Turkish president Erdogan to visit Iran soon

Turkish president Erdogan to visit Iran soon. (TAZ).

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a visit to Iran in the near future, Iran's Communications and Information Technology Minister Mahmoud Vaezi said Feb.3.

Vaezi, who is the co-chairs the Iran-Turkey Joint Commission for Economic Co-operation said bilateral trade between two countries is $15 billion, but both sides are keen to double that.

Iran and Turkey's presidents have met four times since mid-2013, when President Hassan Rouhani took office.

"Iran wants to increase the number of common banks and banking relations with Turkey," Vaezi added.

According to the Iranian minister, a second railroad between Iran and Turkey is to be inaugurated in near future as well. He didn't mentioned any exact time, but said that during next week an Iranian delegation would visit Turkey to discuss petrochemical products and glass export tariffs. Hmmm....What would be the odds for the Hamas leadership to visit Iran As well at the same time?

Iran helps other countries fight terror, by exporting missile and other equipment technology. IRGC cmdr.

Iranian official: exporting manufacturing technology for missiles and other equipment to Palestine. HT: IMRA.

A senior Iranian commander says the Islamic Republic has helped neighboring countries fight aggression and terror from various entities by providing them with military know-how.

Commander of the Aerospace Division of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh said on Monday that Iran’s capabilities in manufacturing military equipment have reached such a point that the country now exports the expertise to neighboring countries.

“By exporting the technology of manufacturing missiles and other equipment, Iran helped countries such as Syria, Iraq, and Palestine as well as Lebanon’s Hezbollah to stand up to and ground the Zionist regime, the ISIL and other Takfiri groups,” the Iranian commander said.

Hajizadeh said the IRGC’s Aerospace Division can now mass-produce different types of short- and medium-range missiles.

In recent years, Iran has made major breakthroughs in its defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in producing key military hardware and systems.

Iran has so far designed and manufactured different domestically developed missiles, including Khalij-e-Fars (Persian Gulf), Mehrab (Altar), Ra’d (Thunder), Qader (Mighty), Nour (Light) and Zafar (Triumph).

Iran has repeatedly said that its military might poses no threat to other countries, reiterating that its defense doctrine is based on deterrence. Hmmm.....The Obama 'admin' peace partners.

Video - ‘What Israel? It’s ours,’ says PA TV host

Video - ‘What Israel? It’s ours,’ says PA TV host. (TOI).


Koran 7:7, Where G-d Himself bequeaths the Land of Israel to the Jews, as a nation who thought themselves weak, and blesses them with goodness. Source

Video - Arab woman steals Psalms book from Jew, he reacts

Video - Arab woman steals Psalms book from Jew, he reacts. (Matzav).
This photo went viral last week on Twitter and elsewhere, and was retweeted by Max Blumenthal among hundreds of others who expressed their disgust at the Jew for screaming at the poor, frightened Arab woman:

But if you look closer at the photo, you see something interesting.
The book that the Arab woman is holding is a Tehillim!


It seems that she grabbed the Tehillim from the Jewish man - just in time for the photographer to show his reaction to having had a holy book stolen from him in broad daylight.

There are other photos from the scene that show another Arab woman physically assaulting the same Jew, although I don’t know whether it was taken before or after the photo above:




In fact, it is the Muslim women who created a gauntlet at the Chain Gate where Jews were exiting the Har Habayis. This photo from the same photographer shows things a little more accurately:



UPDATE: Another photo of the Muslim woman who grabbed the Jew, grabbing another Jew:



Who’s intimidating whom again?


UPDATE 2: Israellycool and Bob Knot found (fuzzy) video of the scene HERE. The woman seems to grab his Tehillim at about 6 seconds in. It is clear that the Arab women are screaming at any Jews who pass by.

UPDATE 3: Bob found a much clearer video showing the exact sequence of events - just as we thought. SEE IT HERE.

UPDATE 4: More photos showing her with the book and him going to retrieve it:




HT: ELDER OF ZIYON

Avigdor Lieberman: Abbas is an Anti-Semite Trying to Ignite Holy War

Avigdor Lieberman: Abbas is an Anti-Semite Trying to Ignite Holy War. (JNS).

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said yesterday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is responsible for the recent unrest in eastern Jerusalem. 

Lieberman’s comments came after Abbas suggested on Friday that Jews should be banned from the Har Habayis in Yerushalayim.

In a speech quoted by the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, Abbas said Jewish “settlers” should be prevented from entering the site “by any means.”

