Jerusalem News (31 July, 2014, 4 Av, 5774)
Contents:
1. New Information on the Filmed Hamas Attack Against Israeli Warriors.
Hamas Terrorists Infiltrate Israel and Kill 5 IDF soldiers (Corrected Version)
2. With Israel at war, US lawmakers give full support, by BRADLEY KLAPPER
3. Hamas Often Bombs its Own People (rockets fall short)
4. IDF Soldiers Killed in Booby-Trapped UN Building
5. Latin American Neo-Nazi, Drug Supplying, Native-Killing, States Excoriate Israel
6. Arab Leaders, Viewing Hamas as Worse Than Israel, Stay Silent by DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
7. French Exodus: 'When Jews Flee, a Nation is Sick', by Dale Hurd
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1. New Information on the Filmed Hamas Attack Against Israeli Warriors.
Hamas Terrorists Infiltrate Israel and Kill 5 IDF soldiers (Corrected Version)
Previously in (the first sending of)
JN-1067. Jerusalem News
#5. Hamas Terrorists Infiltrate Israel and Kill 5 IDF soldiers, by Yair Davidiy
we sent out a report that was mistaken on some points.
Below is a slightly corrected updated version.
More information may be forthcoming in future postings of JN.
Terrorists entered Israel via a cross-border tunnel from Gaza, surfacing in the Nahal Oz area on Monday evening (28 July 2014).
Nahal Oz is a kibbutz in the southwest of Israel on the border with the Gaza strip.
Hamas has released a clip of the action. The clip has been edited and shows only part of the action.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1108731/WARNING-GRAPHIC-Hamas-tunnel-infiltration-kills-five.html
The clip shows at least four terrorists emerging from an underground tunnel and advancing towards an IDF "pillbox" watchtower.
The pillbox was protecting the kibbutz.
Together with the person making the film that makes for at least five terrorists and there may have been more.
The terrorists open the door of the tower and fire into it killing the five Israeli occupants.
They are shown attempting to drag one of the bodies away with them but desist.
A sixth IDF soldier was at the top of the tower and was supposed to have been guarding the approaches to it and watching the surroundings.
This soldier saw what was happening and claims to have fired at the terrorists and hit one of them. This is what made the terrorists retreat and stop trying to drag away an IDF body.
Early reports said that the IDF had already been already aware of the tunnel and supposedly had examined and neutralized it.
cf.
Five Soldiers Killed During Attempted Terrorist Infiltration
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183461#.U9nhK5td4dV
# The IDF was reportedly aware of the tunnel's existence and it is thus not clear how the terrorists managed to use it. One possibility is that the terrorist squad had been ensconced in a hidden room inside the tunnel network and emerged to carry out the attack. #
Something went wrong.
Where did the terrorists come from?
The IDF has numerous women soldiers monitoring camera screens that supposedly show everything going on along the border.
Up until now they had very good results. On several occasions they have been highly praised for having spotted attempts at infiltration and enabled their interception.
These girls are known as Tatspitaniot i.e. viewers.
We sent the following e-mail to:
 "Dr. Aaron Lerner" <imra@netvision.net.il>, who runs
IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis
Since 1992 providing news and analysis on the Middle East with a focus on Arab-Israeli relations
Website: www.imra.org.il
From: Yair Davidiy
To:Â Dr. Aaron Lerner
# Where were the Tatspitaniot? Why was the tunnel not neutralized after its discovery? #
We received the following reply:
"Dr. Aaron Lerner" <imra@netvision.net.il>,
Assuming for the moment that the hole came up on the border side, the problem in the middle of the day is that the long distance view of the cameras give a view that hard to pick put people in very bright sunlight, at night the infrared picks up tremendous contrast between hot faces and the cooler background. The screw up probably the person in the tower not watching. ... the video shows the terrorist coming up to the unlocked gate and coming in and shooting the soldiers one by one.
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2. With Israel at war, US lawmakers give full support
http://news.yahoo.com/israel-war-us-lawmakers-full-support-055517701.html
By BRADLEY KLAPPER July 29, 2014 8:09 AM
Extracts:
Many even have criticized the administration's effort to stop the violence that has killed more than 1,100 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and more than 50 Israeli soldiers and three civilians this month.
"At times like this, people try to isolate Israel," House Speaker John Boehner said Monday. "We are here to stand with Israel, not just as a broker or observer but as a strong partner and a trusted ally.
"What does that mean? Well, it doesn't mean issuing vague, on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand statements. No, it means backing up our words and showing solidarity with our friend."
