What the Guardian won’t report: Arabs terrorize Jewish kids at Temple Mount

CiF Watch


h/t Yisrael Medad and Elder
In watching the following video of Jewish children being chased off the Temple Mount by angry Palestinians, I’m again reminded of Menachem Begin’s recollection (during an interview with David Frost) of his youth in Poland when he asked some Poles why they beat up innocent Jewish kids.  Their reply: The mere presence of Jews is a provocation.  

In the five-minute clip filmed on Tuesday, we see a couple of dozen Jewish children touring the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, with their fathers.  Muslim men and women screamed, pushed, threatened, spit and even reportedly hurled shoes at some of the young children.

What was the crime these children committed? They are (religious) Jews.

Abbas in 2009: There is "no disagreement between Fatah and Hamas"

"About belief? None! About policy? None! About resistance? None!"  http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=11283 by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik The agreement signed this week between Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah and the terrorist organization Hamas to form a unity government should not have surprised international observers. For years Mahmoud Abbas has been seeking and demanding unity between Fatah and Hamas, despite international recognition of Hamas as a terror organization. In 2009, Palestinian Media Watch documented Abbas' assertion that there is nothing to prevent unity because Hamas and Fatah agree on all important issues: "There is no disagreement between us [Fatah and Hamas]: About belief? None! About policy? None! About resistance? None! So what do you [Hamas] disagree about? Why are you not signing the [reconciliation] agreement?"  [Official Palestinian Authority TV Dec. 31, 2009] Click to view What is clear from the documentation PMW has released in recent reports is that Fatah and the Palestinian Authority, like Hamas, deny Israel's right to exist, glorify terror and incite hatred against Jews and Israelis. The only reason there was no agreement between the two parties from 2009 until now was because of internal political competition between Hamas and Fatah, and not because of essential differences in their attitude towards Israel.

America, where did you sense of honor go? Have you lost your way?

Oregon: “Carloads” of jihadis turned ranch into jihad terror training camp

Robert Spencer A

“He said he was there to train men for jihad,” and everyone who heard him say it knew that what he meant was that he would be training men to commit acts of violence against non-Muslims. No one thought that he meant he would be training men for the interior spiritual struggle to better themselves. Yet at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, Muslim leaders are angry at the Museum’s depiction of the hijackers as waging jihad for the sake of Allah, even though that is what they themselves said they were doing. It is, in other words, an official dogma in the public square today that jihad is peaceful and benign, and only greasy Islamophobes think otherwise. The only people who blithely ignore his dogma and continue about their business are Islamic jihad terrorists.

Does Israel’s triumph mean we are guilty?

Dror Eydar

Last week, while Israelis were celebrating the festival of freedom known as Passover, Professor Zeev Sternhell wrote an op-ed in Haaretz in which he criticized Israel for insisting the Palestinians recognize it as a Jewish state.

This "is a way to demand that the Palestinians accept their historic defeat and recognize the Jews' exclusive ownership of the entire land," Sternhell wrote.

There. With that single sentence, Sternhell encapsulated the Left's tendency to run away from historical facts. The Arabs have been asked to recognize the Jews' right to hold some part of their historic homeland, the Land of Israel. Every draft agreement since World War I has stipulated such a provision. Never has Israel asked the Palestinians to recognize its right to retain the entire land.

Only a left-winger who denies the Jewish claims on this land, only a person who scorns at the notion that there are valid legal and moral arguments that prove a historical and religious link between the Jews and their only homeland, can describe this demand as something that is akin to "accepting defeat."

Abbas may be using the agreement with Hamas to pressure Israel and the U.S. by demonstrating that he has other options.

By Amira Hass 

While the Hamas and PLO delegations in Gaza were preparing to declare reconciliation on Wednesday, in Ramallah the diplomatic business of the “state of Palestine” was proceeding as usual. Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour arrived for a visit, meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and signing various economic, health and security cooperation agreements with PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah.

