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Arutz Sheva Daily Israel Report http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com ------------------------------------------------ Delivered Daily via Email, Sunday thru Friday Friday, Apr. 21 '17, כ"ה בניסן תשע"ז HEADLINES: 1. 'TRUMP WH HAS BROUGHT A WELCOME CHANGE TO US POLICY' 2. 'YOUR HERO IS A TERRORIST AND A MURDERER' 3. TERRORIST HUNGER STRIKE BEGINNING TO WEAKEN 4. 'BETTER FOR YOUR CHILDREN TO DIE THAN TO JOIN THE IDF' 5. JEWISH LE PEN SUPPORTER BLAMES WEAK GOVERNMENT FOR PARIS ATTACK 6. 'LABOR MK MARGALIT IS A TERRORIST SUPPORTER' 7. SLAIN MINISTER TO BE MEMORIALIZED IN JORDAN VALLEY 8. WATCH: WHEN A SETTLER PERFORMED AT AN ARAB WEDDING 1. 'TRUMP WH HAS BROUGHT A WELCOME CHANGE TO US POLICY' by David Rosenberg Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with US Defense Secretary James Mattis in Jerusalem Friday morning to discuss joint US-Israeli efforts to stabilize the region and address strategic threats including the Iranian regime and the ISIS terror group. In a joint press briefing at the beginning of the meeting, Netanyahu praised the Trump administration’s shift in policy towards Iran and its client state, Syria, calling it a "welcome change". "We sense a great change in the direction of American policy," said the Prime Minister. "We know that the very clear and forthright words, Mr. Secretary, that you had to say about Iran, this follows very strong and forthright words on the part of President Trump and very forthright deeds against the use of chemical weapons by Iran's proxy, Syria. This has been appreciated around the world and in our region. I think this is a welcome change, a strategic change of American leadership and American policy. "We have common values and also common dangers. The common dangers are based on the twin threats of militant Islam – the Shiite extremists led by Iran and the Sunni extremists led by Daesh [ISIS]. We are committed to thwarting these dangers as we are committed to seize the common opportunities and great opportunities that I think are before us, Mr. Secretary, because of the understanding of many of our Arab neighbors as to the commonality of the threat but also as to the opportunities of the future." Secretary of Defense Mattis warned that regional allies would need to unite to confront both ISIS and the Iranian regime. "The two dangers that face Israel and all of the other nations in the region that are trying to maintain a stable and peaceful and prosperous region are those that I'm here to discuss with the Prime Minister, especially the week before Holocaust remembrance," said Mattis. "I think it's important that we remind ourselves that if good people don't band together then bad people can do a lot of damage in this world. And we're committed to stopping that and doing whatever it takes to pass on peace and freedom to the next generation." 2. 'YOUR HERO IS A TERRORIST AND A MURDERER' by David Rosenberg Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon slammed the Palestinian Authority Thursday over its support for the ongoing terrorist hunger strike in Israel, and the Palestinian Authority UN representative’s support for a convicted mass-murderer and arch-terrorist. Earlier this week, more than 1,000 Arab security prisoners and convicted terrorists launched a hunger strike in prisons across Israel, demanding improved conditions, including greater phone access. The strike was backed by Fatah Tanzim terrorist and convicted mass-murderer Marwan Barghouti, currently serving five life sentences for masterminding a series of terror attacks against Israel. During the Second Intifada, Barghouti was involved in planning a number of suicide bombings and shooting attacks against Israelis and tourists in Israel which left 26 dead and dozens more wounded. In 2004, Barghouti was convicted in relation to five of the murders, yet was allowed to run in absentia by the Palestinian Authority in its 2006 legislative election. Despite – or perhaps because of – his involvement in terrorism, Barghouti has remained a popular figure in Palestinian Authority politics, and is often cited as a possible candidate – in absentia – for chairmanship of the Palestinian Authority after incumbent chairman Mahmoud Abbas leaves office. During a gathering of the UN Security Council Thursday, PA representative to the UN Riyad Mansour expressed support for the terrorist hunger strike and Barghouti, calling him a "leader". "As we meet today more than 1,000 Palestinians are on hunger strike in non-violent protest of their captivity. This hunger strike is led Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian parliamentarian and leader, jailed for 15 years now," said Mansour. Israel’s representative to the UN, Ambassador Danny Danon, blasted Mansour for his praise of the terrorist murderer and the effort by jailed terrorists to force Israel to improve the already generous conditions of their imprisonment. "The leader of the striking prisoners is a terrorist and a murderer who has overseen dozens of suicide-bombings and the killing of innocent civilians," Danon said. "Marwan Barghouti was arrested and tried in a fair and open trial. He was then convicted of direct involvement in the murder of five people," he continued. Danon showed the Security Council gathering a photograph of one of the victims of a terror attack organized by Barghouti. "This was Yoela Chen, a mother of two," explained Danon. "Glorifying terrorists like Barghouti not only distances us from peace, but dishonors the memories of the innocent victims." 