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Israeli government 8-step plan to end terror
Netanyahu presents principles of ‘Jewish Nationhood’ bill
Netanyahu: European recognition of Palestinian state is ‘big mistake’
US Ambassador to Israel prays at terrorized Jerusalem synagogue
Synagogue massacre terrorist's wife expelled from Israel
Pope: Don’t shut door to dialogue with Islamic State
Chabad rabbis take the ‘world’s largest selfie’
Report reveals US schools are whitewashing Hamas, PA
PA warps Arab terror attacks to be ‘Israeli attacks’
Glick credits ‘divine supervision’ after surviving shooting attempt
Son of Hamas leader urges Israel to wage war against Gaza—now
Israeli firm aims to recharge cell phones in 30 seconds
Venezuelan parliamentarian: The Zionists financed Hitler
Bus drivers to learn krav maga as part of security measures
Synagogue attack survivor: Terrorist said ‘get out of here’
Al Jazeera commentary hails ‘symbolic importance’ of Jerusalem synagogue attack
Iran’s open plan for genocide against Israel: A legal assessment (Commentary by Louis Rene Beres)
Dry Bones cartoonist activist Yaakov Kirschen combats antiSemitism, anti-Christian forces
Israel Cabinet declares country a nation-state of Jewish people
Iran: We gave Hizbullah missiles that can reach southern Israel
Egypt: We’ll stabilize a Palestinian state
Newly-crowned Miss Islam calls for ‘liberation of Palestine’
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Israeli Cabinet Declares Country Iran: We Gave Hizbullah Missiles That Can
Reach Southern Israel
Nation-State of Jewish People
By VOA News & Israel Hayom
By IsraelNationalNews.com
The Israeli Cabinet has approved a contentious legislative proposal declaring Israel as the nation- Tehran provided terrorist organization Hizbullah in Lebanon with hundreds of missiles with 250-350
state of the Jewish people. A divided Cabinet approved the measure Sunday, but it still must be kilometer (160-220 mile) ranges, capable of hitting the city of Dimona in southern Israel, according to
approved by the Knesset to become law. The bill calls for recognizing Israel's Jewish character a Revolutionary Guard missile systems official's claims in a Fars news agency report.
and would institutionalize Jewish law, while removing Arabic as an official language.
Revolutionary Guard Aerospace Force Brig. Gen. Seyed Majid Moussavi said the missiles, called Fateh
Critics say the legislation would undermine the democratic character of Israel, where Arabs missiles, fly at a speed of 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles) per hour and carry a 500 kilogram (1,100 pound)
comprise about 20% of the population. They have strongly opposed the bill.
warhead. "Our strategic guiding principle is the appropriate arming of Hizbullah and Hamas with advanced,
modern weapons in order to allow the resistance groups to deal with the bloodthirsty Zionist regime,"
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu favors the measure. He says it would "uphold Moussavi said. "The missiles that Iran most recently gave to Hizbullah will allow the organization to reach
the individual rights of all of Israel's citizens," but that only Jews would have the every point in Israel, including the most guarded facilities of the Zionist occupation forces." According to
right of self-determination in the country. He said only Jews would have the right the report, Iran's Revolutionary Guard will continue to arm Hizbullah and Hamas.
to immigrate to the country, which he described as their "one and only state."
At the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu told his ministers that "the State
of Israel is the national home of the Jewish people. It provides equal rights to every
citizen, and we insist upon that. But nationality rights belong only to the Jewish people:
a flag, an anthem, the right of every Jew to immigrate to Israel and other national
symbols. Those are reserved only for our people, in our one and only homeland.
"People ask, 'Who needs this law? We've managed just fine for 66 years without it.' And I ask: Who
needed the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty? We managed just fine without that one for 45
years. But it was necessary, and so is this. Israel is a Jewish and democratic state. There are those
who wish to see the democratic aspect overshadow the Jewish aspect, and there are those who wish
to see the Jewish aspect overshadow the democratic aspect. The principles of the bill that I present
here today ensure that these two values are equal and are given equal consideration," he explained.
"There is another reason that this law is necessary, and that is that many people are currently
challenging Israel's status as the national homeland of the Jewish people. The Palestinians refuse
to recognize it, and there are objections domestically as well. I don't understand the people who
call for two states for two peoples, but then refuse to anchor that principle in law. They are happy
to recognize a Palestinian state but vehemently oppose a Jewish nation-state."
On Saturday, Netanyahu said that the bill was "essential to establishing Israel's
status as the national home of the Jewish people, in the face of international and
internal defiance seeking to undermine that fundamental assertion."
"With this law, we will fortify Israel's status as Jewish and democratic and ensure
the full equality of every citizen before the law, without prejudice, regardless of
religion, race or sex," he added. "Ensuring Israel's identity as the national home of
the Jewish people does not contradict the equality guaranteed to all citizens of
Israel, and I will not allow these two basic principles to be undermined."
Egypt: We'll Stabilize a Palestinian State
By IsraelNationalNews.com
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in an interview published Sunday that he is be
prepared to send troops to a future Palestinian state to help stabilize it, but only in agreement with
Israel and the Palestinian Authority, according to AFP.
Sisi, who begins his first European trip on Monday, made the comments in an interview with Italian newspaper
Corriere della Sera. He is due to visit France and Italy, as well as Vatican City for a meeting with Pope Francis.
"We are ready to send military forces into a Palestinian state," he said. "We would help the local police and
reassure the Israelis through our role as guarantor. Not forever, of course. For the time necessary to reestablish
confidence. But first a Palestinian state must exist where troops can be sent to."
