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Decrying False Genocide, Palestinian Advocates Call for Genocide

December 11, 2017

Decrying False Genocide, Palestinian Advocates Call for Genocide, Investigative Project on Terrorism, December 11, 2017

No one expected universal praise for the new U.S. policy toward Jerusalem. What too many Palestinian advocates are doing here, however, is dropping any veneer of moderation or hopes for peace. They will only accept peace when an existing nation and its people are wiped.

There’s a word for that.

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Angered by President Trump’s declaration that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, Palestinian advocates took to the streets throughout the country during the weekend to express their anger and frustration.

But the message often was telling. Few echoed media analysts’ concerns that the move might hurt future peace efforts. Instead, there were taunts of what Mohamed’s army has waiting for Jews and calls for new violence.

“We don’t want 2 states! We want 48!” was among the chants Friday night at a Times Square rally. The “48” refers to Israel’s 1948 independence, and the message calls for a return to a world before there was a Jewish state.

Other chants at the rally, sponsored by a group of organizations including American Muslims for Palestine, Students for Justice in Palestine and Al-Awda/the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, similarly called for Israel’s elimination or for a massacre of Jews:

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”

“Khaybar O Jews, Muhammad’s army will return.”

A Palestine “from the river to the sea” erases Israel from the map. “Khaybar” is a taunt invoking a 7th century massacre of Jews by Mohammed’s army. It is considered a “battle cry” before attacks on Jews or Israelis.

Palestinians are quick to accuse Israel of genocide – the systematic destruction of a culture and its people – a sign at Friday’s rally said, “Israel= racism + genocide.”

Yet that’s exactly what they pray would happen to Israel. We reported Friday on a Texas-imam’s prayer that “Allah destroy the Zionists and their allies.” The prayer generated an “Amen, amen” comment from Said Abbasy, a New York-based supporter of the “moderate” Muslim Brotherhood.

Abbasy appeared pleased by the attention, confirming the sentiment in Arabic on Facebook and justifying it because “the world Zionists are my enemies, because you are all killers and enemies of humanity.”

Imagine what would happen if a mainstream pro-Israel advocate voiced a reciprocal sentiment. Imagine a pro-Israel rally featuring similar rhetoric – taunting Palestinians over a massacre or advocating the elimination of Palestinians as a people. Imagine a rally which demanded more violence. The international shock and outrage would dominate news coverage and debate for days or longer.

But in Times Square Friday night, Mohammad Qatanani did just that. Qatanani, the imam at Paterson, N.J.’s Islamic Center of Passaic County, has spent a decade battling the government’s efforts to deport him over his failure to disclose Hamas ties, told the crowd that all peace efforts should be cut off.

(Video at the link. — DM)

“Our message to the Palestinian authority, you have to stop all kinds of peace process, no peace process and negotiation with the occupation in Palestine. Oslo has to be stopped and to be finished. We have to start a new intifada.” He then led the crowd in chanting, “intifada, intifada!”

Previous intifadas featured deadly terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings, shootings and deadly knife attacks.

We have chronicled the effect blind hatred for Israel has on Palestinian advocates. It leads them to treat terrorist murderers and their enablers as heroes. It causes otherwise rational people to see no moral distinction between Israel and ISIS.

No one expected universal praise for the new U.S. policy toward Jerusalem. What too many Palestinian advocates are doing here, however, is dropping any veneer of moderation or hopes for peace. They will only accept peace when an existing nation and its people are wiped.

There’s a word for that.

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Putin lands in Syria on announced visit to create false impression war is over

December 11, 2017

Putin lands in Syria on announced visit to create false impression war is over, DEBKAfile, December 11, 2017

The fact remains that US and Kurdish forces control parts of northern Syria; Islamist extremists groups led by the Al Qaeda-affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rule much of Syria’s largest province of Idlib, and motley Syrian rebel groups hold onto areas around Damascus. Southern Syria is pretty much the same sort of patchwork quilt. The Syrian war is therefore very far from over.

