,” Dr. Cywiński said on the memorial’s website. “The adult world – after all, so often unjust and cruel – has never demonstrated so much of its heartlessness, its evil. This cannot be justified by any ideology, reckoning or politics. This year we want to dedicate the anniversary of liberation to the youngest victims of the camp.”
At least 232,000 children were deported to Auschwitz, of whom 216,000 were Jews, 11,000 Roma, about 3,000 Poles, more than 1,000 Belarusians, and several hundred Russians, Ukrainians, and others. Only a few more than 700 were alive when the camp was liberated by Russian forces.
Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. and UN, Gilad Erdan, warned that “76 years after millions endured the worst hell on earth … Today, there is another genocidal regime epitomizing the very words and actions of the Nazis.”
“Iran does not try to hide its intention of destroying the world’s only Jewish State. It spreads anti-Semitism, denies the Holocaust & has proposed legislation calling for Israel’s destruction by the year 2041,” Erdan told the UN.
“The UN Security Council must not allow the world’s most dangerous regime to possess the world’s most dangerous weapon. Israel knows how to protect its citizens. We will never allow Iran to become a nuclear power,” Erdan tweeted.
As of the end of 2020, 179,600 Holocaust survivors were living in Israel, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported, adding that 17,000 survivors had passed away last year.
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Israel’s lockdown offers no relief as cases spike and fear of yet another mutation takes hold
As cases rise and a new mutation emerges, there’s no end in sight for Israel’s lockdown.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
The Ministry of Health’s most recent data on the pandemic aren’t encouraging. On Wednesday, 9,388 new carriers were reported on Wednesday with a record positive test rate of 7.9%.
The data, released on Thursday, shows that 1,834 Israelis are currently hospitalized, of whom 818 are listed in serious condition, 305 are in critical condition, and 280 are connected to ventilators to help them breathe.
Deputy Director of the Health Ministry Itamar Grotto said, “We will consider whether and for how long to extend the closure, at the moment we do not see a stabilization or a decrease in morbidity.”
There is also a new fear from a Brazilian mutation. The new mutation is apart from the UK variant, which sparked worldwide fears just as vaccines were being rolled out. There are no reported cases of the Brazilian mutation in Israel yet.
The mutation was first discovered in Japan among travelers returning from the Amazon region. Similar to the other variants, the Brazilian mutation is more contagious than the original virus, but it is said not to be more deadly.
In reaction to news of the Brazilian mutation, Israel reiterated that returnees to the country will be isolated in hotels upon their return, Israel’s Kan news reports. Corona hotels, in which returning Israelis stay for two weeks, have proven unpopular, with a small melee occurring at one in Jerusalem as citizens tried ineffectually to break out.
Israel has been praised around the world for the fast rollout of its vaccine. In three weeks’ time, it has vaccinated some 22% of its population. It expects to vaccinate the entire population by March.
However, the new variants of the disease, of which the UK version is responsible for 2,000 daily cases in Israel and is expected to become the dominant strain soon, have forced Israel to reimpose a stiff lockdown on its citizens, reduce public transportation and close businesses.
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Iran adding 1,000 centrifuges to boost uranium enrichment
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Then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a tour of centrifuges at Natanz in 2008. (Office of the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran)
Iranian officials brushed off Western criticism of Iran’s violations, saying Iran would not respond to pressure.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
The head of the Iran’s Atomic energy agency said Tuesday an additional 1,000 more centrifuge are being added to boost the amount of enriched uranium the country is producing in violation of international agreements.
“One thousand centrifuges are being installed inside the country,” Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) told Iran’s Fars News agency. “Until three or four years ago, we used to produce an average of 4 to 5 tons of yellowcake, but for the past two years, we have increased the production of yellowcake to 30 tons.”
“Iran has produced 20% enriched uranium in 24 hours,” Salehi said after Iran announced on the weekend it was breaking restrictions and producing far above its agreed-to limits under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. “This year, the production of yellowcake will be between 35 and 40 tons, which means that we have 8-folded the production of yellowcake.”
