GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
ISAIAH 41:11
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)
ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(WAR PLANES WITH BOMBS) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)
THE ARABS JUST WILL NOT STOP TRYING TO KILL JEWS.THATS WHY GOD WILL ALLOW ISRAEL TO TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS TO DESTROY THEIR ENEMIES LIKE THIS VERSE SAYS.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(disolved from atomic bomb) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(disolved from atomic bomb) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(disolved from atomic bomb)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
3 border police injured in West Bank car-ramming attack-One officer in serious condition after second attack of the day; IDF combing Hebron area for assailants-By Judah Ari Gross November 1, 2015, 5:01 pm 5-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Three Israeli Border Police officers were injured Sunday in an apparent car-ramming attack near the Palestinian village of Beit Anun, near Hebron, hours after a local man attempted to stab an IDF soldier at the same location.One of the officers sustained serious injuries from a head wound and was evacuated to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center, the Magen David Adom emergency service said.The other two sustained light injuries and were taken to the city’s Shaare Zedek Hospital.The attacker fled the scene after hitting the officers, and the IDF was searching the area for the assailant, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.IDF soldiers fired at the vehicle, which bore Palestinian license plates, before it fled.Earlier on Sunday afternoon, IDF soldiers shot dead a 29-year-old resident of Beit Anun who lunged at them with a knife.The army said the incident occurred during a “violent riot” in the area.No Israelis were injured in the incident.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Foiling stabbing, soldiers kill armed Palestinian near Hebron-No one else injured in incident near Beit Anun, which takes place during violent riot-By Times of Israel staff November 1, 2015, 2:39 pm 3
IDF soldiers on Sunday shot dead a Palestinian who lunged at them with a knife near Hebron, the army said in a statement.The soldiers were not injured in the attempted attack, which took place near the West Bank Palestinian village of Beit Anun, north of the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba.The army said the incident occurred during a “violent riot” in the area.According to police, the attacker was a 29-year-old resident of Beit Anun.The thwarted attack came a day after a Palestinian armed with a knife tried to stab Israeli guards at the Gilboa/Jalama crossing near the West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday morning, and was shot dead. The checkpoint is manned by private security guards alongside IDF troops. The Jenin attacker was later named as Mahmoud Talel Nazal, aged 17, from the village of Kabatiyeh in the northern West Bank, Channel 10 television reported.On Friday, two Israelis were wounded in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, the first in the capital for almost two weeks. The attacker was shot dead by security forces.A would-be attacker was also killed and another injured when they were shot as they tried to stab Border Police officers at the checkpoint at Tapuah Junction in the West Bank.
President Abbas, tell your people to stop stabbing us-Op-ed: I don’t think you care about my people. But if you care about yours, you should tell them that suicidal stabbings are not the path to Paradise… or statehood-By David Horovitz November 1, 2015, 4:50 pm 5-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
President Abbas, if you truly care about your people, you need to tell them to stop stabbing us.They’ve killed about a dozen Israelis in the last month or so, and maybe three times that number of Palestinians have died in the attempt — suicidal stabbers, kamikaze knifers.You’ve not condemned them. In fact, you’ve encouraged them — while simultaneously peddling the double-speak that we’ve been killing them in cold blood. You’ve publicly declared that “every drop of blood that has been spilled for Jerusalem” is clean and pure and blessed. You’ve reassured each new prospective killer that “every martyr will reach Paradise, and everyone wounded will be rewarded by Allah.”You obviously don’t care about our people, who have had the temerity to build a thriving Jewish state in our historic homeland, and who you lie about and incite against. But since your people understandably seek their own independence, and to be freed from our rule, you need to tell them that trying to kill us one at a time with knives and screwdrivers and whatever else comes to hand is as counterproductive and doomed as the long series of previous efforts to massacre and terrorize us into leaving — the conventional wars, and the suicide bombings, and the rockets, and the car-rammings, and the relentless effort to demonize and delegitimize and isolate us internationally.The path to the statehood and independence you seek is actually relatively straightforward. It was wide open in 1947 — all your predecessors had to do for a first-ever Palestine was accept a revived Israel. Instead, they opted for war and futile, bloody, tragic self-sabotage. Today, it’s a case of convincing Israel that it is safe for us to partner with you. Convincing us, to paraphrase president Bill Clinton at