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John Kerry’s wife funds radical anti-US, anti-Israel restaurant

October 30, 2014

John Kerry’s wife funds radical anti-US, anti-Israel restaurantWednesday, October 29, 2014 | Israel Today Staff

via John Kerry’s wife funds radical anti-US, anti-Israel restaurant – Israel Today | Israel News.

 

The ketchup family mindset .

Conflict Kitchen, a restaurant located near the campuses of Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, features a menu that strictly serves dishes which are said to be from countries currently in conflict with the United States.

Although a state of Palestine has never actually existed, Conflict Kitchen has now seemingly made an exception to their mission and has featured Palestine as its current “focus country.” In the past, the controversial eatery has featured cuisine from North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela. Why the United States is viewed as a “conflict country” when it has donated billions of dollars in humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, remains unclear.

In April, The eatery received a $50,000 grant from the Heinz Endowment, which is chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry, the billionaire wife of Secretary of State John Kerry.

One of the restaurant’s food wrappers excuses Palestinian terrorism as a legitimate means to combat Israel’s military superiority, which echoes the sentiments expressed by jihadi terrorist group Hamas.

The wrapper states: “”How can you compare Israeli F-16s, which are some of the best military planes in the world, to a few hundred homemade rockets? You’re pushing them (Palestinians) to the absolute extreme. So what do you expect?… Palestinians are not going to just let (Israel) in and drop their arms. No, they’re going to kill and they are going to die.”

Conflict Kitchen is co-directed by art professor Jon Rubin and former student Dawn Weleski.

Secretary of State John Kerry has come under fire during his tenure from pro-Israel voices who view him as extremely hostile to the Jewish state. Over the summer, Kerry warned that Israel could become an “apartheid” state if peace talks with the Palestinians failed. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) found the remarks offensive and called upon the Secretary to resign immediately.

Kerry has been a mainstay in Jerusalem and has pressured Israel and its people to continue to negotiate with radical interests—such as the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, who do not grant the same rights and religious liberty to Jews as Israel does to Muslims within its borders.

In January, Israeli Defense MInister Moshe Yaalon said of Kerry: “Secretary of State John Kerry came here very determined and operates based upon an unfathomable obsession and a messianic feeling. Throughout the recent months, there is no negotiation between us and the Palestinians, but rather, between us and the Americans. The only thing that can ‘save’ us is that John Kerry will get a Nobel Peace Prize and leave us alone.”

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Abbas: Closure of al-Aqsa holy site a ‘declaration of war’

October 30, 2014

Abbas: Closure of al-Aqsa holy site a ‘declaration of war

Remarks by PA president come a day after he said he doesn’t want a third intifada and blamed Israel for escalation of violence

By AFP and Times of Israel staff October 30, 2014, 11:29 am

via Abbas: Closure of al-Aqsa holy site a ‘declaration of war’ | The Times of Israel.

abu mazen a 2 face bastard.

 

Israeli border police near the entrance to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on October 30, 2104. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli border police near the entrance to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on October 30, 2104. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s closure of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, following an assassination attempt Wednesday, is tantamount to a “declaration of war,” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday morning.

Abbas’s remarks came after a suspect in the shooting of a prominent right-wing Jewish activist was killed in a gunfight with the police in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Tor. Police closed the compound early Thursday out of fear of clashes in the wake of the shooting of Yehuda Glick, who campaigned for Jewish rights on the site, and as Israeli right-wing groups vowed to march on the site.

“This dangerous Israeli escalation is a declaration of war on the Palestinian people and its sacred places and on the Arab and Islamic nation,” his spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina quoted him as saying.

The director of the Al-Aqsa Mosque called the site’s closure unacceptable.

“It is unacceptable that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is paying a toll for the events in Jerusalem,” he said.

“The mosque is a place for prayer and worship and all Muslims have the right to access it,” the director told the Ma’an news agency.

Israeli authorities turned back right-wing Likud MK Moshe Feiglin, who tried to make his way onto the Temple Mount Thursday morning in response to the shooting of Glick, a leader of the Temple Mount Faithful activist group.

Abbas spoke to Israel’s Channel 10 Wednesday evening, as the UN Security Council discussed the escalating violence in Jerusalem, and emphasized that “we don’t want an intifada. We aren’t calling for an intifada.”

“I told people frankly: these are our holy places and we want to protect them in a quiet fashion. Where is the tension in my words? I say we must protect them. You come to me and attack me and I say, stop attacking and nothing will happen. But Netanyahu, all his accusations are null.”

According to Abbas, Israel is responsible for fanning the flames of a third intifada. “Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu forgot during these 50 days [of the summer’s military operation in Gaza] that not a single shot was fired from the West Bank. We don’t want an intifada. The Israeli media and many Israeli leaders are those who are asking [for it] and inciting a third intifada. We aren’t in favor of a third intifada.”

“What’s happening in Jerusalem is very grave. We don’t want matters to develop more than this. I say to the Israeli people: I don’t want advancement in blood, not in Jerusalem nor in other places. I want quiet negotiations,” he added. “What’s happening is incitement by the Israeli government. I went to the Security Council. Where will I go? When [they] attack me, I go to the Security Council.”

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Christian priest to UN: “Israel only Mideast country not persecuting Christians”

October 30, 2014

Christian priest to UN: “Israel only Mideast country not persecuting Christians”

Published on October 29, 2014 in Human Rights Council UNHRC by unwatch.

via Christian priest to UN: “Israel only Mideast country not persecuting Christians” « View from Geneva.

 

Mr. President, I am speaking to you on behalf of UN Watch.

Standing before you is Father Gabriel Naddaf, a Christian citizen from Nazareth, the city in which Christ was raised and where he proselytized.

