HAMAS BLASTS ABBAS MEETING WITH ISRAELI STUDENTS

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Thousands Protest Knesset Symbol Change

At least 13,000 people have signed a petition against plans by Yuli Edelstein to change the design of the symbol of the Knesset.-By David Lev-First Publish: 2/17/2014, 12:13 AM-Israelnationalnews

One of the proposed symbols-Knesset website

At least 13,000 people have signed a petition against changing the design of the symbol of the Knesset. The changes are being pushed by Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and several other MKs.Leading the campaign against the changes is David Sela, chairman of the Society for the Preservation of Israeli Heritage Sites. Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Sela said that the Knesset symbol was chosen back in 1949 by a plebiscite. “Now, in order to 'modernize' it for for other reasons, there are people who want to change it,” he said.
Five symbols to replace the current one were chosen as the leading candidates. Edelstein plans to put them up for a vote on the Knesset web site. Sela said that this would be a bad idea, as it would “damage one of the few thing in this country on which there is a consensus.”Over 13,000 people have signed a petition against the changes, including hundreds of well-known public figures. Many people did not just sign, he said, but also added comments expressing their distaste for the proposed changes. Some, in fact, have accused Edelstein of various things which, Sela said, “you would probably not want to share with the audience.”
In 1949, Sela added, a law was instituted to punish anyone who desecrates the symbol of the state (the Menorah and olive branch design). Such a law should apply to the Knesset logo as well, he said.

Hamas blasts Abbas’s meeting with Israeli students

Terror group says forum benefits Israel, must be stopped; PA president had suggested Jerusalem need not be divided

By Raphael Ahren and Times of Israel staff February 16, 2014, 10:39 pm 2

RAMALLAH — Meetings such as the one Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s held with Israeli students on Sunday merely serve Israeli interests and must be stopped immediately, the Palestinian terror group Hamas said on Sunday.“These meetings are a normalization of relations with Israeli citizens and serve their image in the world,” read a statement from the organization, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and vehemently opposes normalization or peace talks with Israel. “It is necessary to stop these meetings, which point to the collapse of the Palestinian Authority’s positions,” the group added, according to Maariv.Earlier on Sunday, Abbas told a group of Israeli students visiting his Muqata headquarters in Ramallah that the Palestinians want East Jerusalem as their capital but do not seek to divide the city. He also said he did not want to flood Israel with millions of Palestinian refugees.“We don’t want to redivide Jerusalem,” he told the 300 Israeli students and young activists at his presidential compound. “We would leave the city open, and have two municipalities with one governing body above them. This is the meaning of coexistence,” he said to raucous applause.Abbas also accused Israel’s current government of discriminating against the Palestinians when it came to the distribution of water, claiming that Israelis are permitted to consume 12 times more water than Palestinians. “We are humans, you need to take a shower, I need to take a shower. You need to drink, I need to drink,” he said. “We are similar, why do you take 12 times more?”