the Rabin rally on Saturday night, that the risks of peace are less severe than the risks of walking away.Step one in that process of persuasion: Stop trying to kill us. Stop the stabbings. Stop the encouragement of the stabbings. Stop.Here’s the thing: Much of the world has been convinced that we’re the Goliath to your David. That super-strong Israel, a regional superpower, should be eminently capable of taking those US president-recommended risks for the cause of your people’s statehood and our own legitimacy and tranquility.Even viewed in the narrow context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, however, that’s a short-sighted assessment. We all saw Hamas partially incapacitate this country for 50 days last summer — and that was a Hamas restricted to Gaza and arming itself through the cracks of our security blockade. A West Bank-controlled Hamas would fully paralyze Israel.And if you look at the Goliath-David equation in the wider context — in the context of tiny Israel on the western edge of the vicious, shifting, unpredictable and weapons-filled Middle East — then it’s a frankly ridiculous misrepresentation. Israel is not about to render itself still more vulnerable to extremism on three sides, and with only the sea on the fourth. Better press coverage and warm messages of support from the international community are somewhat inadequate compensation for national suicide.The irony, President Abbas, is that most of us want to partner your people to statehood. We don’t want to rule over you. We know it’s a dreadful way for you to live. And imposing it corrodes us. We feel a resonant historical link to biblical Judea and Samaria, but most of us would much rather have a smaller Israel which boasts a Jewish majority and full equality than a larger Israel, encompassing the West Bank, that loses its Jewish character, its democracy, or both.Yet just like your duplicitous predecessor, you’re making it impossible for us to attempt that partnership.You may think you’re making headway with the UN efforts and the international court bids and all the other legal and diplomatic and media pressure to try to impose your state upon us without negotiating viable modalities, but you’re not. Unfortunately, quite the reverse.We tried the Oslo process, and were rewarded with terrorism. We tried unilateralism, and were rewarded with rockets and tunnels. So now we’re hanging tough — protecting ourselves as best we can, insistently maintaining that security blockade on Gaza, and insistently maintaining the military presence in the West Bank without which we would right now doubtless be facing another onslaught of suicide bombers.It’s not that we adore and embrace the worldview of our endlessly serving prime minister. We don’t, most of us, grimly accept his bleak reported assertion to the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee last week that “Israel will have to live by the sword forever.” We certainly will live by the sword for as long as we must, but we’d much rather not. We’d much rather not send our children to the front lines to protect us for generation after generation. We feel, many of us, that there is more we could do to help begin to create a climate in which peacemaking is less risky, to help begin the lengthy process of reconciliation and tolerance that, maybe, one day, could enable us to peacefully share this bloodied land. But unlike well-intentioned American leaders of past and present, we do not have the luxury of blinding ourselves to the consequences of taking ill-judged and premature risks in that supreme cause of peace-making.For all your despicable false accusations against us, your advanced years, and your weakness, you, President Abbas, still have more power than most anybody else to help advance the gradual process of moderation that is crucial to realizing your own people’s aspiration for statehood. You are best placed to tell your people that the Jews have legitimacy here too. That the disputed land must be shared. That Jerusalem is holy to all monotheistic religions. That despite your rhetorical attempted land grab, the Old City — where Al-Aqsa sits, and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher sits, and the Temple Mount and Western Wall sit — is not yours and yours alone.They won’t like to hear it. Fed a relentless diet of lies for generations, they won’t easily believe it. They won’t like you for telling them. But that’s sometimes what leadership is about — taking your constituents, even against their will, in a better direction for their own best interests.You should tell your people the inconvenient truth about the Jews and their history in these parts. Far from encouraging them to stab us, you should tell them that the sooner they stop, the sooner we can start the long process of building trust — the necessary prerequisite to compromise and Palestinian independence. Sadly, I don’t for a second think you’re going to do this. I fear you’re going to be remembered, just like your unlamented predecessor, as a Palestinian leader who failed his people because he lacked the guts to tell them the hard, inconvenient facts. And in so doing, pushed off their independence, and forced us to live by the sword, for who knows how many more years.No, President Abbas, God does not reward those who spill the blood of innocents. There are no killing fields on the path to Paradise. If you care about your people, you should be telling them to preserve lives, not take them. Our lives and theirs.And really, in what kind of a crazy world was it necessary for me to write this?