Sisi said he has previously spoken of the idea with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as well as
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmud Abbas. Sisi overthrew former Egyptian president Mohamed
Morsi in July 2013, prompting a wave of violence between Morsi supports and security forces that drew
international rebukes. But Egypt has returned from the cold since Sisi's landslide election win earlier this
year, boosted by its increasingly central role in combating regional Islamist militancy and terrorist activity.
Newly Crowned Miss Islam Calls for
'Liberation of Palestine'
By IsraelNationalNews.com
Fatma Ben Guefrache of Tunisia was named winner of the 2014 World Muslimah Award on Saturday, and was quick to use her newfound platform to call for the "liberation of Palestine." The World
Muslimah Award is considered the Muslim world's version to the Miss World pageant. In her acceptance speech, the 25-year-old computer scientist, whose prizes included a gold watch and a visit
to Mecca, said, "May the almighty Allah help me in this mission, and
free Palestine, please, please, free Palestine and the Syrian people."
Though the bill has only been submitted to a vote by ministers, and not the Knesset plenum yet,
the ultra-Orthodox parties have already declared that they would vote against it. MK Moshe
The World Muslimah Award competition is open exclusively to Muslim
Gafni (United Torah Judaism) wondered how MKs who have so far pushed legislation to limit
women. This year's pageant, which was held in Indonesia, included 25
the authority of the courts, are now submitting a bill that would "give the court much wider
contestants. According to Agence France-Presse, the 18 finalists were judged
authority to decide on topics that are far more central to the character of the state."
not only for their appearance, but also on how well-versed they were in the
Quran, and their views on Islam's place in the modern world.
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Venezuelan Parliamentarian: The
Zionists Financed Hitler
By IsraelNationalNews.com
A Venezuelan member of parliament recently claimed that while Hitler had killed
Jews during World War II, he did not kill any “Zionist Jews.” In an interview with
Hizbullah’s Al-Manar TV, Venezuelan MP Adel Al-Sughayar said that Hitler's
main financiers had been the Zionists, and especially the Bush family.
In addition, about 10,000 bus drivers nationwide have begun to receive training in the Israeli martial art,
Krav Maga, and in identifying suspects. The drivers will receive 10 hours' training each.
Transport Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) said Sunday that he does “not expect the struggle in
Jerusalem to be over very soon.” He added that bus stations need to be protected and not just
Light Rail stations. Concrete blocks have been placed at Light Rail stations to prevent terrorist
drivers from running over passengers, as has happened at least twice in the recent weeks.
Synagogue Attack Survivor: Terrorist
Said, 'Get Out of Here'
"Hitler killed those Jews who belonged to progressive organizations... You will not find on those By IsraelNationalNews.com
lists any representatives of global Zionism," said Al-Sughayar, who is chairman of FEARAB
Venezuela, a federation of Arab societies in Latin America. The interview, which aired on Shmuel Goldstein was praying at the Har Nof synagogue on November 18 when two terrorists
entered the building and began shooting worshippers and hacking at them with axes.
November 14, was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
“If we look into who financed Hitler before World War II, we will see that the main financiers were the Zionists – the Bush family, in fact. The Bush family made its fortune as a result
of what happened in World War II. The goal was to destroy Europe in order to impose the
American economy and the dollar currency on it,” claimed Al-Shughayar.
"I was in the middle of praying when we heard shots," Goldstein recalled, speaking from Hadassah Ein Karem Medical Center in Jerusalem, where he is in stable condition after undergoing
life-saving surgery for the wounds he sustained during the attack. "Everyone jumped down to the
floor, then the shots stopped and then one of the terrorists started doing rounds with the ax," he
said. "He swung at me three times: One didn't hit, one hit my head and one hit my ear."
“If you study the history of the killing of the Jews in Europe, you find that Hitler killed those Jews
who belonged to progressive organizations, progressive journalists, and so on. You will not find While Goldstein fought for his life with the terrorist, his 12-year-old son, Mordechai, managed to
on those lists any representatives of global Zionism. This proves that… In 1934, they even issued escape from the synagogue. "I saw that the second terrorist's gun had stopped working, so I was
no longer afraid of him," Goldstein said.
a coin repressing the friendship between Zionism and German Nazism,” he continued.
Venezuela is not known as a friend of Israel’s. Its late president, Hugo Chavez, was known
to be a good friend of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who travelled to
Venezuela to attend Chavez’s funeral in 2013. Chavez frequently criticized Israel and in
2009, during the counterterrorism Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, cut off Venezuela’s
diplomatic ties with Israel and expelled the Israeli ambassador from Caracas.
"The terrorist with the ax had his back to me. I came up behind him and knocked him down. He dropped the gun
and the ax. People thought there was only one gun between the two terrorists, but he also had a gun. Then the
second terrorist came to me and a miracle happened: He said, 'Get out of here.' "I listened to him and went
outside, and someone came to treat my wounds. I entered an ambulance and I heard some gunshots."
After Goldstein's rescue, he was anxious about his son. "He was with me during the prayers and
Nicolas Maduro, who took over power after Chavez’s death, was one of several Latin American then all of a sudden I didn't see him," he said. "People told me that they heard a 12-year-old
leaders who slammed the Israeli self-defense Operation Protective Edge last summer. At the managed to flee. I kept asking and they told me he really did flee."
same time, he has denied being anti-Semitic and claimed that he is of Sephardic Jewish descent.
Maduro has insisted that his country has differences with Israel, which he described as
“repressive,” but added those differences have nothing to do with the Jewish people.