Almost simultaneously, the Hamdallah government’s foreign minister, Riyad al-Malki, was meeting with his Austrian counterpart
 Sebastian Kurz and at a joint press conference said the Palestinians were committed to continuing the talks with Israel beyond the original target date of April 29, and that Israel had nothing to fear from the internal Palestinian reconciliation, which would not undermine the talks. (These remarks came, of course, before Israel cancelled Wednesday’s planned meeting of the negotiating teams.)

Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Weekend Summary

Note: This is not easy to read but being forewarned is the name of the game.  Hopefully, the West has time to thwart this insanity but. left unchallenged, the evil forces will continue to spread; that is their goal.  Their arrogance in  such advertising  is, in itself, frightening. The enemy feels that it has nothing to lose and martyrdom is honorable. To us their ideology lacks humanity. This is the 'language' of their radicalism. 

 

Our problem is that we need strong Western leadership to effectively counter the enemies of democracy and that it sorely lacking today.  One cannot make agreements with those whose goal it is to destroy the Western civilization and replace it with a caliphate and sharia.  They have one thought in mind and are deceptive in order to achieve this.  We must not be fooled.CG

MEMRI

The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock – among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.)

Note to media and government: For a full copy of these reports, send an email with the title of the report in the subject line to media@memri.org. Please include your name, title, and organization in your email.

 

EXCLUSIVE: ISIS Spokesman: 'Al-Qaeda Is No Longer The Base Of Jihad'

On April 17, 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria's (ISIS) media company Al-Furqan released a new audio message from the organization's spokesman, Abu Muhammad Al-'Adnani, titled "This was not our methodology, and it never will be." In the 17-minute message, Al-'Adnani assailed Al-Qaeda's leadership, accusing it of straying from the proper path of jihad and from the proper religious and ideological doctrine. Due its deviance, he stated, "Al-Qaeda is no longer the base of jihad."

German Rapper-Turned-Jihadist In Syria Threatens Obama With Throat-Slitting Gesture

Following are excerpts from a video-clip in which Abu Talha Al-Almani, a German rapper-turned-Jihadist fighting in Syria threatens Obama by drawing his finger over his throat and says: "The Islamic State will remain!" The video-clip was posted on the Internet on April 11, 2014.

Following are excerpts:

Click here to view this clip on MEMRI TV

Abbas' fictional state

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=8151

Dr. Reuven Berko 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has heard about the latest videotape by al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in which Zawahri calls Abbas a "traitor who is selling out Palestine," and has gotten cold feet.

But even without the tape, Abbas can imagine what the Islamists have in store for him, and his threat to "give the keys to the Palestinian Authority back to Israel" reflects the overall air of doom and gloom shared by him and his people over the crisis plaguing the peace talks.

Until recently Abbas and his people were under the impression that they would be able to leverage the pressure applied by the United States and European Union regarding the peace talks against Israel. The illusion of free achievements was backed by the Israeli Left's cries of gevald, fearing a "third intifada," a "boycott," or a "binational state."

The company you keep

Dan Margalit

"Will two walk together, except they have agreed?" asks the Bible (Amos 3:3).

The Hamas-Palestine Liberation Organization national unity government, signed between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, fits the old Talmudic adage, "Not for nothing did the starling follow the raven, but because it is of its kind." Yes, Abbas and Haniyeh are indeed Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Two days ago the trickster from Ramallah summoned Israeli journalists to elaborate on his preconditions for extending the peace talks. He said he was committed to peace, but he withheld an important piece of information: Before the sun rises on the following day, he will have effectively signed a "reconciliation agreement" to end the schism among Palestinian terrorist groups.

It’s Prom Time, and Abbas Must Choose a Dance Partner – Israel or Hamas

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas now must choose between Hamas and Israel.

By: Hana Levi Julian

It’s that time of year again — the Fatah terror faction led by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has for the ‘nth’ time managed to reach a “reconciliation” with the Hamas terrorist organization that rules Gaza.
The two sides agreed Tuesday evening after talks in Gaza City to form a unity government “within the next five weeks,” according to an announcement by officials on both sides released Wednesday.
But Hamas is unwilling to negotiate with – or for that matter, even recognize the existence of – the State of Israel.
So the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) which represents the PA in all its affairs at the United Nations (UN), and thus the PA, meaning Mahmoud Abbas – who heads both – must choose who to take to the prom.

