Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Fwd: While Abbas met with Trump, his party glorified 12 terrorists

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Bulletin

May 10, 2017


While Abbas met with Trump, 
Fatah honored 12 terrorists
responsible for murdering 95 people
 
12 murderers - planners of suicide bombings and shooting attacks - were honored while Abbas was talking peace to Trump

 
 
Also on the day Abbas met Trump, 
the PA named a street in Jenin after a kidnapper-murderer
 

 by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

As Palestinian Authority and Fatah Chairman Abbas met with President Trump last week, the two institutions he heads were busy glorifying murderers and planners of suicide bombings and shooting attacks in which 95 people were murdered.
 
Fatah posted the photo above of 12 imprisoned terrorist murderers on Facebook and sent "blessings" to the "heroic prisoners":
 
Posted text: "All blessings to our heroic prisoners carrying out the [hunger] strike of dignity: Karim Younes, Marwan Barghouti, Nael Barghouti, Ahmad Sa'adat, Abbas Al-Sayid, Hassan Salameh, Zaid Bassisi, Bassem Al-Khandaqji, Wajdi Joudeh, Maher Younes, Fuad Al-Shubaki, Wael Al-Jaghoub."
[Official Fatah Facebook page, May 3, 2017]
 
These are the crimes of Fatah's "heroes":
Hassan Salameh -Serving 46 life sentences for planning suicide bombings that murdered 46.
Abbas Al-Sayid - Serving 35 life sentences for planning suicide bombings that murdered 35.
Marwan Barghouti - Serving 5 life sentences for planning 3 shooting attacks that murdered murdering 5.
Bassem Al-Khandaqji - Serving 3 life sentences for involvement in a suicide bombing that murdered 3.
Zaid Bassisi - Serving a life sentence plus an additional 55 years for planning a car bombing that wounded 8.
Karim and Maher Younes - Each is serving a 40-year sentence for kidnapping and murdering 1.
Nael and Fakhri Barghouti - Each was serving a life sentence for murdering 1. Both were released in the Shalit prisoner exchange deal. Nael Barghouti was rearrested for violating the terms of his release and is serving a life sentence plus an additional 18 years.
Wael Al-Jaghoub - Serving a life sentence for establishing PFLP terror cells and carrying out terror attacks. PMW was unable to verify the details of his crimes.
Ahmad Sa'adat - Serving a 30 year sentence for heading the PFLP terror organization.
Wajdi Joudeh Serving a 25 year sentence for involvement in a suicide bombing that murdered 4 and wounded 24. 
Fuad Al-Shubaki - Serving a 20 year sentence for planning attempt to smuggle 50 tons of illegal weapons to the Palestinian Authority

The image posted by Fatah shows the terrorists listed in the post. Above them is a logo showing three hands reaching up through barbed wire.
Text under logo: "#The_[hunger_]strike_of_freedom"
[Official Fatah Facebook page, May 3, 2017]
 
On the same day, a PA official and a PLO official announced that a main street in Jenin will be named after kidnapper-murderer Karim Younes:
 
"Jenin District Governor Ibrahim Ramadan and Director of [PLO] Commission of Prisoners and Released Prisoners' Affairs Issa Karake announced that one of the main streets in the city [of Jenin] will be named after veteran prisoner Karim Younes (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1)."
[Al-Ayyam, May 3, 2017]
 
The following are more detailed descriptions of the 12 terrorists honored by Abbas' institutions: 
 
Hassan Salameh - Hamas terrorist who is serving 46 life sentences for heading the terror infrastructure that carried out 2 suicide bombings on no. 18 buses in Jerusalem (first attack on Feb. 25, 1996, second attack on March 3, 1996), and the suicide bombing at the Ashkelon Junction hitchhike point (Feb. 25, 1996). 46 people were murdered in the attacks and around 100 were wounded.
 
Abbas Al-Sayid - serving 35 life sentences for planning two suicide bombings, one at a Passover dinner at the Park Hotel in Netanya (30 murdered, March 27, 2002) and another outside a shopping Mall in Netanya (5 murdered, May 18, 2001).
 
