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The Biden Administration chose this past week to inform Congress that it would be releasing millions of dollars in US assistance to the Palestinians, as armed clashes between the Israeli Defense Forces and Hamas intensified in the aftermath of Jerusalem Day on Monday.The funds are part of $100 million in aid the Administration has designated for Palestinian causes, which represented a huge policy reversal from the Trump Administration, which had cut off nearly all financial assistance for Palestinians.As the conflict intensifies despite U.S. calls for restraint, the administration notified Congress on Thursday that it will provide $10 million to Palestinian...

Israel is on the brink of war with the terrorist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. This past week, Hamas launched more than 1,600 rockets into Israel — most of which got intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome — after a violent confrontation between Israeli police and Palestinian rioters at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the Temple Mount, near the third-holiest site in Islam. The rioters had protested the eviction of Palestinians who have not paid rent for living on land allegedly owned by Israelis. The riot broke out just before Israel’s Supreme Court could decide the issue. Hamas has claimed...

CNN's Fareed Zakaria suggested Tuesday that Palestinians have to attack Israelis to "get some kind of attention" from the Jewish state. Zakaria fretted to host Don Lemon that the rocket attacks from Hamas, the terrorist group that controls the Gaza Strip, are self-defeating since they "only move Israelis to the right." Sparked by tensions in Jerusalem, the rockets targeted civilian areas like Tel Aviv, leading to an Israeli counteroffensive in Gaza. "Israel is the most powerful nation in the Middle East by far. It is essentially a regional superpower," Zakaria said in a clip flagged by NewsBusters. "So what the...

Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police in the contested city of Jerusalem have escalated into a broader conflict. The confrontation, sparked by tensions old and new, threatens to deepen the region’s turmoil. Jerusalem has also seen regular clashes over the past week between Palestinian residents and police who have been blocking Palestinians from sitting on the steps of Damascus Gate. In an unofficial Jerusalem tradition, thousands of Palestinians sit in the area following nighttime prayers during Ramadan. Police have deployed water cannons and stun grenades to disperse crowds while rioters have hurled stones and set off fireworks at cops. The...

Earlier this week, violence flared yet again in Israel. Here in America, the response from our political class was just about as disconnected from reality as one would expect.To combat the reams of disinformation making their way around social media at the moment, it seems necessary to debunk some of the most frequently cited arguments by anti-Israel activists. With the help of the media, celebrities, and politicians, these myths have become ubiquitous.Myth 1: Israel Is Committing ‘Terrorism’ in GazaOn Monday, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., tweeted Israel was committing “an act of terrorism” after the nation conducted airstrikes in Gaza.Israeli air...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed Thursday the “incarceration of children in Palestine” is similar to the conditions of migrants at President Joe Biden’s managed southern border. “We are scared to stand up to the incarceration of children in Palestine because maybe it’ll force us to confront the incarceration of children here on our border,” she said on the House floor.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” host Joy Reid said that one of the reasons she has been troubled by the Israel-Palestine issue is the fact that despite being described as a mediator, the U.S. “is definitely not in the middle.” And argued that we need to think of the issue as “one very powerful state and one group of stateless people” without any power. Reid said, “This issue has always bothered me, for a lot of reasons. One of which is that the U.S.’ role in it has generally been said to be a mediator. But whether it’s...

Famed Jewish actor/comedian in 2014: If New Jersey were firing rockets into New York, we would wipe them out. “I’m sorry, don’t you dare put weapon stashes in private homes and then we say get out – of course we’re going to do it.”

Fighting between Israel and Hamas escalated Wednesday in what was the heaviest conflict since a 2014 war in Gaza. Six were killed in Israel and at least 48 in the Strip in the most intensive aerial exchanges for years. Israel carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Gaza, as Palestinian militants fired hundreds of rockets at central Israel and its south.The fighting prompted international concern that the situation could spiral out of control. Hamas launched a massive barrage of rocket fire on southern and central Israel in the early hours of Wednesday morning, killing a man and his daughter outside Lod...

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tore into President Biden's foreign policy regarding Israel and Iran, saying its stance on the long-standing disputes in the region "emboldens terrorists." Pompeo's criticism comes after Hamas followers launched rockets into Jerusalem on Monday night, following clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian protesters. Pompeo said the Biden administration has "clearly signaled less support" for Israelis' right to self-defense than the Trump administration, and that doing so "invites precisely the kinds of violence we are seeing in the region today." "Simple things like President Biden delaying his call with Israeli leadership and restarting funding to...

