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ARUTZ SHEVAAssad replaces defense minister Syrian President replaces his defense minister for the first time since 2012, part of a government reshuffle. Ben Ariel, 02/01/18 04:15 Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on Monday replaced his defense minister for the first time since 2012, AFP reported. The move was part of a government reshuffle announced in the state news agency SANA. "President Assad issued a decree, the first of 2018, naming General Ali Abdullah Ayoub minister of defense," the agency said, without providing any explanation for the surprise announcement. The 65-year-old was until now the chief of general staff of the armed forces and replaces Fahd Jassem al-Freij. Freij took over in July 2012 after his predecessor Daoud Rajha was killed in the bombing of a command center in Damascus. His deputy Assef Shawkat, who was Assad's brother-in-law, was killed in that attack as well, along with several other senior members of Assad’s cabinet.
The reshuffle also saw two other changes: Mohammed Mazen Ali Yusef was given the industry portfolio and Imad Abdullah Sara, previously the head of the state broadcasting corporation, was named information minister. In recent weeks, Syrian forces have been closing in on rebels in a pocket of land near where the Syrian, Lebanese and Israeli borders meet. Last week, rebel officials said the rebels were negotiating a deal with the government to leave for other insurgent-held areas. Along with the Syrian army, the forces closing in on the rebels are Shiite militias supported by Iran and local fighters from the Druze sect. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/240125 'Why is an Israeli hospital ward mostly serving Palestinians?' 'Israeli parents compete for children's hospital beds while in recent years number of PA residents admitted as patients doubles.' Mordechai Sones, 01/01/18 20:25 The Knesset Health Committee postponed a discussion Monday on the proposed Medical Tourism Law for its second and third reading - a bill aimed at regulating the entry of non-Israelis to receive medical treatment in Israel. Among issues up for discussion was the question of whether the bill, which would restrict the ability of 'medical tourists' to pay for use of Israel's medical system, would also apply to Palestinian Authority residents. Prior to the hearing, a researcher from the Lavi watchdog organization discussed the situation in the Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Department at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, in light of reports received by the organization that the majority of the hospitalized patients are not Israeli, and that there are hardly any Israeli citizens there at all. A fieldworker who visited the department last weekend spoke with a department staff member, who told him that "most of the [patients in the] department are Palestinians. Today there's one Jew, two Russians and the rest are Palestinians." A Lavi spokesperson called the finding a symptom of a larger "national calamity" afflicting Israel's healthcare system. MORE - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/240109 here is a very good reason not to support the American Hadassah organization if the is funding hospitals which have a predominance of “PA” patients who will grow up and want to kill Jews. It puts me in mind of the woman from Gaza who was treated for severe burns and then was found to have an explosive belt on when she returned for a check up and wanted to blow them up. Kind of like save my life so I can the come kill you. – rdb]
The meeting notes, excerpts of which were published by Fox News, concluded that the unrest “threatens the regime’s security. The first step, therefore, is to find a way out of this situation.” “Religious leaders and the leadership must come to the scene as soon as possible and prevent the situation (from) deteriorating further,” the report said. “God help us, this is a very complex situation and is different from previous occasions.” The report also said that protesters had “started chanting the ultimate slogans from day one. In Tehran today, people were chanting slogans against Khamenei and the slogans used yesterday were all against Khamenei.” “Security and intelligence forces must constantly monitor the situation on the scene and conduct surveillance and subsequently report to the office of the leadership.” The report also noted the regime’s trepidation over sending Revolutionary Guard or Bassij forces to counter the protests, lest the efforts “backfire” and further “antagonize the protesters.”
The uprising, the largest since a series of mass protests in 2009, began in the city of Mashhad, when demonstrators denounced President Rouhani over the failure to reduce the country’s high unemployment rates. At least nine people were killed in Iran overnight, with attacks on Iranian security forces and government facilities across the country. According to some reports, as many as 13 people were killed by Iranian security forces over the weekend in protests across the country. The Associated Press confirmed 12 of the 13 reported deaths. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/240140 Senior PA security official arrested after anti-Trump riot David Rosenberg, 02/01/18 12:57 Former senior PA security official arrested after organizing illegal demonstration, clashing with police near Rachel's Tomb Israeli security forces have arrested a Palestinian Authority resident over his involvement in organizing an illegal demonstration Friday near Rachel’s Tomb on the outskirts of Bethlehem. During the protest, demonstrators slammed President Donald Trump’s recognition last month of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and compared the US to the ISIS terror organization. Last Friday, Border Police officers were attacked by stone-throwing Arab rioters in the town of Aida, just outside of Bethlehem, south of Jerusalem. Officers were forced to use nonlethal crowd dispersal equipment to regain control of the situation. Protesters waved Palestine Liberation Organization flags, held pictures of Ahed Tamimi – a teenage PA resident arrested for assaulting IDF soldiers and throwing stones – and a banner bearing an American flag and a swastika superimposed over the face of US President Donald Trump. The banner read “Zionism = Nazism = Fascism” and “USA = ISIS = Terrorism”. Israeli security forces later apprehended the organizer of the unauthorized protest outside of Al-Azariya, just east of Jerusalem. According to a police spokesperson, the suspect is a 60-year-old man who until recently worked as a senior security official in the Palestinian Authority. Police say the suspect is behind a series of riots and illegal protests. The suspect will be brought before the IDF court in Ofer, northwest of Jerusalem, later on Tuesday. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/240139
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- The Civil New Year – Have a happy SANE one!