Iran claims the enrichment is for “peaceful” purposes, but with no major nuclear power plants and sitting on some of the world’s largest reserves of fossil fuels, the Iranian nuclear program is widely perceived to be for the pursuit of nuclear weapons.
A spokesman for the EU said there was concern, but did not outline any action the Europeans would take in response.
“We are highly concerned by the measures taken by Iran. This action is in breach of Iran’s nuclear commitments and will have serious implications,” European Commission spokesman Peter Stano told reporters at a briefing Tuesday.
In Washington, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced additional sanctions against 17 Iranian metal companies in a continuing American policy of responding to Iranian violations by adding extra pressure on the Iranians.
“The United States will continue to aggressively implement sanctions with respect to the Iranian regime, those who evade sanctions, and others who enable the regime to fund and carry out its malign agenda of repression and terror,” Pompeo said in a statement released by the State Department.
Iranian officials brushed off Western criticism of Iran’s violations, saying Iran would not respond to pressure.
“Westerners are suffering from a delusion and think that due to pressures imposed on the country by U.S. sanctions in the past years, the Islamic Republic is ready and will quickly embrace America’s return to the deal and so they can set conditions for the lifting of the sanctions,” said Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi. “This is a completely wrong and delusional understanding,” He added.
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"Then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a tour of centrifuges at Natanz in 2008. (Office of the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran)\nIranian officials brushed off Western criticism of Iran’s violations, saying Iran would not respond to pressure.\nBy Paul Shindman, World Israel News\nThe head of the Iran’s Atomic energy agency said Tuesday an additional 1,000 more centrifuge are being added to boost the amount of enriched uranium the country is producing in violation of international agreements.\n“One thousand centrifuges are being installed inside the country,” Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) told Iran’s Fars News agency. “Until three or four years ago, we used to produce an average of 4 to 5 tons of yellowcake, but for the past two years, we have increased the production of yellowcake to 30 tons.”\n“Iran has produced 20% enriched uranium in 24 hours,” Salehi said after Iran announced on the weekend it was breaking restrictions and producing far above its agreed-to limits under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. “This year, the production of yellowcake will be between 35 and 40 tons, which means that we have 8-folded the production of yellowcake.”\nIran claims the enrichment is for “peaceful” purposes, but with no major nuclear power plants and sitting on some of the world’s largest reserves of fossil fuels, the Iranian nuclear program is widely perceived to be for the pursuit of nuclear weapons.\nA spokesman for the EU said there was concern, but did not outline any action the Europeans would take in response.\n“We are highly concerned by the measures taken by Iran. This action is in breach of Iran’s nuclear commitments and will have serious implications,” European Commission spokesman Peter Stano told reporters at a briefing Tuesday.\nIn Washington, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced additional sanctions against 17 Iranian metal companies in a continuing American policy of responding to Iranian violations by adding extra pressure on the Iranians.\n“The United States will continue to aggressively implement sanctions with respect to the Iranian regime, those who evade sanctions, and others who enable the regime to fund and carry out its malign agenda of repression and terror,” Pompeo said in a statement released by the State Department.\nIranian officials brushed off Western criticism of Iran’s violations, saying Iran would not respond to pressure.\n“Westerners are suffering from a delusion and think that due to pressures imposed on the country by U.S. sanctions in the past years, the Islamic Republic is ready and will quickly embrace America’s return to the deal and so they can set conditions for the lifting of the sanctions,” said Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi. “This is a completely wrong and delusional understanding,” He added.",
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Gen. (res.) Dan Harel joins the leadership of The Israelis while Ron Huldai promises that half of his list will be female.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Former deputy chief of staff Gen. (res.) Dan Harel announced Tuesday that he is joining the leadership of The Israelis, the new center-Left party of Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai.
“I decided that I can’t stand aside in the face of what is happening in the Israel that I love,” he said. “I found a home where I can serve the State of Israel in accordance with my values…. The current situation cannot be allowed to continue.”