3. TERRORIST HUNGER STRIKE BEGINNING TO WEAKEN by Arutz Sheva Staff A mass hunger strike initiated earlier this week by Arab terrorists held in Israeli prisons showed signs of weakening on Thursday, when roughly 100 of the 1,000 participating security prisoners and convicts broke the strike to eat. Prison officials have encouraged hunger striking terrorists to abandon their efforts, offering them food throughout the week. Some prisoners engaged in the hunger strike were revealed to have concealed quantities of sugar and salt, which they were consuming in small amounts to enable them to maintain the appearances of the strike, a senior security official told Arutz Sheva. Despite several demonstrations and mass prayers in solidarity with the hunger strikers, the terrorists have not gained significant backing within the Palestinian Authority as hoped for, the security official added. The hunger strike was promoted in an opinion piece published in The New York Times on Sunday by Fatah Tanzim terrorist leader and mass-murderer Marwan Barghouti. Despite the extensive press coverage, the hunger strike has garnered little support in the Arab street and has divided the PA leadership. 4. 'BETTER FOR YOUR CHILDREN TO DIE THAN TO JOIN THE IDF' by David Rosenberg A rabbi affiliated with the Yerushalmi Faction declared Thursday night that it was preferable for one’s child to die rather than to see them enlist in the IDF. Rabbi Tzvi Friedman, a member of the anti-Zionist Yerushalmi Faction, spoke at a gathering of supporters in a makeshift yeshiva outside of Army Prison 6, near Atlit on the northern coast. The Yerushalmi Faction eschews not only haredi service in the IDF, but encourages its followers not to seek deferments from service as yeshiva students, breaking with the mainstream haredi approach to the draft. Since the establishment of the state in 1948, full-time yeshiva students have been given deferments from army service, allowing most haredi men to avoid enlisting. Religious women are exempt from service. Now, however, the Yerushalmi Faction, under the aegis of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, has called upon yeshiva students not to recognize the army induction offices and to decline to register for deferments, and to instead allow themselves to be arrested. A number of yeshiva students who answered the Yerushalmi Faction’s call have been arrested in recent months as draft-dodgers, and sent to military prisons across Israel, including Prison 6. The Yerushalmi Faction has used the arrests as the pretext for mass demonstrations and road blockings across Israel. During his talk with supporters at the yeshiva outside of Prison 6, Rabbi Friedman espoused a hardline against service in the IDF, telling parents enlistment was a worse fate for their children than death, Kikar Hashabbat reported. "Every mother in Israel needs to know that if her son or daughter goes to the army, death would be preferable," Rabbi Friedman said. Rabbi Friedman also compared Israel to authoritarian communist regimes like North Korea and Cuba. "We all feel like we’re in the prison, this only happens in lowly communist countries." 5. JEWISH LE PEN SUPPORTER BLAMES WEAK GOVERNMENT FOR PARIS ATTACK by JTA JTA - A prominent Jewish supporter of the National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in France blamed the current government for the death of a police officer in a suspected terrorist attack in Paris. Michel Thooris, a police officer from southern France, was referencing the slaying Thursday evening of a policeman who was shot dead with a semi-automatic assault rifle at the Champs-Elysees shopping street. Police killed one man whom it said was armed shortly after the shooting, in which two other people were severely wounded. On social media accounts affiliated with the Islamic State terrorist group, the alleged shooter was identified as Abu Sayif al-Baljiki, 39, from Belgium, the Le Figaro daily reported Friday. "The perpetrator was flagged for radicalization," Thooris, a Member of the Central Board of Le Pen’s National Front party and head of the Association for Patriots of Jewish Faith, wrote on Facebook. He posted the message on the page of Syndicat France Police, the labor union for police officers he runs. "He spoke of terrorism on social networks," Thooris wrote of the suspect. If this information is verified, Thooris added, "the failure to detain a flagged radical was the reason for the death of at least one of our colleagues this evening. Intolerable." Shortly after the attack, pundits said it would benefit the hardline and anti-Muslim Le Pen in the elections, whose first round in scheduled to take place Sunday. Le Pen also took to social networks to criticize the government following the attack in a series of messages on Twitter. "From this weak government of inaction I demand the immediate restoration of our national borders," she wrote following reports that the main suspect had traveled to France from Belgium, where recent terrorist attacks exposed serious failures in authorities’ ability to track and detain suspected jihadists. "I demand the immediate explosion of foreigners flagged for radicalization," she added in another tweet. Emmanuel Macron, a centrist candidate, is leading in the polls ahead of the first round with approximately 23 percent of the vote, slightly ahead of Le Pen. The Republican candidate Francois Fillon, whose campaign has suffered because of his recent indictment on corruption charges, and the communist candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon are each drawing 