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The Russian President Vladimir Putin’s airplane made a surprise landing Monday. Dec. 11, at the Russian Hmeimim air base in Latakia and announced he had ordered Russian troops to start withdrawing from Syria.

Putin arrived with defense minister Col. Gen. Sergey Shoigu. Straight after his welcome by a guard of honor composed of Russian units serving in the Syrian war, Putin took the microphone for this announcement: “I order the defense minister and chief of the general staff to start the withdrawal of Russian troops to their permanent bases.” He went on to say: “In the space of two years, the Russian and Syrian militaries have defeated the most battle-hardened grouping of international terrorists.” He then issued a warning to the various terrorist elements still operating in Syria, “Russia will strike them as they have been seen before.”

Putin then sat down with Syrian President Bashar Assad who came to the base to see him. Later Monday, the Russian president has scheduled trips to Egypt and Turkey.

DEBKAfile adds: Putin staged his surprise visit to Syria and comments in order to generate the impression that the Syrian war was over – which he has been trying to do for some weeks – that it had ended in victory for the “Russia and Syrian militaries” and that the time had come for a political resolution.

He omitted mention of the Iranian and pro-Iranian Shiite militias, including Hizballah, their partners in combat on the ground, in which very few Russian troops took part. The main Russian contribution to Assad’s war was and is air support for those ground troops, who filled the depleted ranks of the Syrian army. In ordering the withdrawal of Russian units from Syria, Putin did not specify whether the air units were also being withdrawn. But his warning to “terrorists” still fighting in Syria indicated that in reality the war is far from over. Assad’s heavily reduced army lacks manpower for holding onto areas recently liberated from Syrian rebel forces and he is hard put just to defend his capital, Damascus. The Shiite militias fighting under Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders can’t do without massive Russian air and intelligence support

The Russian president also skipped reference to the US coalition fighting ISIS in Syria, including the Kurdish YPG militia which liberated Raqqa, pretending the “victory” was just down to the Russian and Syrian armies. But his presentation of the situation is bound to boomerang. The fact remains that US and Kurdish forces control parts of northern Syria; Islamist extremists groups led by the Al Qaeda-affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rule much of Syria’s largest province of Idlib, and motley Syrian rebel groups hold onto areas around Damascus. Southern Syria is pretty much the same sort of patchwork quilt. The Syrian war is therefore very far from over.

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Bangladeshi Muslim Suicide Bomber Blows up in New York

December 11, 2017

Bangladeshi Muslim Suicide Bomber Blows up in New York. The Point (Front Page Magazine), Daniel Greenfield, December 11, 2017

(Three cheers for the bomber. It’s just a shame that he failed and didn’t take some of his co-religionists with him. — DM)

 

(Video at the link — DM)

The Port Authority bomber is Akayed Ullah, a 27-year-old from Bangladesh. He came to the US 7 years ago.

Ullah means Allah. If there were any ambiguity.

After 9/11, New York City successfully shut down Islamic terrorism. Under Mayor Bill de Blasio, deals were made with CAIR and Linda Sarsour. The terrorists were protected. And this is the result.

Akayed Ullah, a 27-year-old Bangladeshi native, detonated part of his “low tech” explosive at 7:30 a.m. and was injured in an underground subway passage just 200 feet from the bus terminal at West 42nd St. and Eighth Ave., officials said. Three commuters suffered minor injuries, officials said.

After the explosion, Port Authority cops moved in and struggled with Ullah, who had wires attached to his body, sources said.

He tried to set off the rest of his bomb, but only part of it went off. Two PAPD officers grabbed him and successfully removed the explosives without further incident.

The Port Authority may be obscure to most non-New Yorkers, but PAPD was on the scene in 9/11. And a number of PAPD officers lost their lives. Muslim terrorists are increasingly targeting bus and train stations. And so PAPD will be on the front lines.

The Port Authority is massive. And crowded. He picked a good target. If he had better technical skills, this story would be much more horrific. And the next Muslim terrorist might be more adept. And then we would be reading about 20-30 dead.

