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Wednesday, Aug. 03 '16, כ"ח בתמוז תשע"ו
HEADLINES:
1. NETANYAHU: I'M SHAKEN TO THE CORE OF MY BEING
2. WATCH: CRASH LANDING IN DUBAI
3. 'I WOULD NEVER KNOWINGLY LET A HEZBOLLAH JOURNALIST IN MY HOME'
4. 'YOU ONLY PROTEST WHEN IT COMES TO HELPING HAREDIM'
5. SYRIAN FORCES CLOSE IN ON ALEPPO
6. WATCH: FRENCH TEENS SET BUS ABLAZE, SHOUT 'ALLAHU AKHBAR'
7. BORDER POLICEMAN WHO GRABBED BIKE SUSPENDED, UNDER INVESTIGATION
8. TRUMP: GET THE BABY OUTTA HERE
1. NETANYAHU: I'M SHAKEN TO THE CORE OF MY BEING
by Arutz Sheva Staff
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took time today (Wednesday) to address the video that shows a Palestinian father asking Israeli Border Police to shoot his son.
"I've just watched a video that shook me to the core of my being. In just a few seconds, it shows why our conflict persists," opened the Prime Minster.
"A Palestinian father holds up his 4-year-old son. He pleads with Israeli border police to kill his own child. He shouts, "Shoot this little boy!" His boy. He pushes his young son forward toward the soldiers and screams, "Kill him! Shoot him!" The boy pauses. He is scared. Any child would be.
He turns back, looking at his father for guidance.
"With his shirt tightly tucked into his bright red shorts, the boy ambles forward towards the soldiers. One of them extends his hand in friendship. The boy gives him a high-five.
"It's hard to make a four-year-old hate."
Netanyahu then turned to address the parents of the world, urging them to think of their own children in this child's place.
"Imagine your own child at that age. Think of his smile. Imagine her laugh. Picture the unrestrained joy and innocence that only a child possesses. Encouraging someone to murder a child - let alone your own child - is probably the most inhumane thing a person can do.
"What did this child do to deserve this? The answer is: nothing. He is innocent. He should be in a playground. He should be in the sun, laughing with other children.
"Sadly, this father's crime is not an isolated example. In Gaza, Hamas runs summer camps that teach children to value death over life - suicide kindergarten camps.
"The Palestinian Ministry of Education in Ramallah recently organized an event for students to honor terrorists who murdered three civilians. Two weeks ago, the Palestinian Authority's official newspaper praised teenage terrorists and wrote that 'death as a martyr is the path to excellence and greatness.' That's a direct quote.
"Palestinian and Israeli children deserve better. They deserve to live. They deserve to live in peace. Children are not cannon fodder. They are the most precious things in the world. They're the most precious things we have. I'm sure Palestinian parents, many of them, are as outraged as I am at this video. And today I appeal to every father and mother around the world. I ask you to join me in calling for an end to this abuse of children.
"The Palestinian leadership must stop encouraging children to kill. They must stop encouraging Palestinian parents to call for the death of their own children. It's horrendous!
"Peace begins with respect. If parents don't respect their own children's lives, how will they respect the lives of their neighbors?
"We must love all children. They should never be pushed to violence or hate.
"Join me in educating all children for peace."
2. WATCH: CRASH LANDING IN DUBAI
by Rachel Kaplan
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An Emirates Boeing 777-300 crash-landed in Dubai after it caught fire mid-air.
At around 12:50 p.m. local time, Emirates flight EK521 from Thiruvananthapuram, India, crash-landed in Dubai airport, when its engines caught fire mid-air. The pilot sent out a distress signal beforehand.
Emirates airline said that there were 275 passengers on board including crew members.
There were 275 passengers and crew on board. Our main priority now is the safety and well-being of all involved.— Emirates airline (@emirates) August 3, 2016
The busy international terminal immediately closed to both incoming and outgoing flights.
