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Monday, Mar. 13 '17, ט"ו באדר תשע"ז
HEADLINES:
1. TRUMP ENVOY JASON GREENBLATT TO MEET WITH NETANYAHU
2. 'ISRAELIS ARE HUMAN WASTE. WE MUST GET RID OF THEM'
3. POLICE TO INVESTIGATE INCITEMENT AGAINST HAREDI SOLDIERS
4. BELGIAN POLICEMAN APPEALS CONVICTION AFTER JEWISH MUSEUM MURDERS
5. HE READ MEGILLA, GOT DRUNK, AND STARTED ATTACKING PEOPLE
6. 4 ARRESTED FOLLOWING JERUSALEM TERROR ATTACK
7. WATCH: AMSTERDAM PURIM CELEBRATION IN 1946
8. WATCH: TRUMP FLOAT STARS AT ISRAELI PURIM PARADE
1. TRUMP ENVOY JASON GREENBLATT TO MEET WITH NETANYAHU
by David Rosenberg
Special White House Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt is set to arrive in Israel Monday for a fact-finding mission which will likely play a major role in shaping the new administration's policies towards Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria.
Greenblatt, a real estate attorney and long-time Trump adviser, lived and studied in Gush Etzion for a period in the 1980s.
President Trump dispatched Greenblatt to the region almost a month after the president met with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Washington, and just days after Trump spoke with Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas.
According to a Channel 2 report, as part of the mission, Greenblatt is set to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu to discuss a number of key policy issues.
Chief among the topics for discussion between the two is the future of the US Embassy in Israel, which candidate Trump pledged to relocate to the Israeli capital city of Jerusalem. Since his inauguration, however, the president has yet to firmly commit to the move, saying his administration needs more time to assess the issue.
Netanyahu and Greenblatt will also discuss Israeli construction policy in Judea and Samaria, with a special focus on the Prime Minister's stated intention of building a replacement community in Samaria for the 42 families evicted from Amona last month.
The new community, tentatively named Geulat Tzion, is set to be built in between the existing towns of Shilo and Shvut Rahel.
The Prime Minister will argue, the report claims, that the construction of Geulat Tzion does not in reality constitute the creation of a new town in Samaria, but the replacement or relocation of the now-demolished community of Amona.
No new government-sanctioned towns have been built for Jews in Judea and Samaria since the Rabin government pledged in 1992 to refrain from creating new communities in the area.
Along with his meetings with Israeli officials, Greenblatt will also meet with Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, ahead of the planned Trump-Abbas meeting in Washington.
2. 'ISRAELIS ARE HUMAN WASTE. WE MUST GET RID OF THEM'
by Gary Willig
Ahmed Daqamseh, the Jordanian soldier who opened fire on a group of students who were visiting the "Island of Peace" of Naharayim on March 13, 1997, as part of a class trip, killing seven Israeli schoolgirls justified his murderous actions Sunday after being released from prison five years early.
"The Israelis are the human waste which the nations of the world vomited up before us," Daqamseh told Jordanian media less than a day after his release. "Unfortunately, they occupy the purest land after Mecca and Medina."
"We must eliminate this waste by incineration or by burial," Daqamseh added.
Daqamseh relayed a message of continouous war with Israel to the Jordanian people. "Do not believe the lie of normalization with the Zionist entity. Do not believe the lie of the two-state solution. Palestine is one, from the sea to the river, from Rosh Hanikra to Um Rash-Rash. They forged the names of the cities, and unfortunately, many Arabs say 'the State of Israel.' There cannot be a State of Israel.
Daqamseh's car was surrounded by supporters after his release Saturday night. The supporters chanted, cheered, and filmed the event as the vehicle made its way towards his village. His tribe planned to hold a large party in his village Sunday afternoon for Daqmeseh, who they call a "hero soldier."
Daqamseh was sentenced to life in prison for the Island of Peace Massacre, which in Jordan usually means 25 years in prison. However, he was released five years early following repeated calls for his release. In 2013, 110 out of 150 Jordanian MPs signed a petition calling for his release.
In 2011, then-Jordanian Justice Minister Hussein Mjali caused an uproar when he called for Daqamseh's release, claiming that he is "a hero. He does not deserve prison. If a Jewish person killed Arabs, his country would have built a statue for him instead of imprisonment."
Following the deadly terror attack, Jordan's King Hussein personally visited Israel and, alongside Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, expressed his condolences to the girls' parents.
Daqamseh has denied committing any crime and has said that he should be freed from prison since he had simply fulfilled his national and religious duty by killing the students.
3. POLICE TO INVESTIGATE INCITEMENT AGAINST HAREDI SOLDIERS
by David Rosenberg
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit approved on Monday a police request to investigate the wave of incitement by anti-Zionist radicals against haredi service members.
Since the Draft Law, which limits the ability of yeshiva students to defer military service, was first proposed in 2013, anti-Zionist elements within the haredi community have targeted haredi soldiers, labelling them "Hardakim" – a portmanteau of "haredi", "harak" (bug), and "haydak" (germ).