Time for a worldwide repentance!  ALL US soldiers fighting for our freedom around the world, Pray for those in our government to repent of their wicked corrupt ways. Pray for SF – Severe illness with post op heart surgery complications - improving Pray for RBH – cancer recurrence Pray for JA – Complex Cardiac problem facing surgery Pray for JEP – medical problem Pray for CM – Passed out in car and had accident – health problems Pray for DN – life situation problems Praise for Sister of SH –non-alcoholic liver failure – Had Treatment and doing well –praise! Pray for CB – Australian with severe mental destress Pray for MD – Has chronic progressive lung problem. Pray for MS – family problems – doing better Pray for the wife of DF who passed away Saturday Pray that The Holy One will lead you in Your preparations for handling the world problems. – Have YOU made any preparations? Please NOTE: We have a new year coming and I have not had updates on a number of people. I would like to update this prayer list. If you asked for someone to be put on please let me know if they still need to be on or can be removed. rdb That is the only hope of this nation! Plead for Grace and Mercy "Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and of service to your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. Show respect to all people, but grovel to none. When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home." -- Tecumseh (1768-1813) Shawnee Chief 2Samuel 16:9And Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, Why does this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me pass over, and I will take off his head. 10And the king said, What have I to do with you, sons of Zeruiah? For let him curse, even because Jehovah has said to him, Curse David. And who shall say, Why have you done so? 11And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son who came out of my loins is seeking my life, and surely now also the Benjamite. Leave him alone, and let him curse, for Jehovah has spoken to him. Pence visit indefinitely postponed due to ‘scheduling conflicts’ Trip delayed by US tax vote had originally been rescheduled for January 14, the day Netanyahu takes off for India By Raphael Ahren Today, 12:36 pm US Vice President Mike Pence’s planned trip to Israel has been indefinitely delayed beyond January, Foreign Ministry officials said Monday. Pence was originally scheduled to arrive in the region in late December, but postponed the trip due to the US administration’s efforts to push a tax reform through Congress. It had also been speculated that the vice president canceled his trip due to the fact that Palestinian officials and leading Muslim and Christian clerics no longer wanted to receive him in protest of US President Donald Trump’s December 6 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. On Monday, the Foreign Ministry published its list of foreign dignitaries due in Israel this month. Pence’s name does not appear on this list. Asked to clarify, Israeli officials said that “due to various scheduling difficulties,” no new date has yet been set for the vice president’s visit. When the trip was rescheduled, administration officials had said Pence would visit January 14, coinciding with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s departure from Israel on a previously scheduled five-day trip to India. Scott Pruitt, the current administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, is due in Israel in late January. Pence was originally due in Israel on December 20 after a trip to Egypt, following closely on the heels of Trump’s Jerusalem decision. He had been slated to hold meetings with Netanyahu and deliver an address to the Knesset. He was to end his trip to Israel with a meeting with President Reuven Rivlin and a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial. In Ramallah, he was to sit down with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, but Abbas later pulled out of the meeting after denouncing Trump’s decision on Jerusalem. The White House at the time said that any delay in the tax vote might have prevented the vice president from departing Washington on time and complicated a tightly orchestrated set of meetings in Egypt and Israel. “The vice president is committed to seeing the tax cut through to the finish line,” said Alyssa Farah, Pence’s press secretary, in a statement. She said Pence “looks forward to traveling to Egypt and Israel in January.” On December 20, the sweeping reform of the US tax code passed a major hurdle on its way to final ratification by Congress. https://www.timesofisrael.com/pence-visit-indefinitely-postponed-due-to-scheduling-conflicts/
Israeli security forces broke up an alleged Hamas terrorist cell planning to carry out attacks in the West Bank, arresting five of its members in November, the Shin Bet security service revealed Monday. The cell was led by Alaa Salim, a resident of the Palestinian West Bank town of Jaba, north of Jerusalem, but it received its directions from Abdallah Arar, a known Hamas terrorist living in the Gaza Strip, the Shin Bet said. Arar, who was convicted for his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Israeli man Sasson Nuriel in 2005, was released to the Gaza Strip from an Israeli prison six year later as part of a contentious prisoner exchange to secure the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was being held hostage by Hamas. [The revolving prison door almost struck again. When they are terrorist murderers they need to be put to death not a prison sentence where they can be bargained for. – rdb] The service warned that the Gaza-based terrorist group was increasingly trying to carry out attacks in the West Bank and Israel. “Recently, there’s been a marked increase in motivation by the Hamas high command in the Gaza Strip to encourage terror attacks by their operatives in the West Bank,” a Shin Bet official said in a statement.
Salim contacted other residents of Jaba, Rayan and Shihadah Tua’m, to help him purchase the gun and carry out the attacks, the security service said. Shihadah Tua’m, in turn, “reached out to Mahmoud Abu Arqoub, a young Hamas operative, a resident of A-Ram (near Jerusalem), and brought him into the cell,” the Shin Bet said. They had not yet purchased the gun at the time of their arrest. The security service would not reveal the identity of the fifth Palestinian suspect who was arrested. The Shin Bet handed over the case to the military prosecution, which will review them before presumably filing an indictment. https://www.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-breaks-up-alleged-hamas-cell-planning-west-bank-attacks/ Barkat, Kahlon butt heads over 'capital grant' Jerusalem Mayor Barkat goes on warpath against Finance Minister Kahlon for 3rd consecutive year, demanding transfer of promised NIS 105 million due to Jerusalem's special status, poor yet enormous populace; municipality employees block entrance to Jerusalem Finance Ministry offices with garbage, municipality petitions HCJ to coerce fulfillment of commitment. Yael Freidson|Published: 31.12.17 , 18:46 Employees of the Jerusalem municipality blocked the entrance of the Finance Ministry's offices in the capital Sunday morning by piling garbage near the doors, in a protest constituting one facet in the ongoing quarrel between Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon over increased budgets for the capital. Outside the Finance Ministry's offices, municipality employees stacked piles of garbage alongside signs saying "Kahlon gave up on Jerusalem." Barkat paid for the signs out of pocket, but they nevertheless carried the municipality's seal. In response, the Finance Ministry sent letters of complaint to the police's Jerusalem District chief and the Minister of Environmental Protection Ze'ev Elkin.
