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Heavy Israeli forces are surrounding ht Kalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem after their attempts to enter the location met with gunfire, explosive devices and a hail of rocks and iron bars. Reinforcements were sent to the aid of the IDF and Border Guards who were under attack and used crowd dispersal measures and flares to break up the disturbance. The cause of the disturbance has not been disclosed, nor casualty figures.

The chief executive of SodaStream International Ltd. says he has been forced to lay off hundreds of Palestinian workers after a factory was targeted by an international boycott movement and moved from the West Bank into Israel. [...] The global boycott movement seeks to ostracize Israel by lobbying corporations, artists and academic institutions to sever ties with the Jewish state. ...

I write this as we learn that another Israeli has been killed as the result of the latest Palestinian terror attack, this time in Gush Etzion. Nothing seems to stop this. Nothing seems to work. Israel has tried everything to turn these people into good neighbors, and it only gets worse. Along with the rocks and the knives on the local scene, the Palestinian Arabs have moved their terrorism onto global warfare. The mosques continue to blare incitement nonstop. The Palestinian-BDS movement continues to spread hatred from campus to campus, for hatred is what they do and it is all...

For centuries, the land God promised to Abraham,Isaac and Jacob was called ‘The Land of Canaan”, and the inhabitants were called the Canaanites. After the Exodus, and the occupation of Canaan by Israel, the land became known as Israel. There were no peo[le named “Palestinians”, they didn’t exist, the inhabitants were Canaanite , then Israelite. The Land of Israel remained under Israeli sovereignty until the destruction of the Temple and the dispersion of the people of Israel from one end of the earth to the other. It was in 135 AD that the Romans renamed the land ‘Provincia Syria Palestina’....

Hit her, but don't make her ugly. That's the message of an official Palestinian Authority (PA) television show in Gaza teaching Muslim men how to keep their wives "in line," as translated by Palestinian Media Watch. "When she makes a mistake," explains the PA Mufti of Gaza, Hassan Al-Laham, "he will explain: you shouldn't do this and that." After this warning stage, advises the Mufti, men should "separate" from their wives until they change their behavior. If the two do not reconcile, however, next "comes the hitting." Al-Laham is quick to clarify that one must be careful not to "make...

It would not be new to say: "Israelis engage in racist practices against Palestinians (or Arabs in general)". However, what many do not know is that Israeli racism targets every resident within its borders, even Jews; the racial and ethnic makeup, and the discrimination between the two (show even through laws which were enacted to protect the people) became constitutional in Israel. This is proven by the latest incident trending among the social media, because the incident is considered as Israeli supremacy in essence, and a new low, falling to the level of discrimination. Initially, the news spread on Facebook...

In a January 22 Al-Majd TV interview, Palestinian scholar Samir Said talked about what he called the "criminal and Satanic nature" of the Jews and said that they were "the enemies of Mankind," who had "killed 70 prophets in a single day." Said is a member of the Jerusalem Committee of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS). Following are excerpts: Interviewer: Let's talk about the well-known history of Jewish crimes, since the days of the Israelites, and their crimes against the most noble people of those times – the prophets and messengers, against whom they committed grave crimes, including...

By covering up and supporting Palestinian deadly aims they have the blood of innocent Israelis on their hands as they aid and abet a malevolent and murderous Palestinian agenda When people of sound minds display clear signs of deviation from reality it demands of us to examine the symptom and expose the defect. For quite some time, Israelis and others that have clear-eyed views of the world have been increasingly troubled by leading influence and opinion makers who seem to have wandered off into some unvirtuous virtual world of their own. From an Israeli perspective, it is a world where...

This http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/dec/12/cattle-abuse-gaza-video (warning, graphic video of animal torture and abuse worse than a Spanish bullfight) is the Palestinians' vision for "From the River to the Sea." "The footage, filmed by local civilians and uploaded to YouTube, shows cattle tied to poles, trees and vehicles before being stabbed in the neck and eyes." This should be shown to every single person who thinks the Palestinians are poor, innocent people and that Israel is an apartheid state. It should be shown particularly to animal welfare and animal rights advocates. The video exemplifies the fact that a Palestinian state would simply be Golding's...

In the space of barely a week, Palestinian Arab terrorists have singled out and stabbed Israeli women in three different cities, murdering two and wounding two others. There's no point in mincing words: this is a Palestinian "War on Women." [...] Women's rights groups around the world should be outraged. Feminists should be picketing the Palestinian Authority's offices. Anyone who is genuinely concerned about "wars on women" at least should be issuing angry press releases about the Palestinians' war on women. But they won't. Just as they were silent every previous time that Palestinian Arab terrorists have waged war on...

