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According to Arab reports five diggers were killed on Sunday in a tunnel collapse at the city of Rafiah, located in southern Gaza on the border with the Sinai Peninsula. The deaths were reported by Palestinian media cited by Walla, and mark the eleventh tunnel cave-in in recent months. " /img> The last collapse, which came in mid-March, saw a Hamas "field commander" die during work on a terror tunnel, two days after the bodies of two Arab workers were found in a tunnel on the southern Gazan border that was flooded by Egypt three days earlier. With the five...

A speaker at an evangelical Christian college urged students to accept the views of Black Lives Matter and consider themselves as having benefited from white privilege while looking to the Palestinians for inspiration in how to get along with one’s adversaries. The Rev. Christena Cleveland, a social psychologist who teaches at Duke University School of Divinity and authored the book "Disunity in Christ," brought a message of reconciliation and "love without exception" to Biola University in Los Angeles last week. At a conference titled "Love No Matter What: Politics, Sex, Race and the Way of the Cross," Cleveland touted the...

About half of the annual Exceptions Committee requests to officially convert to Judaism, about 200 cases in total, come from foreign workers, illegal Arab infiltrators, Palestinians or illegal immigrants. This fact was announced during a Knesset State Control Committee meeting on conversions. According to the law, anyone who is not an Israeli citizen and is not eligible for the Right of Return can only begin the conversion process after receiving permission from the Exceptions Committee. The head of the State Control Committee, MK Karin Elharar (Yesh Atid), said, “Many of those interested in converting encounter a very lengthy process, sometimes...

Donald Trump’s speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Monday was followed closely by the main Palestinian jihadist factions here. Those factions were eager to comment to Breitbart Jerusalem on the GOP frontrunner’s statements about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

As in any comedy, there is a clown, and Biden was played for a fool by a Palestinian Authority leadership that finds that it pays to point its finger at Israel. Here is a dirty little secret: the Palestinian attackers were not driven to murder Jews because of "settlements" and "checkpoints." Check their Facebook accounts: what fueled their hatred were the lies they had been fed for the past few years by President Abbas and other Palestinian leaders. Palestinian media outlets and spokesmen vomit poison against Israel. And so the curtain rises on another act of the ceremonial, make-believe theater...

It's time for the US to stop funding Islamic terrorists. Taylor Force had been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, he had served at Fort Hood in the year of the infamous Islamic terrorist attack on the base, but a Jihadist finally caught up to the veteran, whose father and grandfather had also served their country, in civilian life during a visit to Israel. Bashar Masalha, the Islamic terrorist who murdered Force, was shot dead by Israeli police around the time that Biden was hanging out a mile away at the Peres Center for Peace. But Biden and his boss signed...

From today's ILTV edition. New Hamas video uses speeches and music to incite violence.

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...