Al Jazeera Commentary Hails “Symbolic Importance” of Jerusalem Synagogue Attack
Bus Drivers to Learn Krav Maga as
Part of Security Measures
By IsraelNationalNews.com
As part of the effort to stem the rising tide of Arab violence in Israel – and in Jerusalem in
particular – the Ministry of Transport has drawn up a plan to place guards at Jerusalem's bus
stations, reported Channel 2 Monday. The guards were first stationed on bus lines during the
horrific terror war of the 2000s, usually known by its Arabic name, the Second Intifada. The plan
has received the approval of the prime minister.
By TheTower.org
The website of the Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera featured an op-ed on Thursday praising
the perpetrators of the terror attack at a synagogue in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof.
News of the post first broke in English on the blog “Elder of Ziyon.”
Part of the commentary, translated from the Arabic, reads: "The daring operation carried out by two Palestinians in
a Jewish synagogue in Jerusalem left a big impact and it will leave a big impact on the Palestinian scene for a
period of time. It is clear that this operation comes in the context of the Zionist attacks on Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa
Mosque, and the day after the hanging of the Palestinian bus driver by Jewish settlers.
"The operation carried symbolic importance in targeting the synagogue, in a clear message to the
According to the plan, 300 security guards will be stationed at the Jerusalem Central Bus Station settlers and extremists of all varieties and types that the attack on the Arab holy sites would lead to
and along bus routes. The Transport Ministry has already carried out inspection tours and selected attacks on synagogues and their holy places. Palestinians do not attack the sanctities of other religions,
the bus lines deemed to be in greatest danger, and thus in greatest need of a security presence.
but they are ready to convey the message clearly to all those who abuse their sacred places.
"The operation also was clear in terms of courage and bravery, coming among a number of bold
operations carried out by Palestinians in recent times against the Israelis, especially in the city of
Jerusalem, but this operation was the most daring because it was done with primitive weapons. The
media picked up that the Palestinians used the gun, but the most important weapons were knives
and hatchets. It was the courage of the operation, done suddenly and without warning.
Operational and jurisprudential judgments on this urgent issue are altogether discrete, and
thus need to be appraised separately. Here, we are interested only in the second standard
of assessment. Could such strikes be legal? Would the case for Israeli legality be strengthened by Iran’s willingness to go beyond aggression to genocide? And does the Genocide
Convention address itself anywhere to the vital security issue of anticipatory self-defense?
The author of the op-ed, Prof. Abdel Sattar Qassem of An Najah University in Nablus, also On June 7, 1981, Israel launched Operation Opera against Saddam Hussein’s thenwrote that the attack was not terror but “self-defense … to save the Palestinian people.”
developing nuclear reactor outside of Baghdad. Officially, this preemptive attack on
Osirak was an expression of anticipatory self-defense. Interestingly, however, because
Iraq had always considered itself to be formally at war with Israel, the Jewish state could
just as correctly have regarded this essential act of protection as something else.
Iran’s Open Plan for Genocide Against
Israel: A Legal Assessment
Back in 1981, taking an alternative legal position, prime minister Menachem Begin could
have justified Operation Opera as a permissible tactical action in the wider context of a
By Louis Rene Beres (Commentary)
longstanding and still-ongoing belligerency. Had he done so, Israel could then have
pointed out that both of the pertinent legal obligations applying here had been fully
Every year, a sitting Iranian president, whether Hassan Rouhani or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
satisfied. These obligations are the always twin obligations of “just cause” (here, warding
instructs the UN General Assembly that Israel represents some sort of defiling historical error,
off an existential threat), and “just means” (minimizing collateral harms).
a mistake that should somehow be “rectified.” On occasion, Iran’s president, plainly, and with
obviously full authority from (Supreme Leader) Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, goes beyond
Legally, Begin chose to link Operation Opera to preventing “another Holocaust.” Historically, the core
such narrowly focused denunciation, and offers an alleged rationale for Israel’s
rationale of including anticipatory self-defense under customary international law had been the prevention
“disappearance.” What has yet to be examined, in any serious fashion, is whether these Iranian
of aggression, not genocide. After the Holocaust, it became plain that the prerogatives of sovereignty in
presidents have actually been urging genocide, and whether, in an aptly defensive response, the
world law could no longer remain absolute, and that the once-legitimate cover of “domestic jurisdiction”
Israeli prime minister still retains proper legal authority to strike first.
would now have to exclude certain egregious crimes against human rights.
At a minimum, however, Israel has every right to request a General Assembly resolution calling for
In essence, the international legal order now accepts and expects that all states will feel co-responsible for
Iran’s formal expulsion from the United Nations. While such a diplomatic and jurisprudential
each other, including the prevention of genocide. Until now, there have been no recognized examples of
rejoinder to Iran’s presumptively genocidal pleas could be permissible, it would also likely repreanticipatory self-defense as a specifically preventative anti-genocide measure under international law.
sent, at best, only a preliminary first step toward improving Israel’s national security.
Under international law, genocide has a very precise meaning. This specific content is
authoritatively defined at the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide. According to this 1948 treaty, which entered into force in 1951, and is also
binding upon non-signatory states as customary international law, pertinent violations are
not confined to any specific enumerated acts “committed with “intent to destroy.” They
also include “conspiracy to commit genocide,” and “incitement to commit genocide.”
The interminable Iraq and Afghanistan wars provide an example of an American preemption strategy for national self-defense against terrorism, but not against an expected
genocide. From the standpoint of permissibility under international law, even this restricted example of preemption is exceedingly problematic.