Pastor J.D. addresses some of the prophetically significant developments taking place in the last week most of went unnoticed by virtue of the wall-to-wall coverage of the presidential election with the Iowa caucuses tomorrow.

Israel said on Friday that it will reject any French initiative to re-start peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Israel said on Friday that it will reject any French initiative to re-start peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Jerusalem reacted shortly after French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that his government will recognize a Palestinian state if its efforts in coming weeks to try to break the deadlock between Israelis and Palestinians fail. "France will engage in the coming weeks in the preparation of an international conference bringing together the parties and their main partners, American, European, Arab, notably to preserve and...

snip In other words, no one in the West Bank knows how the next leader will emerge — “and Israeli intelligence officials, whose entire job is to predict such things, have no idea either,” says Gal Berger, Israel Radio’s indispensable Palestinian affairs correspondent. When the time comes, the Fatah men who in the last few weeks started jockeying for position will duke it out for real. Such chaotic political fighting often leads to violence. Once that violence ebbs, a new strongman will emerge. But not a peaceful, democratic state of Palestine. This week, the UN’s Ban Ki-moon said Palestinian terrorism...

An official Palestinian Authority (PA) daily op-ed has accused the United States of being behind all the chaos and civil wars in the Muslim and Arab world, including the longest and oldest fight from right after Mohammed's times between the Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. According to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), the PA writer claims that this turmoil is the direct result of the September 11th attacks on the US, stating that the US utilized this attack to create "an imaginary enemy called 'terror,' and it supervised the cultivation of the idea until it ripened into what is known today as...

A senior British MP has compared a violent anti-Israel riot at a London university last week to kristallnacht, as condemnation of the violence carried out by pro-Palestinian activists continues to mount. In an interview with Sky News on Sunday morning, Sir Eric Pickles - a former minister who now serves as the United Kingdom's Special Envoy for post-Holocaust issues - likened the incident, in which windows were smashed and at least one Jewish student was physically assaulted, to the Nazi pogrom in which anti-Semitic thugs ransacked Jewish-owned synagogues, shops and other establishments in Germany. ...

It is a common misconception that around 650,000 Palestinian refugees were created because of fighting that took place in 1948. But a closer look at both the population data and statements made by UN officials at the time suggest that the true figure is much lower, possibly as low as 270,000. The conventional figure of 650,000 cannot be true for more than one reason. Firstly, there were fewer than 660,000 Arabs living in the part of Palestine that eventually became Israel; and secondly, UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency), either through incompetence or deliberate manipulation, handed out multiple...

US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro voiced a particularly sharp attack against Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria on Monday, accusing Israeli authorities of holding them to different standards of law. He expressed the unusually harsh criticism during a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) conference in Tel Aviv. Shapiro condemned two brutal stabbing attacks on Sunday and Monday as "barbaric acts of terrorism," before launching into a critique of Israel's policies concerning the communities in Judea-Samaria. "We are concerned and perplexed by Israel's strategy on settlements," Shapiro stated. "This government and previous Israeli governments have repeatedly...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A terror suspect who was arrested in Houston last week went before a judge Wednesday afternoon, where his bond was denied. During testimony, we learned disturbing allegations against him. A federal investigator testified that Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, 24, wanted to blow up the Galleria and Sharpstown Mall with a remote bomb. According to testimony, Al Hardan would put the bomb in a trash can and detonate it using a cell phone. They also say he received military training on how to use an AK-47 late last year at a farm just outside of Houston. Agents...

Wanted billionaires to donate fortune to Palestinians Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton considered a secret plan created by her then-advisers to foment unrest among Palestinian citizens and spark protests in order to push the Israeli government back to the negotiating table, according to emails released as part of the investigation into the Democratic presidential frontrunner’s private email server.In a Dec, 18, 2011, email, former U.S. ambassador to Israel Thomas Pickering suggested that Clinton consider a plan to restart then-stalled peace negotiations by kickstarting Palestinian demonstrations against Israel.Pickering described the effort as a potential “game changer in the region,” recommending...

"NEW EMAIL shows adviser telling Hillary to CREATE PALESTINIAN UNREST in order to pressure Israel!!" The Free Beacon caught a pretty remarkable email that went to Hillary and recommended that she spark fake protests among Palestinians in order to pressure Israel: Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton considered a secret plan created by her then-advisers to foment unrest among Palestinian citizens and spark protests in order to push the Israeli government back to the negotiating table, according to emails released as part of the investigation into the Democratic presidential frontrunner’s private email server. In a Dec, 18, 2011, email, former...