Marwan Barghouti - Palestinian terrorist who is serving 5 life sentences for orchestrating three shooting attacks that murdered 5 people: one attack in Jerusalem (June 12, 2001) in which Greek monk Tsibouktsakis Germanus was murdered by terrorist Ismail Radaida and another unidentified terrorist, another attack at a gas station in Givat Zeev near Jerusalem (Jan. 15, 2002) in which Yoela Hen, 45, was murdered by terrorists led by Mohammed Matla, and one  shooting and stabbing attack at the Sea Food Market restaurant in Tel Aviv (March 5, 2002) in which Eli Dahan, 53, Yosef Habi, 52, and Police Officer Sergeant-Major Salim Barakat, 33, were murdered by terrorist Ibrahim Hasouna. When arrested by Israel in 2002, Barghouti headed the Tanzim (Fatah terror faction). After he was convicted and imprisoned, he was re-elected member of the Palestinian Authority parliament. On Dec. 4, 2016, he was elected to Fatah's Central Committee.
 
Karim and Maher Younes - Israeli Arab cousins each serving a 40-year sentence for kidnapping and murdering Israeli soldier Avraham Bromberg in 1980 together with his cousin Maher Younes. Originally sentenced to life in prison, but Israeli President Shimon Peres reduced their sentence in 2012.
 
Ahmad Sa'adat - serving a 30-year sentence for heading the PFLP terror organization. A song at a PFLP event also praised him for planning the assassination of Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavam Ze'evi in 2001, but he has not been tried for this crime.
 
Bassem Al-Khandaqji - member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Serving 3 life sentences for his involvement in the suicide bombing at the Tel Aviv Carmel Market on Nov. 1, 2004, in which 3 people were murdered.
 
Nael and Fakhri Barghouti - Palestinian terrorists who murdered an Israeli army officer in January 1978, near Ramallah. Both were sentenced to life but were released in the Shalit prisoner exchange deal in 2011. Nael Barghouti was arrested again in 2014 for violating the terms of his release by offering Hamas to serve as its minister of prisoners' affairs, and is serving a life sentence plus an additional 18 years.
 
Zaid Bassisi - an Islamic Jihad terrorist who planned a car bombing outside a school in Netanya on May 30, 2001, wounding eight people. Bassisi is serving a life sentence and an additional 55 years.
 
Wajdi Joudeh - a senior member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) terrorist organization who was involved in the Geha Junction suicide bombing near Tel Aviv on Dec. 26, 2003, in which 4 people were murdered and 24 others were wounded. Joudeh is serving 25 years.
 
Fuad Al-Shubaki - a senior PA official who is serving a 20-year prison term. He was behind the attempt to smuggle 50 tons of illegal weapons to the Palestinian Authority aboard the Karine A weapons' ship in 2002.
 
Wael Al-Jaghoub  - a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization who, according to reports in the Arab media, was convicted of establishing PFLP terror cells and carrying out terror attacks. Al-Jaghoub was arrested on May 1, 2001, and is serving a life sentence. PMW was unable to verify the details of his crimes.
 
The following is a longer excerpt of the Al-Ayyam article announcing the naming of a street after terrorist Karim Younes:

Headline: "A main street in Jenin is named after Karim Younes"
"Jenin District Governor Ibrahim Ramadan and Director of [PLO] Commission of Prisoners and Released Prisoners' Affairs Issa Karake announced that one of the main streets in the city [of Jenin] will be named after veteran prisoner Karim Younes (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1). This was during a central mass rally organized across from the solidarity tent that was put up as a sign of support for the prisoners waging the battle of dignity and freedom (i.e., a hunger strike by terrorist prisoners that began on April 17, 2017)."
[Al-Ayyam, May 3, 2017]
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Tuesday, May 09, 2017

Pope FRANCIS with ABBAS, OBAMA, IN ISRAEL, Soon TRUMP, Dancing with Chasidim??? Lo Tachnifu?

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Pope Francis in Presenting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a gift: "I thought of you. You are an angel of peace". 
Abbas told the Pope "We will always be together as our mission is the same".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk-8hu97g9Y

President Abbas after meeting Pope Francis: We are grateful for the Holy See’s role for peace
http://english.wafa.ps/page.aspx?id=7XeGgSa52094200455a7XeGgS


Pope to Obama: This gift isn't from the 'Pope' but from Jorge Mario Bergoglio (The Pope's birth name). It's a medallion of the "Angel of Peace".  The Pope said: "When I saw it I said I'll give it to Obama". The Pope gave this same gift to Abbas and told him You are an angel of peace.  (see 1:15)

Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Pope Francis visit to Israel and to the "State of Palestine"????. Please Rabbanim, Speak up כי מציון תצה תורה, ודבר ה' מירושלים...נֵצַח יִשְׂרָאֵל לֹא יְשַׁקֵּר

Lo Tachnifu? Do not Flatter?


Watch: Pope dances to hasidic music
Group of Hasidic Jews led by Rabbi Edgar Gluck serenades Pope with hasidic song titled 'Long years shall satiate him'.