"The finance minister is flagrantly flaunting the law, does not uphold government decisions and knowingly and purposefully harming Jerusalem. I will not allow a political vendetta to harm the capital's residents," Barkat said, petitioning the HCJ. The municipality said the petition was submitted due to the fact the ministry was blocking the transfer of NIS 105 million it was obligated to supply with the municipality with as part of the agreement to solve a spat over budgeting the city in 2017. Sunday's events marked the third consecutive year Barkat and Kahlon butt heads over budgeting for Israel's capital. The Jerusalem municipality receives an increment to its budget every year dubbed the "capital grant." While other local authorities in Israel receive grants for balanced budgets, Jerusalem receives a grant stemming from its special status and needs as capital and yet of the country's poorest cities, influenced by the large incidence of poor Haredim and Arab residents.
The Jerusalem mayor has also made judicious use of his municipality's employees last year to shut the city down, with garbage trucks preventing entry to the Finance Ministry and sanitation workers blocking the light rail's route with piles of garbage. The city's schools were also shut down for three days. Local Jerusalem residents were incensed then, claiming Barkat was waging political wars at their expense, while the mayor, for his part, claimed Kahlon had refused to meet with him since he was appointed finance minister. In the past few years, Barkat has invested efforts and finances in recruiting people to join the Likud party, while shying away from announcing whether he intended to run for a third mayoral term or vie for a place in the Likud's Knesset candidate list. MORE - https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5064394,00.html [An ongoing problem for years – Jerusalem budget vs Israel funding. – rdb] Nearing nine million: Israel in numbers on eve of 2018 Central Bureau of Statistics publishes statistics in honor of 2017 drawing to a close: Israel has population of 8,793,000; 27,000 have made Aliyah in 2017, mostly from Europe; population grew by 165,000, with 180,000 births and 44,000 deaths. Amir Alon|Published: 31.12.17 , 18:26 With 2017 drawing to a close Sunday night, Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics has released data regarding the country and its population. As 2018 begins, some 8,793,000 people currently reside in Israel. Of those residents, 6,556,000 are Jewish, making up 75 percent of the populace. As for the country's non-Jewish population, 1,837,000 are Arabs, making up 21 percent of the total population. 400,000, meanwhile, are non-Arab Christians and people who are not classified by religion in the census, making up 4 percent of the population. Israel's census does not include the population of foreign nationals working in the country, estimated to have been some 170,000 people at the end of 2016, or people who entered the country illegally through non-recognized border crossings. In 2017, Israel's population grew by 165,000, with 180,000 babies born—74 percent of them Jewish, 23 percent Arabs and 3 percent non-Arab Christians or not classified by religion—and 44,000 people passing away. In addition, the 8,000 Israelis who resided abroad for more than a year were subtracted from the population.
The chief countries sending immigrants to Israel in 2017 were Russia (27%), the Ukraine (25%), France (13%) and the United States (10%). Most of the immigrants—20,200 people, or 75 percent of all immigrants—came from Europe. 4,200, or 15 percent of the immigrant population, came from the US and the Ukraine. Lastly, 1,400—or 5 percent—came from Asia and 1,200—4 percent—came from Africa. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5064330,00.html Community service for settler who encouraged attacks on soldiers, Palestinians Yitzhar resident Eliraz Fein praised the killing of Palestinians and said it was permissible to throw rocks at soldiers, even if it kills them By Jacob Magid Today, 5:26 pm A far-right settler was sentenced to five months community service on Sunday for social media posts calling for violent action against Palestinians and Israeli soldiers. Eliraz Fein, 25, was also given a 10-month suspended prison sentence and a NIS 2,000 ($575) fine for comments she made in an email forum where residents from the northern West Bank settlement of Yitzhar mulled the legality — under Jewish law — of attacking, and even killing, IDF soldiers “under certain circumstances.” Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court Judge Eliana Danieli rejected the recommendation of the probation service to overturn Fein’s April conviction because she had expressed remorse. In the discussion, which took place in the settlement’s closed email group, the settlers debated whether Jewish law permits violence against Jewish soldiers, with some saying that violence, even lethal force, was permitted when soldiers were engaged in certain actions. Fein spoke out in favor of hurling rocks at Jews — “even if the rock causes the death of a soldier.” She said that while the legitimacy of throwing rocks at Arabs was “not a question,” in “certain situations” it was permissible to hurl them at Jews as well. She vowed to “defend” rock-throwers from the settlement in public “against any outside body,” and to only criticize them in private if she thought their actions merited criticism. In addition, following the murder in July 2014 of East Jerusalem teen Muhammad Abu Khdeir by Israeli extremists who kidnapped him and burned him alive, Fein wrote on Facebook, “I am proud and happy to discover that there are Jews who couldn’t stand by and be silent! I send a blessing of strength and courage to those arrested (whom I don’t know at all) who are suspected of murdering the Arab of the Abu Khdeir family.”
