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Aug. 23, 2017
UN: North Korea Ships Chemicals for
Syria’s Weapons Program
By DEBKAfile and Reuters
A new UN report confirms that North Korea has been shipping
items to the Syrian government agency responsible for the country's chemical
weapons program. Two such shipments were intercepted in the last six months by
UN member states, says the report which was submitted to the Security Council.
Under investigation is “prohibited chemical, ballistic
missile and conventional arms cooperation between Syria and the DPRK (North
Korea).”The shipments may have been
part of a Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation contract with Syria. The
trading corporation—Pyongyang's main arms dealer—was blacklisted in 2009 by the
Security Council.
The North Korean and Syrian missions to the United Nations
did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Syria agreed to destroy
its chemical weapons in 2013 under a deal brokered by Russia and the United
States. However, diplomats and weapons inspectors suspect Syria may have
secretly maintained or developed a new chemical weapons capability.
During the country's more than six-year long civil war the
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has said the banned
nerve agent sarin has been used at least twice, while the use of chlorine as a
weapon has been widespread. The Syrian government has repeatedly denied using
chemical weapons.
Can Putin Keep Hizbullah from
Israel’s Borders?
By DEBKAfile (Analysis)
Israel’s northern borders with Syria and Lebanon were on
edge this week, as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu prepared to raise Israel’s
concerns about southern Syria at a critical meeting with President Vladimir
Putin on Wednesday at the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
The Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem noted that he
would be accompanied by Mossad Director Yossie Cohen. He has just returned from
a failed attempt in Washington to draw the Trump Administration’s attention to
the deteriorating security situation on Israel’s northern borders, where Russian
Muslim troops are already in position.
Our sources report that he left Washington empty-handed for
three reasons: 1. The White House was inundated in political crises on the home
front. 2.President Donald Trump had
resolved to cut to the bone any US military involvement in the Syria conflict
outside of the war on the Islamic State. 3.Trump refused to hear of any compromise on his deal with Putin for
cooperating in Syria, especially in the creation of de-escalation zones for
gradually winding down the conflict.
Furthermore, as Syrian government and pro-Iranian forces
gain ground, the Syrian anti-Assad rebel front is breaking up, except for the
Islamic State and other Islamist groups. Some former rebels are throwing in the
towel or crossing the lines to Assad’s army. The disintegration of the Syrian
resistance, if not halted, will sooner or later reach the rebel groups
entrenched on the Syrian Golan. Israel will then see the buffer which served it
as a security barrier for the past four years melting away.
Even if a Russian guarantee against Syrian and pro-Iranian
forces reaching the Golan border is offered by Putin to calm Netanyahu’s
worries, it will be of limited value - first, it was refused by Washington and
second, it is unlikely to be respected. Although Russia is in a dominant
position for determining Syria’s agenda, it is not the sole arbiter in Damascus.
Iran and Hizbullah - and even Bashar Assad - are quite capable of taking matters
in their own hands and embarking on a limited expedition for heating up the
border with Israel - if only as a reminder to Putin, Trump and Netanyahu that
Israel will not be permitted to determine the situation on that border, only
their own interests.
Two Jewish Converts to Islam Join ISIS
By IsraelNationalNews.com
The Shin Bet intelligence agency has gathered information
about 20 Israelis who joined the ranks of the ISIS terrorist organization in
Syria, Channel 2 News reported. The vast majority of the Israeli citizens who
joined ISIS were Israeli Arabs. However, two of the terrorist group's Israeli
recruits were born Jewish, although it is not known if they are halakhically so.
The two had immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union and later changed
their religion. They are currently listed as Muslims in the national registry.
Another Israeli who joined ISIS is an Israeli Arab from
Fureidis in northern Israel who served in the IDF in the past, and decided to
fight for ISIS in Syria. The Shin Bet drafted the list of Israelis following an
amendment to the Citizenship Law that allows the revocation of the citizenship
of Israeli citizens who have joined terrorist organizations, even without their
presence.
On Monday, the list was transferred to the Interior
Ministry. The ministry will begin the process of revoking the citizenship of the
20 Israelis who joined ISIS. When the process is completed, those who join ISIS
will become stateless and will not be allowed to return to Israel or to travel
freely throughout the world.
Officials from Largest US Islamic Charity
Promote Anti-Semitism
By World Israel News
Senior officials of Islamic Relief (IR), the largest
Islamic charity in America, promote anti-Semitism, reports Islamist Watch, a
Middle East Forum (MEF) project. The chairman of IR-USA is Khaled Lamada, a
prominent Egyptian-American who has a long history of involvement with Muslim
Brotherhood-linked organizations. He is not shy in publicly expressing his
support for Islamist causes. His social media accounts are filled with Muslim
Brotherhood insignia.
According to the Islamist Watch report, Lamada promotes
hateful attitudes toward Jews and admires violence against Israel. Lamada has
circulated text praising the “jihad” of the “Mujahidin of Egypt” for “causing
the Jews many defeats.” He has shared posts on Facebook that praise Hamas for
inflicting a “huge defeat” against the “Zionist entity.”