He was taken to Bellevue Hospital with burns to the hands and the abdomen and also lacerations and is expected to survive, sources said.

And will now become a permanent taxpayer burden for Americans and a civil rights cause for Muslims. I look forward to all the claims of entrapment and mental illness. So far the media hasn’t begun blaming Trump, but I give it a few hours.

Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” said preliminary information suggests Ullah “supposedly was setting the device off in the name of ISIS, so definitely a terrorist attack, definitely intended.”

The man has been in the country for about seven years, Bratton said. The device was affixed to his body with velcro and zip ties.

He came under Obama.

So much for vetting. You can’t vet what a Muslim migrant will do in 7 years. But you can reduce Bangladeshi migration to America. And let’s forget the “technical labor” nonsense. Our friend the Bangladeshi suicide bomber was tech labor. Don’t pin green cards to future suicide bombers.

I wrote about Brooklyn’s Little Bangladesh back in 2014.

Little Bangladesh has been cut off from Brooklyn and attached to a country thousands of miles away. Immigrants step off a plane from Bangladesh at JFK airport, get into a taxi driven by a Bangladeshi playing Bengali pop tapes and step out into a small slice of Bangladesh on McDonald Avenue.

And when the infidels of Brooklyn wander into their territory, they are glared at as the foreign intruders that they are.

In Chinatown, Buddhist temples and protestant churches sit side by side and in Latino neighborhoods, Adventist storefront churches and massive Catholic edifices co-exist; along with them can be found synagogues, Hindu and Zoroastrian temples and the whole dizzying array of religious diversity of a port city defined by its swells and tides of immigrants.

Bangladesh is more than 90 percent Muslim. Hindus are being attacked in the streets of its cities by Islamist mobs because Islam does not co-exist. The other religions of the city do not demand that everyone join them or acknowledge their supremacy and pay them protection money for the right to exist.

Islam does.

The number of Bangladeshis in New York has increased by 20 percent in only four years to an estimated 74,000. And those numbers don’t take into account the unofficial Mohammeds living in basements while nursing their murderous grudges.

Jamaica, Queens is becoming the center of the Bangladeshi presence in New York. Another Mohammed, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, lived here in a low rise development of indistinguishable buildings crammed together and studded with satellite dishes so the dwellers could watch the television programs of their home countries, and plotted the mass murder of Americans.

“We will not stop until we attain victory or martyrdom,” he said in a video recorded before his planned attack.  His modest goal, in his own words, was to “destroy America” and quoted “Sheikh Osama” to justify the killing of American women and children.

“I just want something big. Something very big,” Mohammed said, “make one step ahead, for the Muslims . . . that will make us one step closer to run the whole world.”

At this hour no one in Little Korea, Little Italy, Little Brazil, Brighton Beach or Koreatown is plotting to destroy America so that his religion can rule the world. That is what sets the Little Bangladeshes, Little Pakistans, Little Mogadishus and Little Egypts apart from every other immigrant group whose dreams for the future are not overshadowed by the iron dream of Islam.

We need to wake up.

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Netanyahu: Iran eyes sending 80,000 Shiite fighters to ME

December 11, 2017
In press briefing before concluding European trip, PM Netanyahu says Iran seeks to shore up Syrian entrenchment, intends to use 80,000 Shiite fighters to ‘spark religious wars anew’; in prior statement to 28 EU foreign ministers, Netanyahu chides them to ‘stop pampering Palestinians’, says Palestinians need ‘reality check.’
Itamar Eichner|Published:  11.12.17 , 19:18
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5055337,00.html

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Monday of Iran’s entrenchment in Syria, as his official visit to Paris and Brussels was winding down.

“If Iran makes good on its threat, it will do so by utilizing 80,000 Shiite fighters, which will cause religious wars to erupt again,” Netanyahu said in a press briefing before returning to Israel.

PM Netanyahu (L) and EU chief diplomat Mogherini (Photo: AP)

PM Netanyahu (L) and EU chief diplomat Mogherini (Photo: AP)

Earlier Monday Netanyahu convened with the European Union’s chief diplomat Federica Mogherini, after which he proceeded to attend an informal breakfast with 28 of the EU’s foreign ministers, which the Lithuanian foreign minister organized without Mogherini’s knowledge.