Fatah's military wing: "Armed resistance until the liberation of all of Palestine"

The period of "calm has ended" http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=11274 Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik Fatah's military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, has announced they "will adhere to the option of armed resistance until the liberation of all of Palestine," the independent Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported. The expression "the liberation of all of Palestine" is a common Palestinian euphemism used to refer to the destruction of Israel. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is also the head of Fatah and his movement's military wing stressed that the "calm has ended, as the occupation continues to kill, Judaize and settle." They urged Mahmoud Abbas not to accept US Secretary of State John Kerry's plan and not to give in to "political extortion by the Western powers." [Ma'an, March 11, 2014] Earlier this year, Palestinian Media Watch reported that Fatah posted a video promising to "turn Tel Aviv into a ball of fire."

Despite US court ruling, ‘Jerusalem’ not likely to be on American passports

YONAH JEREMY BOB

Decision to rehear case on putting Israel on passports no cause for optimism; weakest aspect of case is that it doesn't really explain how and why a court is equipped to make these kinds of judgments about foreign policy.

MK Nissan Smolanski and Housing Minister Uri Ariel inaugurate the building of housing units. Photo: REUTERS

Is it possible that the word “Israel” may finally get onto the passports of Americans born in Jerusalem, following the US Supreme Court’s Monday ruling to hear the case a second time? Probably not.

The court’s decision follows a July 2013 decision by the US District of Columbia Appeals Court declaring unconstitutional a 2002 congressional law that directed the US State Department to let US citizens born in Jerusalem register their birthplaces as “Israel” on their passports.

The same appeals court tried to halt the initiative of placing the word “Israel” on passports once before, in 2011. That time, the US Supreme Court swept in by surprise to put the case back on track.
With the Zivotofsky family – which started the march by suing the State Department for not registering “Israel” on their son’s passport – succeeding in getting the US Supreme Court to rehear the case, some underinformed observers may assume that the court will come in again to “save the day.” They would likely be mistaken.

The Israeli Biblical Slave Mentality that Tragically Exists to this very Day

By SaraLehmann
The Jewish Press

Aside from the clichéd quip about Pesach (Passover) preparations mirroring Jewish labor in Egypt, a concept I can well relate to, Pesach is universally regarded as the Jewish holiday of emancipation. The precept of Zeman Cheiruseinu (Season of our Liberation) is so fundamental to our Jewish identity that it is not consecrated solely on Pesach but is repeated throughout the year in much of our davening, berachos (prayer and blessings) and practices.

This idea of Jewish independence from other nations and dependence on Hashem (G-d) alone has guided Jewish thinking and influenced humanity as to the innate worth of the individual. And it is a reason so many Jews have found themselves at the forefront of liberation movements over the years.

Turning a Blind Eye to Palestinian Bloodlust

Joseph Klein

President Obama has described Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas as “somebody who has consistently renounced violence.”  Just the opposite was on full display once again last week.  An Israeli father was killed and his pregnant wife and child were injured in a Palestinian terrorist shooting attack, as the family members were on their way to a Passover Seder on April 14^th.  

Israel is monstrous soldier eating the Dome of the Rock Mosque

Cartoon repeats PA libel

that Israel is planning

to destroy Jerusalem mosques

PLO official: Israel wants

to "erect what they call 'the Temple' over Al-Aqsa"

http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=11272

Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

One of the libels continuously repeated by the PA is that Israel is planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and everything else on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem - in order to build what the PA refers to as the "alleged Temple."

 Official PA TV reiterated this libel when it broadcast on its show Circle of Events a cartoon from the Jordanian newspaper Al-Dustur, which  depicts Israel as a monstrous soldier gorging on the Dome of the Rock Mosque, while a Hamas activist holding a flag with the word "Land" and a Fatah activist holding a flag with the word "Day" commemorate the Palestinian Land Day. [Official PA TV, March 30, 2014]

The Islamic war on Christians in the Middle East

Robert Spence

This piece is generally good, as there is far too little attention paid in the mainstream media to the escalating Muslim persecution of Christians, but Prosor, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, manifests the same ignorance (or refusal to speak explicitly) that hamstrings the free world’s response to the jihad threat. “Radical Islamists in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa,” he writes, “are using an ancient law called the ‘dhimmi pact’ to extort local Christians. The community is faced with a grim choice: pay a tax and submit to a list of religious restrictions or ‘face the sword.’”

