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Israel Hayom
Reuven BerkoJNS18.12.2018
Palestinians are trying to have it both ways
Even as it collaborates with Israel, the Palestinian Authority is trying to outdo Hamas by inciting against Israel, hoping that this will improve its standing among the masses and shed its corrupt image.
(Israeli American Council)
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Israel Hayom
Reuven Berko18.12.2018
Palestinians are trying to have it both ways
Even as it collaborates with Israel, the Palestinian Authority is trying to outdo Hamas by inciting against Israel, hoping that this will improve its standing among the masses and shed its corrupt image.
(Israeli American Council)
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Palestinian terrorist’s home demolished, mother says she will continue ‘resistance’
16.12.2018
The home of Islam Abu Hamid, who killed Staff Sgt. Ronen Lubarsky by dropping a marble slab on his head in the al-Ama’ari neighborhood near Ramallah in May, was destroyed by IDF troops.
File photo: Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces as Israeli bulldozer demolishes a Palestinian house in the village of Walajeh, near Bethlehem on Sept. 3, 2018. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.
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Israel Hayom
Eyal Zisser15.12.2018
Incitement as a way of life
The Palestinian leadership repeatedly embraces ‎terrorists, offering prisoners and their families ‎generous financial assistance, thus communicating to ‎the Palestinian public that these individuals are ‎heroes when it should be denouncing their actions.‎
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After spate of Palestinian terror, Abbas slams Israeli ‘incitement’
Daniel SiryotiIsrael Hayom15.12.2018
Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip, Hamas warned that additional terrorist attacks were in the works, predicting that they will “set the West Bank on fire.”
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 27, 2018. Photo: Alaa Badarneh/A.P.
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Israel Hayom
Yoav Limor15.12.2018
Some calm to avoid an unwanted storm
Past experience indicates that Israel can stymie a wave of terror with a calculated operational and intelligence-gathering effort. But it will have to tread wisely, and mostly softly.
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US envoys condemn latest wave of terror attacks in Israel
14.12.2018
In light of the latest attacks, Special Envoy for Middle East Affairs Jason Greenblatt called out member states that voted against or abstained from a U.N. General Assembly resolution last week that required a two-thirds majority to pass condemning Hamas.
Amichai and Shira Ish-Ran were injured in a drive-by shooting by a Palestinian terrorist at a bus stop outside of the Jewish community of Ofra on Dec. 9, 2018. Shira, 30 weeks pregnant, lost the baby four days later after an emergency C-section at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
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Analysis
In Israel, the deception of quiet has been shattered. Now what?
Yaakov Lappin13.12.2018
Terrorism threatens both Israeli and Palestinian civilians. The coming weeks will see whether Israel and the Palestinian Authority will be able to contain an escalating situation and roll back the violence, or whether the region will slide into a new and dangerous phase.
Israel Defense Forces conducting security operations across the West Bank. December 2018. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.
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Ruthie Blum13.12.2018
It’s Islamic terrorism, stupid!
Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs Matteo Salvini should know better than to expect his European compatriots to accept any comment that could be construed as offensive to Muslims.
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Haley: Trump wanted to cut funding to those that voted down UN Hamas resolution
Aaron BandlerJewish Journal13.12.2018
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley praised the 87 nations that voted for the resolution as a sign of “a new day at the U.N.”
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 73rd session of the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 25, 2018, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Credit: Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian.
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US House passes bipartisan bill to prevent use of human shields
Jackson Richman11.12.2018
The Senate unanimously passed its version in October. The bill now goes to the president to sign it into law.
U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Credit: Creative Commons.
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House of Representatives to vote on bipartisan bill to prevent use of human shields
Jackson Richman11.12.2018
The bill mandates that the president impose sanctions on any entity that “knowingly and materially supports, orders, controls, directs or otherwise engages in” the exercise of human shields by the terrorist organizations Hezbollah and Hamas.
Hamas terrorists in southern Gaza, Jan. 31, 2017. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
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Jonathan S. Tobin10.12.2018
Despite UN vote, Palestinian terror is still a losing strategy
Israel’s foes scored a tactical victory in New York, but their defense of terror is marginalizing them, not the Jewish state.
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Yoni Ben MenachemThe Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs10.12.2018
Hamas tries to ignite the West Bank
It is making every effort to perpetrate terror attacks from Judea and Samaria perpetrated by “sleeper cells,” exploiting the fact that the Israel Defense Forces are busy on two fronts in the north and the south.
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Brazil delivers on its promise to vote with Israel at UN
Sandra Rejwan09.12.2018
Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro ran as an anti-establishment candidate who would blaze a new path, including on foreign policy.
Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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UN fails to pass first-ever resolution censuring Hamas
06.12.2018
In remarks just before what is one of her final acts as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told her fellow members that the resolution could mark “a historic day” or just “another day.”
A view of the UN General Assembly hall. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
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