Danieli noted that had it not been for a plea bargain reached with the prosecution, in which Fein expressed remorse, she would have been sentenced to several months in prison. “The incitement to violence and the racist aspect of the publications even harm the foundations of democracy as well as the already sensitive fabric of life here in Israel,” the judge added. Fein bashed the Sunday ruling in a statement of her own, calling the sentencing “completely out of proportion.” “When the Arabs incite against Jews and against the security forces, they are not even arrested. The prosecution invested an absurd amount in order to convict me in this case,” Fein said. “I love soldiers and I always loved soldiers,” she added, noting that she frequently served food to soldiers stationed at her settlement. Fein’s attorney Gil Eshet struck a different tone in his responses, telling The Times of Israel that he respected the court’s decision and would study it before deciding whether an appeal was necessary. “She was not personally involved in any act of violence and no act of violence was ever attributed to her,” Eshet pointed out. https://www.timesofisrael.com/community-service-for-settler-who-encouraged-attacks-on-soldiers-palestinians/ Palestinians with unpaid debts to be barred from Israel By Yonah Jeremy Bob December 31, 2017 20:58 Government approves Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked’s no-pay, no-enter initiative. The Government on Sunday approved Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked’s initiative to stop Palestinians from entering the country if they who have unpaid debts to Israelis. “This is the end of the era of Palestinians exploiting Israelis with the knowledge that they will not be able to collect debts from them,” said a statement from Shaked. The new policy was approved after it revealed that Palestinians owe more than NIS 500m. to Israelis in official government collection cases, with an estimate of more than NIS 2.5b. in unreported debts overall. In March 1998, the government approved – in theory – the idea that Palestinians would not be allowed to enter the country if they had outstanding debts to Israelis. However, despite the policy existing on paper, it was never enforced, as it was based on the assumption that certain information would be provided by the Palestinian Authority regarding Palestinian debtors. Also, in the past, a complex process required Israeli creditors to submit multiple requests to state authorities in addition to the standard judgment and collections process. Under the new policy, once a judgment is registered with the collections authority against a Palestinian, that person will be stopped at the border during any attempt to enter the country and be given a 30-day warning. If the debt has not been paid within the 30 days, the debtor will be refused further entry. The Justice Ministry will carry out the new policy for debts to Israelis owed by Palestinians who reside within the Green Line, while an IDF legal unit will carry out the policy for such Palestinians living within the West Bank. Shaked also credited Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman for helping her shepherd the new policy. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Palestinians-with-unpaid-debts-to-be-barred-from-Israel-521494 [Great way to try to fend off those who would consistently cheat others which is a major problem. – rdb] Hamas calls US ambassador 'racist,’ says all ties should be cut with DC By Herb Keinon December 31, 2017 18:43 The Palestinians should cut off all ties with the United States because of “racist” and “ignorant” comments US Ambassador David Friedman made to The Jerusalem Post last week, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said on Saturday. Friedman, a driving force behind US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move the embassy there from Tel Aviv, told the Post that while the Palestinians' angry reaction was expected, “We were disappointed with some of the rhetoric, which was ugly, needlessly provocative and antisemitic.” “As we go forward,” he added, “this has to change.” Barhoum said that Friedman's statements reflected “the ambassador’s racism, ignorance and contempt for Palestinian rights and international law. He is affirming, in this policy, that they are partners to the occupation in all of its crimes against our people and its holy sites.” According to the Hamas spokesman, the statements “are sufficient to justify an official Palestinian declaration of cutting ties with the American administration and ending Oslo.” He said the time has come to end the Oslo process, which, he said, “has led to the relinquishment of Palestinian rights and reinforcement of the Israeli occupation.” The is not the first time that the Palestinians have lambasted Friedman. For instance, in September, the Palestinians were furious when Friedman said in another interview that the settlements are “only occupying 2% of the West Bank,” and that he sees the settlements as as part of Israel. Nabil Shaath, a senior advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas, called Friedman at the time “this alleged ambassador of the United States” and said he “has absolute ignorance of facts of law of the position of the United States.” http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Hamas-calls-US-ambassador-racist-says-all-ties-should-be-cut-with-DC-521483 [The “PA” hates Friedman because he is Jewish. They are virulently anti-Semitic and anyone who is Jewish will be denigrated by the vile critters. – rdb] Iranian protester tells Israeli TV: The regime has to fall In interview from Tehran, 'Muhsan' says Iranians are rallying nationwide, and the suppressed protests of 2009 show they will only get their rights if the leadership goes By TOI staff Today, 9:15 pm In an interview with an Israeli television station on Sunday, an Iranian anti-regime protester said that the brutally suppressed protests of 2009 have shown the Iranian people that the only way in which they can gain the rights they deserve is if the ayatollahs’ regime falls. The protester, who was shown with his features pixilated and used the pseudonym Muhsan, told Channel 10 TV that the Iranian people were “taking to the streets spontaneously in most cities in Iran” and have concluded that they must “get to the root” of Iran’s problems — “the regime and the leadership.” Iranian authorities have alleged that the US, UK and Israel have been fomenting unrest in the country. Muhsan, evidently undeterred, said he wished the viewers in Israel “a good life wherever they are.” Speaking as anti-regime protests continued for a fourth day, amid unconfirmed reports of