ROP: Syria: Islamic jihadists kidnap Italian priest, negotiating for ransom

Robert Spencer

The Islamic jihadists know that this kind of action cuts right to the heart of the free world’s dilemma. If Western leaders ignore the jihadist demands for ransom, they will be condemning the priest. But if they negotiate with the jihadists and pay them a healthy ransom, they are ensuring that there will be many more such kidnappings in the future.

“Negotiations ongoing for Italian Jesuit’s release in Syria,” fromANSA, April 21 (thanks to all who sent this in):

(ANSA) – Beirut, April 21 – Negotiations have been ongoing at various levels in Syria and outside the country for the liberation of Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, an Italian Jesuit priest who went missing in the north of the country in July, for several months, ANSA sources said Monday. The sources close to the negotiations, who asked to remain anonymous, said that “there was comforting news about Dall’Oglio being alive” two weeks ago.

But they also stressed that “there can be no certainty about this, given the difficulty in penetrating the organisation that is keeping him prisoner”. The sources added that Dall’Oglio is being held in northern Syria by a branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), an al-Qaeda-linked group led by fighters from Iraq and other countries. The Italian foreign ministry said Monday that it was maintaining “maximum confidentiality” about the case.

UK: Probe of Islamic Takeover Plot Widens

Soeren Kern

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4273/uk-islamic-takeover-plot

The problem of Islam in public schools has been allowed to snowball to vast proportions... not hundreds but thousands of British schools have come under the influence of Muslim radicals.
Bains was also instructed to stop teaching citizenship classes because they were deemed to be "un-Islamic," and to introduce Islamic studies into the curriculum, even though Saltley is a non-faith school.
Schools should not be allowed to become "silos of segregation." — Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister

British authorities say they have widened their investigation into an alleged plot by Muslim fundamentalists to Islamize public schools in England and Wales.
The expanded probe now encompasses at least 25 schools in Birmingham, up from four initially. Investigators are also looking into new allegations that Muslim extremists have infiltrated schools in other British cities, including Bradford and Manchester.

Lieberman: EU foreign policy chief oblivious to global problems

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman criticizes Catherine Ashton for condemning Israeli actions in Judea and Samaria • "It is fortunate that the EU knows how to diagnose the critical problems in the world and deal with them," Lieberman says, sarcastically.

Shlomo Cesana, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman [Archives]  |  Photo credit: AFP

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman leveled harsh criticism at European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton Saturday, over her condemnation of Israel's recent actions in Judea and Samaria, saying she has failed to recognize the true problems plaguing the global arena.

Commenting on recent events in the region, Ashton said Friday that she viewed with "great concern" Israel's decision to designate some 250 acres of land adjacent to Gush Etzion as state lands, saying that the "continued demolition of Palestinian property and the confiscation of EU humanitarian aid were worrying … The EU calls on the Israeli authorities to reverse these decisions.

"Such events are not conducive to the climate of trust and cooperation needed for the current peace negotiations to succeed," Ashton was quoted by Agence France Presse as saying.

She also deplored ‘’the recent confiscation of EU humanitarian assistance provided to vulnerable civilians in the Jabal Al Baba Community in the E1 area."

Iran's clean profit

Boaz Bismuth

That is it. From the perspective of Ali Akbar Salehi, the man who was Iran's foreign minister under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and currently presides over Iran's nuclear portfolio, the world can sleep quietly. A deal has been reached.

Does this mean Iran is dismantling its centrifuges? No need to exaggerate. On the contrary, their number is expected to increase. Hold on, it means the Arak heavy water reactor is shutting down? You've hit your head. There will only be a few cosmetic changes. Indeed, there will also be inspectors… as long as it suits Iran.