Lamada is not the only promoter of anti-Semitism running
America’s largest Islamic charity, the report shows. Last month, Islamist Watch
uncovered anti-Semitic social media posts by another senior official of IR-USA,
Yousef Abdallah, who published a story romanticizing “martyrs” who provided guns
to “kill more than 20 Jews” and “fire rockets at Tel Aviv.”
Abdallah’s other posts included references to Jews as
“stinking,” and claims that “the Jews put the outside wall of Al Aqsa [the
mosque in Jerusalem] on fire.” Abdallah also liked a Facebook comment that calls
on God to wreak “revenge on the damned rapists Zionists. O God they are no
challenge for you. Shake the Earth beneath their feet and destroy them as you
destroyed the peoples of Ad, Thamud and Lot.”
Another IR-USA staff member, Omar Shahin, who is currently
not employed by IR, preached in 2002: “You will keep on fighting with the Jews
until the fight reaches the east of Jordan river then the stones and trees will
say: oh Muslim, oh (servant) slaves of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and
kill him.”
“That IR-USA’s chairman and his staff appear to hate Jews
is not particularly surprising,” MEF stated. “That this extremist,
terrorism-linked, Jew-hating charity has enjoyed millions of taxpayers’ dollars
and dinners at the White House, however, is utterly perplexing.”
Although Islamic Relief is a designated terrorist
organization in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), it enjoys the support of
governments and other charities all around the world, including $370,000 from
the US government in 2016, along with millions of dollars from the United
Nations (UN), the European Union (EU) and other European countries.
Islamist Watch has previously exposed that these public
funds serve to subsidize Islamic Relief’s funding of Hamas-linked organizations
in the Gaza Strip. Across the globe, Islamic Relief branches are led by
Islamists with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist causes,
Islamist Watch points out, and Islamic Relief’s US branch (IR-USA) is no
exception.
Russian Mother Deported After
Losing Citizenship Upon Husband’s Death
By The Jerusalem Post
A Russian mother was deported from Israel on Monday, after
her Israeli partner passed away and she thus lost eligibility to become an
Israeli citizen.
Her two children, Galina and Boris Levinshtein, aged 30 and
31, made aliya 14 years ago; they were eligible for citizenship according to the
Law of Return as their paternal grandfather was Jewish. Their mother, Lia
Makushina, has been living and working in Israel as a cleaner for the past six
years. Her common-law marriage status with her partner Oleg, allowed her to
obtain temporary citizenship and she was in the process of obtaining permanent
citizenship.
But after the death of her partner earlier this year, the
Interior Ministry summoned Makushina, 57, took away her ID card and terminated
her citizenship process, according to an impassioned Facebook post written by
her son. “So, after six years in Israel, a woman whose Israeli spouse is buried
here and whose two children and grandson are Jewish citizens of Israel, she lost
everything in one day,” Boris wrote on a Facebook page he set up titled: “Don’t
deport my mother.” His efforts have thus far been in vain, however, as he spoke
to The Jerusalem Post just before he boarded a flight to accompany his mother
back to Russia.
The family had appealed to the humanitarian committee of
the Interior Ministry, only to be answered with an order that she leave the
country within 14 days. They appealed this decision, but were rejected. After
Lia’s ID card has been taken, she was given a tourist visa to stay in Israel
until August.
“We are law-abiding citizens so if we see her visa is until
August, she won’t stay here illegally,” Boris told the Post, but he means to
continue to campaign for his mother to be able to return to live in Israel. He
is appealing to the ministry to allow her to continue the process of obtaining
permanent citizenship from the point where it was stopped after Oleg’s death.
The Population and Immigration Authority released a
statement saying that “attempts to find a solution with the family were
unsuccessful and Mrs. Makushina may visit her family as much as she wishes. Our
mother has been living here for six years and for her to return as a tourist is
not fair,” Boris told the Post. “She feels that this is her home. She is more of
a tourist in Russia than in Israel.” Boris and Galina are Lia’s only children.
“We underwent the conversion process and we have lived here
for 14 years. Israel is our home. I served in the army, I completed my
undergraduate degree I’m starting my Master’s degree at the Technion university.
My sister has established a family in Israel and gave birth to a sweet baby
named Michael this year. We are good citizens who contribute to and love the
state,” he emphasized in his Facebook post.
In a direct appeal to Interior Minister Arye Deri, Boris
wrote: “Is procedure stronger than the love between a mother and her children?
Is it so easy to deport a woman whose entire life is here in the Land of Israel?
I have no doubt what your answer will be and I have no doubt that you know very
well what love is between a mother and her children.
Therefore, we ask you, Minister, to work
for a change that will enable our mother to live her life with the thing that is
most dear to her – her family.”