The George W. Bush administration had favored a substantially broadened concept of anticipatory self-defense. This sweeping American doctrine asserted that traditional notions of
deterrence could not be expected to work against a new kind of enemy. “We must,” stated The
Today, in what amounts to a conveniently mobilizing mantra, Rouhani hints at winning a divinelyNational Security Strategy for the United States of America (September 20, 2002), “adapt the
mandated war against the “Zionist regime.” Significantly, in law, war and genocide are not mutually
concept of imminent threat to the capabilities and objectives of today’s adversaries.” The 1837
exclusive. Genocide, unlike certain earlier Nuremberg-defined crimes against humanity, is not
incident from which the modern legal concept of anticipatory self-defense is drawn (The
linked to belligerency. It can be carried out “in time of peace, or in time of war.”
Caroline), required a threat that is “imminent in point of time.”
No state is ever obliged to passively await genocide. This principle, “peremptory” because
In actual practice, this “adaptation” meant nothing less than striking first against presumpit is so fundamental and overriding, includes those exterminatory belligerencies that
tively dangerous adversaries whenever deemed necessary. In any plausible comparison to
masquerade as war. Under both codified and customary legal rules, every state maintains
the dangers Israel currently faces from Tehran, however, the alleged risks to the United
an “inherent right” to individual or collective self-defense.
States from Saddam Hussein’s Baghdad in the wake of 9/11 must appear vague and
uncertain. When it is finally understood in terms of Israel’s present concerns about an
In express violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention and its derivative norms, Iranian
overtly genocidal Iran, any Israeli strategy of anticipatory self-defense should be less
calls for Israel’s “disappearance” are more than sinister cartographic fantasies. They are
subject to proper jurisprudential doubt than was America’s Operation Iraqi Freedom.
also determinably genocidal provocations.
In the post-Holocaust and post-Nuremberg international system, the right of individual states to
Further, in view of its corollary unwillingness to abide by obligations under both the UN
defend themselves against genocide is overriding. This right does not stem directly from the
Charter, and the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran also willfully disrelanguage of the Genocide Convention, which does not explicitly link genocide to aggressive
gards the binding norms of general international human rights law.
war, but it can still be extrapolated from (1) the precise legal language of anticipatory selfUnhindered, Iran is now finalizing its construction of a nuclear weapons capability. The Tehran defense, including the 1837 case of The Caroline; and (2) all subsequent authoritative reaffirmations of law identifiable at Article 38 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice.
regime regards nuclear weapons as an acceptable means to create “a world without Zionism.” As
for any sort of reconciliation with Israel, Iran’s former president triumphantly declared: “Anybody The right of anticipatory self-defense to prevent genocide can also be deduced from certain
basic principles of self-protection codified at the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of
who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury.”
Treaties, and, more generally, from the confluence of persistently anarchic international
relations with now-obligatory legal norms of basic human rights.
This declaration is not especially hard to decipher. Israel likely faces a zero-sum “game”
with Iran, a life-or-death contest in which one state’s ultimate victory will require the
Should Israeli decision-makers determine that they do have a right to act first against Iran to prevent
other’s total defeat. Very soon, therefore, Israel’s leaders could have to make unprecegenocidal aggression, any resultant Israeli resorts to preemptive force would still have to be consisdented final decisions on launching defensive first strikes.
tent with the laws of war of international law, or the law of armed conflict.
Strategic circumstances and the consequences of strategic surprise have changed a great
deal since The Caroline, thereby greatly and sensibly expanding legal grounds for anticipatory self-defense. Today, in an age of chemical/biological/nuclear weaponry, the time
available to any vulnerable state under attack could be only a matter of minutes. From the
special standpoint of Israel, soon about to face a potentially annihilatory Iran armed with By Israel News Faxx
nuclear weapons, a suitably hard-target resort to anticipatory self-defense could be both
lawful and law-enforcing. Again, whether any such eleventh-hour preemption would also If you are a Zionist or Christian activist you have probably shared
make operational sense is another question altogether.
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Before the start of the Atomic Age, any justification of anticipatory self-defense would
have to have been limited to expected threats of aggression from other states, not “Israel is being boycotted, delegitimized, and defamed. There is now a masgenocide. Today, however, the conceivable fusion of nuclear weapons capacity with sive rise in anti-Semitism world-wide. Support for Christians and Jews in the
aggression could transform war into genocide. Although there are no true precedents Middle East has collapsed. Western campuses are hostile to our younger
of resorting to preemption as a law-enforcing means of preventing genocide or generation. We are shocked and frustrated. The situation is dire, urgent and
“conspiracy to commit genocide” by one state against another, the pertinent right to obvious, but an effective response seems to have eluded us…Until now,"
such pre-attack self-defense is rooted, inter alia, in The Caroline.
said Yaakov Kirschen, the award-wining cartoonist.
Cartoonist Activist Combats AntiSemitism, Anti-Christian Forces
If it was already legal, long before nuclear weapons, to strike preemptively in order to
prevent entirely conventional aggressions, how much more permissible must it be to
strike preemptively to defend against a potentially genocidal nuclear war? Law can
never compel a state to wait until it has absorbed a devastating or even genocidal first
strike before acting to protect itself. Both the Security Council and the General Assembly correctly refused to condemn Israel for its 1967 preemptive attacks. Incorrectly,
however, whether or not it had then accepted the existence of a formal state of war
between Israel and Iraq – a condition of belligerency that was openly insisted upon by
Baghdad – the UN did condemn Israel for Operation Opera in 1981. This jurisprudentially wrongful condemnation was the result of pure realpolitik or power politics.
Kirschen, the veteran cartoonist behind the popular Dry Bones cartoons, first
began his love affair with the digital world nine years ago, just as print newspapers began their decline. Kirschen and his LSW (Long Suffering Wife)
have now focused on an incredible goal; they plan to turn what has been a
“mom and pop cartoon company” into a major societal force.