Russian plane broke apart ‘in the air,’ say experts-3 wounded in West Bank vehicle attack, at same spot where attempted stabbing was foiled earlier near Palestinian village of Beit Anun-By Adiv Sterman November 1, 2015, 1:49 pm 5-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
17:44-Rocks hurled at West Bank road, none injured-Palestinians hurl stones at a junction between the West Bank Jewish settlements of Kochav Hashahar and Tapuah, in the Binyamin Regional Council.No injuries or damage are reported.-17:42-Road west of Hebron blocked for fear of shooting-Route 35 west of Hebron is closed to traffic for all vehicles after it was reported that shots were fired in the area.The entrances to the settlements of Adora and Telem are blocked off as well, Walla reports.-17:42-Woman lightly injured in stone throwning near Hebron-A woman is lightly injured by stones thrown at her vehicle south of the West Bank city of Hebron.Damage was caused to the vehicle’s windshield, the Walla news site reports.-17:03-Russian plane broke apart ‘in the air’-The Russian Airbus that crashed in Egypt broke apart “in the air,” a senior official with Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee says.“The disintegration happened in the air and the fragments are strewn over a large area,” committee chief Viktor Sorochenko was quoted as saying by RIA-Novosti news agency in Cairo, where he is part of an international panel of experts from Russia, Egypt, France and Ireland.— AFP-16:56-LGBT Association files petition for same-sex marriage-Israel’s LGBT Association files a petition to the High Court demanding that marriage between same-sex couples be recognized.The petition is the first of its kind to be filed by the association.“According to previous rulings, if the rabbinical court does not recognize [same sex] marriage, the High Court has the authority to approve marriages in the civil courts,” the association says in a statement.Despite widespread public support for same-sex marriage – a 2013 poll by the daily Haaretz found 70 percent of Israelis backing it – Israel’s contentious parliamentary politics have not been able to translate that support into legislation.Israeli marriages are performed under laws inherited from Ottoman times that grant each Israeli religious community’s state-recognized leadership sole jurisdiction over marriage. These Ottoman religious communal structures, called millets, were continued by the British mandate. After Israel’s 1948 independence, Israel too maintained the system, citing among other considerations its obligations to the country’s minorities.As a consequence, marriages in Israel are performed only through religious institutions. Jewish couples must marry through the Chief Rabbinate, and Catholics, Druze and Muslims all marry through their own state-sanctioned and publicly funded religious legal systems.In that light, while same-sex marriage is not actually illegal in Israel, there simply isn’t any institution empowered to perform such marriages.
Diplomats to learn to defend ‘legality of settlements’-Deputy Foreign Minister Hotovely changes cadets’ course to include right-slanted tours of West Bank and East Jerusalem’s City of David archaeological site-By Times of Israel staff November 1, 2015, 12:59 pm 4
Foreign Ministry cadets will tour West Bank settlements and learn how to defend their legality, as well as hear lectures on Judaism and tour the City of David archaeological site in East Jerusalem, officials said Sunday, in a rightward shift for the country’s diplomatic corps.The new additions to the cadet course are a joint effort of Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovel and Foreign Ministry director Dore Gold, a confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The foreign minister post is held by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Both ministry officials believe the modified cadet course will help fledgling diplomats “honestly represent the positions of the Israeli government,” Army Radio quoted unnamed Foreign Ministry sources as saying.Among the new classes added to the cadet course are a lecture on the legality of Jewish settlements in the West Bank based on the claim that the West Bank is not occupied territory; a tour of the City of David in the Silwan neighborhood near the Old City guided by David Be’eri, an official of the right-wing NGO Elad, which administers the site; a tour of the settlements guided by settler leader Benny Katzover; and a tour of the Jordan Valley devoted to the subject of Israel’s borders. This last talk will be given by Uzi Dayan, a former IDF general.“We think it doesn’t matter what your political positions are – you must know that the Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria is legal,” Hotovely told Army Radio on Sunday, using a biblical term for the West Bank.“When I say legal, I also mean international law. It is settlement with a historical base and very deep roots,” she said.Foreign Ministry officials told the Walla news website that Hotovely felt the cadets course had been “stuck in the same place” for years and needed to be updated.Changes in the course’s schedule are intended to “give diplomats tools to cope with the tough questions Israeli must answer today in the international diplomatic and legal arena,” an official said.Hotovely, a hawkish lawmaker in Likud, was recently reprimanded by Prime Minister Netanyahu for saying that she “dreams” of building the Third Temple at the Temple Mount.