“I stressed we have to find a new discourse on the region,” Netanyahu explained to the ministers before chiding them to “stop pampering the Palestinians.”

“I think the Palestinians need a reality check. You have to stop cutting them slack. That’s the only way to move forward towards peace,” the prime minister opined.

Netanyahu also denied to the ministers the allegation settlements were at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying, “They consider the real settlements to be in Jaffa. Trump merely told them the truth.”When the ministers asked him if Israel was willing to undertake certain actions to improve Palestinians’ lives, Netanyahu replied, “I told them we already were: on matters relating to water, work permits and—in the future—creating a train line transporting good from Haifa to the Arab world through the bridges over the Jordan and a linkup to Jenin.”

(Photo: AP)

(Photo: AP)

In his meeting with Mogherini, Netanyahu said it was time for most of the European Union’s member countries to follow in the Unites States’ footsteps and recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.The American president’s recognition of Jerusalem did not hinder peace efforts, Netanyahu said, but allowed them to move forward. “Trump put the facts squarely on the table, and recognizing reality is the substance of peace.

“It’s time that the Palestinians recognize the Jewish state and also recognize the fact that it has a capital. It’s called Jerusalem.

“It has been the capital of Israel for 3,000 years, since it was founded by King David. We’ve never lost our bond to it, and yet this bond is being denied in United Nations forums and in laughable UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) decisions seeking to deny history and historical truth.

“Jerusalem has been the capital of the Jewish state for 70 years. Peace is predicated on reality and or recognizing reality. I think the fact Jerusalem is Israel’s capital is completely obvious to any of you who have visited Israel,” the prime minister said.”Europe and Israel are partner significantly on three major areas: security, prosperity and peace. On security, Israeli intelligence has prevented dozens of terrorist attack, many of them on European soil, and I think the lives of many people were saved thanks to that cooperation, so well-known to the security services of many European governments,” Netanyahu added at the joint press conference.

Prior to Netanyahu’s remarks, Mogherini said the EU will continue respecting international consensus on Jerusalem and made it clear she nevertheless denounced any attacks in Europe against Israel or Jews.

The EU’s foreign minister also noted she gave her full support to King of Jordan Abdullah II‘s peace initiative. “The only realistic solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is predicated on the two-state solution with Jerusalem as a shared capital,” Mogherini elucidated.

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Palestinian official urges Istanbul summit: Recognize Jerusalem as our capital

December 11, 2017
By Seth J. Frantzman
December 11, 2017 18:28
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Palestinian-official-Recognize-Jerusalem-as-Palestinian-capital-517735
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (L) address the media at the Presidential Palace in Ankara January 12, 2015.. (photo credit: REUTERS)

Organization of Islamic Cooperation meets Wednesday at invitation of Turkish President

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes to bring together Muslim countries in Istanbul on Wednesday as part of Ankara’s response to Washington’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The meeting is likely to ramp up tensions surrounding Jerusalem, after the Turkish president also called Israel a “state of occupation and a terror state” on December 10 and the Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem governor called on Muslim countries to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine at the meeting.

On December, 6 Erdogan invited the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to an emergency meeting in Istanbul. Ibrahim Kalin, the President’s spokesperson, said that Erdogan had spoken with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other Muslim heads of State in Qatar, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Tunisia and Indonesia.

Ankara was outraged by the US president’s Jerusalem decision.

“We will continue to stand with the oppressed, we will use every opportunity we have for our first qibla, Jerusalem,” the Turkish president said on Sunday, referring to Islamic prayers and the holy city.

Turkey has accused the US of being a “partner in bloodshed,” and Turkish media has widely circulated a photo of a blindfolded Palestinian teenager being led away by IDF troops.