The Kirschens' first step in their “Master Plan” is being crowd funded by
indiegogo.com (http://igg.me/at/drybones).That step is enticing fans to
become “members” of what they believe will become the major body
delivering the push-back by Jews and Christians.
Present-day Israel is engaged in a condition of protracted belligerency with Iran. “The targets of our messages are now post literate” explained
Again and again, Tehran has implied that there exists a “state of war” with Israel.
Kirschen. "They can read and write but they prefer not to. Emails
beyond a few lines are ignored. Texting, tweeting and InstagramOnce faced with an already-nuclear Iran, Jerusalem’s only remaining strategic options ming are the result of this post literacy, and this in part, explains
would center upon some still-practicable combination of active ballistic missile defense, the wild popularity of Dry Bones cartoons in the digital world.”
and nuclear deterrence. The resulting condition of mutual nuclear vulnerability could
resemble earlier Cold War images of “two scorpions in a bottle,” the metaphoric descrip- Carrying out the ambitious Dry Bones Project plan as outlined in the
tion first created by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. It would likely become a “fusion” of indiegogo campaign will take institutional backing and major funding.
mutual uncertainty and radical instability, a potentially explosive posture more unpredict- And so the indiegogo “membership campaign” has been launched in
able than earlier US-Soviet conditions of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). Above all, parallel with a call for more serious funding by donors and foundations.
perhaps, this is because of the heightened probability of Iranian leadership irrationality.
A first positive response has been from a major Australian Foundation.
Iran’s ongoing stance toward Israel remains unequivocally genocidal. Because international law is not a suicide pact, Jerusalem, now facing a fusion of enemy nuclear
capacity with enemy criminal intent, reserves every reciprocal right of national selfprotection. This includes the right to anticipatory self-defense.
In the end, Israeli calculations of genocide prevention from Iran would have to display
pragmatic as well as legal components. Any Israeli decision to preempt against Iran
would have to be based not only upon a due conformance with the rules of applicable
law, but also on overriding strategic and operational expectations.
Even if Israel were to fully accept the lawfulness of anticipatory self-defense against Iran, it
would act accordingly only if such a complex defense were also expected to work.
To be sure, Israel would be acting lawfully by introducing a General Assembly resolution calling for Iran’s expulsion from the United Nations. Although any such resolution would carry a high probability of failure, the corresponding diplomatic efforts
could nonetheless underscore that several governments in Tehran have remained
unabashedly genocidal in their policies toward Israel. Also worth noting is that any
such policies, to be illegal under international law, do not need to actually be implemented. Rather, it is enough that they incite to genocide, or display genocidal intent.
(The author was educated at Princeton and is a professor of international law at Purdue University.
He publishes widely on international law and Israeli strategic defense issues.)`
Courtesy of Yaakov Kirschen
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Report Reveals US Schools
Whitewashing Hamas, PA
By IsraelNationalNews.com
Palestinian Media Watch on Tuesday revealed a broadcast from last Tuesday presenting the
"most prominent attacks Israel carried out against our people in occupied Jerusalem in October." Every single "attack" consisted of the death of a murderous terrorist.
The first "Israeli attack" was the death of Abdelrahman Shaludi, who was killed trying to flee
after plowing his car into pedestrians at the Ammunition Hill light rail station killing threemonth-old Chaya Zisel Braun and 22-year-old Karen Jemima Mosquera.
Parents groups are up in arms after a recent report found public schools in Newton,
Massachusetts presented whitewashed versions of Hamas and Palestinian Authority
The PA TV news anchor termed the attack a "car accident" - video evidence of the
charters, as well as other materials posing the destruction of Israel as acceptable.
attack conclusively shows how Shaludi was in full control of his car as he deliberately ran over civilians and raced through the crowded station.
The findings were made through an investigation of classroom materials by the
independent watchdog group Verity Educate, which discovered "repeated
A second "attack" was the death of Mu'taz Hijazi, an Islamic Jihad terrorist who tried
instances of bias against Israel, bias against the US and its actions in the Middle
to assassinate Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick by shooting him at least four
East, and bias that sanitizes the ideology and actions of terrorists."
times from point-blank range. The PA report included no mention of the shooting.
Parents for Excellence in Newton Schools, which took part in the reMoving on to November, the PA news woman called Hamas terrorist Ibrahim Alsearch, released a statement demanding action over the issue and detailAkari who murdered a Border Patrol officer and teenage student with his van a
ing just how serious the school materials were.
"martyr." His lethal attack was referred to as a "run-over incident."
In one case, students were given a modified version of the Hamas charter, in
which references to genocide were removed and the word "Jew" was re- Putting the final touches on the report, the anchor spoke about the massacre in a Jerusalem
synagogue at Har Nof last Tuesday, in which four Jews at prayer and a Druze police officer
placed with "Israeli" to sanitize the terrorist group's murderous intentions.
were brutally murdered by two Arab terrorists armed with hatchets, knives and guns.
Likewise, the PA charter was presented with Article 2 missing, an article
that claims all of Israel belongs to "Palestine." All following articles Aside from calling the two "martyrs," the news anchor said they were killed by
"occupation police fire in west Jerusalem," even as an image from the synagogue
were renumbered to hide the change to the key piece showing the PA
attack was shown, making a callous warping of events in presenting imagery from
aims to replace Israel, not live alongside it.
the murder of the Jews as if it was the killing of the terrorists.
In an exercise given to students, the destruction of Israel was presented as a
While Abbas made a perfunctory condemnation of the Har Nof attack, which included a
"mainstream and well-accepted concept," and anti-Israel sources were used
smear of Israel, his Fatah faction has clarified that it was a diplomatic statement he was forced
exclusively in giving supposedly neutral outlines of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
to make. The PA and Fatah have praised the synagogue massacre as a "heroic operation," and
PA and Hamas officials have justified the murder of "rabbi terrorists."