Khamenei takes aim at ‘Zionist regime’ in major address-Iranian supreme leader says US support of Israel makes proposed cooperation on Syria ‘meaningless’-By Raoul Wootliff and AFP November 1, 2015, 5:38 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Iran’s supreme leader dismissed Sunday the prospect of cooperation with the US on regional issues, saying the latter’s support for Israel highlighted the incompatible policies of the two countries.“The main factor of insecurity in the region is US support for the Zionist regime and terrorist groups,” Khamenei said.In a wide-ranging speech on foreign policy, which was also shared on an official government Twitter account, the ayatollah cited US opposition to an Iranian proposal for Palestinian elections to “decide the fate of the Zionists and the settlers.”“We have proposed an election with all Palestinians participating in it, which is in full compliance with all common principles of the world,” he said, slamming the US for “opposing our logical proposal.”Khamenei also took aim at wider US policy in the Middle East. “Contrary to some people’s views, America is the main part of the problem in the region, not part of the solution.”The comments, delivered to Iran’s ambassadors and other top diplomats, were Khamenei’s first since his country joined on Friday international talks in Vienna on the four-year conflict wracking Tehran’s ally Syria.Khamenei said Syria’s people must choose for themselves who their leader would be, rather than US and other foreign powers deciding for them.“The Americans seek to impose their own interests, not solve problems. They want to impose 60, 70 percent of their will in negotiations. So what’s the point of negotiations?” he said, appearing to discount the value of the Vienna talks.Khamenei said the military and financial support given to rebels fighting Assad, principally from Gulf states and the US, must be stopped.This would allow an end to the war and ensure “Syrian people elect whomever they want in a safe and peaceful environment,” he added, without mentioning Iran’s support for Assad.Iran denies fighting alongside Syrian troops and militias, but in recent weeks stepped up its deployment of military advisers. More than a dozen have been killed in the past fortnight.Top diplomats from 17 countries, as well as the United Nations and the European Union, had gathered in Austria to narrow their divisions over Syria’s war, which has killed more than 250,000 people. For the first time, the meeting brought together all the main outside players in the crisis, including Russia and Iran, key allies of the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.The Syrian regime and the opposition were not represented.Iran and the US held direct talks in the past two years leading to a deal on the Islamic republic’s nuclear program but after the July 14 agreement Khamenei banned direct talks on regional issues.“There’s no point in other countries getting together and deciding about a system of government and the head of that state,” he said Sunday.“This is a dangerous innovation which no government in the world would accept being imposed on itself. The solution to Syria’s problem is elections.”
Government bill would oblige NGOs to declare foreign funding-Representatives would also have to wear tags at the Knesset, like lobbyists; bill seen as effort to stifle left-wing groups-By Times of Israel staff November 1, 2015, 5:26 pm
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked was set to publish Sunday a memorandum on a cabinet-sponsored bill that would obligate groups that receive funding from foreign countries to note that fact on all official publications or letters to civil servants.Representatives of such non-governmental organizations will also be required to wear a tag whenever they attend sessions in the Knesset, declaring the involvement of foreign countries in funding their groups.The bill would have NGO representatives wear a tag similar to those worn by lobbyists — or face a fine of some NIS 29,000 ($7,500).Almost all of the groups that would be affected by the bill are identified with the political left.“The blatant interference of foreign governments in internal matters of the State of Israel with money is an unprecedented, widespread phenomenon that violates of all rules and norms in relations between democratic countries. Financial support by foreign countries to NGOs acting in the internal Israeli sphere destabilizes the sovereignty of the State of Israel and calls into question the authority of the government that was elected by the public,” Shaked said.As an example, she said that Israelis “all saw how the report by the UN’s commission of inquiry on war crimes during Operation Protective Edge,” which is what Israel calls its war last summer with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, “was based on testimony by Israeli non-governmental organizations like B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence and Adalah.”B’Tselem and Adalah are two NGOs dedicated to safeguarding Palestinians’ human rights; Breaking the Silence is an organization that collects testimony from IDF soldiers.Before it was adopted by the cabinet, the bill was sponsored as private legislation by Shaked’s colleague in the Jewish Home party, MK Bezalel Smotrich. The bill is expected to encounter fewer hurdles now that the cabinet has given it its sponsorship.NGOs likely to be affected by the bill were quick to criticize it.Shaked “is breaking records for cynicism when she uses the word ‘transpar ency’ in order to hide her true goal: to badmouth and besmirch organizations criticizing the occupation and opposing the government’s policy,” B’Tselem spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli said in a statement.“Today, [even] without such bills, B’Tselem publishes its list of donors with great pride and will continue to act fearlessly in exposing the reality of life in the territories,” she said.“If the justice minister and prime minister are so afraid of foreign interference in Israeli politics, they should first give back the millions they received for their campaigns from foreign tycoons, which were in fact the large majority of contributions received by the heads of the Likud and Jewish Home parties,” Michaeli added.She was apparently referring to international casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who supports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with other rich foreigners.Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, said the bill was meant “to mark political groups that voice other opinions and criticize the government’s policies. Surely the justice minister knows that registered NGOs, including Adalah, lawfully submit financial reports to the government on a regular basis and this data can even be found on the NGO’s website.”Adalah said that funding from foreign sources for human rights groups is “acceptable and even necessary in regimes where a serious problem of human rights violations exists.”