Harel will be most remembered with disdain by the right-wing in Israel for leading the IDF’s mission to expel some 8,000 Jews from the Gaza Strip in 2005, when he served as the head of the Southern Command. Beholden to the country’s political leadership, he carried out his orders, but said repeatedly afterwards that removing the army and Jewish citizens in a one-sided withdrawal had been a mistake.
Five years later, he told a Channel 2 interviewer that he had warned his superiors that leaving the Strip would only bring about more terrorism.
“It was clear to me that the terror would continue from Gaza,” he said. “We saw the rise of Hamas to power and were not surprised.”
Since the Disengagement, Hamas and other terrorist organizations in the coastal enclave have fired well over 15,000 rockets and mortars at Israel. The IDF has conducted three large military campaigns in Gaza in deterrence efforts that have been likened to “mowing the grass,” in acknowledgment that a permanent solution is unlikely if Israel does not want to take full control of Gaza again.
In joining The Israelis, Harel becomes the military expert all parties that lean to the Left in Israel seem to feel they need to burnish their “tough on security” credentials for a public that usually has this issue at the top of their list of concerns. Together with former Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn, who jumped ship from Blue and White, Huldai’s top three faces are now seemingly set.
However, in rolling out his election campaign Tuesday evening, Huldai also promised that his Knesset list will be 50% female in order to demonstrate his commitment to equality between the sexes.
“We believe that having women in key positions in politics and in the decision-making centers is an indispensable prerequisite in the State of Israel,” he said at his press conference. “We will try to have a list that is half women, and so too in every subsequent executive position.”
The four female candidates he presented “had rich records of achievement and professionalism in a variety of fields – in education, law, administration and society.”
They were University of Washington Professor Karine Nahon, who is married to former Likud minister Michael Eitan, Moroccan-born educator Keren Tal, the head of Tel Aviv’s Departments of Informal Education and Urban Renewal, Adi Tzabari, and another refugee from Blue and White, MK Einav Kabla, who resigned from the Knesset on Sunday.
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The good news comes as the rate of those dying from Covid-19 rises and the suggestion is made to delay the second dose of the vaccine to inoculate more people at least once.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Just three days after its approval by Israel’s Ministry of Health, the first shipment of Moderna’s vaccine against the coronavirus is set to arrive in Israel Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in a video message Wednesday.
“A few days ago I spoke with Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, and tomorrow the first shipment of Moderna vaccines is scheduled to arrive in Israel,” Netanyahu said.
There are only some 120,000 doses in the initial batch, which Netanyahu said would be administered specifically to “people who cannot go to the health funds, who are home-bound or for whatever reason cannot get to the inoculation sites.”
The first delivery is intentionally small, similar to the first Pfizer batch, for reasons that include testing the supply and storage process. In contrast to Pfizer’s vaccine, whose stockpile must be kept in special freezers at -70 degrees and used within five days of defrosting, Moderna’s can be stored in regular freezers and can keep for a month after being thawed. Its second dose is given four weeks after the initial injection, while Pfizer’s is administered after a three-week interval.
Israel has ordered 6 million doses of Moderna’s vaccine, enough to protect 3 million citizens. Dr. Tal Zaks, Moderna’s chief medical officer, told N12 that “however fast we can deliver [the vaccines], that is how fast we will deliver them,” as it was now simply “a matter of production.”
In a separate interview with Ynet Wednesday, the native-born and educated Zaks said that he was “very proud as an Israeli that Israel is one of the first countries in the world that mobilized to pre-purchase all the vaccines, both ours and Pfizer’s, and is at the forefront today in terms of the ability to vaccinate its citizens.”
The news of another serum hitting Israel’s shores was warmly welcomed, as health authorities have confirmed that they must pause for at least a week in inoculating the public with the Pfizer vaccine that was rolled out last month. This to ensure that there will be enough of a supply for the required second dose that will begin to be administered to the 1.5 million Israelis who have received the first jab.