“This is our Noble Sanctuary. … They have no right to enter and desecrate it,” Abbas said.

On Saturday, Abbas raised his level of vitriol, referring to Jews who visit the Temple Mount as a “herd of cattle.”

Later on Saturday, Lieberman said that Abbas had again revealed his true face as a “Holocaust denier who speaks about a Palestinian state free of Jews.” The foreign minister added that Abbas was and remains an anti-Semite.

“Behind the suit and the pleasantries aimed at the international community, he is raising the level of incitement against Israel and the Jews and is calling for a religious war,” Lieberman said.
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Palestinians to Submit U.N. Resolution on Occupation by End-Oct

Palestinians to Submit U.N. Resolution on Occupation by End-Oct.(Naharnet).

The Palestinians will submit a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council demanding the end of Israel's occupation by the end of October, a senior official said on Thursday.

The Palestinians have been under intense pressure not to push forward with the resolution -- including with alleged threats of cuts to U.S. aid -- but Palestine Liberation Organisation secretary general Yasser Abed Rabbo said a decision was taken late Wednesday to push ahead.

"The political council of the PLO decided during its meeting last night... to go to the U.N. Security Council with the aim of getting a resolution passed to end the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories... by the end of this month," he said.

Voting could take place "two weeks or more after the request is presented," Abed Rabbo told a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah. "There is no excuse for a delay."

Since the collapse of U.S.-led peace talks with Israel in April, the Palestinians have been pursuing a new diplomatic path to independence via the United Nations and by joining international organisations.

The Palestinians won the status of U.N. observer state in 2012.

A draft of the resolution obtained by AFP earlier this month calls for the "full withdrawal of Israel, the occupying power, from all of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, as rapidly as possible and to be fully completed within a specified timeframe, not to exceed November 2016."

An initiative in the Security Council is sure to meet opposition from the United States, which has repeatedly vetoed resolutions seen as undermining Israel.

Abed Rabbo said he hoped the draft would at least survive long enough to be debated by the 15-member council, even if its chances of being carried were slim.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday that a Palestinian diplomatic offensive would "undermine" peace efforts.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said earlier this month that the Palestinians are risking $700 million a year in U.S. aid by pursuing the resolution.

He warned the Palestinians could also seek to join the International Criminal Court, where they could sue Israeli officials over allegations of war crimes.

Anti-Semitic Text on UNRWA Website Claims ‘Jews Promoted Social Corruption’‏

Anti-Semitic Text on UNRWA Website Claims ‘Jews Promoted Social Corruption’‏.(Algemeiner).
By D. Bender.

Investigative pro-Israel blogger, Elder of Ziyon, on Monday uncovered a report, in Arabic, posted on the the United Nations Refugee Works Agency (UNRWA) website, that accuses Jews of supporting “social corruption.”

Entitled, “The Historical Development of Human Rights Throughout History,” the document purports to be a summary of human rights policies held by a number of civilizations over the ages, including Jewish thought on various aspects of Mosaic prohibitions against “murder, adultery and theft.”

While the article begins by praising Judaism as “a heavenly religion revealed to the Prophet of Allah Musa [Moses], peace be upon him, included human rights through its focus on the goal of liberating the individual and the community. The right to freedom from oppression is a supreme value highlighted in Jewish holy books (Rashidi: 2005: 60). The commandments of Moses, peace be upon him, include prohibiting murder, adultery and theft.”

But soon enough, the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel stereotypes kick in.

“But if we look around us at communities supposedly protecting human rights and at well-known oases of democracy we do not see [human rights] but instead charges that the victim was a terrorist or supporter of terrorism, and also pornography justified freely as rights. 

We see monopoly and fraud justified by the right of ownership and earnings in any form (Mokbel: 2005: 5) All of this happened as a result of distortion and misinformation by the Jewish clergy. The Jews in the sixth and seventh centuries promoted social corruption (1981: 39), and the claim that they are God’s chosen people demonstrates that the Jews did not know anything about human rights,” the author claimed. Read the full story at The Algemeiner Journal

Video - UN Sec-Gen, Ban Ki Moon Visits Hamas Terror Tunnel in Southern Israel.

UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, Visits Location of de-Commissioned Terror Tunnel in Southern Israel. HT: IMRA.

[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: While UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki Moon provided the media many anti-Israel sound bites while visiting Palestinians, he was silent in this visit to Israel when shown the tunnels etc.]