The Palestinian leader admitted that anti-Israeli incitement exists and that it needs to be confronted. However, he argued that the Palestinians for years have been willing to discuss incitement in a trilateral committee with the Israelis and the Americans, but that such efforts had failed due to Israeli obstinacy.“There is incitement on my side, I admit it. I admit it, but let’s discuss it. And the Israelis don’t want to admit it,” he said. In order to talk fairly about incitement, which he said exists on both sides, “a referee” from a third party was needed. “Incitement is a germ that would harm the atmosphere and the desire for peace, so let’s remove it. We want to remove it but we haven’t heard any response” from the Israeli side, he said.Abbas also responded to claims made last week by Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz, who had called him the world’s worst anti-Semite. ”Not the second or third worst, but the worst anti-Semite,” Abbas said, without mentioning Steinitz’s name. Why? What am I saying? I recognize the state of Israel. Where is the anti-Semitism? I go everywhere around the world. Wherever I go, I meet the Jewish leadership, in New York, AIPAC, Washington DC, London, Paris, South Africa, Latin America, Canada, everywhere. We want to make peace with you, so we meet with everyone. A person who says this about me, frankly, does not want peace.”The PA president also vehemently protested the often-made claim that he denied the Holocaust in his doctorate, lamenting that rumors to that effect continue to be spread by his opponents. “How do I deny the Holocaust? Did you read the book? No. So read the book and see if I have denied the Holocaust. I have written about it and I know that millions of Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.”Abbas also asserted that he would not demand that five million Palestinians refugees and their descendants enter Israel “to destroy” the state, but insisted that the refugee problem needs to be addressed. “All that we said was, come let’s put the refugee question on the table, because refugees is a topic that must be resolved to bring an end to conflict. But we do not seek, and we will not seek, to flood Israel with millions in order to change its social culture. This is nonsense that you read in the Hebrew media and elsewhere,” he said.(Last month, speaking to a group of Palestinians from East Jerusalem, Abbas said that he could not negotiate away the absolute right of Palestinian refugees and their descendants to return to sovereign Israel, and expressed other hard-line positions on core issues.) During Sunday’s unprecedented meeting of Israel students from across the country, organized by Labor MK Hilik Bar, the chair of the Knesset Caucus for the Promotion of a Solution for the Israeli-Arab Conflict and the One Voice organization, Abbas reiterated his willingness to sign a peace agreement with Israel, but largely insisted on his well-known positions on the core issues. He refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, saying that he recognizes the State of Israel and that had to suffice.

While he stressed that the Palestinians do not want to return to violence, he expressed frustration at what he termed Israeli policies that would obstruct the peace process. “When you say, ‘This is my land,’ where do you want me to build my state?” he asked. “When I sleep, I’m afraid to wake up and see an outpost here in the presidential compound,” he said.During a Q&A session, he attacked Israel for allowing settler violence to continue unabated. “It’s a big shame on you, what settlers do against us; without any reasons they come and kill, uproot trees,” he said. “The slaughter us, they kill my sheep and my livestock. It’s a shame on you. And by the way, every time we take one step toward peace it takes us back 20 steps, because our people wonder, what is peace with these people?”Despite occasional outbursts of frustration and anger over Israeli policies, his core message to the students and young political activists was that only a two-state solution could bring peace to both peoples.“There is no other solution in this region except peace,” he said. “I received more than one indication from Hamas that they would stand behind me in case of a peace agreement.”Abbas refused to say what the Palestinians would do if no agreement is reached in April, at the end of the nine months slated for the current negotiations. ”If peace does not happen at the end of this nine months,” he said, “we are not going to go back to violence, but put yourself in our shoes and tell us what to do.”

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

EZEKIEL 35:3-6,11-15
3  And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,(ARABS) I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4  I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5  Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,(AGAINST ISRAEL) and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
11  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12  And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13  Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14  Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.(ARAB,MUSLIMS)
15  As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,(ARABS) and all Idumea,(ARAB,MUSLIMS) even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11  In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14  And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.

AMOS 1:5
5  I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

Nasrallah vows victory against Sunni extremists in Syria

Hezbollah leader, a staunch ally of Assad regime, warns that rebels will try to establish Islamic state if they win

By AFP February 17, 2014, 1:25 am 2-The Times of Israel

BEIRUT – The chief of Lebanon’s Shiite movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, vowed on Sunday that the group would prevail against extremists fighting in neighboring Syria.“We will win this battle, God willing,” he insisted, after describing the group’s role in the conflict in Syria as a fight against “takfiris” — extremist Sunni Muslims.Hezbollah, a staunch ally of the Syrian regime, has dispatched fighters to the conflict to bolster government troops, finally admitting their presence in April 2013.Nasrallah has regularly defended the decision by saying Hezbollah is countering jihadist fighters, although extremists make up only a portion of those fighting against President Bashar al-Assad.He devoted much of the lengthy address to defending the group’s involvement in Syria, which has drawn accusations from some in Lebanon that the group is entangling the country in the war next door.“It’s a question of time,” he said of Hezbollah’s victory in the fight.