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
ISAIAH 41:11
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)
ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(WAR PLANES WITH BOMBS) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)
THE ARABS JUST WILL NOT STOP TRYING TO KILL JEWS.THATS WHY GOD WILL ALLOW ISRAEL TO TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS TO DESTROY THEIR ENEMIES LIKE THIS VERSE SAYS.
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(disolved from atomic bomb) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(disolved from atomic bomb) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(disolved from atomic bomb)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)
3 border police injured in West Bank car-ramming attack-One officer in serious condition after second attack of the day; IDF combing Hebron area for assailants-By Judah Ari Gross November 1, 2015, 5:01 pm 5-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Three Israeli Border Police officers were injured Sunday in an apparent car-ramming attack near the Palestinian village of Beit Anun, near Hebron, hours after a local man attempted to stab an IDF soldier at the same location.One of the officers sustained serious injuries from a head wound and was evacuated to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center, the Magen David Adom emergency service said.The other two sustained light injuries and were taken to the city’s Shaare Zedek Hospital.The attacker fled the scene after hitting the officers, and the IDF was searching the area for the assailant, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.IDF soldiers fired at the vehicle, which bore Palestinian license plates, before it fled.Earlier on Sunday afternoon, IDF soldiers shot dead a 29-year-old resident of Beit Anun who lunged at them with a knife.The army said the incident occurred during a “violent riot” in the area.No Israelis were injured in the incident.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Foiling stabbing, soldiers kill armed Palestinian near Hebron-No one else injured in incident near Beit Anun, which takes place during violent riot-By Times of Israel staff November 1, 2015, 2:39 pm 3
IDF soldiers on Sunday shot dead a Palestinian who lunged at them with a knife near Hebron, the army said in a statement.The soldiers were not injured in the attempted attack, which took place near the West Bank Palestinian village of Beit Anun, north of the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba.The army said the incident occurred during a “violent riot” in the area.According to police, the attacker was a 29-year-old resident of Beit Anun.The thwarted attack came a day after a Palestinian armed with a knife tried to stab Israeli guards at the Gilboa/Jalama crossing near the West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday morning, and was shot dead. The checkpoint is manned by private security guards alongside IDF troops. The Jenin attacker was later named as Mahmoud Talel Nazal, aged 17, from the village of Kabatiyeh in the northern West Bank, Channel 10 television reported.On Friday, two Israelis were wounded in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem, the first in the capital for almost two weeks. The attacker was shot dead by security forces.A would-be attacker was also killed and another injured when they were shot as they tried to stab Border Police officers at the checkpoint at Tapuah Junction in the West Bank.
President Abbas, tell your people to stop stabbing us-Op-ed: I don’t think you care about my people. But if you care about yours, you should tell them that suicidal stabbings are not the path to Paradise… or statehood-By David Horovitz November 1, 2015, 4:50 pm 5-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
President Abbas, if you truly care about your people, you need to tell them to stop stabbing us.They’ve killed about a dozen Israelis in the last month or so, and maybe three times that number of Palestinians have died in the attempt — suicidal stabbers, kamikaze knifers.You’ve not condemned them. In fact, you’ve encouraged them — while simultaneously peddling the double-speak that we’ve been killing them in cold blood. You’ve publicly declared that “every drop of blood that has been spilled for Jerusalem” is clean and pure and blessed. You’ve reassured each new prospective killer that “every martyr will reach Paradise, and everyone wounded will be rewarded by Allah.”You obviously don’t care about our people, who have had the temerity to build a thriving Jewish state in our historic homeland, and who you lie about and incite against. But since your people understandably seek their own independence, and to be freed from our rule, you need to tell them that trying to kill us one at a time with knives and screwdrivers and whatever else comes to hand is as counterproductive and doomed as the long series of previous efforts to massacre and terrorize us into leaving — the conventional wars, and the suicide bombings, and the rockets, and the car-rammings, and the relentless effort to demonize and delegitimize and isolate us internationally.The path to the statehood and independence you seek is actually relatively straightforward. It was wide open in 1947 — all your predecessors had to do for a first-ever Palestine was accept a revived Israel. Instead, they opted for war and futile, bloody, tragic self-sabotage. Today, it’s a case of convincing Israel that it is safe for us to partner with you. Convincing us, to paraphrase president Bill Clinton at