further fatalities and much of the internet closed down as the leadership seeks to contain the demonstrations, Muhsan said the protests had initially erupted because of public anger at financial abuse. He said some of the country’s banks had stolen public money, and then declared bankruptcy, “and the worst thing is that the regime silenced protests over this.” Exacerbating public anger, he said, was that the 2018 budget recently passed by parliament “will raise the cost of living by a great deal.” The people, he said, “can’t take it any more.” Iranians “are very smart,” Muhsan told the Israeli viewing audience. “They know there’s a reason for the rising cost of living. Iran is a very wealthy nation. If they [the leadership] claim that sanctions today affect the economy, that’s a lie. Everything stems from the theft of the public’s funds. That’s the real reason for poverty in Iran.” Mohsen dismissed Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani as “like a puppet; he’s just a symbol so that they they’ll say there’s democracy in Iran.” Complete control in the Islamic Republic, he said, is in the hands of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his group of advisers. “All basic products and gas have got more costly” of late, Mohsen said, “and at the same time, the salaries of members of parliament went up. Ordinary people’s salaries haven’t changed at all.” Therefore, he said, “the people are taking to the streets and demanding their rights.” Asked if he thought that real change would be achieved this time, in contrast to the last major anti-regime protests in 2009, Muhsan said that past experience had shown that “only if the regime falls, will the people [of Iran] get what they ought to get.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-protester-tells-israeli-tv-the-regime-has-to-fall/ At least 12 killed in widespread protests, Iran state TV says Report says demonstrators tried to take over police stations, military sites but security forces resisted By Agencies Today, 12:59 pm economic problems, in the capital Tehran, December 30, 2017 (AFP/STR) TEHRAN, Iran — At least 12 people have been killed in the ongoing protests in Iran, and armed protesters have tried to take over police stations and military bases, state TV reported Monday. The protests began as demonstrations against economic conditions in second city Mashhad on Thursday but quickly turned against the Islamic regime as a whole, with thousands marching in towns across Iran to chants of “Death to the dictator.” Hundreds of people have been arrested. The state TV report said 10 were killed during clashes Sunday night, without elaborating. Two demonstrators were killed during a protest in western Iran late Saturday and two more in the city of Izeh late Sunday. “Some armed protesters tried to take over some police stations and military bases but faced serious resistance from security forces,” state TV reported. Earlier Monday, the semi-official ILNA news agency quoted Hedayatollah Khademi, a representative for the town of Izeh, as saying two people died there Sunday night. He said the cause of death wasn’t immediately known. Many in Izeh, some 455 kilometers (280 miles) southwest of Tehran, have hunting rifles in their homes. Protesters in the small northwestern town of Takestan torched a school for clergy and government buildings, the ILNA news agency said, while the state broadcaster said two people had died in Dorud after crashing a stolen fire engine. There were also reports of protests in the cities of Izeh (southwest), Kermanshah and Khorramabad (west), Shahinshahr (northwest) and Zanjan (north). Verifying reports remained challenging due to travel restrictions and sporadic blocks on mobile internet and popular social media sites including Telegram and Instagram. MORE - https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-least-12-killed-in-widespread-protests-iran-state-tv-says/ Weapons, ammo found in resident's room in Hyatt Regency Downtown By Keri Blakinger Updated 8:51 am, Sunday, December 31, 2017 Houston police uncovered a stash of weapons Sunday morning after showing up at a downtown hotel to arrest a drunk man. Staff at the Hyatt Regency Downtown called for police around 1:30 a.m. for help handling a highly intoxicated man at the hotel bar. At first, security at the 1200 Louisiana hotel tried sending the argumentative guest to his room, but he started fighting with them, officials said. So security called the Houston police. The first officer planned to arrest him for trespassing, but discovered the man was drunk and belligerent. When the officer spotted ammunition lying around the man's hotel room, he decided to call for backup. While gathering up the suspect's belongings, police reportedly found an AR-15, a shotgun and a handgun, with many rounds of ammunition. Investigators are waiting to talk to the unruly guest and figure out why he showed up to the hotel with multiple guns. He's facing charges of trespassing and unlawful carry. "He's intoxicated so they won't be able to interview him till he's sobered up a bit," Lt. Gordon MacIntosh said early Sunday. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Arsenal-found-in-resident-s-room-in-Hyatt-Regency-12464555.php
Distressful photos show bodies hanging from bridges in the popular Mexican tourist hub of Baja California Sur on December 20 - marking the spread of inter-cartel violence. The bodies of six men hung alongside banners called narcomantas for the first time in the northwestern Mexican state - where violence between different drug cartels has grown deadly in the past three years. And on Friday an American citizen was gunned down in the Pacific resort town of Zihuatanejo, according to authorities, demonstrating the vast range of violence across the country as drug wars wage on. The bodies of six men hung alongside banners called narcomantas for the first time in the northwestern Mexican state - where violence between different drug cartels has grown deadly in the past three years Gang violence has increased in the country over the past decade, and has started seeping into tourist states that previously didn't see the deadly behavior Guerrero state's security coordinating group said in a statement the American tourist identified only by the first name Douglas was shot three times. No hometown or further details of the killing were provided. Gang violence has increased in the country over the past decade, and has started seeping into tourist states that previously didn't see the deadly behavior. The increase prompted the US State Department to issue a travel warning for Baja California Sur towards the end of August. Also on the warning was Quintana Roo - home to tourist-laden Cancun and Playa del Carmen. Most of Mexico has been listed as dangerous for tourist travel for many years - but the August notice was the first time those two states were included. At the time of the notice Mexican officials said there were areas of concern but believed the timing was related to political maneuvers in Washington. The December 20 photos of men hanging from bridges show the true horror of the drug wars overtaking the countries. MORE - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-5222379/Photos-cartel-violence-Mexican-tourist-hubs.html [The idea of continuing to demand the continuation of the illegal invasion of our country by those cartel members and similar criminals is truly a crime by the leftist and rinos of our government. To prevent the WALL and stringent control of immigration with careful extensive background checks is actually terrorism on their part. – rdb]
