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Gazan was killed at close range after rushing soldier with knife – officer

Gazan was killed at close range after rushing soldier with knife – officer

TOI STAFF and JUDAH ARI GROSS


Palestinian protesters carry tires as smoke billows from burning tires at the Israel-Gaza border, east of Gaza city, on October 12, 2018 (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)

One of the Gazan Palestinians who blew a hole in the security fence and crossed the border into Israel on Friday was killed at point-blank after approaching a soldier with a knife, the military said early Sunday.

Seven Palestinians were killed in all and at least 252 were injured in intense clashes with Israeli security forces along the Gaza border on Friday afternoon and evening, the Hamas-run health ministry said.

In the most serious incident, in the south of the Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said several Gazans planted a bomb by the fence. After it exploded and blew a hole in the fence, some 20 Palestinians rushed through and ran toward Israeli soldiers stationed in a snipers’ nest.

Most of the Gazans pulled back and returned through the fence into the Strip after the soldiers fired warning shots into the air. However, several continued to move toward the soldiers, who fired at them, according to Sgt. Omer Kaplan, a field intelligence soldier who monitors the border through surveillance cameras.

The smoke from the explosion obstructed the view of the border and made it hard for Kaplan and the other lookouts to spot the Palestinians after they crossed.

Sgt. Omer Kaplan, a field intelligence soldier who spotted a terrorist approaching a group of soldiers on the Gaza border, on October 12, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

“Under the cover of smoke and the violent disturbance, several suspects tried to approach an [Israeli] post, but I recognized them and informed the forces over the communications network and they fired warning shots at them,” she said, in a statement released by the IDF.

“Most of them doubled back, but I noticed that one remained in the area and we lost sight of him,” Kaplan said. “We did a reconstruction… in real time, and I told the forces that there was another terrorist [in the field]. One of the fighters spotted him and neutralized him.”

Maj. Ben Hallel, deputy battalion commander from the
Paratroopers Brigade, discusses one of his soldiers finding
and killing a Palestinian armed with a knife, who approached
troops near the Gaza border, on October 12, 2018.
(Israel Defense Forces)

Major Ben Hallel, an officer in the Paratroopers Brigade who commanded the troops during the incident, said the Palestinian was armed with a knife and tried to attack a soldier, who opened fire at close range and killed him.

“We received a reports from the lookouts, saying that one of the terrorists remained in Israeli territory, just under where we were stationed. One of the soldiers, who was near the location, spotted the terrorist, who approached him with a knife,” Hallel said.

The military’s investigation of the incident found that the soldier called on the Palestinian to stop several times before shooting him, the Walla news site reported. The report said the IDF assessed that he intended to grab the soldier’s weapon.

The bodies of three Palestinians were taken back into the Strip by rioters, Hadashot TV news reported.

Palestinians stand by the bodies of Ahmad al-Tawil (L) and Ahmed Abu Naim (R), who were killed the day before during a protest along the Israel-Gaza border fence, during their funeral in Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip on October 13, 2018 (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)

“This is a blatant terror attempt that was thwarted by IDF troops quickly and professionally which prevented a possible terror attack against civilians and IDF troops,” the IDF said Friday, noting the knife that was found at the scene.

The army said some 15,000 protesters hurled grenades, bombs, firebombs and rocks at Israeli forces at various locations along the border. Hadashot reported that for the first time soldiers were also being shot at with crossbows.

Troops responded with riot dispersal means and live fire, the army said.

In light of the bomb attack on the fence and the heavy rioting, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman ordered a halt to the transfer of fuel into the Strip.

Riots along the Gaza border have increased in recent weeks, going from a weekly event to near nightly protests since Hamas halted indirect talks with Israel aimed at a ceasefire. The humanitarian crisis in the Strip, meanwhile, has worsened, while reconciliation talks with the Palestinian Authority have broken down.

Hamas, an Islamist terror group that rules the Gaza Strip and actively calls for Israel’s destruction, has created new units tasked with sustaining tensions along the border fence including during nighttime and early morning hours.