The importance of getting vaccinated grows as there has been a worrying rise in the Israeli death toll from Covid-19, which as of Wednesday stood at 3,527. According to the Worldometer tracking website, in the first week of January alone, 202 Israelis have succumbed to the pandemic, 50 of them just on Tuesday. Israel currently has 64,370 active cases, with 905 patients in serious condition.
Some medical professionals have suggested that the second Pfizer injection should be delayed in order to give more people a first dose, although they acknowledge that it would not be the ideal thing to do.
“I think that it is more important to get more people vaccinated,” said Dr. Gili Regev-Yochay, director of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit of the Sheba Medical Center in a press briefing Tuesday. “We are only talking about a month. I don’t think it will cause any damage and the damage from the disease is greater.”
She said that half of the first hundred people who were vaccinated at the hospital already developed strong antibodies to the disease after two weeks. This means that there is a good chance they are now at least somewhat protected from infection.
The Health Ministry has said that it would not tamper with the two-injection protocol, and Pfizer warned that it had no proof that the vaccine it developed with BioNTech would work if the second shot was not administered in time.
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Tel Aviv Municipality workers dig to find the source of steam coming from the ground in central Tel Aviv, Jan. 2, 2020. (Facebook)
Authorities allowed residents back into two buildings, but were unable to find the mysterious source of steam emerging from the ground.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Tel Aviv Municipality employees and other authorities remain baffled after trying for three days to find the mysterious source of underground heat that is causing steam to emerge from the ground between two apartment buildings in the center of the city, Kan News reported Sunday.
On Thursday, residents were evacuated from two apartment buildings on busy Ibn Gvirol Street following reports of hot steam emerging from the ground between the buildings.
Municipality workers dug down, but were unable to find the source of heat that was producing the steam. The city called in the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Ministry of Energy, the electric company, the fire department and geology experts, but have so far been unable to find the source of the steam and with no toxic gases or signs of an erupting volcano, the residents were allowed back into their apartments.
Initially, there was concern that this was a leak of hazardous material from an underground reservoir, but this possibility was ruled out after an inspection by firefighters, the report said.
“A mystery,” said Tel Aviv City Council member Zippy Brand. “The earth is boiling beneath the city,” she posted on her Facebook page, adding that “for three days now, a smoking cistern has been raising steam at a temperature of 60 degrees [celsius, 140 degrees Fahrenheit].”
“We already know what it is not,” Brand said. “It’s not oil … I’ve been hoping for a moment that there’s oil in our city,” she added jokingly.
“There is no fear for anyone … Slowly it is becoming a tourist site,” Brand said, asking followers on her Facebook page to help solve the mystery.
“What a coincidence, we were just watching Ghostbusters 2, where there is a thick and disgusting pink slime that makes people nervous and disgusting to each other and feeds on intense, positive and negative emotions. Maybe you should call Ghostbusters,” posted Jenny Donner Konigsberg.
Another social media user speculated it would turn into a geyser, another thought it could be a volcano, while a third was sure it was one the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles getting hungry for pizza under Tel Aviv.
Experts said that the heat is coming from some source of energy in the ground, but for now it was not yet possible to determine what the exact source is and there is no immediate danger to the stability of the buildings.
There are several geothermal hot springs in Israel where underground water is heated in the earth and rises to the surface. The closest hot springs are some 10 kilometers (six miles) to the north at Kibbutz Ga’ash, whose name can also mean “volcano” in English.
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People evacuate the U.S. Capitol during a rehearsal for the presidential inauguration in Washington, Jan. 18, 2021. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
Participants, including a military marching band, evacuated from outside the Capitol after fire breaks out in a nearby homeless camp.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
The U.S. Capitol Building was “briefly” locked down Monday after a fire was reported several blocks away at a homeless camp under a bridge, The Hill reported.