Arctic cold air will keep the eastern half of the nation shivering through the first week of January. Dozens of daily record lows have been set, and more are possible into late this week. Wind chills in the 50s below zero have been observed in North Dakota and northern Minnesota MORE - https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/2017-12-28-arctic-record-cold-outbreak-forecast-midwest-east-south-new-year-2018 [so much for the al gore delution and the NOW attempt at redistribution of wealthy by fraudulent meteorology. – rdb]
Top 7 good-news stories you missed in 2017 Exclusive: Chuck Norris shares list of overlooked reports that will lift your spirits Published: 4 hours ago News agencies are powerful media – one of the most formidable. They can shape our worldview, and they often do. But when it comes right down to it, all of them are selective. They have to be. There’s only so much space or time to highlight current events and breaking news. The stuff that is often overlooked and underplayed, however, is good news, in almost every category. Many have taken to the task of highlighting missed good news stories in 2017. Even former president Obama got into the action by tweeting his opinion last week. Here are my top seven most overlooked or underreported good news stories of 2017, in no particular order of importance: 1) Does it get any more important than kids? Well, how’s this for a good news headline: There were roughly 135,000 children adopted in the U.S, according to the Adoption Network. Many of those were abandoned and abused. How great is that number? Equal to the number of adoptions is the population of many midsized cities across America. In a world where children are often discarded, it’s great news to know that at least that number of Americans also stepped up to the rescue plate and hit home runs by adopting them. Although only 2 percent of Americans have adopted, more than one-third have considered it. Around 7 million Americans are adopted. Roughly 100 million Americans (one-third of our national population) have adoption in their immediate family. Let’s hear it for the hearts and sacrifice of adoptive parents! And let’s not forget to celebrate life on National Sanctity of Life Day on Monday, Jan. 22.
Though technology of reverse osmosis in desalination was pioneered in the 1960s by Israeli scientist Sidney Loeb at Ben-Gurion University, huge kudos belong to IDE Technologies, an international company ranked the world’s 19th smartest company in 2016 by MIT Technology Review. IDE built the three desalination plants along Israel’s coastline, and it now has 400 plants in 40 countries that provide 3 million cubic meters of daily potable water around the world. In 2015, the largest plant in the Western Hemisphere was built in Carlsbad (San Diego), California, to help overcome the state’s decade-long drought. It now provides 54 million gallons of water a day for 300,000 Californians, and the plant generates about $50 million for the regional economy, according to Global Water Intelligence magazine and TheNextWeb.com. Next stop: Santa Barbara, California! 4) NASA made several record-breaking accomplishments. Astronaut Peggy Whitson set the record for most days in space by a U.S. astronaut back in April when she made history for remaining 534 days, two hours, 49 minutes and counting at the International Space Station. Whitson returned to earth in September, and she should have been paraded down a major metropolis in the U.S. with all media focused upon her. Many of us remember the glory days of NASA, when men like Neal Armstrong and Eugene Cernan (who died in Jan. 2017) ruled the world. It’s great to see women conquering space, too. Ten years ago, in 2008, Whitson also became the first woman to command the space station. Space conquests and records used to be big news, and I think those days should return. What about headlining, “NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew 800,000,000 miles (1,287,475,200 kilometers) to reach Jupiter,” which it did in July 2017? Or what about “NASA discovered TRAPPIST-11, a solar system with seven Earth-like planets,” which it did in February 2017? Or even, “NASA and Uber join forces to develop flying taxis,” which they hope to have by 2020 in Los Angeles and Dallas.
Despite our political persuasion or preferences for a president, the least that mainstream media can do is report an equal ratio of Washington’s accomplishments. How else will average Americans hear about them? How else can we turn the tide of record low sentiment about those who occupy seats of power in our national capital? Thank President Trump for all his accomplishments during his first year in office. Send him a FREE card of your choice. Go to ThankTrump.us 6) Thousands of average people risked and sacrificed their lives to save perfect strangers – including animals – during multiple hurricanes and natural disasters. The U.S. and adjacent world experienced three horrifically devastating hurricanes in 2017. While each captivated the news, it seemed like within a week or two after each blew threw that most media spun them from their news cycles, and then returned to their regurgitating thematic news preferences. I know a dozen heroic stories were highlighted in the news during each of hurricanes, but there were thousands overlooked. And I think the world would become a lot more heroic if we reported on more of our heroes. Here are 20 more valiant volunteers from those natural disasters – most of whom are still at work – that will inspire your new year. And what about those record-breaking fires out West? How many know about the volunteer crews – many first responders and law enforcement from outside the infernos – who hit the front lines to save precious animals?