The Dubai Media Office tweeted: "All passengers were evacuated safely and no injuries have been reported so far.
"Concerned Authorities at Dubai International Airport are dealing with the incident at the moment to ensure safety of all," the office wrote.
Dubai airport right now. Flight coming from India pic.twitter.com/Uqu5eNlBZZ— apascual tb (@apaspo1957) August 3, 2016
This is a developing story
3. 'I WOULD NEVER KNOWINGLY LET A HEZBOLLAH JOURNALIST IN MY HOME'
by Tal Polon
Tomer Weinberg, the soldier who survived the incident during which Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were kidnapped by Hezbollah and which sparked the Second Lebanon War, talked for the first time about the documentary for which he was unknowingly interviewed for Hezbollah TV.
"Anybody that knows me can testify that I stay away from the press, and knows how bad this makes me feel. An impostor masquerading as an Italian journalist badgered me for months for an interview that was presumably to be broadcast in Italy as a commemoration of the Second Lebanon War on its tenth anniversary. He even offered me money 2,000 shekels or dollars - I don't remember. Obviously, I refused.
"I said that my conscience wouldn't allow me to take money for such a thing. So he tried a different strategy: he told me that the Italian people must understand the suffering of the nation of Israel, that that side of the story must also be heard. I think that, here, he succeeding in trapping me.
"When I was being interviewed, I felt somewhat like an ambassador for Israel," Weinberg explained. "I talked about how thirsty we were for quiet and how much we want peace and, of course, about the incident itself. He drained me emotionally. I couldn't function for several days after that. He made we watch a video of the kidnapping, filming my reactions at the same time. That broke me and I couldn't continue. I didn't imagine that it was all a big lie and all the footage was going to Hezbollah."
Weinberg relates that he has suffered intense criticism in recent days on social media: "I think that anyone with any sense will understand that, with all the trauma I have suffered, I would never let a writer for Hezbollah or its ilk into my home. [I can't even stand] the mere thought that someone related to Hezbollah was in my house.
He noted, however, that he was not the only one to fall for the ruse: "People higher on the chain than I am fell for it. If Tzipi Livni and Amir Peretz, with all their communications advisers, fell for it, then I feel a little less foolish."
He concluded with a message to his detractors: "To all those that attacked me for giving an interview to Hezbollah, to all those that accused me of abandoning my friends, that I didn't take care of my friends, this post is mainly for you. Think twice before you rush to blame; there is a man behind every story, and [your hate] has the ability to damage his heart and empty him of the energy that propels him forward."
4. 'YOU ONLY PROTEST WHEN IT COMES TO HELPING HAREDIM'
by Haim Lev
As part of the coalition agreement between the haredi-oriented United Torah Judaism (UTJ) and Likud, the Knesset has passed a law that promises aid for Torah students with families, as well as those of meager means.
The law stipulates that a Torah student with a family of at least three children, whose income does not exceed 1,200 shekels a month, is eligible to receive aid to the tune of 1,040 shekels a month.
According to Assistant Minister of Finance Yitzchak Cohen, the law is equal in its treatment of societal sectors in that it also provides for university students, allotting them 120,000 shekels a year from a special fund, while apportioning 100,000 shekels for Torah students, 10,000 of whom will receive the aid stipulated by the law.
The law was attacked by representatives of Meretz and Yesh Atid, who also attacked the haredi factions that had called for its adoption.
Minister of Health Yaakov Litzman, however, defended the law, noting that past offers had been even more generous to haredim: "When [Tzipi] Livni was negotiating with us to try to form a government, she offered to give us more than you are," he noted.
MK Moshe Gafni, in turn, accused the opposition parties of hypocrisy, claiming that they only protest when it comes to helping haredim: "any time some Torah student needs help, you attack, while I, as representative of the Financial Committee, try to help all," he said.