Jews Are Not Israel Or The Chosen People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1vhXlSkVHE

Yirmiyahu  - Jeremiah Chapter 8:
יאוַיְרַפּוּ אֶת שֶׁבֶר בַּת עַמִּי עַל נְקַלָּה לֵאמֹר שָׁלוֹם | שָׁלוֹם וְאֵין שָׁלוֹם:
11And they healed the breach of My people easily, saying, "Peace, peace," but there is no peace.

The Tora warns that we have a responsibility to maintain its laws and decrees of justice. "ולא תחניפו את הארץ - You shall not bring guilt upon the land in which you are, for the blood will bring guilt upon the Land…[5]"
The Sifrei quotes an exegetical understanding of the verse: "You shall not flatter (חניפה) a wrongdoer." Shaarei Teshuva[6] discusses the severity of the sin of flattering a sinner. The most egregious form of sinful flattery is when one tells an evildoer that his deeds do not constitute sinful behavior. If one minimizes the severity of his sin, or worse negates the sin completely, he is in effect encouraging the transgressor to repeat his sin.
A righteous person has an obligation to despise the actions of miscreants and sinners and to promulgate the folly of their views and actions. A leader must feel responsible to stand up and defend the honor of the Torah. The gemara[7] states, "Whoever is able to protest against wrongdoings… and fails to do so, is held accountable for his behavior."



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Monday, May 08, 2017

Fwd: Sderot Dinner Tomorrow Night Tue. Eve. May 9th Terrace on the Park. Guest Speakers Ayelet Shaked, Alon Davidi, The Honorable Ambassador Dani Dayan

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Dear All, 

There are special AFSI prices for paid up members. The Yeshiva wants and need people to come to the Dinner and bring Chizuk! Please call the AFSI office or email me or Rabbi Ari Katz in the TO; listed above for more info and to reserve. (If you email me, please put  "Sderot Dinner" in subject line. thanks Robin}

If you can not make it please consider making a donation. It is very easy to do so on their website.




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Dear Brooklyn AFSI, amv"sh

Meet the Minister, the Mayor and the Consul General,
and show your support for Sderot!

Reserve now for the
Yeshivat Hesder Sderot Anniversary Gala Dinner

Tuesday, May 9, 6 PM
Terrace on the Park, Flushing (Queens) NY

Guest speakers include:
Ayelet Shaked,
Israel Justice Minister
Alon Davidi,
Mayor of Sderot

Dani Dayan,
IConsul General of Israel
in New York

Call AFSI for SPECIAL AFSI MEMBER PRICING!

The city of Sderot is on the front line of Israel, only one kilometer from the Gaza Strip. For years it has born the brunt of rocket attacks originating from Gaza. Its stalwart residents bravely face each day not knowing when the Tzeva Adom (Color Red) rocket alert will sound, sending men, women and children running to shelters with seconds to spare.

The Sderot Hesder Yeshiva, founded in 1994 by Rabbi Dovid Fendel (originally from the US), has provided tremendous chizuk to Sderot, helping to revive the city and Israel's south, spiritually as well as economically.

It is one of the largest Hesder Yeshivot in all of Israel, with a student body of over 500 pupils from communities all over the country. In addition to studying, students demonstrate their commitment to the residents of Sderot through many volunteer projects.

NOW IS THE TIME TO SHOW SUPPORT FOR
SDEROT AND THE HESDER YESHIVA!

Support this truly worthwhile cause while enjoying a sumptuous buffet dinner!

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Dinner Invitation. Click on the sides (shaded black) for the English Website:

Articles of interest:
Mike Huckabee, Former US Presidential Candidate and Close Associate of President Trump Visits Sderot with OJC (Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce) and AFSI members. 




Swish for Sderot Basketball Tournament Video


Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Sderot A Model Community of How to Respond to Terror






Join us as we celebrate the accomplishments of 21 years in Sderot

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Wednesday, May 03, 2017

Fwd: Funding for Planned Parenthood?


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Date: Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:56 AM
Subject: Funding for Planned Parenthood?
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Today's Commentary:  Planned Parenthood Funding -- Hillary Reminds Us Why She Lost -- Liberal Militia Forms

Robin,

Federal funding for Planned Parenthood in a "Republican" spending bill? How is this possible? And, more importantly, what can be done about it?

President Trump offered his own explanation for the various inadequacies of this bill in the form of a Tweet: "The reason for the plan negotiated between the Republicans and Democrats is that we need 60 votes in the Senate which are not there! We...either elect more Republican senators in 2018 or change the rules to 51%. Our country needs a good 'shutdown' in September to fix the mess."

