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Thursday, Oct. 13 '16, י"א בתשרי תשע"ז
HEADLINES:
1. UN MEETING TOO ANTI-ISRAEL FOR PEACE NOW - BUT NOT B'TSELEM
2. BENNETT'S ULTIMATUM: DELAY AMONA DEMOLITION
3. MOTHER OF MURDERED TEEN RIPS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR TERROR SUPPORTERS
4. VICTIM RECOUNTS DEADLY ACCIDENT IN GEORGIA
5. UNITED NATIONS: WESTERN WALL NOT JEWISH
6. CONNECTICUT CRASH APPARENTLY A SUICIDE
7. INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY HAPPENING NOW IN BET EL...
8. ISRAELI FILMMAKER SHOWS GENOCIDE THROUGH THE EYES OF ITS VICTIMS
1. UN MEETING TOO ANTI-ISRAEL FOR PEACE NOW - BUT NOT B'TSELEM
by David Rosenberg
An Israeli non-governmental organization has partnered up with the PLO delegation at the United Nations for a special anti-Israel meeting at the UN Security Council scheduled for this Friday.
The PLO delegation at the UN organized the meeting, which they say will focus on Israeli "settlements" in Judea, Samaria, and the eastern portion of Israel's capital city, Jerusalem. The meeting is set to be held under the headline "Israeli settlements as an obstacle to peace and the two-state solution."
To avoid billing as an explicitly anti-Israel event, however, the informal Arria-formula style meeting is slated to include representatives from Israeli organizations.
Two far-left NGOs - B'Tselem and Peace Now – were both invited to the hearing. While Peace Now responded Thursday morning that it did not intend to send representatives, B'Tselem is expected to participate in Friday's UNSC meeting,
Participants at the event will discuss what the PLO delegation has termed "land confiscations". Organizers of the meeting are expected to demand a binding resolution by the United Nations Security Council against Israel regarding the presence of Jews in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria.
Five of the UNSC's 10 temporary member states convened the meeting, including Egypt, Angola, Malaysia, Venezuela, and Senegal.
Israel's Ambassador to the UN slammed B'Tselem for its anticipated participation in the event, calling it a fig leaf for "anti-Israel activites at the UN."
"During this time of year of reflection and prayer for unity amongst our people, it is sad and disappointing that Israeli organizations are providing moral cover for anti-Israel activities at the UN," Danon said.
Danon also criticized the PLO delegation, claiming the event was an attempt by the Palestinian Authority to force a final status to the Israeli-Arab dispute without the direct negotiations called for by both Israel and the United States.
"The Palestinians continue to search for any way possible to avoid direct negotiations with Israel and instead wage diplomatic terrorism against us."
2. BENNETT'S ULTIMATUM: DELAY AMONA DEMOLITION
by Shlomo Pyotrovsky
Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) are expected to raise their party's demand in a meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) on Thursday that the planned demolition of the town of Amona be delayed.
According to a report on Army Radio on Thursday, the two are planning to threaten a coalition crisis if their party's demand for a delay is not met.
The Prime Minister met Wednesday evening with Bennett to discuss the issue. Today the two are scheduled to sit down again on the matter, bringing in Liberman and Shaked. Yoav Mordechai, chief of the Defense Ministry's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) is also expected to attend the meeting, as well as Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit.
Despite their efforts to delay the demolition, on Monday, Bennett conceded that he saw no "legal way to save these houses."
"I know this is not what you hoped to hear, but I must tell you the truth."
Some Yesha leaders have argued that a delay would strengthen Israel's hand, claiming that replacement housing built near Shiloh in Samaria could be used by President Obama as a pretext to drop his support of Israel at the UN in his final months in office.
"Between November and January 20th," former Binyamin Regional Council chief Pinchas Wallerstein told Arutz Sheva, "a [lame duck] President of the US who is not a great friend of Israel may choose not to veto a UN resolution establishing a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria, and east Jerusalem, and then we'll have a real big problem. Anyone who enters those territories without the proper authority will be seen as violating international law."
3. MOTHER OF MURDERED TEEN RIPS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR TERROR SUPPORTERS
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Rina Ariel expressed outrage in light of a publication in Yisrael Hayom according to which the Hebrew University is allowing students to volunteer at the Center for the Defense of the Individual in exchange for a scholarship.
"We are in shock. Everything that strengthens the terrorists and their families is horrible. I don't understand the rationale of the Hebrew University," said Rina Ariel, mother of Hallel Ariel who was killed by a terrorist. Ariel's statement was in light of an advertisement in Yisrael Hayom which stated that Hebrew University students are allowed to volunteer at The Center for Defense of the Individual in exchange for a NIS 1,000 scholarship which is funded by foreign organizations and in exchange for academic credit.