5. SYRIAN FORCES CLOSE IN ON ALEPPO
by Rachel Kaplan
Syrian regime forces backed by heavy Russian air raids recaptured a series of hilltops and villages on the southwest edges of Aleppo city from rebel groups, a monitor said Wednesday.
The advance rolls back the short-lived gains from a rebel offensive launched on Sunday to ease the regime's siege of eastern opposition-held districts of the divided city.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government fighters seized two hilltops and two small villages in the southwest suburbs of Aleppo late Tuesday.
"The regime is launching counter-attacks to absorb the fierce rebel offensive," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
The Observatory said 50 rebels and allied jihadists had been killed since the assault began, as well as dozens of regime troops.
The Al-Watan daily, which is close to the government, reported on Wednesday that government forces "advanced again south and southwest of Aleppo because of the major setbacks" among rebel factions.
The Aleppo offensive groups fighters from Al-Qaeda's former Syria affiliate, the powerful Islamist Ahrar al-Sham and other groups.
The anti-regime fighters are seeking to capture Ramussa, a district in Aleppo's southwest suburbs, in a bid to cut off government forces and open a new route into the city for rebels.
Overnight, at least 10 civilians including four children were killed in rebel shelling of government-controlled districts on Aleppo's southwestern edges, the Observatory said.
More than 40 civilians have been killed in opposition bombardment of those neighbourhoods since Sunday.
6. WATCH: FRENCH TEENS SET BUS ABLAZE, SHOUT 'ALLAHU AKHBAR'
by Rachel Kaplan
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On July 28th, at 1:00 a.m. local time. a group of Muslim migrant teens attacked a bus on Danielle-Casanova Street, in the Saint-Denis district of Paris.
The young men stopped the bus, threatened the driver, smashed the windows, and then threw a molotov cocktail at the bus, screaming "Allahu Akhbar"!
The passengers escaped.
Mayor Didier Paillard called for a "specialized field brigade" to patrol the areas that are particularly crime-ridden to protect the citizens from the increasingly dangerous acts of vandalism.
The events come against the backdrop of rising tensions in European, especially French and German, cities, after the recent wave of terror attacks, as politicians and security authorities try to restore calm.
7. BORDER POLICEMAN WHO GRABBED BIKE SUSPENDED, UNDER INVESTIGATION
by Ido Ben Porat
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The Police Internal Investigations Department (PIID) has opened an official inquiry following the publication of a video showing a Border Policeman grabbing a little girl's bike in Hevron.
The video was filmed a week ago, and shows the policemen grabbing the bike from a little Palestinian girl who had most probably walked into an area she was prohibited to pass through.
The policeman grabbed the girl's bike and then seen walking away and tossing it into nearby bushes in the video filmed by the far-left organization "B'Tselem".
The policeman has been suspended by Border Police Command.
8. TRUMP: GET THE BABY OUTTA HERE
by Shai Landesman
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As the US election campaign heats up following both parties' conventions, the spotlight on the candidates and their personalities is sure to intensify.
For a polarizing candidate like Republican nominee Donald Trump, this is sure to mean even more incidents with even more media scrutiny about his temperament and personality.
At a campaign rally yesterday (Tuesday) in Ashburn, Virginia, a baby started crying in the audience.
At first Mr. Trump seemed to dismiss the noise as unimportant. "Don't worry about that baby, I love babies. When I hear that baby crying, I like it," Trump said to applause.
He then continued to assure the mother not to worry about it, "it's fine."
But when the baby continued crying as Trump continued his speech, things changed.
"Actually I was only kidding, you can get the baby out of here."
Turning to the rest of the crowd as the mother was leaving with the baby, Trump said jokingly: "I think she really believed me when I said I liked having a crying baby while I'm speaking. That's OK. People don't understand, but that's OK."
This seems to be precisely the kind of incident that will be interpreted by many in the media and the general public as showing that Trump doesn't have the temperament to be President, as President Obama has said, while supporters will praise the off-the-cuff, "real" nature of Trump's behavior.
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