An IDF officer was rescued Monday afternoon by Palestinian Authority police officers after he mistakenly entered Jenin. It’s a shame when Jews can’t enter their own Jenin, thought to be the site of the Israelite village of En-gannim (עין גנים), mentioned in the Jewish Bible. But like everything else Islam has hijacked, Islam has also hijacked Jenin. The officer, a major serving in the army’s Central Command, was on his way to the Mevo Dotan settlement in the northern West Bank but accidentally drove into Jenin, located seven miles northeast of the settlement. Local Palestinian residents who noticed the officer
Read More +Did you know that on the International Court of Justice in The Hague, no Israeli judge may serve on that court as a permanent member, while sworn enemies of Israel serve among its judges, several of whom represent countries that do not abide by the rule of law? Did you know that The Israeli Supreme Court is not only open to all Israeli Arabs, but also to all West Bank and Gaza Arabs and that Israel’s Supreme Court is the only court in the Middle East where an Arab can actually win a case against his government?
Read More +From JPost: MK Ibrahim Sarsour (UAL-TA’AL) drew the ire of right-wing Knesset members on Sunday when he called for “Muslims and Arabs” to “liberate Jerusalem. Speaking at the “Jerusalem First” conference in Ramallah, the lawmaker emphasized the importance of Jerusalem to Islam, and called on participants to “act together to become a torrent on the road to liberation.” “Just as the Muslims once liberated Jerusalem from the Crusaders, so must we today believe that we can liberate Jerusalem. It is not an impossible dream,” he said. I’ll tell you what is an impossible dream: to believe that Arabs – who
Read More +Over 63 percent of Israeli Jews avoid entering Arab towns, according to a new study by the University of Haifa. Some 68 percent of Jewish Israelis fear the possibility that Israeli Arabs will start a popular revolution, and nearly 65 percent believe Arabs endanger the security of the state due to their high birth rate. Meanwhile, 60 percent of the Israeli Arab public fear mass expulsion.
Read More +From CBCNews: The Israeli government overwhelmingly approved the appointment of the country’s first Muslim cabinet minister Sunday, Raleb Majadele. Israel’s parliament has always had Arab lawmakers — today, they number 13 members out of 120. But the country has had only one Arab cabinet minister before: Salah Tarif, a Druse, who was appointed in 2001 and forced to resign nine months later under a cloud of corruption allegations. This appointment was more contentiousbecause Muslim and Christian Arabs, unlike the Druse, do not serve in the army and have a far weaker identification with Israel. Arabs have been slowly taking on
Read More +Several Arab families decided to act on Hizbullah Chief Hassan Nasrallah’s “recommendation” and leave rocket-stricken Haifa during the war in south Lebanon. They traveled to Palestinian towns like Bethlehem and Ramallah, and even to east Jerusalem, but soon after decided they had rather return home and face the rocket menace. The reason: The bad treatment awarded to them in hotels, restaurants and stores, as well as ongoing harassments of their wives and daughters on the part of the local residents. ‘We will never again make donation or participate in demonstration for West Bank from now on,’ said one Haifa Arab.
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