Almost every evening, thousands of Gazans have been gathering for violent demonstrations at the Erez crossing and elsewhere, in what is regarded by some as part of Hamas’s attempts to signal to Israel that it wants an economic solution to the Gaza Strip.

At least 140 Palestinians have been killed during protests since late March, according to AP figures. Hamas has acknowledged that dozens of the fatalities were its members.


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Konfederacja jordańsko-palestyńska – dlaczego nie?

Konfederacja jordańsko-palestyńska – dlaczego nie?

Ben-Dror Yemini
Tłumaczenie: Małgorzata Koraszewska


Kiedy Brytyjczycy zdobyli panowanie nad Palestyną jako część mandatu ONZ, obszar ten obejmował obie strony rzeki Jordan i wynosił około 117 tysięcy kilometrów kwadratowych. Jednak w 1921 r. rząd brytyjski przeprowadził podział, odcinając wschodni brzeg rzeki Jordan, który stał się znany jako Emirat Transjordanii lub po prostu Transjordania. Był to, praktycznie rzecz biorąc, twór kolonialny.

Kiedy w 1936 r. wyznaczono Komisję Peela w odpowiedzi na Arabską Rewoltę, zdecydowano o jeszcze jednym podziale. Zaledwie 4,8 tysiąca kilometrów kwadratowych miało przypaść państwu żydowskiemu, podczas gdy 20,6 tysiąca kilometrów kwadratowych miało zostać dodane do państwa arabskiego – Transjordanii – które już rozciągało się na około 90 tysiącach kilometrów kwadratowych.

Nie było rekomendacji założenia „państwa palestyńskiego”, bo w owym czasie nie było narodu palestyńskiego ani jednostki palestyńskiej. Rekomendowano założenie jednego państwa arabskiego po obu stronach rzeki Jordan.

Warto zwrócić uwagę na fakt, że 96% oryginalnej ziemi Palestyny zarezerwowano na to państwo arabskie, a pozostałe 4% miało być oddane Żydom. Opór Arabów wobec tego podziału nie wynikał z ustanowienia arabskiego państwa po obu stronach rzeki Jordan, ale z marnych czterech procentów, które zostały przeznaczone dla Żydów.

W Planie Podziału ONZ z 1947 r. państwu żydowskiemu przyznano 15 tysięcy kilometrów kwadratowych, co stanowiło mniej niż 13% ziemi oryginalnie znanej jako Palestyna. Była to znacząca poprawa w stosunku do 4% przeznaczonych dla Żydów przez Komisję Peela.

Z powodu oporu krajów arabskich wobec tego nowego podziału oraz inwazji otaczających krajów arabskich na Izrael, państwo żydowskie urosło do 21 tysięcy kilometrów kwadratowych.

Jedną rzeczą, co do które wszyscy możemy się zgodzić, jest to, że nigdy nie było żadnej różnicy między tymi Arabami, którzy żyli po zachodniej stronie rzeki Jordan, a tymi, którzy żyli po wschodniej stronie tej rzeki.

Należeli do tej samej rodziny, praktykowali tę samą religię, mówili tym samym językiem i mieli tę samą kulturę. Po wojnie o niepodległość Jordania anektowała Zachodni Brzeg i dała obywatelstwo tym, którzy żyli tam wcześniej pod Mandatem Brytyjskim.

W owych dniach nie bylo Palestyńczyków. Byli Arabami. ONZ nie postanowiła o utworzeniu palestyńskiego państwa. Postanowiła utworzyć arabskie państwo. Połączenie dokonane przez Jordanię był całkowicie naturalne. To nie był związek między cudzoziemcami, ale między braćmi.

Po wojnie sześciodniowej „jordańska opcja” była preferowaną opcją porozumienia pokojowego. W końcu, świat arabski nie stworzył odrębnego państwa przez niemal dwadzieścia lat, kiedy ten teren był wolny od izraelskiej „okupacji”. W 1987 r. dokonano ostatniej próby zrealizowania ”jordańskiej opcji” jako część Porozumienia Londyńskiego między Królem Husseinem a Szimonem Peresem.

