Red light vote at UNESCO

BY STAN GOODENOUGH— In what was described as a crucial “UN test vote,” UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientif and Cultural Organization) voted Monday to grant full membership to the ‘State of Palestine.” The 107 nations voting in favor included South Africa, China, Russia, Brazil, India and France. Among the 14 votes against were the…

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Barak: Israel has not already decided to strike Iran

BY HAARETZ Amidst a flurry of recent reports regarding a possible Israeli attack against Iran, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have not already decided that Israel will conduct such a strike. “It does not take a genius to understand that in Israel in 2011 two people…

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Palestinian Arab Aggression Will Never End

BY VICTOR SHARPE, FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS— No, the terror will continue so long as Israel and the IDF merely retaliates against each and every separate Muslim Arab crime against the Jewish state’s civilian population. As one person, commenting on a blog, stated: “Israel’s taking out a few rocket launchers is like giving aspirin for cancer.…

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The UN's indifference

BY JOSEPH KLEIN, FRONTPAGEMAG— The “international community” is always quick to blame Israel for any reprisals it takes against Palestinian terrorists. Accusations of “collective punishment,” “disproportionate force,” and “extrajudicial targeted assassinations” are regularly hurled at Israel from the chambers of the dysfunctional Human Rights Council and other United Nations bodies, including the UN Security Council.…

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IDF aircraft strike rocket launching cell in Gaza

BY YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST The IDF said overnight Sunday that its aircraft struck a rocket launching cell in Gaza after it fired a projectile into Israel. “We identified an accurate strike,” an IDF spokesman told The Jerusalem Post. The IDF action came after three Kassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel landed in…

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Father of 4 killed as Gaza missiles pound Israel

BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— An Israeli man was killed and dozens more were wounded on Saturday night when Palestinian terrorists operating out of the Gaza Strip unleashed a torrent of mortar and rocket fire on southern Israel. More than 40 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza between Saturday evening and mid-morning Sunday. The…

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Palestinians clash with IDF forces in Judea and Samaria

BY EMET REPORT— Hundreds of Palestinians clashed on Friday with the IDF and security forces in a number of locations in the West Bank. Around 250 Palestinians demonstrated in the  Beit Omar region, throwing stones at security forces. Soldiers and  police responded with riot dispersal means, including stun grenades and  teargas. Similar incidents occurred in…

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Iranian chessmaster expelled, refused to play Israeli

BY CHANA YA’AR, ARUTZ 7— An Iranian chessmaster has been expelled from an international chess tournament after refusing to play an Israeli opponent. Top Iranian Grandmaster Ehsan Ghaem Maghami refused to play Ehud Sachar for political reasons at the Corsica Masters championship. Shachar, a FIDE Master, was Maghami’s scheduled opponent in the fourth round of…

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A cataclysmic regional war is coming to the Middle East

BY MARTIN GOULD AND KATHLEEN WALTER, NEWSMAX— War is on its way in the Middle East as Muslim countries are determined to force a showdown over the future of Israel, Ronald Reagan’s assistant defense secretary Frank Gaffney warned in an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview. “I’m afraid there’s a war coming, a very serious, perhaps cataclysmic regional…

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