The organization appealed to the Supreme Court against the demolition of terrorist houses. The organization describes itself as a human rights organization which "helps Palestinian residents of the occupied territories whose rights were infringed upon by the state of Israel."
Matan Peleg, director of the Im Tirzu organization, said, "our hearts are with the destroyed families who are receiving a slap in the face from academia."
In response, the Hebrew University released a statement saying "it is the duty of societal institutions to challenge national policy and the government."
4. VICTIM RECOUNTS DEADLY ACCIDENT IN GEORGIA
by Arutz Sheva Staff
Hanoch Greenfeld's sister described the horrible accident that took her niece and nephew's life in a Facebook post.
Shosha Greenfeld, the sister of Hanoch Greenfeld, who lost his son and daughter in a car accident in Georgia on Tuesday evening, posted on her Facebook page what her brother said when he returned from that tragic night.
"The things my good brother said and the hero Hanoch is, because without him the family would have been left in crisis without anyone to help them," She wrote.
She wrote the following on her Facebook page:
"The night was foggy, we were going at ten kilometers per hour. In one moment I don't know what happened or why but the car lost control and we went over a cliff," the statement read.
"It was a matter of seconds. I don't remember what happened. When I opened my eyes there was deadening silence. And darkness. In the first moment I thought I had died and then I saw Achinoam and that she wasn't with us and I didn't want to be alive. I lifted her up. I thought that only I had survived. I looked over the edge of the cliff and then I heard a tiny voice call "Abba," Greenfeld wrote.
"That was Ivry who saved my life. I hugged him and at a certain point I asked him to wait but I saw he followed after me everywhere and I was afraid for him.I found Noah underneath. She asked where the children were and said she couldn't feel her legs. I didn't tell her about Achinoam. Ivry kept following me everywhere," wrote Greenfeld.
"I found the repelling rope we brought and some other items the jeeps left behind. I climbed on top with Ivry on my back to a point where I couldn't carry him anymore.I tied him to my back so he wouldn't fall and I promised I would come get him. There was a giant wall in front of us. Three times I tried to climb the wall and grab anything I could and I kept sliding down when I would stop myself on one of the rocks," the statement read.
"I saw lights from a jeep coming towards us and I knew it was our last chance. I don't know how I just climbed up. I stopped the jeep. Three Georgian ladies went down. I tried to explain to them that my son was trapped below and I needed help," Greenfeld described.
"Once they understood that I wanted to go down they were in shock and said to me "no no no" and they held me back so I wouldn't go down. But I had already promised Ivry I would come back. I pretended I wouldn't go back down andת when they let me go, I ran and jumped down with the rope. I grabbed Ivry and yelled at them to come after me," Greenfeld wrote.
"They helped me get back up quickly and. Even though it was so cold, one of them took of his jacket and shirt and covered me and Ivry. They called emergency services who worked very quickly and saved the rest of my family," Shosha wrote.
The funeral for Achinoam and Nevo will take place at 10:00 AM tomorrow in Mitzpeh Netufa.
Hanoch and Noah Greenfeld, and their children Yiftach and Ivry, were taken by emergency ambulance for treatment at Hadassah Ein Kerem in Jerusalem after they were moderately injured in a tragic jeep accident on Tuesday on a family trip to Georgia in the former USSR. Two of the Greenfeld children, Achinoam and Nevo Greenfeld from the Binyamin region community of Michmash, were killed during the tragic accident.
5. UNITED NATIONS: WESTERN WALL NOT JEWISH
by Nitsan Keidar
Half a year after the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) accepted an initial resolution denying the Temple Mount's place in Jewish history and the Jewish faith, the UN body is expected to pass another measure on Thursday portraying the Western Wall as a Muslim holy site.
In a recent UNESCO meeting, Arab states and the Palestinian Authority have pushed a new resolution, explicitly describing the Temple Mount as an exclusively Muslim holy site, referring to the site of both ancient Jewish temples by its Arabic name: Haram a-Sharif.
This time, however, the proposed UNESCO resolution also touches upon the Western Wall that surrounds the Temple Mount. Like the Temple Mount, the Western Wall is also referred to by the Arabic name, with the Hebrew name included in brackets.
Israeli diplomats called the move an attempt to discredit the ancient Jewish connection to the Western Wall in the eyes of the international community.
The resolution does recognize the importance of Jerusalem in general to the three major Abrahamic faiths, but observers noted that this was likely an attempt to make an otherwise transparently anti-Israel measure appear more balanced. The order of faiths mentioned in connection to Jerusalem is Islam, Christianity, and Judaism last.
Israeli diplomats have criticized previous efforts by UNESCO to deny the Jewish ties to historical sites in Jerusalem.
Earlier this week, US lawmakers including Texas Senator Ted Cruz launched a bipartisan effort against the planned UNESCO resolution.