the Rabin rally on Saturday night, that the risks of peace are less severe than the risks of walking away.Step one in that process of persuasion: Stop trying to kill us. Stop the stabbings. Stop the encouragement of the stabbings. Stop.Here’s the thing: Much of the world has been convinced that we’re the Goliath to your David. That super-strong Israel, a regional superpower, should be eminently capable of taking those US president-recommended risks for the cause of your people’s statehood and our own legitimacy and tranquility.Even viewed in the narrow context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, however, that’s a short-sighted assessment. We all saw Hamas partially incapacitate this country for 50 days last summer — and that was a Hamas restricted to Gaza and arming itself through the cracks of our security blockade. A West Bank-controlled Hamas would fully paralyze Israel.And if you look at the Goliath-David equation in the wider context — in the context of tiny Israel on the western edge of the vicious, shifting, unpredictable and weapons-filled Middle East — then it’s a frankly ridiculous misrepresentation. Israel is not about to render itself still more vulnerable to extremism on three sides, and with only the sea on the fourth. Better press coverage and warm messages of support from the international community are somewhat inadequate compensation for national suicide.The irony, President Abbas, is that most of us want to partner your people to statehood. We don’t want to rule over you. We know it’s a dreadful way for you to live. And imposing it corrodes us. We feel a resonant historical link to biblical Judea and Samaria, but most of us would much rather have a smaller Israel which boasts a Jewish majority and full equality than a larger Israel, encompassing the West Bank, that loses its Jewish character, its democracy, or both.Yet just like your duplicitous predecessor, you’re making it impossible for us to attempt that partnership.You may think you’re making headway with the UN efforts and the international court bids and all the other legal and diplomatic and media pressure to try to impose your state upon us without negotiating viable modalities, but you’re not. Unfortunately, quite the reverse.We tried the Oslo process, and were rewarded with terrorism. We tried unilateralism, and were rewarded with rockets and tunnels. So now we’re hanging tough — protecting ourselves as best we can, insistently maintaining that security blockade on Gaza, and insistently maintaining the military presence in the West Bank without which we would right now doubtless be facing another onslaught of suicide bombers.It’s not that we adore and embrace the worldview of our endlessly serving prime minister. We don’t, most of us, grimly accept his bleak reported assertion to the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee last week that “Israel will have to live by the sword forever.” We certainly will live by the sword for as long as we must, but we’d much rather not. We’d much rather not send our children to the front lines to protect us for generation after generation. We feel, many of us, that there is more we could do to help begin to create a climate in which peacemaking is less risky, to help begin the lengthy process of reconciliation and tolerance that, maybe, one day, could enable us to peacefully share this bloodied land. But unlike well-intentioned American leaders of past and present, we do not have the luxury of blinding ourselves to the consequences of taking ill-judged and premature risks in that supreme cause of peace-making.For all your despicable false accusations against us, your advanced years, and your weakness, you, President Abbas, still have more power than most anybody else to help advance the gradual process of moderation that is crucial to realizing your own people’s aspiration for statehood. You are best placed to tell your people that the Jews have legitimacy here too. That the disputed land must be shared. That Jerusalem is holy to all monotheistic religions. That despite your rhetorical attempted land grab, the Old City — where Al-Aqsa sits, and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher sits, and the Temple Mount and Western Wall sit — is not yours and yours alone.They won’t like to hear it. Fed a relentless diet of lies for generations, they won’t easily believe it. They won’t like you for telling them. But that’s sometimes what leadership is about — taking your constituents, even against their will, in a better direction for their own best interests.You should tell your people the inconvenient truth about the Jews and their history in these parts. Far from encouraging them to stab us, you should tell them that the sooner they stop, the sooner we can start the long process of building trust — the necessary prerequisite to compromise and Palestinian independence. Sadly, I don’t for a second think you’re going to do this. I fear you’re going to be remembered, just like your unlamented predecessor, as a Palestinian leader who failed his people because he lacked the guts to tell them the hard, inconvenient facts. And in so doing, pushed off their independence, and forced us to live by the sword, for who knows how many more years.No, President Abbas, God does not reward those who spill the blood of innocents. There are no killing fields on the path to Paradise. If you care about your people, you should be telling them to preserve lives, not take them. Our lives and theirs.And really, in what kind of a crazy world was it necessary for me to write this?