This week, legislators will discuss a $225 million request from the Defense Department to urgently bolster Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system.
Republicans and Democrats are clashing over whether to approve the funds in a larger spending bill or separately, though no one publicly opposes the payments. Senate appropriators already have approved doubling next year's money for the system.
Whereas the Obama administration and lawmakers agree on Iron Dome, other actions in Congress are more contentious.
Until Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz was hindering the appointment of several U.S. ambassadors to key allies by vowing to block all State Department nominees awaiting confirmation.
The Texas Republican said he was releasing his holds after the Federal Aviation Administration answered his questions about its 36-hour ban last week on U.S. airline flights to Israel. Cruz had claimed the prohibition was an "economic boycott" of Israel to pressure it into a cease-fire with the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
In a weekend call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Barack Obama stressed the need for an "immediate, unconditional, humanitarian cease-fire." Obama, a White House statement said, suggested larger questions would then come later.
Such talk has alarmed lawmakers of both parties.
In a letter last week to Obama, Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer and Ben Cardin, and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, said a cease-fire must eliminate Hamas' ability to fire rockets into Israel and place no restrictions on the Jewish state.
"Israel must be allowed to take any actions necessary to remove those threats," the senators wrote, Â a position that presaged by two days the Israeli government's unanimous rejection of Secretary of State John Kerry's cease-fire proposal.
Over days of intense diplomacy, Kerry has tried to secure commitments from both sides that would lead to peace. Congress, by contrast, has focused its energies on Palestinian actions and critics of Israel.
Cardin and Graham joined three Republican senators - Marco Rubio, Mark Kirk and Kelly Ayotte- Â in sending a sharply worded letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon after he described Israel's military operations as an "atrocious action."
Bipartisan resolutions making their way through the House and Senate would condemn Hamas' use of human shields.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, formerly the bane of the Israel lobby for suggesting a U.S. aid cutoff, has said no one should question Israel's actions in a time of war.
The ebullient bipartisan support for Israel is also leading many House of Representatives and Senate members to rev up their opposition to the Obama administration's nuclear negotiations with Iran.
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3. Hamas Often Bombs its Own People (rockets fall short)
IDF Spokesperson SMS
Thursday, July 31, 2014 01:29 AM
IDF: Over the past 24 hours over 140 rockets were fired at Israel, 81
rockets hit Israel, 9 were intercepted, and 50 fell short in the Gaza Strip.
Since this morning, IAF aircraft targeted approximately 80 terror activity
sites across the Gaza Strip.
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4. IDF Soldiers Killed in Booby-Trapped UN Building
Three IDF soldiers killed when explosives detonated within a booby-trapped UN building in Gaza. UNRWA yet to comment.
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By Elad Benari
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183542#.U9neV5td4dU
Extracts:
The three IDF soldiers who were killed on Wednesday (July 30, 2014) in Gaza, were killed when explosives detonated within a booby-trapped UN building in Khan Younis, Breitbart reports.
An elite IDF tunnel unit was in the process of uncovering an opening to a Hamas tunnel located at an UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) health clinic when all of a sudden the explosives detonated, causing the entirety of the building to fall on top of the soldiers.
The IDF has previously provided video evidence that Hamas fires rockets from inside schools and it is also known that Hamas has also been using UNRWA schools as storage sites for its rockets. For the third time in recent days, such a stockpile was discovered in a UN school Tuesday.
While it would not comment on the deaths of the three soldiers, UNRWA was quick to place blame on Israel for a rocket strike on one of their schools in Gaza.
The UN agency also immediately blamed Israel for a strike on Gaza's Shifa hospital, resulting in the deaths of over a dozen Gazans. It was later revealed that in all likelihood, a misfired Hamas Fajr-5 Iranian-made 100kg warhead destined for Israel had struck the hospital.
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5. Latin American Neo-Nazi, Drug Supplying, Native-Killing, States Excoriate Israel
Bolivia Claims Israel a 'Terror State'
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183536#.U9nil5td4dU
Bolivia has declared Israel a terrorist state.
Five additional Latin American countries - Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Chile - have recalled their envoys over misconceptions regarding the operation, in a move Israel condemned Wednesday as showing "encouragement for Hamas."
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6. Arab Leaders, Viewing Hamas as Worse Than Israel, Stay Silent
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, JULY 30, 2014
www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/world/middleeast/fighting-political-islam-arab-states-find-themselves-allied-with-israel.html
CAIRO - Battling Palestinian militants in Gaza two years ago, Israel found itself pressed from all sides by unfriendly Arab neighbors to end the fighting.