18-20 percent in the polls. Whoever wins the first round Sunday will run against the second-place candidate in the final round. Francis Kalifat, the president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, added his voice to the many condemnations of the attack. "Sadness and anger following the attack at Champs-Elysees," Kalifat wrote on Twitter. "Our thoughts go to officer killed and to the wounded and their families. Support for the police forces." Haim Korsia, the chief rabbi of France, also thanked security forces on Friday during an interview for the RCJ Jewish radio station. "I want to express all our solidarity and participation in the pain of the families of security personnel who literally place themselves in the line of fire, shielding citizens from perpetrators," he said. "We pray for them, for their families and for the safety of those still protecting us." Following the murder of four Jews at a kosher shop in Paris in 2015, the French government deployed 12,000 soldiers and police officers around Jewish institutions. 6. 'LABOR MK MARGALIT IS A TERRORIST SUPPORTER' by Ido Ben Porat Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) blasted Zionist Union MK Erel Margalit over his meeting Thursday night with a senior Fatah official in Ramallah and expressions of support for Fatah leader Jibril Rajoub. "Margalit met with someone aiding efforts to boycott us, and together with him he [Margalit] attacks the Prime Minister and myself, and supports terrorists who murdered hundreds of Israelis," Erdan wrote on Twitter Friday. Erdan argued that Margalit’s decision to meet with PLO faction leader Jibril Rajoub was motivated in large part by his campaign for the upcoming Labor Party primaries. "Everything is acceptable [in the Labor Party], even to identify with murderous terrorists against the Israeli government." Fellow Druze Likud minister Ayoub Kara also lambasted Margalit, saying he was better suited for the predominantly Arab Joint List Party. "He’s starting to distance himself from the Zionist Union and is getting closer to the Joint Arab Party [sic], who are also supporting the terrorist hunger strikers in Israeli prisons." "To meet with Jibril Rajoub, who is working at this moment to have Israel thrown out of the European Soccer Association, which will harm Israeli soccer, is an unforgiveable action." 7. SLAIN MINISTER TO BE MEMORIALIZED IN JORDAN VALLEY by Uzi Baruch Exclusive: The government of Israel is scheduled to approve on Sunday the construction of a memorial for former Minister Rechavam Ze'evi in the Jordan Valley. Arutz Sheva has learned that there is currently no funding for the construction of the memorial for the former Tourism Minister, who was assassinated by an Arab terrorist in 2001. Attempts are currently underway to procure funds from various government ministries. Arutz Sheva also learned that the Finance Ministry, headed by Moshe Kahlon, does not intend to participate in funding the memorial. The exact location for the memorial has not yet been determined, but an agreement has been reached that the memorial will be located in the Jordan Valley. Rehavam Ze'evi was a general in the Israel Defense Forces, an Israeli politician and a cabinet minister. He was nicknamed Gandhi at a young age and the name stuck. In 1942, Ze'evi joined the Palmach pre-state armed forces and later served in the Israel Defence Forces after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. During the War of Independence he served as a platoon commander; during the 1967 Six Day War, he was part of the Central Staff. Ze'evi retired from the IDF in September 1973, holding the rank of Major-General. However, when the Yom Kippur War broke out in October 1973, he rejoined. After his IDF retirement, he founded the right-wing Moledet party and served in the Knesset in various ministerial positions. On October 17, 2001, Ze'evi was assassinated in a Jerusalem hotel on Mount Scopus by four Palestinian terrorists belonging to the terror group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). 8. WATCH: WHEN A SETTLER PERFORMED AT AN ARAB WEDDING by Rafael Levy [video:2027081] A viral video showing an Orthodox Jewish man performing for an Arab wedding has lit up the internet, leaving thousands wondering who the man is and what the story is behind the unusual performance. The man featured in the video, Yoni Sharon, is a resident of Kfar Eldad, a Jewish town in Gush Etzion in Judea. How did he end up giving a show in an Arab village during a wedding celebration? Sharon told Arutz Sheva the story began when he was driving home one evening from a show, and heard music from the Arab village of Al-Fureidis, near Herodion National Park. On a lark, Sharon decided to follow his ears, and drive into Al-Fureidis to look for the source of the music, and ultimately joined in the wedding celebration. Sharon noted that he already knew a number of Al-Fureidis residents who work in Kfar Eldad, and is conversant in Arabic. In explaining his close ties with the village of Al-Fureidis, Sharon said that the Israeli left doesn’t have a monopoly on peace, adding that he had found his own way to develop neighborly relations with nearby Arabs. Sharon claimed that even many Arabs have a disdain for the Israeli peace camp, and believe that if peace will come one day, it will not be achieved by the patrons of cafes in north Tel Aviv. ------------------------------------------------ Subscribe to this Daily Israel Report: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Subscribe/ | |
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