Russian plane broke apart ‘in the air,’ say experts-3 wounded in West Bank vehicle attack, at same spot where attempted stabbing was foiled earlier near Palestinian village of Beit Anun-By Adiv Sterman November 1, 2015, 1:49 pm 5-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
17:44-Rocks hurled at West Bank road, none injured-Palestinians hurl stones at a junction between the West Bank Jewish settlements of Kochav Hashahar and Tapuah, in the Binyamin Regional Council.No injuries or damage are reported.-17:42-Road west of Hebron blocked for fear of shooting-Route 35 west of Hebron is closed to traffic for all vehicles after it was reported that shots were fired in the area.The entrances to the settlements of Adora and Telem are blocked off as well, Walla reports.-17:42-Woman lightly injured in stone throwning near Hebron-A woman is lightly injured by stones thrown at her vehicle south of the West Bank city of Hebron.Damage was caused to the vehicle’s windshield, the Walla news site reports.-17:03-Russian plane broke apart ‘in the air’-The Russian Airbus that crashed in Egypt broke apart “in the air,” a senior official with Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee says.“The disintegration happened in the air and the fragments are strewn over a large area,” committee chief Viktor Sorochenko was quoted as saying by RIA-Novosti news agency in Cairo, where he is part of an international panel of experts from Russia, Egypt, France and Ireland.— AFP-16:56-LGBT Association files petition for same-sex marriage-Israel’s LGBT Association files a petition to the High Court demanding that marriage between same-sex couples be recognized.The petition is the first of its kind to be filed by the association.“According to previous rulings, if the rabbinical court does not recognize [same sex] marriage, the High Court has the authority to approve marriages in the civil courts,” the association says in a statement.Despite widespread public support for same-sex marriage – a 2013 poll by the daily Haaretz found 70 percent of Israelis backing it – Israel’s contentious parliamentary politics have not been able to translate that support into legislation.Israeli marriages are performed under laws inherited from Ottoman times that grant each Israeli religious community’s state-recognized leadership sole jurisdiction over marriage. These Ottoman religious communal structures, called millets, were continued by the British mandate. After Israel’s 1948 independence, Israel too maintained the system, citing among other considerations its obligations to the country’s minorities.As a consequence, marriages in Israel are performed only through religious institutions. Jewish couples must marry through the Chief Rabbinate, and Catholics, Druze and Muslims all marry through their own state-sanctioned and publicly funded religious legal systems.In that light, while same-sex marriage is not actually illegal in Israel, there simply isn’t any institution empowered to perform such marriages.
Diplomats to learn to defend ‘legality of settlements’-Deputy Foreign Minister Hotovely changes cadets’ course to include right-slanted tours of West Bank and East Jerusalem’s City of David archaeological site-By Times of Israel staff November 1, 2015, 12:59 pm 4
Foreign Ministry cadets will tour West Bank settlements and learn how to defend their legality, as well as hear lectures on Judaism and tour the City of David archaeological site in East Jerusalem, officials said Sunday, in a rightward shift for the country’s diplomatic corps.The new additions to the cadet course are a joint effort of Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovel and Foreign Ministry director Dore Gold, a confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The foreign minister post is held by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Both ministry officials believe the modified cadet course will help fledgling diplomats “honestly represent the positions of the Israeli government,” Army Radio quoted unnamed Foreign Ministry sources as saying.Among the new classes added to the cadet course are a lecture on the legality of Jewish settlements in the West Bank based on the claim that the West Bank is not occupied territory; a tour of the City of David in the Silwan neighborhood near the Old City guided by David Be’eri, an official of the right-wing NGO Elad, which administers the site; a tour of the settlements guided by settler leader Benny Katzover; and a tour of the Jordan Valley devoted to the subject of Israel’s borders. This last talk will be given by Uzi Dayan, a former IDF general.“We think it doesn’t matter what your political positions are – you must know that the Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria is legal,” Hotovely told Army Radio on Sunday, using a biblical term for the West Bank.“When I say legal, I also mean international law. It is settlement with a historical base and very deep roots,” she said.Foreign Ministry officials told the Walla news website that Hotovely felt the cadets course had been “stuck in the same place” for years and needed to be updated.Changes in the course’s schedule are intended to “give diplomats tools to cope with the tough questions Israeli must answer today in the international diplomatic and legal arena,” an official said.Hotovely, a hawkish lawmaker in Likud, was recently reprimanded by Prime Minister Netanyahu for saying that she “dreams” of building the Third Temple at the Temple Mount.