"The use of anti-Israel material in this affluent suburb, which prides itself on the
quality of it's self-proclaimed 'world-class' schools, has been a controversial issue
for the past three years, ever since a 14-year-old student found a false, anti-Israel
passage in required reading for a high school World History class," noted PENS.
The group added that while that text three years ago was removed, the recent
report shows the anti-Israel bias is alive and well in Newton.
By IsraelNationalNews.com
They reported that the Newton Public Schools refused to comment on the issue, and
likewise refused requests to investigation other materials despite student reports that The Temple Mount activist who was shot four times by a terrorist in Jerusalem last
month was released from Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
there is "even more objectionable material than that already uncovered."
Rabbi Yehuda Glick held a press conference at the hospital before his release, which
he began with a blessing for "He who revives the dead."
Glick Credits 'Divine Supervision'
After Surviving Shooting
PA Warps Arab Terror Attacks
to be 'Israeli Attacks'
By IsraelNationalNews.com
"The fact that I am sitting here before you and talking like this is not a given," Glick,
who was admitted to the hospital in critical condition, said. Glick thanked the medical team who saved his life, and said he was very fortunate.
"I had divine supervision. The fact is that four bullets hit my abdomen and none of
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' official PA TV has
them hit a major blood vessel," he said. "A bullet hit my neck, but missed the main
reached a new low, presenting four Arab terrorists who were killed
artery. The surgeon told me, 'You have no idea how lucky you are, had the bullet
during or after their lethal attacks on Israeli citizens as victims of "Israeli
struck two millimeters away ... '
attacks," and whitewashing the terrorist context of their deaths.
Glick also praised security forces for their quick response in catching and shooting the
terrorist. "Something happened in Israel. A law-abiding public figure was shot solely
due to his beliefs. Tomorrow it could happen to you. We must pull ourselves together
and acknowledge that public figures need protection," he said.
Israeli Company Aims to Recharge Cell Phones in 30 Seconds
By Reuters and Israel Hayom
Son of Hamas Leader Urges Israel An Israeli company says it has developed technology that can charge a mobile phone in a
and an electric car in minutes, advances that could transform two of the
to Wage War Against Gaza - Now fewworld'sseconds
most dynamic consumer industries.
By IsraelNationalNews.com
Using nanotechnology to synthesize artificial molecules, Tel Aviv-based StoreDot says it has
The growing chorus of calls for Israel to crush Hamas in Gaza before they begin another war developed a battery that can store a much higher charge more quickly, in effect acting like a
has gained a new voice Tuesday - this time, from the son of a major Hamas leader.
super-dense sponge to soak up power and retain it.
Mosab Yousef, the son of Hamas leader in the Palestinian Authority Sheikh
Hassan Yousef known for working for the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin
Bet) from 1997 to 2007, urged Israel Tuesday to go to war with Hamas - in
order to make peace with the Palestinians.
While the prototype is currently far too bulky for a mobile phone, the company believes it will be
ready by 2016 to market a slim battery that can absorb and deliver a day's power for a smartphone in
just 30 seconds. "These are new materials; they have never been developed before," said Doron
Myersdorf, the founder and chief executive of StoreDot, whose investors include Russian billionaire
and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich.
Yousef stated in a special interview with Walla! News that he is well aware of
the significance of his call - and that, far beyond "warmongering," he urges The innovation is based around the creation of "nanodots," which StoreDot describes as
Israel to war really due to practical and security considerations.
bio-organic peptide molecules. Nanodots alter the way a battery behaves to allow the
rapid absorption and, critically, the retention of power.
"I know it sounds dangerous, like warmongering," Yousef said. "But it does not stem from
that motive at all. I say these things because you cannot escape from reality," he continued. The company has raised $48 million from two rounds of funding, including backing from a
"You cannot escape from [Hamas militarization] with temporary solutions. You have to leading mobile phone maker. Myersdorf declined to name the company, but said it was Asian.
address the Hamas problem by pulling it up from the roots, once and for all."
With the number of smartphone users forecast to reach 1.75 billion this year, StoreDot sees a big market,
Yousef added that now is the "perfect time" for Israel to re-engage with Gaza, and some experts think that, with more work, it could be on to a winner.
before it expands on its reconstruction efforts. Indeed, analysts have already
raised concerns and provided evidence that Hamas has begun to reconstruct "We live in a power-hungry world. ... People are constantly chasing a power outlet. StoreDot has the
terror tunnels into Israel - and began to do so mere weeks after Operation potential to solve this real big problem," said Zack Weisfeld, who has worked with and evaluated
Protective Edge this summer ground to a halt. "As long as Israel waits for the ventures in the mobile phone sector globally.
enemy to become more dangerous, future wars with [Hamas] grow more and
more difficult," he added. "Hit them in the winter, when they are unprepared." "They still have some way to go, to deal with size of battery and power cycle rounds, but if solvable,
it's a very big breakthrough," he told Reuters. A power cycle round refers to the number of times a
Yousef also told the daily that, in his view, another war could solve the tense battery can be re-charged in its lifetime.
security situation in Judea-Samaria and in Jerusalem, where the PA is stirring
up tensions to "show Israel's weakness." He urged Israel to be strong and show Myersdorf said a fast-charge phone would cost $100 to $150 more than current models and would
deterrence, but also to be wary of harming civilians.
ultimately be able to handle 1,500 recharge/discharge cycles, giving it about three years of life. He
hopes to use the same technology to create a car battery that recharges in two or three minutes,
Yousef also slammed the cease-fire deal with Hamas, saying that the concept in rather than current models which commonly need to be charged overnight.
general is "fundamentally flawed." The stagnation, he says, merely gives Hamas
more time to rebuild - both militarily and politically. Moreover, he maintains that
the view of Hamas as a normal political body is a dangerous misunderstanding of
the situation. "This is, first and foremost, and ideological movement," he stated.