Dear Sirs, while I stand before you today, the earth of the Middle East is soaked with the blood of Christians being killed daily.

Do you know that at the start of the 20th century, Christians comprised 20% of the population of the Middle East?

Today they comprise only 4%.

Do you know that over the past years some 100,000 Christians have been killed annually? And why? Not for a crime they’ve committed, but only for believing in Christ.

In Iraq alone, more than 77% of the Christians have fled during the year 2000, in addition to thousands killed and expelled.

Some 2 million Christians lived in Syria, but today, they are less than 250,000.

Christians in these countries are treated as second-class citizens; facing racial, religious, economic and social discrimination.

Why is this happening? Only due to their religion, a religion that advocates love and peace between mankind.

Christians in the Middle East are marginalized; their rights denied, their property stolen, their honor violated, their men killed, and their children displaced.

Where will they go? Who will defend them? And who will guard their property?

If we look at the Middle East, Mr. President, we realize there’s only one safe place where Christians are not persecuted.

One place where they are protected, enjoying freedom of worship and expression, living in peace and not subjected to killing and genocide.

It is Israel, the country I live in. The Jewish state is the only safe place where the Christians of the Holy Land live in safety.

Christians and Jews live in Israel not only because Christ was originally Jewish, born in Jewish Bethlehem, but because they share a common destiny, and a true hope to coexist in peace.

Does the world acknowledge Israel for protecting its Christians? Many in the international community have chosen to criticize Israel.

This, in my mind, is a double crime: because by doing so, the international community helps those striving to annihilate the Jews, the Christians, the Druze and the Yazidis for political ends.

By doing so, the international community unfortunately contributes to exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East.

It causes Christians to leave the land of Christ searching for a safe haven across the world.

It is time for the world to awaken and realize the truth of those striving to destroy the Jewish state.

They are hastening the death sentence of Christians in the Middle East and the Holy Land, the land which witnessed the birth and life of our Lord Jesus Christ. If they leave, who will remain in it?

I, Father Gabrial Naddaf of Nazareth, stand before you and plead: O world leaders and supporters of peace, stop those who want to destroy the only free Jewish state in the region.

It is the only refuge welcoming and protecting all of its citizens. It is the only place that does not attempt to push out Christians, forcing them to leave their land in search of security.

I implore you from the bottom of my heart to hear the cry of the Christians of the Middle East before it is too late, and you may read about them only in the history books.

Thank you, Mr. President.

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UNRWA Goes to War

October 30, 2014

This is the UN in action !

What does the UN teach Palestinian children at UNRWA schools?

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Israeli soldiers battle Hamas terrorists in HD

October 30, 2014

Israeli soldiers battle Hamas terrorists in HD – YouTube.

 

IDF forces in combat acions Against Hamas while operating in the Gaza strip during Operation Protective Edge.

Intense video featuring infantry, special forces, tanks and missiles.

 

 

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Temple Mount Advocate Yehuda Glick Shot in Jerusalem

October 30, 2014

Temple Mount Advocate Yehuda Glick shot in Jerusalem | By Tova Dvorin and Ari Soffer, Arutz Sheva, 29th October 2014, 10:37 pm

(This is what happens when the police are politicised and are more concerned about preventing Jewish “provocations” than in apprehending their Arab attackers — AP)

Terrorist deliberately targets leading advocate for Jewish Temple Mount rights, leaving Glick seriously injured.

Yehuda Glick, a leading advocate for Jewish rights on the Temple Mount, has been very seriously wounded after being shot in Jerusalem on Wednesday night, Arutz Sheva has learned.

Glick was shot outside the Begin Heritage center in the capital, witnesses said, after a terrorist pulled up in a scooter or motorcycle and shot him before fleeing the scene.

Initial reports are indicating that Glick – who founded and heads the LIBA Initiative for Jewish Freedom on the Temple Mount – was deliberately targeted for nationalistic reasons, but police have not yet officially announced a motive.

The Begin Center had been hosting an event to help in efforts to re-establish a greater Jewish presence on the Mount Wednesday night, just before the activist was shot.

He has been rushed to Sha’arei Tzedek Medical Center for immediate medical treatment.

Magen David Adom (MDA) spokesman Zaki Heller said that Glick was shot in the upper body no fewer than three times and paramedics had barely had time to speak to him during the initial stages of treatment.

Activists have asked that prayers be said for the urgent recovery of Yehuda Yehoshua ben Rivka Ita Breindel.

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, and MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) are currently at the scene.

The Temple Mount is Judaism’s holiest site, but under pressure from Islamist groups including the Jordanian-run Waqf Islamic trust, Jews are forbidden to worship there under pain of arrest.

Glick has been an ardent opponent of the current status-quo on the Mount, which Jewish groups have condemned as discriminatory. Numerous Israeli court decisions have backed their claims – only for police to invoke “security concerns” as a way of circumventing the courts and maintaining a blanket ban on Jewish worship there.

Watch: Arutz Sheva TV joins Glick on Temple Mount tour:

Watch: Glick implores Jews to stand up for Temple Mount (2012)

Much of the recent Arab violence in Jerusalem has centered around the Temple Mount, with Islamist and Palestinian Authority leaders branding Jewish visitors to the site as “invaders” and “settlers”, and Muslim worshippers harassing and even physically attacking them. Islamist rioters have also been frequently clashing with Israeli police at the site.

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas recently made a public effort to fan the flames of violence, urging Palestinians to prevent Jews from visiting the Temple Mount using “all means” necessary.

Abbas’s comments have been replayed well over a dozen times on official PA TV – part of what appears to be a calculated campaign to incite more violence in the capital.

(All photos by Arutz 7)

 

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