Despite the growing wave of harassment against haredi soldiers, no investigation into incitement by the "Hardak" campaign was ever approved.
During the Purim festival, a number of anti-Zionist extremists hanged haredi soldiers in effigy in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh, prompting outrage among many in the haredi community and leading to renewed requests by police to investigate those responsible.
According to Behadrei Haredim, police opened the first ever investigation into incitement by the "Hardak" campaign, following the Attorney General's decision.
4. BELGIAN POLICEMAN APPEALS CONVICTION AFTER JEWISH MUSEUM MURDERS
by JTA
A Belgian policeman who was convicted of negligence for his actions while investigating the murder of four people in 2014 at the Jewish Museum of Brussels has appealed the sentence.
The officer received in 2015 a two-month suspended jail term for failing to process in time a tip by an informant who said he recognized the assault rifle that security camera footage shows was used in the May 24, 2014 shooting. He is scheduled to appear in October before an appeals court in a bid to prove he acted properly, the DH news website reported.
Mehdi Nemmouche, a terrorist from northern France, is currently standing trial in Belgium for the murders. He was arrested in southern France several days after the shooting in a random search aboard a bus heading toward the port city of Marseille. He was carrying weapons matching the description of those used in the attack.
Separately, in the city of Toulouse in southeastern France the first of several commemorative ceremonies was held Sunday for the seven victims of Mohammed Merah, a 23-year-old terrorist who murdured three French soldiers several days before he murdered four Jews at a Jewish school on March 19, 2012.
"The attack was a prelude to a national horror," the chief rabbi of Toulouse, Avraham Weill, told the AFP news agency Sunday. "There is a before and after the attack," he added, using an expression that is used for watershed events.
Hundreds of Frenchmen, including four Jews who were murdered in January 2015 in a shooting attack on a kosher supermarket, have died in numerous attacks by Jihadist terrorists since 2012.
5. HE READ MEGILLA, GOT DRUNK, AND STARTED ATTACKING PEOPLE
by Ido Ben Porat
A man in his 30s was arrested on Saturday night after he attacked several people near a synagogue in Beit Shemesh.
Police arrived a short time after the incident was reported. The suspect, who was drunk, fought with the policemen when they attempted to arrest him.
Israel Police said the suspect left the synagogue immediately after they finished reading the Megilla, and began attacking those around him. Two of the victims required medical treatment.
The suspect was arrested and brought for an interrogation in the Beit Shemesh police station. During the interrogation, he admitted guilt.
On Sunday morning, an Israeli court extended the suspect's arrest until Monday.
"The quick police response, from the phone call until the officers' arrival at the scene, caused the suspect to be arrested quickly and prevented additional civilians from being harmed," a police spokesman said. "The Israel Police emphasize that in addition to following Purim customs, which include drinking alcohol, people must ensure they do not violate the law and that they act responsibly."
6. 4 ARRESTED FOLLOWING JERUSALEM TERROR ATTACK
by David Rosenberg
Police raided the eastern Jerusalem home of the Arab terrorist responsible for a stabbing attack which left two Border Police officers injured early Monday morning.
The attack took place at a security post just outside of the Lion's Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. The terrorist entered a booth occupied by the two officers and proceeded to stab them before being shot and killed.
One officer suffered moderate injuries, while the other has been listed in light-to-moderate condition. Both were evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital and are in stable condition.
After the attack, police and Border Police officers raided the terrorist's home in the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood, searching the premises and taking four of the terrorist's relatives into custody.
Police say the four are being questioned in connection with the attack.
Authorities also barred relatives and supporters of the terrorist from erecting a mourners' tent in the neighborhood. Mourners' tents are often erected by friends and family of terrorists killed during attacks on Israelis as a public expression of praise for the terrorist and his actions.
Jabel Mukaber has been dubbed a terrorist hotbed by security experts, who warn of increasing support there for the ISS terror movement.
"The neighborhood school brings parents of terrorists to laud the greatness of their children's activities," said Dr. Ephraim Herrera, an expert on Islam and the Middle East. "Our inquiries to the Education Ministry were answered saying it is a private school, so don't be surprised that this is happening."
Since the Second Intifada broke out, more than a dozen terror attacks have been committed by residents of the neighborhood.
In January 2017, a resident of Jabel Mukaber murdered four IDF cadets at the Haas Promenade in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of the capital. Less than a year and a half earlier, another resident of Jabel Mukaber stabbed a Border Police officer in the neighboring East Talpiot neighborhood.
In October 2015, two terrorists from Jabel Mukaber killed four Israelis in a pair of attacks in the capital.
Both terrorists responsible for the heinous synagogue massacre in the Har Nof neighborhood in 2014 came from Jabel Mukaber. Four worshippers and one police officer were murdered in the attack.
Two months earlier, another resident murdered one and wounded seven in a terror attack, using a tractor to run down pedestrians.
The terrorist who massacred eight students studying Torah at the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva ten years ago was from Jabel Mukaber.
7. WATCH: AMSTERDAM PURIM CELEBRATION IN 1946
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8. WATCH: TRUMP FLOAT STARS AT ISRAELI PURIM PARADE
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