“Planning and preparations… exist, but it’s a question of time,” he added during the televised address to commemorate the assassination of three senior Hezbollah members.He described the fight in Syria, which a Britain-based monitoring group estimates has killed several hundred Hezbollah members, as a “decisive, historic battle.”Hezbollah’s strongholds in Beirut and elsewhere have been targeted in a string of car and suicide bomb attacks that have killed civilians, with jihadist groups saying the blasts are revenge for the Shiite movement’s role in the Syria conflict.

‘Danger threatens all Lebanese’

Nasrallah said the attacks, and others in Syria against religious minorities, proved that the group needed to fight extremism in Syria to protect Lebanon.“If the armed groups control Syria, what will Lebanon’s future be?” he asked.“Where are your priests, where are your nuns, where are your statues of the Virgin Mary?” he added, referring to Syrian priests and nuns kidnapped by extremists, who have also desecrated churches.

Hezbollah fighters attending a rally in Beirut, November, 2011. (photo credit: AP/Bilal Hussein)

“This is a danger that threatens all Lebanese… If they (jihadists) have the opportunity to control the border regions, their goal will be to transform Lebanon into a part of their Islamic state,” he said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 275 Hezbollah fighters have been killed in Syria, where they are currently battling rebels in the Qalamun region near the border with Lebanon.Syria’s army, reportedly backed by Hezbollah fighters, has launched operations to seize the last rebel stronghold in the region, the town of Yabrud.Both Hezbollah and the Lebanese army have said several of the car bombs sent into Lebanon have originated in the town.Nasrallah also addressed the formation of a new government this week, after a vacuum of more than 10 months.The government will include both Hezbollah and its allies and the opposition March 14 coalition.But seats will be equally distributed between the two sides and centrist candidates to prevent any group from having a veto over the other.Nasrallah said his party would work with the new government in “a positive spirit” but clarified that it was a “government of national interest, not a unity government.”

Taba terror attack sends dual murderous message

The Islamists’ blast reverberated across the border — a fatal strike on Egyptian tourism, and a symbolic message to Israel

By Mitch Ginsburg February 17, 2014, 12:11 am 1-The Times Of Israel

There were, it would seem, two goals to Sunday’s terror attack in Taba, one symbolic, one concrete.The attack, which killed three South Korean tourists and an Egyptian bus driver, was carried out, apparently with a remote-control explosive device, only 100 yards from the border with Israel. The blast, as intended, reverberated across the territorial divide. It was a symbolic reminder to Israelis that the global jihad, once relegated to far flung corners of Somalia, Yemen, and Afghanistan, has taken root in the heart of the Levant, half a day’s drive from the Al-Aqsa Mosque.“It is very hard for them to penetrate into Israel,” said Maj. (res.) Aviv Oreg, formerly the head of Al Qaeda and Global Jihad desk at the IDF’s military intelligence directorate. But for jihadist organizations in the Sinai Peninsula, this sort of attack is ”very sufficient in order to pinpoint that Israel is their target in their aspirations.”More concretely, it targeted tourists on Egyptian soil. Last year, in the wake of president Mohammed Morsi’s ouster and the ongoing attacks in Sinai and the Egyptian mainland, tourist revenue in Egypt dropped by 41 percent. The $10 billion earned in 2012 dwindled to $5.9 billion in 2013, Reuters reported in January. This, the first attack against tourists since Morsi was pried from power, will further cut into the foreign cash flow. It will also push Egypt, and certainly the Sinai Peninsula, one more step in the direction of anarchy, the ecosystem in which terror thrives.