The battle lines over abortion have been drawn sharply, with the Democrats digging in to preserve every possible protection for their holy sacrament of even very late-stage terminations (of life), that they make a government "shutdown" virtually inevitable. Of course, they'll actually welcome that "shutdown" because they can then blame Republicans for not compromising, when they themselves are absolutely unbending. "Shutdowns" –- I use the quotation marks because only about one-fifth of the government actually stops working during one –- are treated to such a hysterical reaction in the media that voters lose confidence in their leadership. Trump is right to remind us that we could actually benefit from one, if it comes to that. Voters need to see this as part of the negotiating process.

Just as "appeasement" isn't the basis for a good foreign policy, it's also not the way to deal with Democrats. While they detest the idea of a wall on our border, they put up one of their own to deal with Republicans. Funding for Planned Parenthood is on their side of that wall, receiving protection at all costs. To borrow a phrase from Ronald Reagan, I'd like to say, "Democrats, tear down that wall!" But they never will unless there are severe political consequences to their rigid stance.

The bill is up for a vote this week, and reconciliation is still possible. If that doesn't happen, keep in mind that technically it's a stopgap that was necessary because Democrats never did pass a budget. The crucial battle –- over what is usually the first budget passed by a new administration –- will take place later in the year. In the meantime, moderate Republicans in both House and Senate need to remember that if they don't lay down the law –- literally –- they will likely face severe political consequences of their own. If that happens, the next budget they pass could be their last for a long time.

Sincerely,

Mike Huckabee

 

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Hillary Reminds Us Why She Lost

By Mike Huckabee

Hillary Clinton reminded us of why she wasn't elected by arguing that the key to bringing jobs back to America is for the government to help bring better cell phone coverage/broadband Internet to rural areas. Also, more tax money "invested" in the solar power industry, or else China will "eat our lunch in the solar market."

The last Administration that she was a part of lost over half a billion dollars of our money co-signing loans for their cronies at the solar panel company Solyndra, which built itself a palatial headquarters, then promptly went out of business because it failed to foresee dropping silicon prices and couldn't compete with Chinese solar panel companies. And that was just one of many "green energy," crony capitalism money sinks that never paid off. Hillary still has yet to learn the lesson of the Obama economy: if you want to create private sector jobs, the government doesn't need to "partner" with the private sector, it needs to get the heck out of the private sector's way. Government is the economy's referee, it's not the quarterback.

Come to think of it, the Obama Administration not only proved that government shouldn't be trying to pick winners and losers in the marketplace with our money, it also proved that it couldn't even make a lunch that anyone would eat.

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Liberal Militia Forms (Yes you read that right)

By Mike Huckabee

Remember Steve Martin's old bit, where he did a joke that only the plumbers in the audience would understand? Well, here's something just for gun owners (I figure that's a much higher percentage of my audience than Steve Martin had plumbers.)

A handful of liberals suddenly discovered the Second Amendment and ran out to buy guns because their own campaign propaganda scared them into thinking Trump was going to take away their rights. Or else it was a PR stunt to try to intimidate pro-Trump rally attendees. After serious gun owners laughed at them, a "liberal militia" in Arizona made the mistake of trying to prove they actually knew how to use their firearms by releasing a video of them on a firing range. All it proves is that the only kind of shooting they understand is shooting their mouths off. They are very lucky that they at least know which end of the gun the bullets come out of. It's hilarious until you remember that these are the people who think they should be making guns laws for the rest of us.

Say, here's an idea: maybe they should join the NRA and avail themselves of some of their excellent gun safety training materials for children.

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Tuesday, May 02, 2017

Fwd: Re: Contact UNESCO Today to Demand an End to the Delegitimization of Israel




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Subject: Contact UNESCO Today to Demand an End to the Delegitimization of Israel

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Contact UNESCO Today to Demand an End to the Delegitimization of Israel

May 1, 2017 
 
 
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Tomorrow, May 2, is Yom Ha'azmaut, Israeli Independence Day. UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, is set to mark the day with yet another resolution delegitimizing the Jewish state, as well as its history, its holy sites, and its capital.
 