Not this time.
After the military ouster of the Islamist government in Cairo last year, Egypt has led a new coalition of Arab states - including Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that has effectively lined up with Israel in its fight against Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip. That, in turn, may have contributed to the failure of the antagonists to reach a negotiated cease-fire even after more than three weeks of bloodshed.
The Arab states 'loathing and fear of political Islam is so strong that it outweighs their allergy to Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel,' Â said Aaron David Miller, a scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington and a former Middle East negotiator under several presidents.
.... 'The silence is deafening.'
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7. French Exodus: 'When Jews Flee, a Nation is Sick', by Dale Hurd
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2014/July/French-Exodus-When-Jews-Flee-a-Nation-is-Sick-/
Monday 28th July 2014
CBN News Snr Reporter
Forwarded from
From: "'CW' surfer11@iprimus.com.au [origin]" <origin@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [origin of nations] French Exodus
Extracts:
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In January, demonstrators in Paris shouted, "We don't want Jews" and gave the Nazi salute. It was chilling reminder of France's World War II past when Jews were deported to concentration camps.
Before the war, European Jews waited too long to leave and ended up trapped. French Jews don't want to make the same mistake again.
CBN News interviewed a French family under the condition that they not be identified because they fear a backlash from French society.
In a few months the family will leave for Israel. They told us they preferred to go while they could leave on their terms instead of someday having to flee for their lives.
"We are not really afraid, but seeing the murders last year in Toulouse and what happened at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, we are afraid for our children and what could happen to them, and we think about it every day," the father told CBN News.
The mother of the Jewish family has already been called a "dirty Jew" by the neighbors. She has instructed her daughter to slip her Star of David inside her blouse when she goes outside, and has told her sons to be careful about where they wear their kippahs, or yarmulkes.
"They have worn the kippahs since they were very young, but over the past few years I have told them maybe it's better not to wear it sometimes," the mother said.
"There's a strong feeling inside the French community that it's time to leave," Philippe Karsenty, Jewish deputy mayor of Neuilly, said. "You can't have a dinner a conversation with a Jew without having the topic mentioned. Should we stay or should we leave?"
There are only 400,000 Jews in France and they're outnumbered by Arabs and Muslims by perhaps 15 to 1 or more. French law prohibits identifying citizens by ethnic background.
There have been close to 8,000 anti-Semitic incidents in France since 2000 - and each time Israel acts in self-defense against the Palestinians, the danger increases.
French Muslims have staged large and more violent demonstrations, including one a few weeks ago in which 200 Jews were trapped inside a synagogue.
Rabbi Michael Azoulay, the head of CRIF, France's national Jewish association, said the threat to Jews has become "unbearable."
At a synagogue near Paris, Rabbi Azoulay told CBN News the number of Jews coming to him for a certificate of Jewishness to go to Israel has increased dramatically in the past year.
It's estimated that as many as 5,000 Jews could leave France this year. The exodus of the Jews is a disaster for the French government, which keeps condemning the anti-Semitic attacks but can't stop them.
Dr. Richard Prasquier, former president of France's national Jewish association, emphasized that France is not an anti-Semitic country.
"I do not accept the fact that France is an anti-Semitic country. France is not anti-Semitic country. This government and the previous government did not have anti-Semitic ideas," he said.
The French father we interviewed said he believes the government is doing what it can.
French Jews seem to all agree that the French media is guilty of encouraging hatred of Jews by its one-sided reporting of the Middle East conflict and almost daily vilification of Israel.
"I think that the major responsibility bears on the media's shoulder because the media has been inciting hate against Israel for more than a decade," Karsenty said. "Every time when you watch TV or you listen to the radio or you read newspapers you always feel hate messages against Israel."
Prasquier agreed.
Not all French Jews are in danger, and not all who are leaving France are doing so because of anti-Semitism. Some are leaving because of the bad economy.
But three out of four Jews say they are thinking about leaving, and 95 percent say they are worried about anti-Semitism.
French Jews now face a perfect storm, with a war in Gaza, growing numbers of French Muslims, a bad economy, and the growing popularity of the far right National Front.
"Jews are being insulted and threatened not only by Muslims, but also by members of the far right and from leftists who hate Israel," the Jewish father told CBN News.
French leaders know that when Jews have to leave, it means a nation is sick.
"Jews are a litmus test of what's going on," Prasquier said. "It's not only Jews who will leave the country. It's not only France who will go down the drain, it's not only Europe, it's the entire Western world, including the United States."Â