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| Thursday, 19th May 2011 | 15 Iyyar 5771 |
| News and digest on Israel and Middle East affairs compiled by FOR ZION'S SAKE MINISTRIES. |
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| Tens of thousands of Arab protesters marking Palestinian Naqba Day (the day of the catastrophe) have marched on Israel, from Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank. The Israel Defense Forces sealed off parts of the Golan Heights with reports suggesting Syrians managed to cross into Israel. In Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of Hamas in Gaza, told thousands of worshippers to pray for an end to Israel this morning. "Palestinians mark the Naqba with great hope of bringing to an end the... [More] |
| Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday addressed the Knesset plenum as part of the Knesset's "Herzl Day" events. "We must stop beating ourselves up and blaming ourselves," Netanyahu said, "The reason there is no peace is that the Palestinians refuse to recognize the State of Israel as the Jewish people's nation state." The prime minister added, "This is not a conflict about 1967, this is a conflict about 1948, about the State of Israel's very existence. You must have... [More] |
| Separately, a group that operates from the Israeli Golan Heights and is closely tied to the Syrian regime told WND today it helped organize the riots that resulted in Israeli troops shooting Syrians who attempted to breach the border. The protests marked what the Arabs refer to as the Nakba, or "tragedy" of Israel's founding. A leader of the Committees for the Liberation of the Golan Heights confirmed to WND the group was behind the planning of today's demonstrations at the Syrian border... [More] |
| Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' intention to seek unilateral recognition for a Palestinian state is really a program to hound Israel in international organizations, return it to indefensible borders and flood it with millions of Arab refugees and their descendants. In short, it is a blueprint for the destruction of the Jewish state. Abbas' strategy, as outlined in the New York Times May 17, would allow the Palestinians to circumvent negotiations with Israel - negotiations intended to ensure both states... [More] |
| MUNICH, Germany - A German court sentenced John Demjanjuk to five years in prison on Thursday for his role in the killing of 27,900 Jews at the Nazi death camp Sobibor. His lawyers will appeal the verdict. The Munich court found the 91-year-old guilty of being an accessory to mass murder as a guard at Sobibor camp in Poland during World War Two. "Humanity owed this to the memory of the tortured and the dead," Elan Steinberg of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and... [More] |
| Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan sat down with US talk show host Charlie Rose Wednesday evening to discuss the issue of a future Palestinian state and the factions that would control it. "[Hamas] won the elections, they had ministers, and they had parliament speakers who were imprisoned by Israel, about 35 ministers and members of parliament in Israel prisons," he said to Rose, adding emphatically that he does not believe Hamas is a terrorist group... [More] |
| Israel agreed on Sunday to release millions of dollars in suspended tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority after receiving assurances the money will not fall into the hands of the Hamas. Earlier this month, Jerusalem blocked the routine handover of about NIS 300 million ($88 million) in customs and other levies it collects on behalf of the Palestinians after PA President Mahmoud Abbas struck a unity deal with his Hamas rivals. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said at the time he would only allow...[More] |
| Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke with newly resigned US envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell and thanked him for his efforts to promote the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the PMO said in a statement released on Saturday. Netanyahu told Mitchell he was sorry to hear of his resignation. The prime minister also expressed sorrow at what he called the Palestinian refusal to come to the negotiating table. He blamed the Palestinian Authority's setting of preconditions for... [More] |
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