Yesterday the UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki Moon,?accompanied by senior IDF officers, visited southern Israel. The IDF escorted the UN Secretary-General, to a tunnel shaft located near kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, where he was presented with the IDF the security analysis, lessons learned, and the IDF General Staff Mechanism for Fact-Finding Assessment following Operation Protective Edge.

?The Secretary-General was briefed by Commander of the Northern Corps, Major General Noam Tibon, Commander of the Gaza Division Brigadier General Itai Veruv and the Head of the Civilian Coordination Department at COGAT Col. Grisha Ya'akobovich. While visiting the tunnel they reviewed Hamas' strategic ? abuse of civilian infrastructure in order to execute attacks against the civilian communities of southern Israel, and discussed the vast efforts on behalf of Hamas in constructing the network of infiltration tunnels.

The officers also discussed the IDF ground force mission, how combat was conducted and the engineering efforts that took place in order to eliminate the tunnel threat.

PA PM: Only half of Cairo pledges to be spent on Gaza reconstruction

Other needs?

PA PM: Only half of Cairo pledges to be spent on Gaza reconstruction. HT: IMRA.

PM: Only half of Cairo pledges to be spent on Gaza reconstruction
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=732989


RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah says only half of the money pledged during the donor conference in Cairo will be dedicated to Gaza reconstruction, while the other half will be spent on other Palestinian needs in the coming three years.

Speaking at a joint news conference with UN secretary-general Ban Ki Mooon in Ramallah, Hamdallah said the Palestinians' main goal was to end the Israeli occupation.

He said officials at the Gaza reconstruction conference in Cairo had asserted that Israel and the Palestinian factions should adhere to the ceasefire agreement and seek to reach a permanent ceasefire in order to help with the reconstruction efforts.

Ban Ki-moon, for his part, said he brought a message of hope to rebuild the Gaza Strip in order to try and create a better future for the people of Gaza, where thousands of innocent people have died and hundreds of thousands have been suffering.

While he insisted that rebuilding Gaza was a priority, Ban said that it was more important to avoid a repetition of the same situation. The Gaza Strip, he said, was destroyed three times before and it’s time to make sure this destruction comes to an end.

He also denounced the settlement activities the Israeli government has been carrying out along with incitement in Jerusalem which would only lead to more tension. The occupation, added Ban, has gone on for decades and “now it’s time for a two-state solution, and the UN will continue to exert efforts for that end.” Hmmm......Other needs?

Video - Fatah Spokesman Ahmad Assaf: Hamas Leaders Stole 700 Million Dollars Collected for the Gaza People

In a recent TV interview, Fatah Spokesman Ahmad Assaf accused Hamas leaders of corruption. "They received 700 million dollars, which went into the Gaza Strip, but they did not give a single cent to the people of Gaza. The Hamas leaders took it all," Assaf said in the interview, which aired on the Palestinian Authority's Al-Awda TV channel on September 16. Hmmmm.....Please  Idiots US And Europe send us more money !

British Parliament To Vote on Whether To Recognize the Hamas included State of Palestine.

British Parliament To Vote on Whether To Recognize the Hamas included State of Palestine. (Forward).

British lawmakers will hold a symbolic parliamentary vote on Monday on whether the government should recognize Palestine as a state, a move unlikely to shift official policy but designed to raise the political profile of the issue.

Britain does not class Palestine as a state, but says it could do so at any time if it believed it would help the long-running peace process between the Palestinians and Israel.

The motion due for debate in Britain’s lower house of parliament, put forward by a lawmaker from the opposition Labor party, will ask parliamentarians whether they believe the government should recognize the state of Palestine.

It has the backing of the left-leaning Labor party’s leadership which has told its lawmakers to vote in favor of the motion, an edict which has caused anger with some pro-Israel members of parliament set to rebel or stay away altogether.

Other parties are allowing their lawmakers to vote according to their own consciences. Government ministers are expected to abstain.

Even if a majority of the House of Commons’ 650 lawmakers do back the motion, it is non-binding and would not force the British government to changes its diplomatic stance.

Sayeeda Warsi, a lawmaker from Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative party who quit her ministerial post in August after accusing the government of taking a “morally indefensible” approach to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, said she hoped the motion would pass.

“There is a lack of political will and our moral compass is missing,” the former Foreign Office minister said of the government’s policies towards Israel and Palestine.

“There are no negotiations, there is no show in town. Somehow we have to breathe new life into these negotiations, and one of the ways we can do that is by recognizing the state of Palestine,” she told The Observer newspaper on Sunday.

Hmmm....Recognizing Palestine is giving Hamas a known Designated terrorist group a victory.