Gdyby Bliski Wschód zachowywał się racjonalnie, powiązanie między ludźmi z tego samego narodu byłoby naturalne. W końcu, wszyscy mówią o arabskiej jedności. W rzeczywistości cały szereg Arabskich przedstawicieli, włącznie z Azmim Biszarą (byłym członkiem Knesetu, który uciekł z kraju po oskarżeniu o szpiegostwo), przyznało, że „nie istnieje żaden naród palestyński”.

Łatwo zrozumieć istnienie Egiptu, Iraku i Syrii, z których każde ma do takiego lub innego stopnia historię i dziedzictwo, dające im pewną unikatowość. Ale Jordańczycy i Palestyńczycy? Mają prawo do samostanowienia. Ale podział: po co i dlaczego? Co ich właściwie różni? Nic.

Globalna lewica i palestyńscy aktywiści na Zachodnim Brzegu, jak również niektórzy członkowie izraelskiej prawicy, mówią o „jednym państwie”. Jednak jedno państwo ustanawia się w podobnych i identycznych społecznościach, które praktykują tę samą religię i mają podobną kulturę, nie ustanawia się jednego państwa z dwóch różnych społeczności.

Jordania jest Palestyną, a Palestyna jest Jordanią. Czechosłowacja podzieliła się na dwoje, a Jugosławia podzieliła się na siedem części na bazie religijnego i etnicznego samostanowienia.

To, co było prawdą tam i zostało uznane za słuszne przez większość krajów świata – powinno być również prawdą na Bliskim Wschodzie.

Dlatego, zakładając, że administracja USA, jak powiedział nam w niedzielę prezydent Autonomii Palestyńskiej Mahmoud Abbas, rekomendowała plan pokojowy oparty o konfederację z Jordanią, jest to właściwa i poprawna rekomendacja.

Nie jest jasne, dlaczego Abbas nalega na włączenie Izraela do takiej konfederacji.

Czy Chorwaci zaprosili Słoweńców, by do nich dołączyli? Prawdą jest, że 31 lat po nieudanym Porozumieniu Londyńskim wydaje się, że jordańska opcja nie jest dłużej rozważana, ale logika wymaga, by ponownie położyć ją na stole negocjacyjnym.


Ben-Dror Yemini

(ur. 1954 w Tel Awiwie) jest prawnikiem, historykiem i publicystą wielu izraelskich dzienników (m.in. Maariw, Jediot Achronot), a także wykładowcą, który zajmuje się m.in. wpływem antyizraelskiej propagandy.  Pochodzi z rodziny Żydów wypędzonych z Jemenu. Ben-Dror Yemini jest zwolennikiem pogłębiania dialogu z Palestyńczykami. Od wielu lat opowiada się za niepodległym państwem palestyńskim.


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GERMANY’S BEST-SELLING PAPER CALLS FOR END OF IRAN TRADE TO PROTECT ISRAEL

GERMANY’S BEST-SELLING PAPER CALLS FOR END OF IRAN TRADE TO PROTECT ISRAEL

BENJAMIN WEINTHAL


“It is high time to ask oneself where the money that Iran is earning by this trade is going,” Dr. Schuster said.

A gas flare on an oil production platform in the Soroush oil fields is seen alongside an Iranian flag in the Persian Gulf, Iran, July 25, 2005.. (photo credit: REUTERS)

In an eye-popping commentary on Monday, Germany’s top-selling Bild newspaper urged businesses to stop trade with the Islamic Republic of Iran because of its terrorism and the regime’s goal of obliterating the Jewish state.

Bild’s foreign policy editor Julian Röpcke wrote, “This Iran cannot at this time be an ally, neither in the fight against terrorism, nor as an oil supplier or trade partner.” Röpcke, who reports on the Syrian war, wrote that Iran’s missile launches into Syria were a “message of terror. Because they carry the meter-long inscriptions ‘Death to Israel and ‘Death to the USA’ – and that is deadly serious for the mullahs.”