This comes in the context of Turkish anger over the US support for the Syrian Democratic Forces in eastern Syria, which Turkey sees as a partner of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units and Kurdistan Workers Party, which the latter Turkey and other countries view as a terrorist organization. In October, the US and Turkey were embroiled in a controversy over visas and the two countries have strained relations.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will attend the Istanbul summit and deliver a speech, Iranian media reported. He is supposed to leave for Turkey the night of December 12. Erdogan and Rouhani met in Sochi in late November with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Jerusalem issue has united some in the OIC.

Last year in Istanbul, Iran was criticized for “interference” in the region and “support for terrorism.”

The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, is likely to attend and Lebanese President Michael Aoun will also attend. King Abdullah of Jordan, who was just in Turkey, is also likely to attend.

The Istanbul meeting comes two days after the Arab League condemned the Jerusalem decision on Saturday. On Monday, Abbas went to Cairo to meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Paris.

Adnan al-Husayni, the Palestinian Authority’s designated “governor” for Jerusalem claimed declaring Jerusalem the Palestinian capital would be an answer to Trump’s speech. “It can have a very strong impact on the political level.”

It is still unclear whether some of the key leaders in the region will attend or send a high level representative to the Istanbul meeting.

On December 11, Sisi met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Cairo. Putin had just come from a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad, where he ordered some troops withdrawn from Syria. Saudi Arabia’s attendance will also be key to any important decisions to come from Istanbul.

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Lieberman slams Israeli-Arab MKs: ‘You are all war criminals’

December 11, 2017

In a fierce speech at the Knesset, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the members of the Joint Arab List party are ‘illegitimate’ and ‘war criminals.’

Omri Ariel
http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/politics-and-military/politics/lieberman-calls-israeli-arab-mks-war-criminals-32982
Lieberman (left) and MK Jamal Zahalka Photo credit: Channel 2 News

Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday unleashed a harsh verbal tirade against Israeli-Arab MKs, calling them “war criminals” and expressing hope that they will “not be here” for much longer.

Lieberman’s remarks were made in response to accusations voiced by some members of the Joint Arab List party, who claimed Israel was conducting war crimes in the West Bank.

“Has anybody ever heard (the Israeli-Arab MKs) talk about the civil war in Syria?” Lieberman asked during a speech at the Knesset assembly. “Every day, about 400 people are killed in the Middle East, in Arab countries, and about 1,000 are injured. In Yemen, 160 people were killed in one day. Does anybody care about that?”

“Just look at how many terror attacks we have here every day,” he continued, addressing the Israeli-Arab MKs. “Do you ever talk about war criminals then? Those of you sitting here are the real war criminals. Each and every one of the Joint Arab List are war criminals. All of them.”

“There will come a day when you will no longer be here,” Lieberman added. “You will be in Ramallah, not a part of this country. You are using the strengths and weaknesses of democracy to destroy us from within.”

On Sunday, Lieberman called to boycott Israeli-Arabs living in Wadi Ara, after violent clashes between local residents and the Israel Police during a protest against the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

“These people don’t belong in the State of Israel,” Lieberman said in a radio interview. “They are not part of us. We’ve seen terrorists come out of there and people taking part in terrorists’ funerals.”

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Hezbollah chief says fight for Jerusalem is now top priority

December 11, 2017

Published time: 11 Dec, 2017 17:10

https://www.rt.com/news/412757-nasrallah-palestine-israel-hezbollah/

Supporters of Lebanon’s Hezbollah protest in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon December 11, 2017. © Aziz Taher / Reuters

Lebanese Hezbollah will work with its allies to create a strategy “in the field” to confront Israel, the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said, calling again for a third Palestinian intifada (uprising), during a rally in Beirut on Monday.

“Today the axis of resistance, including Hezbollah, will return as its most important priority … Jerusalem and Palestine and the Palestinian people and the Palestinian resistance in all its factions,” Nasrallah said, as cited by Reuters.

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FILE PHOTO: A man watches Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah © Jamal Saidi

Hezbollah’s Nasrallah backs call for new Palestinian intifada

Speaking by video-link at a rally attended by tens of thousands in Hezbollah’s stronghold in southern Beirut, Nasrallah vowed that the struggle for Jerusalem and an independent Palestine is now Hezbollah’s top priority.