Russia to Back UN Security Council Resolution on Palestinian State Establishment: Ministry

Russia to Back UN Security Council Resolution on Palestinian State Establishment: Ministry. (RN).

Russia will back the draft resolution proposed by Palestine that sets the datelines for establishment of the State of Palestine, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said Sunday.

“I cannot see any reasons to cavil about this text, or about Palestinian people’s wish to say once again ‘let’s have a look at this situation, in the UN framework’. So we say [to Palestinians], if you find one option or another suitable, then we will support you as friends. You know better what you need and how to achieve it. We think that the Palestinian case is fair, meaning that people have a right to self-determination, up to establishing their state,” Bogdanov told journalists.

Palestinians seek the creation of an independent state on the territories of the West Bank in East Jerusalem, partially occupied by Israel, as well as on the Gaza Strip territory controlled by Hamas militants. Palestine designated Jerusalem as its capital and calls on Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territories it took after the 1967 war.

In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly upgraded Palestine from an "observer entity" to a "non-member observer state" and affirmed the Palestinian people's right to self-determination.

By September 2013, the Palestinian State has been recognized by 134 UN member states, including Russia. However, most of the European Union members and the United States have not given their official recognition. Some EU members such as Hungary, Poland and Slovakia have recognized the Palestinian State before joining the bloc.

Video - Denmark Sermon: There Can be No Division of Palestine with the Offspring of Apes and Pigs

Israel guarantees to never again bomb Gaza Strip.........Unless.

Scoop: Israel guarantees to never again bomb Gaza Strip. HT: IMRA.

In a dramatic development before international conference for Gaza reconstruction to be held in Cairo meeting this Sunday, Israel can guaranty to never again bomb the Gaza Strip.

Contrary to recent statements by American and other officials, the Israeli guaranty to never again bomb the Gaza Strip is not conditioned on "progress" in reaching a "two state solution".
Instead, Israel makes this guarantee without adding a single condition to the agreements that the PLO has already signed with Israel. Agreements witnessed by many of the key participants in the upcoming Cairo conference, including the USA, Russian Federation, European Union, and Egypt.

It should be noted that Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly publicly declared that the reunited PA will honor agreements.

The agreements provide that:

#1. The Gaza Strip be demilitarized, with strict limits on the size of the exclusive PA security force deployed in the area as well as restrictions on the weapons that this force has.

#2. The PA security force act to maintain security and thwart attacks against Israel originating from the Gaza Strip.

As long as the PA honors these signed agreements, Israel guarantees to never again bomb the Gaza Strip.

In a related development, Oslo Agreement architect, Yossi Beilin, called last Friday in an interview on Israel Radio for the PA to set a deadline of a few weeks for Hamas to close down its Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
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Obama's 'Peacepartners' Hamas: We Will Not Accept Judaization of Jerusalem

Hamas: We Will Not Accept Judaization of Jerusalem. (Fars).

The Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas warned against Israel's continuous aggression against the holy places in Jerusalem and said it will not "accept the Judaization of Jerusalem."

"We will not accept the Judaization of Jerusalem and we are ready to pay any price to prevent this from happening," Hamas said in a statement, Middle East Monitor reported.

"All the repeated and continuous aggression on Al-Aqsa Mosque, carried out by Israeli occupation forces and its illegal settlers, are only part of a grander series of Judaization activities for the city of Jerusalem and all Palestinian lands," the statement said.

"The acceleration of this Zionist aggression comes in the context of prevailing uncertainty in the Arab and Islamic world, as all eyes have been deviated from looking directly at Palestine and its holy place, as well as the crimes of the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip," it added.

"We will not accept the Judaization of Jerusalem and we are ready to pay any price to prevent this from happening," Hamas further said. Hmmm....'Palestinian Unity Government' agrees common cause ...death to the Jews.

Video - Fatah Militants in Gaza Display "Booty" from Israeli Army, Vow to Kidnap Soldiers

Videos - Muslims Celebrate Hamas Rockets coming down on Israel

HT: IsraellyCool. More here on Facebook.

#Gaza: Islamic State-aligned folks (Ansar al-Khilafa) distributing stuff to the people: pic.twitter.com/2OT4zJgEVV

— Aymenn J Al-Tamimi (@ajaltamimi) July 13, 2014

Imagine: Hamas terrorists are attacking 70% of your country's population. That's Israel's reality. pic.twitter.com/r9AjHvrm5x

— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) July 13, 2014

Video - Palestinian Duo Returns with a Sequel to Its "Strike a Blow at Tel Aviv" Song.