The draft text of the resolution on which UNESCO is planning a vote tomorrow, titled "Occupied Palestine," states that its aim is the "safeguarding of the cultural heritage of Palestine and the distinctive character of East Jerusalem." It affirms last December's UN Security Council Resolution 2334, a resolution that deemed Judaism's holiest sites in Jerusalem – the Temple Mount, the Mount of Olives, and the Western Wall – part of "Occupied Palestinian Territory." The draft text repeatedly calls Israel the "occupying Power" and calls all Israeli administrative actions "which have altered or purport to alter the character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem," including Israel's Basic Law designating Jerusalem as its capital, "null and void" and calls for them to be rescinded.
 
It also calls on Israel to cease archeological excavations in Jerusalem – excavations which have repeatedly provided concrete evidence of the Jewish connection to the city.
 
The resolution then goes on to condemn what it calls "the continuous Israeli closure of the Gaza Strip." Notably, Egypt, which also shares a border with Gaza, was one of the six Arab countries that submitted the draft resolution.
 
It further refers to Hebron and Bethlehem as "Occupied Palestinian Territory" and condemns archeological excavations in Hebron. It refers to the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb by their English and Arabic, but not Hebrew, names.
 
This comes less than a week after all 100 US senators signed a letter condemning anti-Israel bias at the United Nations. In their letter, the Senators noted that "too often, the U.N. is exploited as a vehicle for targeting Israel," and specifically mentioned UNESCO. They noted that UNESCO "member states continue to advance measures that target Israel and deny the Jewish and Christian connection to Jerusalem."
 
On Friday, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote that:  
The Executive Board of UNESCO refuses to put a stop to the politicization that is impairing the organization's standing. Contrary to the recommendation of UNESCO's director-general and despite the promises and statements made in the past year by various leaders, UNESCO continues the ritual of proposing an anti-Israel resolution that criticizes every action Israel takes in Jerusalem, adopts past resolutions denying the connection of the Jewish people to Jerusalem, and recycles political condemnations against Israel concerning the Gaza Strip.
As the MFA also points out, statements concerning the sovereignty of Jerusalem are outside of the mandate of UNESCO, an organization that is "responsible for coordinating international cooperation in education, science, culture and communication."
 
The Trump administration is reportedly lobbying against the measure, as is B'nai B'rith. Meanwhile, Germany, which is on the UNESCO Executive Board, is believed to have led in the resolution's planning stages. 

B'nai B'rith wrote on its website that,
A UNESCO resolution engaged … in the wholesale denial of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem would be absurd and grossly irresponsible. No other country's capital is questioned internationally, no other country has historically maintained Jerusalem as its capital, no nation has deeper roots in its capital city, and no prior governing power ever protected diversity, culture and basic religious freedom in Jerusalem as Israel has.
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1. Contact UNESCO Officers and Executive Board Member States:  
• Ms. Marie Paule Roudil, Director, UNESCO Liaison Office to the United Nations at mp.roudil@unesco.org 
• Ms. Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO at i.bokova@unesco.org

• George Papagiannis, Chief of UNESCO Media Relations at g.papagiannis@unesco.org

• Pilar Morel Vasquez, UNESCO External Relations and Public Information at P.Morel-vasquez@unesco.org

• Paola Leoncini-Bartoli, Chief of the Culture Sector, UNESCO at P.LEONCINI-BARTOLI@unesco.org
Germany is believed to have led the effort to make the language palatable to other EU states on the UNESCO Executive Board. 
Contact the German embassy to the UN in New York info@new-york-un.diplo.de 
The United Kingdom, India and Japan are also on the UNESCO Executive Board. The UK has recently proven to be an important ally to Israel at the UN. India has been trying to improve its relationship with Israel, and Japan is an important US ally.
Contact British diplomats at uk@un.int 

Contact Indian diplomats at india@un.int 

Contact Japanese diplomats at p-m-j@dn.mofa.go.jp 
Contact American diplomats as well. 
Contact the US Mission to the UN here or at USUNPolFax@state.gov or at (212) 415-4000.
Make the following points: 
• Tell them that this is a corruption of UNESCO's mission, which is to be "responsible for coordinating international cooperation in education, science, culture and communication."

• Let them know that the only time Jerusalem's Holy sites have been preserved and open to worship by different faith groups has been under Israeli control.

• Tell them to stop politicizing the group's mission.
2. Contact the media 

Proactively contact your local and national news outlets to demand that they report on this issue fully and fairly.

Please use the information in the alert as background for your own letter to the media. Do not copy and paste directly from the alert and do not forward it to the media.

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3. Contact your Senators and Representatives 
Remind your Senators that they just asked UNESCO to stop targeting and delegitimizing Israel. Inform your Representative that all 100 Senators have asked UNESCO to stop singling out Israel. Educate your Senators and your Representative on what is happening and on why this is so problematic. 
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