According to Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s regional victories – the Iran-backed group played a key role in ground operations against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in Syria – will allow it to renew its focus on Palestine.

He also called on Hezbollah and its allies to form a united strategy “in the field” to confront Israel, and advocated for third Palestinian intifada to overturn US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Demonstrators marched through the group’s Beirut stronghold carrying banners reading “Jerusalem, Eternal Capital of Palestine” and “Jerusalem is Ours”.

Last week, President Donald Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and said he would move the US embassy there, sparking fury and condemnation from Arab states as well as from Washington’s European allies.

The Beirut rally took place on the day after a violent protest outside the Lebanon’s US Embassy.

Last week, Nasrallah called for an “Islamic summit that would declare Jerusalem as the eternal capital of Palestine.”

“We support the call for a new Palestinian intifada and escalating the resistance which is the biggest, most important and gravest response to the American decision,” he added, as quoted by Lebanon’s Naharnet TV.

Israel has waged two wars against Hezbollah, with the most recent conflict, in 2006, killing more than a thousand Lebanese civilians. Hezbollah convoys inside Syria have also been frequent targets of Israeli airstrikes.

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Hezbollah chief says Trump Jerusalem move ‘beginning of end’ for Israel

December 11, 2017

Hassan Nasrallah says US and Jewish state isolated, leads tens of thousands of terror group’s supporters in Beirut with chants of ‘Death to America!’ and ‘Death to Israel!’

By TOI staff and Agencies Today, 5:59 pm

https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-massive-rally-hezbollah-chief-calls-for-intifada-over-jerusalem/

Supporters of Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group march with a model of the Dome of the Rock and wave Lebanese, Palestinian and Hezbollah flags during a protest in Beirut on December 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called for Palestinians to launch a fresh “intifada” against Israel over the US recognition of Jerusalem at a massive rally in Beirut on Monday attended by thousands of the terror group’s supporters, saying Israel’s end was at hand.

“We will never abandon Jerusalem,” Nasrallah told the crowd in an address beamed on a massive screen.

“All Arab peoples must repeat with the Palestinian people: ‘We will be millions of martyrs to sacrifice for Jerusalem’,” he said, a pledge echoed in unison by the crowd numbering tens of thousands.

During the rally, Hezbollah supporters chanted “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!” in protest over the US decision. Protesters marched through the Iran-backed terror group’s south Beirut bastion, carrying banners reading “Jerusalem, Eternal Capital of Palestine” and “Jerusalem is Ours.”

He charged that the move has left the US and Israel isolated against the rest of the world.

“Trump’s decision on al-Quds will be the beginning of the end of Israel,” he said, using the Arabic name for Jerusalem.

“If you hold on to al-Quds as the everlasting capital of Palestine, neither Trump nor anyone else can do anything other than that,” Nasrallah said. “The whole nation must stand in the face of this American threat.”

Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy group, is committed to Israel’s destruction, as is its patron.

Supporters of Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group hold portraits of its leader Hassan Nasrallah (R) and its former military chief Imad Mughniyeh during a protest in Beirut on December 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)

“Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine and will be until Judgment Day,” said Iman Ghadbun, 28, attending the protest with her seven-year-old daughter.

The rally was held under tight Hezbollah security and passed without incident, a day after a violent protest outside the US embassy in Beirut, where security forces fired tear gas and water cannons at rowdy protesters who pelted them with stones. The protesters were hundreds of meters from the embassy.

“When the world stands together Trump has to change his mind, right?” said Hassan Mousa, a 28 year-old photographer with a hipster beard and slicked back hair.

“We’re the children of Hezbollah, of course we’re ready to fight,” he said.

Nasrallah’s call for an intifada, or violent uprising, echoed the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which has called for intensifying violence against Israel in response to the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and has allowed thousands of Gazans to confront Israeli troops at the Gaza border fence in recent days.