The wreckage of the bus blown up near the Taba crossing on the Egypt-Israel border, February 16, 2014 (photo credit: AFP)

Oreg, who today heads Ceifit, a company that analyzes global jihad threats, suggested two possible perpetrators – the al-Qadea-like Ansar Beit al-Makdis or Majlis Shura al-Mujahedin Fi Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis, a group that was once based in Gaza, he said, but which was forced to operate in Sinai and to target Israel from there “because it is not convenient for Hamas.”The group more likely responsible, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the most dominant jihadist group in the Sinai, “is very close to al-Qaeda,” Oreg said in a conference call with journalists Sunday evening. So much so that Al Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri has been heard, “in his own voice,” claiming Ansar Beit al-Maqdis attacks.Although Oreg said that not a great deal is known about the terror organization’s “layout and infrastructure,” it is clear that it possesses a vast array of weapons. “They have everything,” he said, including  thousands of mines that can be made into IEDs and advanced missiles that came from Libya after the fall of Muammar Ghaddafi. In late January, the group downed an Egyptian military helicopter, killing all five soldiers onboard. “Name whatever weapons you need, and you can find it in the Sinai Peninsula,” he said.In recent months, ever since Morsi’s ouster, cooperation between Israeli and Egyptian authorities “has been largely enhanced,” Oreg said, moving from the tactical and operational level to the intelligence realm. The Shin Bet, too, has been forced, over the course of the past two years, to realign itself in order to address the growing threats from the Sinai.But, as Oreg noted, there is no foolproof defense and this attack, which may have been largely aimed against General Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and his supporters, will also deter some of the 1.8 million Christians who visit Israel annually, many of whom enter the country via the Sinai Peninsula.

Iran opens ‘center for nuclear emergencies’ at Natanz

Various other ‘nuclear projects’ also inaugurated at uranium enrichment facility, Iranian news agency announces

By Times of Israel staff February 16, 2014, 9:18 pm 1-The Times of Israel

Two days before the start of negotiations designed to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons, Iran on Sunday said it opened a medical center for “nuclear emergencies” at its Natanz uranium enrichment facility.The center was inaugurated at a ceremony attended by several top nuclear officials, Iran’s Fars news agency reported. Among them was Iran’s atomic energy agency deputy head for security and civil defense, Asqar Zare’an.Zare’an later Sunday “also took part in a number of other ceremonies held to mark the start of other nuclear projects, including the launch of nuclear sensor machines,” Fars reported, without further elaboration.The interim deal signed between the world’s P5+1 countries and Iran in Geneva in November allowed Iran to continue low-level enrichment, and US President Barack Obama said in December that he could envisage Iran retaining “some modest enrichment capability” even under a permanent accord. Talks on that permanent accord are to begin in Vienna on Tuesday. The Geneva deal provides for daily inspection at Natanz by the International Atomic Energy Agency.Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu castigated the Geneva accord as a “historic mistake” because it allowed Iran to continue to enrich uranium, and did not tackle weaponization and other aspects of the rogue Iranian nuclear program. A permanent accord, Netanyahu has said, must ensure the complete dismantling of Iran’s “military nuclear” capabilities. Netanyahu has threatened to act alone if necessary to prevent Iran attaining nuclear weapons.Iran has threatened to strike back at Israel and the US in the event of any attack on its nuclear facilities. On February 7, Iranian state TV ran a documentary featuring a computerized video of Iran’s drones and missiles bombing Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ben-Gurion Airport and the Dimona nuclear reactor in a simulated retaliation for a hypothetical Israeli or American strike on the Islamic Republic. The clip also showed simulated attacks on American targets in the region, including an aircraft-carrier.Earlier Sunday, in the latest of a series of belligerent statements ahead of the nuclear talks, the commander of Iran’s Army ground forces on Sunday declared that the US is heading for collapse. Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan was also quoted by Fars warning Washington against any military action against Iran.Last week, Iran’s chief of staff Hassan Firouzabadi warned the Islamic republic’s foes that Iran was prepared for a “decisive battle” if attacked.And Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that the West should not have any delusions about using a military option. “I say explicitly, if some have delusions of having any threats against Iran on their tables, they need to wear new glasses. There is no military option against Iran on any table in the world,” he said.