Craig Floyd, president and chief executive of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, explained to USA Today: “This is one of those good-news, bad-news situations. On one hand, you had 128 officers who made the ultimate sacrifice, showing the cost of public safety, but for the first time since 2013, the number of deaths has actually declined.” Truth is, one officer killed is one too many, but one fewer killed is awesome news. In a year when too much mainstream media news focused upon a few bad apples, overlooked were the hundreds of thousands across our country who risk life and limb every day for law and justice. We salute all of those domestic soldiers! Now, just think if you finished every news broadcast or edition thinking and feeling as you are right now after reading my top seven overlooked and underreported good news stories of 2017. As we turn to a new year, I would challenge all our media outlets to ante up the positive stories. Despite the fact that our minds are geared to the negative and noticing gaps and omissions, maybe we can fight a little harder to digest positive news, too. We know our country and world would be a lot better off if we all focused even a little more on the positive. Speak of enriching foci, here are two inspiring thoughts for your new year: Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
· An Israeli scientist has boosted the immune system 30-fold to fight cancer. · A Syrian baby was airlifted from Cyprus to Israel for emergency heart surgery. · A Haifa woman is Israel’s first Arab Rhodes scholar at Oxford University. · Israel has set-up the world’s first innovation lab for senior citizen technology. · An Israeli company is building a wave-energy power plant in Ghana. · A record year for tourism triggers a billion-dollar upgrade to Ben Gurion airport. · Two Israeli Paralympic table-tennis players strike gold. · 4 embassies are moving to Jerusalem. · Click here to see the 24th Dec newsletter on IsraelSeen, Ruthfully Yours, Janglo and United With Israel plus additional feature on Economy & Business (with 2200 likes). http://verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com/ Trump declares war on slavery, human trafficking Globally, 25 million estimated to be victims in 167 countries Published: 4 hours ago WASHINGTON – On Nov. 1, American Urban Radio Network’s White House correspondent April Ryan asked Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders if President Trump believes slavery was wrong. “I think it is disgusting and absurd to suggest that anyone inside of this building would support slavery,” Sanders responded. The next day on CNN, April Ryan accused Sanders of not answering the question. CNN’s Don Lemon backed her up. Today they got their unequivocal answer as President Trump has declared war on slavery like he did on ISIS. With an estimated 25 million people suffering in slavery and as victims of human trafficking, President Trump has declared January as “National Slavery and Human Traffic Prevention Month.” Perhaps you haven’t heard about the announcement. That’s because none of the following news agencies have deemed it worthy of reporting: The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, nor any other major newspaper in America or around the world. Neither have any of the major broadcast or cable networks even mentioned it – including CNN. Similar announcements by previous presidents received widespread coverage, with laudatory expressions of hope they might make a difference in the fight to end the scourge. “Human trafficking is a modern form of the oldest and most barbaric type of exploitation,” said Trump in a statement released by the White House. “It has no place in our world.” Sex and labor trafficking enslaves as many as 25 million people, the White House said. “Instead of delivering people to better lives, traffickers unjustifiably profit from the labor and toil of their victims, who they force – through violence and intimidation – to work in brothels and factories, on farms and fishing vessels, in private homes, and in countless industries,” said Trump. In announcing the decision to dedicate next month to combating modern slavery, the Trump administration touted its efforts to address the problem over the past year, including the creation of an interagency task force aimed at developing new anti-slavery policies and the signing of an executive order that targets criminal organizations that have trafficked humans. “This month we do not simply reflect on this appalling reality,” said Trump. “We also pledge to do all in our power to end the horrific practice of human trafficking that plagues innocent victims around the world.” The Trump administration’s announcement follows the release of a voluminous report by the State Department including state-by-state assessments of the situation around the world. http://www.wnd.com/2017/12/trump-declares-war-on-slavery-human-trafficking/ [Another example of the idiot and repugnant fake news of the MSM and their failure to accurately report what is news and then make up distortions. – rdb] Commentaries: Turkish Twitter Explodes with Genocidal Jew-Hatred by Uzay Bulut December 31, 2017 at 4:30 am Although U.S. President Donald Trump's December 6 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital drew condemnation from much of the Muslim world, one reaction stood out -- that of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. "Those who think they are the owners of Jerusalem today will not even be able to find trees to hide behind tomorrow," he said, during a Human Rights Day event in Ankara on December 10. Erdoğan was referring to a hadith (a reported saying by Islam's prophet, Mohammed) about Judgement Day: "Abu Huraira reported Allaah's Messenger (sall Allaahua layhiwa sallam) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allaah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews." Radical Turks echoed Erdoğan's sentiment on social media. Under the hashtag #KudüseSahipÇık ("Safeguard Jerusalem"), which quickly became a trending topic, Turkish Twitter-users expressed a seething Jew-hatred -- not hatred of Israelis, but Jews. Here are some examples:
Some Twitter-users praised Hitler for killing Jews, while others condemned him for not doing a sufficient job. Then there are those who suggested persecuting Turkish Jews. Tagging Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, one user tweeted: "Synagogues, the Israeli consulate and Jews... If we burn down, destroy and kill all of these things, will we be considered criminals now?" Other Tweets in the same vein included:
Erdoğan's statements -- and those of Turks who share his worldview -- are further evidence that fundamentalist Muslims oppose Israel's very existence as a sovereign Jewish state. Their fury over Trump's Jerusalem declaration has nothing to do with U.S. or Israeli policies. Their fury stems from Jews existing in Israel as a powerful nation – not as dhimmis (second-class and persecuted people). Fanatic Muslims cannot get over the fact that Jews still live in, and are in charge of, supposedly their Muslim holy land. These reactions are also the most observable examples of Islamist genocidal hatred of Jews and extreme Islamist intolerance of a non-Islamic faith's religious sensibilities and its national history. To justify their rage, these radicals rewrite history. Their claims that Jerusalem is a Muslim holy city, for example, are false. While Jerusalem is mentioned 850 times in the Old Testament, it is not mentioned once in the Koran. Ever since King David made Jerusalem the capital of Israel some 3,000 years ago, the city has played a central role in Jewish existence. It only became a focus of Muslim agitation in 1980, when Israel adopted a Basic Law -- equivalent to a constitutional provision -- declaring united Jerusalem as its capital. Muslims never declared Jerusalem their capital, even when they controlled the area later called "Palestine," after their invasion in the seventh century. Instead, in the beginning of the eighth century, they built the city of Ramla and named it their local capital. Jordan also did not declare Jerusalem a Muslim capital when it controlled the city from 1948 to 1967. Moreover, during those 19 years, the only Arab leader who even visited Jerusalem was King Abdullah I of Jordan -- who was assassinated there in 1951 by an Arab nationalist associated with the former mufti of the city. It is true that Al-Aqsa Mosque is located in Jerusalem; the first reference to the mosque appeared in the 12th century. Yet, the common perception that the Temple Mount, where Al-Aqsa is situated, is the "third-holiest site in Islam" is based on a rhetorical ploy: Mecca is Islam's holiest place; Medina is its second-holiest. For Jews, Jerusalem is the holiest city and the Temple Mount the holiest site; Judaism's second-holiest site is the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, which Muslims usurped when they conquered the city in the 7th century and re-named it the Ibrahimi Mosque. If Muslims are entitled to have control over the city that hosts their so-called "third-holiest site," why do they oppose Jewish control over the city that contains Judaism's first- and second-holiest sites? Many Muslims also often purposely muddy that Jerusalem's status as the capital of Israel does not compromise the religious freedom of Muslims and Christians. In fact, the city has never in its history been as open to pilgrims from all religions as it has been under Israeli rule. By contrast, during the 19 years when the Old City and its holy sites were under Jordanian occupation, Jews -- regardless of the origin of their passports -- were prohibited to visit and pray there. Still today, Jews visiting the Temple Mount are prohibited from praying there. Since the advent of Islam, Muslim regimes have destroyed -- or converted into mosques -- synagogues, churches, Buddhist and Hindu temples, and other non-Muslim places of worship. Accusing Israel of engaging in such behavior is both a projection and a propaganda device. The false narrative about Jerusalem is part of what Moshe Sharon, Professor Emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, calls the "Islamization of History." The basic attitude, he says, "is that ... all major figures of history basically are Muslim -- from Adam down to our own time. So, if the Jews or Christians are demanding something and basing it on the fact that there was a king called Solomon or a king called David, or a prophet called Moses or Jesus, they say something which is not true or, in fact, they don't know that all these figures were basically Muslim figures." He further explains: "Anywhere which was connected with these people or with these prophets who were all Muslims becomes a Muslim territory. And therefore, when Islam was not in ...the Middle East or other parts outside of the Middle East which are now Muslim... any place like this had to be freed, not to be conquered. ... Islam appeared in history in the time of Mohammed -- or reappeared in history from their point of view -- as a liberator..." ...presumably of an Islamic religion that existed since forever and was distorted by religions which came along later: Judaism and Christianity. That is why the struggle of Israel is also the struggle of the West against sharia-imposed historic revisionism and the slavery of dhimmitude, the second-class, "tolerated" status assigned by Islamists to Jews and other non-Muslims. It is a struggle for freedom in which the Jewish people take back their history and freedom from Islamist and other dictators and preserve them in their own ancient homeland. The Islamist understanding of history and geography, however, is completely different from scientific and historical facts. According to Islamists, all prominent figures beginning from Adam and Eve were Muslim, therefore all the lands where they lived were Muslim lands. Judaism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Yazidism, and others are not belief systems which could also be respected. The believers of all those religions are occupiers in Muslim lands. They are not natives or honorable residents. They are not even communities whose rights and religious liberty should be respected as much as that of Muslims. They have, in fact, according to this view, abandoned the only true religion; they have therefore been cursed and will be punished by Allah unless they convert to Islam. If they are allowed to live despite that, it is all because of the "mercy" of Islamists -- but they are always to remain inferior to Muslims. This is what Islamists assert and have acted on in the lands they rule. But science -- including real history, archeology, and objective theological studies, among others -- would disagree with the Islamists' revisionist understanding of history. It is natural that a religion claims that it is the only true one. But most do so by still recognizing and respecting other faiths and their histories. What is destructive and intolerant is if one religion denies the authenticity of other religions and dehumanizes and demonizes their believers. This distorted and misleading understanding of world history has also helped to create extremely oppressive and violent Muslim regimes that have never treated non-Muslims as equals. An ideology that asserts that all of human history is actually its own history, and other faiths are just inventions created by frauds that led their believers astray, and that misled people who will burn in hell forever because they do not believe in the only eternal, true, and perfect religion, is not fit to create a tolerant culture that is respectful to, and accepting of, other faiths. That is why this denialist, supremacist, and totalitarian ideology has not been able to promote religious, cultural, or intellectual diversity at any time in history in the lands that it took over. This denialist view on history, which recognizes nothing but Islam, is what mainly creates the enormous differences in understanding between the Islamists who falsely claim ownership of Jerusalem and the Jews of Israel who rebuilt their homeland and wish to live there in dignity. The Islamists attempt falsely to Islamize history, by combining it with the hate-filled teachings in Islamic scripture openly claiming that Jews and other non-Muslims are "cursed by Allah" and "shall be killed off." This revisionist history is how and why fundamentalists such as Erdoğan -- and the Turkish Twitter-users who follow his lead -- have no compunction about disseminating genocidal vitriol. Their lies need to be exposed for what they are: anti-Semitism and falsehoods disguised as legitimate criticism of U.S. and Israeli policy.
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