When Lia reaches the age of 65, she could be eligible to
request legal status in Israel according to a procedure that applies to elderly
and single parents whose children are Israeli citizens. But Boris feels the age
limitation is unjust and is campaigning to change it. “If they let these people
in at the age of 65, why cause years of suffering by separating a family?” Boris
asked in his interview with the Post.
He also opined that from an economic perspective it is
illogical. “Who would take her for work at the age of 65?” he asked, noting that
if she could remain here in Israel she would continue working and saving money
for her retirement.
“I think from both moral and economic considerations to
bring her at a younger age would be easier on both the parents and the
children,” he said, noting that if she comes at 65 according to the elderly
single parent regulation, her children must prove that they can support her
financially.
Russian Israeli MK Ksenia Svetlova, of the Zionist Union
party, has been trying to help the Levinshteins, and slammed Lia’s deportation
as “outrageous. They have a clear policy that if you are not Jewish you are not
entitled to stay here. I think it damages Israel’s perception of a democratic
state that also takes consideration humanitarian needs – and this is clearly a
humanitarian need,” she said, noting that the state should at least offer Lia
the option of residency, if not of full citizenship.
Svetlova plans to send a letter to President Reuven Rivlin,
calling on him to step in on the matter. “He is the last hope. He has a very
large heart and should understand that this is not human, it’s not Jewish, to
separate a mother from her children,” she told the Post. She noted that she
deals with dozens of cases of this kind but sees no glimmer of hope for change
under the current government.
“We are seeing a sharp incline toward the uncompromising
ultra-Orthodox side,” she lamented opining that a reform is needed in the
Interior Ministry and that “the whole procedure and attitude should change.” The
Post did not receive a response to a request for comment from Interior Minister
Arieh Deri’s spokesman.
The Holocaust in the Third Reich as Depicted in Hollywood Cartoons
Donald Duck: Der Fuehrer's Facehttps://youtu.be/bn20oXFrxxg
Cubby Bear: https://youtu.be/8Tu1fkiPW1M
The Ducktators: https://youtu.be/KsBG34TSJJ4
Daffy Duck, The Commando https://youtu.be/xFdG8lZ4PJw
I can't speak for you, but my grandparents came to the United States to find a refuge from "change." They came to The United States where their basic freedoms were guaranteed by the Constitution; where they could build a future on this solid ground.
Air France flew from the U.S. to Israel during the early 1950s.They flew Lockheed Constellations and the flying time was 20 hours.
This promotional film - in English for an American audience - shows Israel as it was three years after the War of Independence .
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Paradise Regained, Paradise Lost
By Don Canaan (Commentary)
This year marked the 34th anniversary of the return of the Sinai by Israel to Egypt--a day of mourning by many of the 2,000 settlers who settled and later were forcibly evacuated by Israeli authorities under the command of Ariel Sharon, from the seaside city of Yamit on the Mediterranean.
Yamit was former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan's dream--a projected seaport and city of 250,000 founded on the Sinai sand dunes overlooking date palm trees and the blue Mediterranean--a populated buffer between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on the other side of the Suez Canal.
Some alternate historians say Moses and the children of Israel passed near the site of Yamit 3,500 years ago as they wandered for 40 years through the Sinai Desert on their way to the proverbial land of milk and honey.
Since April 25, 1982 only the whine of the desert wind weaves its currents through the crevices of destroyed homes, businesses and monument--a memorial to the young men who died during the 1967 Six Day war.
Christians, Jews and Muslims died during three Arab-Israeli wars and battles that took place in the Sinai in 1956, 1967 and 1973--Egyptian and Israeli--young people who fought and died in that desolate, forsaken desert wasteland.
The modern-day chariot carrying Egyptian President Mohammed Anwar al-Sadat hugged the intermittently green coastline of Sinai on its historic mission to Jerusalem. Israelis glancing upward into the clear night sky saw merely a jet banking gently to the northwest.
Official Israeli government policy was that the settlers had to be removed and the army came and forcibly removed the remaining diehard residents. The Jerusalem Post described the scene: Apocalypse had arrived in Yamit and in the dust and noise and destruction one could wander freely. Dozens of bulldozers and giant mobile air hammers were loose in the city like a pack of predatory beasts."
April 25, 20011 marked the 29th anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from Yamit and Sinai and a cold peace between long-term enemies.
That gift of peace silently glided overhead as the Sabbath disappeared and the stars appeared. At 8:01 p.m. Sadat's jetliner landed at Ben-Gurion Airport and the first minutes of a then potential peace came to the Middle East.
Old enemies became new friends. The crowds roared its approval when Sadat shook hands with Moshe Dayan. A person standing nearby, according to the Jerusalem Post, said Sadat told Dayan, "Don't worry Moshe, it will be all right."
The peace treaty between the two nations was signed on March 26, 1979 and on April 25, 1982; the events that had started on a November day at Camp David came to fruition. Sinai was returned to Egypt. Yamit was bulldozed to the ground. But Anwar Sadat did not live to see that day. He had been assassinated seven months before.
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