"Thus, there is no concept of negotiations or compromise with it."
Yousef's remarks follow not only reports that Hamas is rapidly rebuilding its
terror network, but amidst several signs that it is expanding its activities far
beyond Gaza. Last week, the ISA busted a large terror cell in Judea and
Samaria - Hamas terrorists who had been conscripted via Hamas agents in
Turkey to commit terror attacks in the region as well as in Jerusalem.
Less than 12 hours earlier, Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar publicly declared
that the group was intending to widen its terror scope throughout Jerusalem,
Judea and Samaria, and that it intends to continue to lead the Palestinian Arab
camp which advocates for armed struggle until Israel is destroyed.
Hamas has also been escalating its incitement campaign against Jews and
Israelis through heightened rhetoric and social media, releasing a music video
in broken Hebrew this month encouraging "car attacks" against Israeli citizens.
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Israeli 8-Step Plan to End Terror
"The bill I will present will be based on Israel being a Jewish and democratic state. Israel guarantees equality of personal rights to all its citizens without discrimination based on religion, race, and gender."
By YnetNews.com
Israel is the historical birthplace of the Jewish people and the place where the State of Israel was established.
An 8-step plan to deal with the recent wave of terror and unrest in Israel was put The State of Israel is the national home of the Jews, where they realized their right to self-determination.
forward by the leader of the Likud's Knesset chairman in the form of temporary The right to self-determination in the State of Israel is exclusive to the Jewish people. The State of Israel is a
legislation Wednesday, and it purportedly will allow Israel to crackdown on democratic state which guarantees the personal rights of all its citizens before the law.
terrorists, their families and supporters.
Netanyahu said the bill would be brought to a government vote on Sunday. "Now, explain to me why you
disagree.
Tell me. I want to know," Netanyahu said, as opposition legislators continued to shout their objections.
The plan, being spearheaded by MK Yariv Levin, who said he formulated the bill
at the behest of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, will give the police and
The Likud leader emphasized his support for the legislation officially defining Israel as a Jewish state was in
security establishment the tools it needs to create "real deterrence."
part due to diplomatic considerations. "I oppose a bi-national state. Israel is the national state of the Jewish
From revoking the citizenship to baring the Palestinian flag in riots, the bill stipulates eight people and the Jewish people alone. Those who praise murderers – calling them martyrs – and incite or
central moves: Israeli Arabs caught engaging or cooperating with terror will automatically commit acts of terror – will not receive national insurance," Netanyahu said.
lose their citizenship - or Palestinian Authority residency, in the case of Palestinians.
The opposition ‘s Isaac Herzog (Labor) challenged Netanyahu on several issues , going as far as to warn the sitting
After completing their prison term, terrorists will be deported from Israel; Those prime minister that his fragile coalition could dismantle, leaving Labor in a position to poach his supporters. At the
killed during their attempt to conduct a terror attack will not receive a funeral: The end of the session, 46 MKs supported the prime minister's statement – 35 opposed the motion.
body of terrorists will not be transferred to their families, and will be buried in an
unknown location, without ceremony and without future access for their families;
Terrorists' houses will be destroyed within 24-hours of the attack.
Netanyahu: European Recognition of PalMasked stone throwers and those inciting for terror and violence participating in estinian State is 'Big Mistake'
illegal protests in which firebombs or fireworks were thrown will be arrested and
held in remand until the completion of legal procedures against them. The same
measures will be taken against those who waved an 'enemy flag' during the protests, including the Palestinian flag. Anyone convicted at the end of their remand
will lose their social welfare benefits and driving license for a 10 year period.
By Reuters and Israel Hayom
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday warned against unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state without negotiations. During a meeting with the Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, the
Israeli prime minister called the recognition of a Palestinian state "a big mistake for peace."
Families of terrorists will lose their citizenship and will be deported to Gaza should
they express support for their relative's deed. Support, according to the bill, can be
expressed through public or social media. The bill also includes a clause that would
close businesses and printing presses that print posters that support terror or terrorists.
"These twin needs of mutual recognition and solid security arrangements on the ground which
are so essential for peace, these are not addressed by the European countries that unilaterally give
recognition to a Palestinian state. I think that's a big mistake for peace, it encourages the Palestinians to harden their positions, not to compromise on mutual recognition, not to compromise on
the things that are needed to achieve genuine security. I think these European positions actually
The bill further stipulates that a business can now request the police to inform them whether push peace away and I believe that they make reaching a solution much harder," he said.
anyone of their employers has ever been held in relation to a security related offense and give
them the right to fire such an employee. The article could serve a major economic blow to many Israel stepped up pressure on European countries to support the Jewish state after Sweden officially recogIsraeli Arabs, already struggling to find work in an increasingly hostile environment.
nized the state of Palestine. British and Spanish parliaments also called on their governments to recognize
Palestine as a state and the European Parliament was also set to vote on the subject on Thursday.
Netanyahu Presents Principles of
'Jewish Nationhood' Bill
Sweden's decision drew praise from Palestinians, who called on other countries to match it, but Israel says a
"unilateral recognition is counterproductive and would hurt prospects for future negotiations."
Palestinians seek statehood in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with east Jerusalem as their capital.