“All buildings with the Capitol Complex: Due to an external security threat located under the bridge on I-295 at First and F Streets SE, no entry or exit is permitted at this time,” said an e-mail alert sent to all lawmakers and tweeted by a reporter for The Hill. “You may move throughout the building, but stay away from exterior windows and doors. If you are outside, seek cover.”
U.S. Capitol Police issued a statement saying: “There are currently no fires on or within the Capitol campus. Members and staff were advised to shelter in place while the incident is being investigated.” Police added that they were using an “abundance of caution.”
The alert came during a rehearsal for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, and participants were evacuated from the area in front of the Capitol building, the AP reported. Pictures from the scene showed dozens of people who were participating in the rehearsal, including a military band, either entering the Capitol building or running for cover.
People involved in the rehearsal told the AP that security officials yelled, “This is not a drill.”
The evacuation happened around 10:30 a.m. local time. Reporters noted that smoke could be seen rising in the distance behind the Capitol, The Hill reported, adding that the D.C. Fire Department said that the fire was extinguished and no injuries were reported.
The Capitol is currently operating as a military zone ahead of Biden’s inauguration scheduled for Wednesday, with up to 25,000 National Guard troops reinforcing local police to boost security and prevent a recurrence of the riot on Jan. 6 in which Capitol Police were overwhelmed by hundreds who stormed the building in an attack that caused five deaths.
As of Monday, the Department of Justice reported that at least 69 people have been arrested for taking part in the attack on the Capitol. The FBI says its investigation is continuing to “aggressively pursue those involved in criminal activity during the events of January 6.”
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Twitter locked Trump out of his account for 12 hours and said that future violations by Trump could result in a permanent suspension.
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In an unprecedented step, Facebook and Twitter suspended President Donald Trump from posting to their platforms Wednesday following the storming of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
Twitter locked Trump out of his account for 12 hours and said that future violations by Trump could result in a permanent suspension. The company required the removal of three of Trump’s tweets, including a short video in which he urged those supporters to “go home” while also repeating contentions about the integrity of the presidential election.
Trump’s account deleted those posts, Twitter said; had they remained, Twitter had threatened to extend his suspension.
Facebook and Instagram, which Facebook owns, followed up in the evening, announcing that Trump wouldn’t be able to post for 24 hours following two violations of its policies. The White House did not immediately offer a response to the actions.
Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University communications professor and an expert on social media, maintained Wednesday’s events in Washington, D.C. are a direct result of Trump’s use of social media, and that the platforms should bear some responsibility for their inaction.
Trump posted that video more than two hours after protesters entered the Capitol, interrupting lawmakers meeting in an extraordinary joint session to confirm the Electoral College results and President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
So far, YouTube has not taken similar action, although it said it also removed Trump’s video. But that video remained available as of Wednesday afternoon.
Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president of integrity, said on Twitter Wednesday that the video was removed because it “contributes to rather than diminishes the risk of ongoing violence.”
“This is an emergency situation and we are taking appropriate emergency measures, including removing President Trump’s video,” Rosen said on Twitter.
Twitter initially left the video up but blocked people from being able to retweet it or comment on it. Only later in the day did the platform delete it entirely.
Trump opened his video saying, “I know your pain. I know your hurt. But you have to go home now.”
After repeating claims about voter fraud affecting the election, Trump went on to say: “We can’t play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You’re very special.”
Republican lawmakers and previous administration officials had begged Trump to give a statement to his supporters to quell the violence. He posted his video as authorities struggled to take control of a chaotic situation at the Capitol that led to the evacuation of lawmakers and the death of at least one person.
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In an effort to extend ties, IAI’s Aviation Group also relocates manufacturing of business jet’s wings to South Korea.
By Udi Etsion, Calcalist
Israel Aerospace Industries’ Aviation Group won three avionic upgrade contracts for the South Korean Air Force worth approximately $50 million.
The upgrades, which include converting a used aircraft and retrofitting it with all or part of the avionic systems with new and advanced systems, are set to be carried out over the next two years.