Röpcke noted that “Iran’s rockets were not fired against the Islamic State, rather against those who stand in the way of the corrupt regime in Tehran; against those who do not want to stand inactively by when Iran’s leader again and again propagates the ‘extermination’ of Israel.” The Bild has a daily circulation of approximately 1,581,000.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Monday that it launched six missiles at paramilitary groups located close to the Euphrates River. Iran’s clerical regime claims the missile attack was in response to a terrorist attack on a military parade in the Iranian city of Ahvaz last month. The attack killed 25 people in Ahvaz and injured an additional 60.

The Bild commentary is believed to be first instance in the best-selling paper of a call for the complete end of business deals with the Islamic Republic of Iran. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her foreign minister, Heiko Maas, support the European Union’s “special purpose vehicle” (SPV) to permit financial transactions with Iran. The SPV is designed to thwart robust US sanctions on Iran’s energy and financial systems. Germany’s federal government provides credit insurance guarantees to companies that want to conduct business with Iran.

On Saturday, the US Embassy in Berlin tweeted a quote from the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dr. Josef Schuster, who said: “I endorse an immediate stop of any economic relations with Iran. Any trade with Iran means a benefit for radical and terrorist forces, and a hazard and destabilization for the region.”

Merkel and Maas, who said he entered politics “because of Auschwitz,” have ignored Schuster’s plea.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Jerusalem Post, “Courageous honest leadership by Dr. Schuster. Chancellor Merkel continues business with Jew-hating Ayatollah who bankrolls terrorism around the world and threatens six million-plus Jews in Israel.”

Merkel arrives in Israel this week for a joint-cabinet consultation with Israeli leaders. She has defended the Iran nuclear deal that Israel vehemently rejects because it allows Tehran a pathway to a nuclear weapon.

Schuster, who represents nearly 100,000 Jews in Germany, told the Post in August: “The Central Council of Jews in Germany has been criticizing German-Iranian trade relations for a long time. It seems paradoxical that Germany – as a country that is said to have learned from its horrendous past and which has a strong commitment to fight antisemitism – is one of the strongest economic partners of a regime that is blatantly denying the Holocaust and abusing human rights on a daily basis.

“Besides, Germany has included Israel’s security as a part of its raison d’etre. As a matter of course this should exclude doing business with a fanatic dictatorship that is calling for Israel’s destruction, pursuing nuclear weapons and financing terror organizations around the world.


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The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive – Sepharad Music

The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive – Sepharad Music

Hebrew University of Jerusalem



Abstract: Part of the Israel Music Heritage Project. The many different types of Ladino music dating back to the Middle Ages.

The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive –
The 500 films, selected for the virtual cinema, reflect the vast scope of documentary material collected in the Spielberg Archive. The films range from 1911 to the present and include home movies, short films and full length features.

שם: מסורת יהודי ספרד
שנה: 1991
אורך: 00:27:53
שפה: אנגלית

תקציר: פרק נוסף בפרויקט המוסיקה של ישראל, “עם וצליליו”. הסוגים השונים במוסיקת הלדינו, שמקורה בימי הביניים.

ארכיון הסרטים היהודיים על שם סטיבן שפילברג –
חמש מאות הסרטים שנבחרו עבור הקולנוע הווירטואלי משקפים את ההיקף הנרחב של החומר התיעודי בארכיון שפילברג. באתר ישנם סרטים משנת 1911 ועד ימינו אלה ביתיים, קצרים ובאורך מלא.

כל הזכויות שמורות לארכיון הסרטים היהודיים על שם סטיבן שפילברג ולאוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים 2010; דף הבית; www.spielbergfilmarchive.org.il
http://multimedia.huji.ac.il/

 


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Jewish Students, Groups Applaud University of Michigan.

Jewish Students, Groups Applaud University of Michigan for ‘Strong’ Response to Faculty Who Refused to Give Recommendations for Israel Study

Shiri Moshe


The University of Michigan. Photo: Dante Chinni.

The University of Michigan is being applauded by Jewish students and advocacy groups, after it announced “serious consequences” for instructors who withhold letters of recommendation due to their personal views.

The statement — issued by U-M President Mark Schlissel and Provost Martin Philbert on Tuesday — was hailed as a robust response to two recent incidents involving students who sought to study at Tel Aviv University, but were rebuffed by instructors who support the Palestinian-led boycott campaign against Israel.

