“Palestinians have vandalized a banner bearing President Barack Obama’s image just days before his visit.
The Palestinians tore down the banner, hurled shoes at it and spray painted it with swastikas. Associated Press TV video showed a taxi driving over the banner before it was set on fire in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Monday.”
“Israeli Arabs are more afraid than the Jewish public of being attacked by an enemy state, according to the annual ‘National Resilience’ survey.
“Israel’s Jewish population, meanwhile, is more calm than ever about the possibility of an attack by an enemy country, the survey revealed, reporting an all-time low on its so-called ‘fear index.’ This is a continuation of a previous trend that began in 2006. The Jewish population’s fear of terror is also reportedly at an all-time low.
“The annual ‘National Resilience’ survey has been conducted since 2000. Most recently it was conducted in November during Operation Pillar of Defense, polling 2,000 respondents, including 400 Arabs. Questions covered topics such as optimism, militancy, faith in government institutions, and fear regarding a possible attack.”
“Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called on Congress to impose “severe economic consequences” for the U.N.’s ‘irresponsible’ action. She said the United States should cut the $600 million in annual funding for the Palestinian Authority as well as any funding for U.N. agencies that recognize Palestine as a state.
“And Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) offered an amendment to the defense bill that would cut off the almost $600 million the United States pays in U.N. dues every year.
“And Canada recalled its top diplomats in Israel and the West Bank as well as its U.N. representatives in New York City and Geneva in protest.”
Michael Lawrence @IsraelSpeaker
Mazal tov #Palestine194 on your new state that boasts no borders, no land, no rule of law, no human rights and now no realistic hope 4 peace
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Source: girlactionfigure
Honestly, I don’t understand what the drama is with Palestine’s move at the UN today. They’re still not a sovereign state. They’re not an independent authority with the rule of law over a specific region geographically. “President” Abu Mazen cannot even enter Gaza, a part of his “state.”
Frankly, the pro-Israel community is wasting its time fretting over this, especially since it’s “ascension” is as a non-member observer state. In reference to to the use of the word “state,” it’s clearly incorrect; see the above.
I’m glad my Berkeley degree in Political Science taught me at least one useful thing — sovereignty. On that note, rest assured mom and dad, I learned a lot more than that in the last four years…
Note to Yahoo! News: Israelis Seeking Shelter are not “Gaza Children”!
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Over 12,000 have emailed Twitter in the first hour of the campaign’s launch.
Irony at its finest.
Source: movedtoanewplacePro-Hamas leftist Israelis and Arab students demonstrate at HU…
…and then run to a bomb shelter when the siren goes off alerting them a Hamas rocket is on its way.
Israeli actress and model Noa Tishby speaks at a pro-Israel rally in Los Angeles. She explains the reasoning for the recent surge in violence in the south of Israel.
“Imagine the morale booster they would get from an international flotilla! Ships and boats, an armada of morality, led by a former member of the Canadian Parliament, with no one less than the iconic Apartheid-buster, Nobel Prize winner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu atop its advisory board. Imagine the international impact of a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid and the critical message to Syrians: YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN!
Forget it.
“For these human rights ‘activists,’ Syrians are as good as forgotten. There is no flotilla heading to either of the Mediterranean Syrian ports of Latakia or Tarsus. Instead, it is heading to help the ‘beleaguered’ people of a few miles south in— Gaza.
“But there is no invasion of Gaza, no one starving. Hamastan’s new neighbor—Muslim Brotherhood-led Egypt—has even opened the border for the transit of goods and a whole lot more.”