South Korea has in the past purchased Heron UAVs from IAI as well as the Hetz radar system manufactured by its subsidiary Elta Systems.
In an effort to fortify ties with South Korea, a substantial defense client that procures most of its equipment from U.S. companies and is currently expanding its homegrown development and manufacturing capabilities, IAI’s Aviation Group recently relocated its wings’ assembly line for the company’s G280 executive jet, to Korea.
“The recent tenders won in South Korea reflects the Korean Defense Minister’s confidence in IAI’s Aviation Group. The Aviation Group seeks to expand its operations in South Korea, both as a supplier and as a client,” said IAI EVP and General Manager of Aviation Group, Yosef (Yossi) Melamed.
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The Syrians have shot over 200 anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli jets on their missions, according to the report.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Israeli pilots contend with hundreds of anti-aircraft missiles and ground-to-air fire as they strike at Iranian forces in Syria, a Monday report reveals.
Israel’s Kan public broadcasting released rare recordings of pilots hitting targets in Syria during one of the many attacks that Israel has carried out in the last year over its northern border to deter Iran and its proxies from gaining a foothold in the country.
“We’re at Ready. Good speed. No messages…. You have permission to fire at the target,” the commander says in one recording.
“Roger. Firing one. Firing two,” comes the response, as the video shows an explosion on the ground below.
In another recording, the pilot says over his radio, “Execution according to plan. Each one on his own board mission.”
“Good height, everyone’s clean. TV. Last drops to ‘Batman’ … Batman, everyone stay alert.”
The command to stay alert is necessary. The Syrians have shot over 200 anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli jets on their missions, according to the report. Col. Y, commander of the Ramon Airbase, told Kan News that the IAF lost an F-16I plane to such missile fire about three years ago.
“We’ve experienced massive ground-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft fire for a long time already,” he said, “so we invest an enormous amount in our preparations. We’re very careful that it will be at the right time, in the right place, with the right flight path, right height. There are a lot of parameters that we take into consideration.”
“Whoever says that [when a missile is fired at him] it doesn’t tense him up and doesn’t scare him is saying something wrong in my humble opinion,” he said.
“When we look outside, when fire is directed at the sky, we give it full respect,” he added. “On the other hand, I can tell you that you plan the mission in such a way that you can carry it out also if missiles are shot in the sky. You’re always ready for surprises… You have to know how to react very quickly.”
According to foreign press reports, Israel has hit Syria five times in the last three weeks alone, with an especially effective one killing dozens of Iran-backed militia and destroying weapons facilities on the Iraqi border. Calling it “the most intense of its kind on Syrian territory,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights added in that specific case “no response or attempt to confront the Israeli bombing was monitored by the [Syrian] regime’s air defenses.”
While often staying mum on such attacks, Jerusalem has admitted to thousands of strikes in Syria over the last several years against Iranian or their proxies’ military outposts, ammunition storage and rocket production sites, and the like.
On Monday, a photographer from Hezbollah’s Al Manar television station in Lebanon tweeted pictures of what seemed to be an F-35I stealth fighter, the IAF’s most advanced airplane, high in the sky over his country.
6 طائرات من نوع F-15. إسرائيلية معادية كانت تحلق في الأجواء اللبنانية لساعات .#عدوان_على_السيادة pic.twitter.com/td3GTGhtgb — علي شعيب 🇱🇧 2️⃣ (@alishaib1970) January 25, 2021
Although the photographer misidentified it in his post as one of “six F-15s flying over Lebanon for hours,” Israel uses the fifth-generation F-35I for reconnaissance and combat missions.
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“We will demand a full-blown lockdown for two weeks. We need to deal one strong blow to morbidity rates and embark on a new path together,” he said.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said that despite the remarkable speed with which Israel is inoculating its population, the number of rising cases means “there’s no avoiding a full-blown lockdown, including closing schools.”
“We will demand a full-blown lockdown for two weeks. We need to deal one strong blow to morbidity rates and embark on a new path together,” he said.