A short time ago Israel struck a 13-story residential building in Gaza City. According to Channel 12, prior to the strike people in the building received several warnings, including phone calls and messages, telling them to leave and a preliminary “roof-knocking” strike — using a small missile to strike the roof with minimal damage in order to cause all inside to leave before a major strike. Hamas earlier threatened to launch long-range rockets at Tel Aviv should Israel continue airstrikes in residential areas. Channel 12 says the group was apparently referring to the high-rise in question. It is not yet...

Sheikh blamed the Chinese, Japanese volunteers were attacked in Ramallah and an Asian journalist was harassed in the street. Shocking that it comes from those who suffer from Islamophobia

Hundreds of protesters clashed with police last Friday • Participants threw stones at the forces and shouted: "Muhammad's army will return" • View documentation Daniel Siriuti Posted in: 18.01.2021 17:14 Updated at: 18.01.2021 17:29 During demonstrations last Friday at the Umm al-Fahm entrance junction , in protest of the police's inability to eradicate crime in the Arab sector, hundreds of protesters clashed with local police and even threw stones at police forces.

Mahmoud Abbas originally thought it was a good idea. There was a new administration in Washington, one most favorably inclined to the Palestinians. The Biden people were ready to undo what the “unfriendly” Trump Administration had done. Trump had closed the PLO office in Washington, Biden promised to open it. Trump had folded the consulate to the Palestinians in east Jerusalem into the Embassy in Jerusalem; Biden promised to reopen it. Trump had ended both direct aid to the Palestinians and American contributions to UNRWA. Biden announced that he was again turning on the spigot of aid, starting with a...

RACIST 'FALASTIN' PERIODICAL WAS ABOLISHED IN 1914 BY THE OTTOMAN AUTHORITIESJanrense Boonstra, 'Antisemitism, a History Portrayed,' SDU / Anne Frank Foundation,' 1989, p. 101The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem In 1914, the periodical Falastin – with its extremist Arab nationalist slant - was abolished by the Ottoman authorities because of its racist hate propaganda. The periodical had agitated against the immigration of Jewish refugees from Russia. In the Twenties, the publication reappeared and led campaigns against Jewish immigration. As a result of anti-Jewish propaganda and terror, the British government took measures between the Twenties and the Forties to restrict Jewish immigration...

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden’s State Department announced it is restarting $235 million in economic, development, and humanitarian assistance for the Palestinian people paused under President Donald Trump.Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the aid to the Palestinian people “includes $75 million in economic and development assistance in the West Bank and Gaza, $10 million for peacebuilding programs through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and $150 million in humanitarian assistance for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).”Blinken said, “We are also resuming vital security assistance programs,” adding, “All assistance will be provided consistent with U.S. law.”The $235...

Bitzaron, Volumes 55-56 - Pages 77-78, 1966 Chaviv Canaan, "The Mufti's War on the Jews" [...] When the third commissioner came, Sir John Chancellor, who was a civilian, noticed the Mufti that before him in is a weak-minded man, who will try to manage the affairs of the country with a gentle hand while maximizing reconciliation of the extremists. The "saint" claimed that the Jews were standing through the Western Wall to take over the Omar Mosque, that the Western Wall is nothing but one of its walls. The British surrendered again, began interfering with the Jews in the evening...

<p>Dr. Anwar Shukiri was shot yesterday at 10.15 a.m. in Acre. He later died at the Italian Hospital in Haifa.</p><p>Two people were arrested.</p><p>Anwar Shukeiri, a 29-year-old doctor who graduated from the American College of Law in the capital, was the son of the old Mufti-of-Acre, a rival of Haj Amin al-Husseini for decades.</p>

ADMIRER OF HAJ AMIN AL-HUSSEINI MUFTI OF "PALESTINE": SUFI ABDUL HAMID - BLACK HITLER'S WAR AGAINST ITALIANS AND JEWS IN THE 1930'S HARLEM, NEW YORK BLACK HITLER' JAILED TO AWAIT SENTENCE; Gorgeous Array of Sufi Abdul Hamid Avails Nought -- Found Guilty in Pamphlet Sale.January 16, 1935, Page 7... arrayed, dusky- skinned man stood before Magistrade Thomas Aurelio yesterday in Harlem Court. His name, he said, was Sufi Abdul Hamid. A year ago he was acquitted in the same court when the police accused him of urging his Negro followers to drive the Jews and Italians out of Harlem....

Arab man picks out religious Jews, in Detroit...demanding they say 'Free Palestine.' Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6yEgZfS8ko&t=25s