Nasrallah also urged the Palestinian Authority to sever diplomatic ties with allies of Israel, and called on Jordan and Egypt to repeal their peace treaties with the Jewish state.

“We must put pressure on the Arab and Islamic states to repeal peace treaties and other deals with Israel,” Nasrallah said. “I call on Palestinians to kick out any delegation that aims to visit them from countries that have normalized relations with Israel, no matter what the background of those delegations is.”

Hamas’s deputy political chief Saleh al-Arouri holds a rare public meeting with head of the Lebanese terror group leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon October 31, 2017. (Screenshot from PalInfo website)

Nasrallah had called for Monday’s demonstration last week after US President Donald Trump defied worldwide warnings and insisted that after repeated failures to achieve peace a new approach was long overdue, describing his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the seat of Israel’s government as merely based on reality.

The move was hailed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and by leaders across much of the Israeli political spectrum. Trump stressed that he was not specifying the boundaries of Israeli sovereignty in the city, and called for no change in the status quo at the city’s holy sites.

The move has been widely condemned and sparked days of protest in Muslim-majority countries.

Israel fought a devastating war against Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006 that left more than 1,200 Lebanese and 120 Israelis dead.

Israel withdrew its forces from southern Lebanon in 2000, ending a 22-year presence in the country, but the two countries remain technically at war and there have been occasional border skirmishes.

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Red Crescent drives Arab rioters

December 11, 2017

Security footage shows ambulance being used to transport Arabs to locations of riots while pretending they are injured.

Arutz Sheva Staff, 11/12/17 18:04

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Putin, Assad, Declare Syrian Civil War Is Over

December 11, 2017
By JNi.Media

Putin, Assad, Declare Syrian Civil War Is Over

Presidents Assad and Putin at War-Ending ceremony, Dec. 11, 2017

Photo Credit: SANA

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday asked his Defense Ministry to start the pullout of the Russian military from Syria “to permanent locations,” seeing as Russia’s task force and the Syrian government troops have routed “over slightly more than two years,” the “most combat-capable groups of international terrorists” in Syria, TASS reported. Putin spoke before Russian servicemen at the Hmeymim airbase in Syria.

“In view of this, I have made a decision: most of the Russian military contingent currently in the Syrian Arab Republic is returning home, to Russia,” he said, adding, “You are coming home with a victory, to your relatives, parents, wives, children and friends. Your Motherland is waiting for you, my friends. Have a safe trip home and thank you for your service.”

Presidents Assad and Putin at War-Ending ceremony, Dec. 11, 2017 / SANA

“President al-Assad thanked President Putin for Russia’s active participation in fighting terrorism in Syria, stressing that what the Russian military personnel have achieved will not be forgotten by the Syrian people, since the blood of their martyrs has mixed with the blood of the martyrs of the Syrian Arab army in the face of terrorists,” SANA, the official Syrian news agency reported.

Also mixed in, a dash of sarin gas and other chemicals the Assad regime has used in the process of liberating the homeland.

President al-Assad said future generations that will read about this war will not differentiate between a Syrian or a Russian martyr, noting that “the sacrifices of the heroes from both sides will ever remain the embodiment of the noblest battle in the face of terrorism, in which blood is mixed with blood to purify our land from the mercenaries who wanted to destroy our homeland.”

The commander of Russia’s military group in Syria Colonel-General Sergey Surovikin told Putin at the event that 32,000 terrorists had been killed in Syria over the past seven months.

“More than 67,000 square kilometers of Syrian territory, more than 1,000 localities, 78 oil and gas fields and two deposits of phosphate ores have been recaptured,” Surovikin continued, noting that over the past 227 days alone, “Military planes have flown 6,956 sorties and helicopters, more than 7,000 sorties. More than 32,000 militants, 394 tanks and more than 12,000 pieces of other military equipment were eliminated.”

Back in August, the chief of the Russian General Staff’s Main Operations Directorate, Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoy, said that overall, since the beginning of their involvement in the Syrian civil war, Russia’s Aerospace Forces had “made more than 28,000 sorties, delivering around 90,000 airstrikes.”

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