“We’re going through a very severe outbreak and are probably in a more dire situation than we were in at the beginning of September,” Edelstein said.
The current lockdown has been criticized, including by Edelstein, as not being strict enough. On Dec. 31, he said “We are not in a lockdown. We are with restrictions.”
“We wanted a relatively short, full, strong lockdown, precisely because we thought about limiting the economic damage,” he said at the time. “After the government meeting and principally because it passed through Knesset committees we are in a totally different situation.”
Edelstein received backing for a full backdown from a surprising corner – Israel’s small businesses and mall operators. They have been hardest hit by the lockdowns and restrictions since the pandemic began.
Israel Hayom reports that a group of commercial associations met and demanded on Sunday that the government impose a full closure. If not, they’ll open regardless of what the government wants starting on Jan. 10.
“Either a full-closure or opening of business on the 10th of the month and not the day after,” they said.
Shachar Turgeman, chairman of a small business association said, “We are a respectable bunch that represents all trades. We came to this situation because of serious failures by the Israeli government.”
“We tell the Israeli government – do a full Yom Kippur closure, not a fake closure. Because of the government’s policy, 90,000 businesses were destroyed. Half a million workers leave and return from being out of work like a yo-yo. There are tens of thousands of zombies among us, walking dead. No one counts us,” Turgeman said.
“We are ready to close on condition that the Israeli government announces a full closure for 10 days, during which everything will be closed, except for food and pharmacies until 7:00 p.m. This is without blinking and winking at one electorate or another,” he said.
Small businesses have expressed anger in the past at the random and seemingly illogical nature of the closures, where some businesses can operate but not others.
While there has been criticism of lockdowns as ineffective, the Sunday statement by the business groups appears to criticize the half-measures and not lockdowns themselves.
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Foreign Ministers of the four countries met in Cairo, called on the U.S. to resume mediating the Middle East peace process.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
France and Germany said Monday they want the United States to resume its role mediating between Israel and the Palestinians, but reiterated their position supporting the two-state solution based on the 1967 lines and the apparently now defunct Arab Peace Initiative.
Foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian of France and German minister Heiko Maasof were hosted in Cairo by Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Ayman Safadi of Jordan in a forum known as The Munich Group, which has met previously to discuss how to restart the moribund Middle East Peace Process.
In a statement issued after the meeting, the ministers said the “resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the basis of the two-state solution is an indispensable requirement to comprehensive peace in the region,” adding that this included “an independent and viable Palestinian state based on June 4, 1967 lines and UN Security Council resolutions, living side by side a secure and recognized Israel.”
The statement also said peace would be based on the Arab Peace Initiative (API), a 2002 Saudi Arabian plan that called on Arab states to normalize relations with Israel only after a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Arab Peace Initiative appears to be dead in the water following the signing last year of the Abraham Accords, after which the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco all announced they were normalizing relations with Israel, in other words, not waiting for a resolution to the Arab-Palestinian conflict. Despite bypassing the API, all four countries have also said they remain committed to helping the Palestinians.
However, given that Egypt and Jordan were the first two Arab states to make peace with neighboring Israel, the four ministers also said they recognized the recently signed peace treaties are “contributing to the resolution of the Palestinian- Israeli conflict on the basis of the two-state solution so that comprehensive and lasting peace is achieved.”
“Settling the Palestinian cause will alter the reality and condition of the entire region for the better,” Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi told the four following their meeting in comments reported by Al Ahram, adding that doing so “will open new paths and horizons for regional cooperation between governments and peoples.”
“This [reasoning] stems from the reality Egypt has experienced during its pioneering experiment in the region by opting for the path of peace [with Israel] and practicing it for more than four decades,” El-Sisi said.
With Joe Biden set to enter the White House next week, the ministers said they “emphasized the role of the United States,” and added that they are willing to work to see the U.S. again facilitating negotiations.
Le Drian said that the next meeting of the quartet committee would be held in Paris.
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