The land was captured by Israel from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967 Six-Day War, although
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was forced to attend a Knesset plenum on Israeli soldiers and settlers pulled out of Gaza in 2005.
Wednesday evening, after legislators invoked the "40 signature" rule. While the
scheduled debate centered on the cost of living, MKs used the opportunity to Years of efforts to forge a two-state solution have made little progress, with the last effort at negotiations
collapsing in April. Palestinians now see little choice but to make a unilateral push for statehood.
challenge the prime minister on the "Jewish Nationhood" bill.
By IsraelNationalNews.com
Netanyahu took to the podium towards the end of the session to defend his deci- A total of 135 nations already recognize Palestine, including several East European countries that did so before they
sions on the controversial legislation, officially defining Israel as a Jewish state, joined the European Union. With Britain's parliament having recognized Palestine in a nonbinding vote this month,
and similar upcoming votes in Spain, France and Ireland, the Palestinians hope European momentum is shifting.
and to present the principles of his proposal.
Some EU states that are closer to the Israeli position were irritated by the Swedish step, "It is difficult, one could say almost impossible, but the door is always open," he said in
diplomats in Brussels said. But the move showed growing international frustration at the lack response to a question about whether it would be possible to communicate with the militants.
of progress, with continued Israeli construction in areas the Palestinians want for a future
state being a particular point of concern.
The ultra-radical Islamic State group has captured thousands of square miles of
territory in Iraq and Syria, beheaded or crucified prisoners, massacred non-Sunni
Muslim civilians in its path and displaced tens of thousands of people.
US Ambassador to Israel Prays at Terrorized Jerusalem Synagogue
By IsraelNationalNews.com
The Iraqi government, backed by U.S.-led air strikes, has been trying to push back the
Islamic State, although Shiite Muslim militias and Kurdish peshmerga forces have
helped contain the Sunni insurgents and repelled them in some provinces.
Pope Francis repeated comments made earlier this year that while it was legitimate to
A week after a terrorist attack in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood, which left four worshippers and one policeman dead, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro attended prayer fight an "unjust aggressor," doing so had to be supported by an international consensus.
services at Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue on
Tuesday.
By YnetNews.com
Shapiro was accompanied by Eli Beer, the
founder of United Hatzalah of Israel and President About 2,000 rabbis gathered for a group selfie this week at the International Conference of
of U.S. based organization Friends of United Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in Brooklyn, New York. The Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis
Hatzalah -- a non-profit, volunteer emergency have been gathering for a traditional group shot every year since 1983.
Chabad Rabbis Take 'World's Largest Selfie'
medical services organization -- and several firstaid volunteers who were among the first responders to arrived at the scene of the attack.
"I saw a great need to come here on the last day of the shiva [the week-long mourning period] for
those who were murdered. I wanted to be here today with the worshippers and with the members
of United Hatzalah, who acted with immense dedication to save lives," Shapiro said.
Synagogue Massacre Terrorist’s Wife Expelled
By IsraelNationalNews.com
According to the Chabad.org
website, while the first gathering drew 65 rabbis. There are
more than 4,200 rabbis are in
town for this year’s conference. Over the years, the photo
has grown in scope with the
rabbis crowding the frame.
This year, Chabad says, a few tech-savvy rabbis decided to add a modern twist to the photo. Using
Twitter and WhatsApp to coordinate, they gathered for a massive group selfie which was taken with
a particularly large lens that was held up with a 5-meter-long stick carried by two men.
Interior Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) decided on Wednesday to strip the permit of stay in Israeli
territory for Nadia Abu Jamal, the wife of one of the two Arab terrorists who attacked a Har Nof
"We are really one big family," said Rabbi Levi Slonim of the Rohr Chabad Center for Jewish
synagogue in Jerusalem last Tuesday, murdering four Jews at prayer and a police officer.
Student Life at Binghamton University in New York, who was part of the group triggering the
selfie. "Who better to be with, for what might be a world-record-setting group selfie?"
Abu Jamal, who originally lived under Palestinian Authority jurisdiction, was living in
Jerusalem's Jabel Mukabar neighborhood due to the "family unification" process allowing her
to be in sovereign Israeli territory as the wife of the terrorist who was killed in the attack.
She will now have to leave Israel, and will lose all financial and social privileges from the
state, such as national insurance and health insurance. "I've ordered the cancellation of Nadia
Abu Jamal's permit of stay in Israel," said Erdan. "Anyone involved in terror needs to take
into account that there may be consequences also for their families."
The decision to negate the rights of terrorists, their families and accomplices was made by Erdan in conjunction with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Erdan likewise on Sunday cancelled the permanent residency
status of Mahmoud Nadi, the driver for the suicide bomber responsible for the bombing at the Dolphinarium
Disco in Tel Aviv in June 2001. That attack killed 21 people and wounded over 100 others.
In the Har Nof attack, the two terrorists Ghassan and Uday Abu Jamal held Israeli residency and
the privileges entailed by it, and one of them reportedly worked in a grocery store next to the
synagogue they attacked. While the wife of one of the terrorists has been targeted, it was also
reported that the sister of one of the terrorists is a social worker employed by the city of Jerusalem.
The families of the two celebrated the attack by passing out candies, with one relative calling
the attack "a normal thing that can be expected from every man who has courage and a
feeling of belonging to his people and to Islam."
Pope: Don't Shut Door to Dialogue with Islamic State
By Reuters
Pope Francis said on Tuesday that while it was "almost impossible" to have a dialogue with Islamic
State insurgents, the door should not be shut. "I never say 'all is lost,' never. Maybe there can't be a
dialogue but you can never shut a door," he told reporters on his plane returning from Strasbourg,
France, where he addressed the European Parliament and the Council of Europe.
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