"The Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, along with the Western Wall, where Jews from all over the world have come to pray, are described exclusively as Muslim holy sites and referred to only by their Muslim names," the letter noted.
"When the Western Wall is referenced, it is only with quotation marks, implying that the title is unofficial and not based on historic fact."
The letter continues, saying that "This unnecessarily divisive and selective resolution undermines the very purpose and integrity of UNESCO by seeking to rewrite Jerusalem's history."
Thirty-nine US senators and House representatives have signed the letter thus far.
6. CONNECTICUT CRASH APPARENTLY A SUICIDE
by Ben Ariel
The small plane crash in Connecticut that killed one man appears to have been a suicide, Fox News reported Wednesday, citing a U.S. official familiar with the investigation.
Flight instructor Arian Prevalla survived the East Hartford crash which took place Tuesday. Student pilot Feras Freitekh, a Jordanian citizen, died.
The official quoted by Fox News said the flight instructor described the student pilot as disgruntled about learning to be a pilot.
The official says the instructor told police there was an altercation in the cockpit during their training flight, and the instructor was unable to regain control of the plane from the student pilot.
The plane crashed onto a busy road near jet-engine maker Pratt & Whitney's headquarters.
Earlier on Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) confirmed that an investigation indicated the crash was intentional.
Freitekh was piloting the twin-engine Piper PA-34 Seneca when he told Prevalla he no longer wanted to fly the plane, a law enforcement official told The Hartford Courant. Investigators said there was no indication of terrorism.
The NTSB reported that the FBI would take the lead in the investigation. The aircraft had two sets of controls, police said.
Public records showed Freitekh has lived in the Chicago suburb of Orland Hills since 2013 and received a federal private pilot certificate last year. He entered the U.S. in 2012 on an M1 visa for flight school and at some point he also acquired an F1 visa for language school, CBS News reported.
7. INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY HAPPENING NOW IN BET EL...
by Baruch Gordon
On Sunday, when "Binyamin's" teacher Rav Yair sat me down and told me the gruesome details of this young cadet's story, I shed two tears: one of sorrow for what he endured in childhood and one of joy for his newfound strength.
"I have no doubt," said Rav Yair, "that Binyamin will reach great heights in the IDF and be a role model and leader for wayward youth in the future. He's changing by the day... it's happening in front of our eyes.
Binyamin and Rav Yair
Photo: IDF Prep Academy Bet El
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8. ISRAELI FILMMAKER SHOWS GENOCIDE THROUGH THE EYES OF ITS VICTIMS
by Emily Rose
Israeli-Canadian Filmmaker Yolanda Papini-Pollock recently released a new documentary which shows genocide through the testimony of genocide victims.
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Never Again: A Broken Promise is a documentary that details the experience of four victims of genocide through personal testimony. The film's executive producer, Yolanda Papini-Pollock, wrote the script and Rogers Ofime directed it.
The documentary is jarring as it examines the accounts of genocide survivors. Although the Yazidi Genocide is the central focus, the film also examines the Holocaust, the Rwandan Genocide and Residential Schools. These heart wrenching accounts are paired with interviews of local scholars.
The documentary also issues a call to action, urging viewers to raise their voices against oppression stating that we each have a responsibility to make a difference, especially when innocent people face injustice.
"I have been involved with the Yazidi community for a while," Winnipeg Filmmaker Yolanda Papini-Pollock told Arutz Sheva, "I am a co-founder of Winnipeg Friends of Israel which initiated Operation Ezra to sponsor Yazidi refugees to Winnipeg."
"We raised funds needed to bring 4-5 families (120K) before JCFS and the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg took it over and expended the program. Some of the Yazidi photos I saw were so similar to photos of the holocaust. The resemblance between the Yazidis and the Jews prior to the establishment of the state of Israel made me look for more similarities with other types of genocide," Papini-Pollock said.
Papini-Pollock said she, "wanted to show that genocides follow similar patterns and if the world recognizes them, it may be able to do something to change the devastating outcomes."
Papini-Pollock's experience as an Israeli Jew inspired her to make the documentary.
"As an Israeli, a Jew and a daughter of a holocaust survivor," she told Arutz Sheva, "I inherited part of the trauma shared by so many Israelis and Jewish people around the world. The fear that something catastrophic could happen to us if we will not stand on guard was instilled in me from a very young age. I was only 8 when the Yom Kippur war broke out and the fear of a second holocaust was discussed and felt throughout the country."
"The fear that 'Never Again' is only a phrase and bad things could happen and the knowledge that most people and countries are indifferent, had a profound influence on the way I look at the world. I want the phrase to mean something not only for Jews but also for other persecuted people and I will do what I can to prevent, help or ease the experience for those people."
Winnipeg is also home of the recently constructed Canadian Museum for Human Rights which opened in September of 2014. Never Again: A Broken Promise premiered in Winnipeg, Manitoba on Sept. 26.
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