One of these instructors — associate professor John Cheney-Lippold, who kicked off the controversy in September by denying a recommendation to a student — was firmly chided over his stance in a letter by U-M interim dean and professor Elizabeth Cole last week.

He was barred from receiving a raise during the current academic year, or taking a sabbatical until the fall of 2020, and warned that future violations may result in additional discipline — up to and including the initiation of dismissal proceedings.

Schlissel and Philbert also announced the formation of “a panel of distinguished faculty members” that will clarify the obligations that instructors have to their students, regardless of personal political beliefs.

They further apologized to students who were hurt by a recent on-campus presentation by Emory Douglas, a former member of the Black Panther Party who showed an image comparing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Adolf Hitler. Douglas’ talk was part of a mandatory program for art and design students.

The university’s response was commended by leading Jewish communal groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, which praised its “strong guidelines … [and] condemnation of actions that would unfairly impact students who wish to study in Israel.”

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin — who heads the AMCHA Initiative, an antisemitism watchdog that led nearly 60 organizations in calling for disciplinary action against Cheney-Lippold — credited U-M for recognizing “the serious harm that an academic boycott’s implementation causes its own students.”

“U-M has shown leadership in curbing this discriminatory behavior and stood up for all of its students’ civil and academic rights with this precedent,” she said in a statement shared with The Algemeiner. “We fully commend U-M for the steps taken thus far to discipline Cheney-Lippold, and for establishing a panel that we hope will lead to a clear and comprehensive policy on professors who attempt to use their professional positions to push a personal, political agenda.”

“Hundreds of faculty serving on U.S. campuses have endorsed an academic boycott of Israel,” including more than two dozen U-M professors, she pointed out. “We hope other university presidents will follow President Schlissel’s leadership.”

The university’s stance was also warmly welcomed by some members of the Hillel Israel Cohort, an umbrella group of Israel-focused clubs at U-M, which encouraged students to wear blue and white T-shirts on Thursday in a sign of support for their community.

“The goal is to show pro-Israel students that they are not alone, show solidarity with Israel, and reveal to the campus that a large number of people support Israel and all the amazing things Israel has to offer,” explained Noah Rubinstein, a U-M sophomore and president of the Israel advocacy club I-LEAD. “This also demonstrates how we are proud to be part of the greater Michigan community.”

Rubinstein told The Algemeiner that the university’s latest actions indicated that it “supports all students.”

“Although these incidents are terrible, it is a good reminder for the pro-Israel community to bond together and come up with productive ways to improve Israel’s image on campus,” he said.

Israel has previously became a contentious topic on campus, including when U-M’s student government adopted a divestment resolution targeting the Jewish state this past November, after similar measures failed to pass on at least 10 separate occasions. Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), which led the divestment campaign, expressed its support on Tuesday for “the brave faculty and staff” who are answering the demands of Palestinian civil society to boycott Israel, after protesting on campus with allied groups.

Earlier this year, concerns were also raised by some students following an on-campus lecture by Steven Salaita, a boycott activist and former academic who in 2014 lost a conditional offer of employment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after tweeting, among other things, that Zionists had transformed antisemitism “from something horrible into something honorable since 1948.”

Rubinstein observed that despite these incidents, and more recent matters, he felt “comfortable on campus because the pro-Israel community contains such a large number of members who are all supportive of each other.”

“I also feel supported by the university’s stance against these incidents,” he added, and endorsed student-led efforts urging U-M to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism.

Alex Harris, a junior at U-M who serves as Hillel’s Israel community coordinator, shared a similar outlook.

“We are grateful that the University is taking important steps to foster a positive learning environment for all its students,” Harris wrote on social media. “We also hope that the University’s response will deter other professors from attempting to limit any student’s academic opportunities in the future.”

Harris — who identified as “a proud Wolverine, a proud Jew, and a proud Zionist” — told The Algemeiner that while “at times it can be difficult” to be an outwardly pro-Israel student, “I do feel comfortable being who I am on campus.”

“I owe a lot of this sense of security to my fellow Jewish Wolverines and supporters of Israel as well as support we have from organizations on campus,” he said.


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