Khamenei takes aim at ‘Zionist regime’ in major address-Iranian supreme leader says US support of Israel makes proposed cooperation on Syria ‘meaningless’-By Raoul Wootliff and AFP November 1, 2015, 5:38 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Iran’s supreme leader dismissed Sunday the prospect of cooperation with the US on regional issues, saying the latter’s support for Israel highlighted the incompatible policies of the two countries.“The main factor of insecurity in the region is US support for the Zionist regime and terrorist groups,” Khamenei said.In a wide-ranging speech on foreign policy, which was also shared on an official government Twitter account, the ayatollah cited US opposition to an Iranian proposal for Palestinian elections to “decide the fate of the Zionists and the settlers.”“We have proposed an election with all Palestinians participating in it, which is in full compliance with all common principles of the world,” he said, slamming the US for “opposing our logical proposal.”Khamenei also took aim at wider US policy in the Middle East. “Contrary to some people’s views, America is the main part of the problem in the region, not part of the solution.”The comments, delivered to Iran’s ambassadors and other top diplomats, were Khamenei’s first since his country joined on Friday international talks in Vienna on the four-year conflict wracking Tehran’s ally Syria.Khamenei said Syria’s people must choose for themselves who their leader would be, rather than US and other foreign powers deciding for them.“The Americans seek to impose their own interests, not solve problems. They want to impose 60, 70 percent of their will in negotiations. So what’s the point of negotiations?” he said, appearing to discount the value of the Vienna talks.Khamenei said the military and financial support given to rebels fighting Assad, principally from Gulf states and the US, must be stopped.This would allow an end to the war and ensure “Syrian people elect whomever they want in a safe and peaceful environment,” he added, without mentioning Iran’s support for Assad.Iran denies fighting alongside Syrian troops and militias, but in recent weeks stepped up its deployment of military advisers. More than a dozen have been killed in the past fortnight.Top diplomats from 17 countries, as well as the United Nations and the European Union, had gathered in Austria to narrow their divisions over Syria’s war, which has killed more than 250,000 people. For the first time, the meeting brought together all the main outside players in the crisis, including Russia and Iran, key allies of the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.The Syrian regime and the opposition were not represented.Iran and the US held direct talks in the past two years leading to a deal on the Islamic republic’s nuclear program but after the July 14 agreement Khamenei banned direct talks on regional issues.“There’s no point in other countries getting together and deciding about a system of government and the head of that state,” he said Sunday.“This is a dangerous innovation which no government in the world would accept being imposed on itself. The solution to Syria’s problem is elections.”
Government bill would oblige NGOs to declare foreign funding-Representatives would also have to wear tags at the Knesset, like lobbyists; bill seen as effort to stifle left-wing groups-By Times of Israel staff November 1, 2015, 5:26 pm
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked was set to publish Sunday a memorandum on a cabinet-sponsored bill that would obligate groups that receive funding from foreign countries to note that fact on all official publications or letters to civil servants.Representatives of such non-governmental organizations will also be required to wear a tag whenever they attend sessions in the Knesset, declaring the involvement of foreign countries in funding their groups.The bill would have NGO representatives wear a tag similar to those worn by lobbyists — or face a fine of some NIS 29,000 ($7,500).Almost all of the groups that would be affected by the bill are identified with the political left.“The blatant interference of foreign governments in internal matters of the State of Israel with money is an unprecedented, widespread phenomenon that violates of all rules and norms in relations between democratic countries. Financial support by foreign countries to NGOs acting in the internal Israeli sphere destabilizes the sovereignty of the State of Israel and calls into question the authority of the government that was elected by the public,” Shaked said.As an example, she said that Israelis “all saw how the report by the UN’s commission of inquiry on war crimes during Operation Protective Edge,” which is what Israel calls its war last summer with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, “was based on testimony by Israeli non-governmental organizations like B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence and Adalah.”B’Tselem and Adalah are two NGOs dedicated to safeguarding Palestinians’ human rights; Breaking the Silence is an organization that collects testimony from IDF soldiers.Before it was adopted by the cabinet, the bill was sponsored as private legislation by Shaked’s colleague in the Jewish Home party, MK Bezalel Smotrich. The bill is expected to encounter fewer hurdles now that the cabinet has given it its sponsorship.NGOs likely to be affected by the bill were quick to criticize it.Shaked “is breaking records for cynicism when she uses the word ‘transpar ency’ in order to hide her true goal: to badmouth and besmirch organizations criticizing the occupation and opposing the government’s policy,” B’Tselem spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli said in a statement.“Today, [even] without such bills, B’Tselem publishes its list of donors with great pride and will continue to act fearlessly in exposing the reality of life in the territories,” she said.“If the justice minister and prime minister are so afraid of foreign interference in Israeli politics, they should first give back the millions they received for their campaigns from foreign tycoons, which were in fact the large majority of contributions received by the heads of the Likud and Jewish Home parties,” Michaeli added.She was apparently referring to international casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who supports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with other rich foreigners.Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, said the bill was meant “to mark political groups that voice other opinions and criticize the government’s policies. Surely the justice minister knows that registered NGOs, including Adalah, lawfully submit financial reports to the government on a regular basis and this data can even be found on the NGO’s website.”Adalah said that funding from foreign sources for human rights groups is “acceptable and even necessary in regimes where a serious problem of human rights violations exists.”
