Israel & Islamism

Major sources are Daily Alerts [Wednesday, Thursday, Friday] & Arlene Kushner; the focus is on
Hanukkah, Islamism, America, the UN, Geneva, the EU, Israel, Israeli Politics, Hamas-Gaza, Intifada-III
Agitation, Iran, Iraq, and Syria.
Hanukkah
History
Jimmy Fallon Sang Parodied Hanukkah tweets [One relates to Pesach (I lost that Leavening Feeling]; it
was forwarded by JSpace-News which failed to ID this glitch.
What-Is-Hanukkah
So you think you know Hanukkah
The great irony of Chanukah is that those likeliest to strip away its historical and religious meaning
would have been fighting against the Maccabees
Hanukkah: Fighting the Darkness with Light
Sound an Alarm this Hanukkah, for Israel is Being Thrown Under the Bus by the EU
Ancient Entry Complex Discovered at Israels Herodian Hilltop Palace
Massive graveyard with ONE MILLION mummies unearthed in Egypt
WHEN A JEWISH COMMUNITY EMBRACES THOSE WHO WISH US HARM
Islamism
America's Fatal Flaw in the War on Terror: Underestimating the Jihadist Enemy
The Battle of the Bulge: The Importance of Never Underestimating a Defeated Enemy
Israeli Islamic State "Leader" Says Caliphate Will Rule over Jews
Pentagon: No Indication U.S. Troops Engaged in Ground Combat with ISIS In Iraq
Several Islamic State Leaders Killed in Iraq, U.S. Says
Kurdish Peshmerga & U.S. Jets Help Free Yazidis Stranded on Mt. Sinjar
Backed by U.S. Airstrikes, Kurds Reverse an ISIS Gain
U.S. Forces Exchanged Fire With ISIS For First Time, Forcing Terror Groups Retreat
Female Peshmerga Martyrs Lead the War for Kurds in War on ISIS
Kurdish Forces Break Sinjar Siege and U.S. Strikes Kill Islamic State Commanders
Kurdish forces in northern Iraq claim they have broken the Islamic State siege of Mount Sinjar,
freeing hundreds of people, including many from Iraqs Yazidi minority who have been trapped
since the militant group overtook the area in August. Supported by U.S. airstrikes, Kurdish forces
carried out a two-pronged attack in part of an offensive launched on Wednesday and managed to
open a corridor for people to escape. With 8,000 Kurdish forces, this has been the biggest
offensive against the Islamic State militants, according to Kurdish officials. On Thursday, U.S.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reported in recent weeks U.S.
airstrikes killed three Islamic State military leaders including Abd al-Basit, a top figure in military
operations in Iraq, and Haji Mutazz, a deputy to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Dempsey said hitting these high-value targets is disruptive to the Islamic States planning and
command and control.

Iraqi Kurds Oil-Boom Puts Self-Sufficiency Within Reach As Leadership Cozies Up With Iranian Regime
ISIS Kidnapped Two Journalists From Kurdish Network Rudaw in Syria
AQ's Nusra Continued Advances, Said It Has Advanced American Arms

300 Chinese Nationals Have Joined ISIS Jihad

300 Chinese Said Fighting Alongside Islamic State
ISIS Released Penal Code: Crucifixion, Lashings for Unbelievers
New ISIS Penal Code Heavy on Death Penalties, Crucifixions
Slaughtered 150 Females in Iraq for Refusing to Marry or Have Sex with Them
ISIS Executed 150 Women for Refusing to Marry Militants
ISIS Surgeons Are Using Hostages In The Most Inhumane Way To Bank Roll Their Terror State
Taliban targeted children to keep them from becoming soldiers
Pakistani Taliban Issues More Threats Following Child Massacre
ISIS Sending Money to London Teenagers to Pay Jihadi Bride Air-Fares
PM TONY ABBOTT: SYDNEY GUNMAN NOT ON TERROR WATCH LIST
Australia's Strict Gun Laws Cost Innocent Lives in Sydney
Two Heroes Emerge in Sydney Siege
Sydney Shooter was Known to Police as Radical Islamist
Sydney Shooter's Social Media Trail Shows Long History with Radical Islam
Sydney Gunman Demanded Islamic State Flag, But Waved Shahada Flag from Window
The BBC: Ignoring Jihadism Against Israel
Britain to Build Permanent Middle East Military Base in Bahrain
Nigeria Sentenced 54 Soldiers to Death For Refusing to Fight Boko Haram
Boko Haram Kidnapped 185 Nigerians, Kills 35
America
Kerry and Palestinian Negotiator Erekat Hold "Difficult" Meeting
Palestinians Reveal Kerry's Demands
Palestinian Boycott of Israeli Goods Faltering
Harvard's President Stopped an anti-Israel Boycott against SodaStream
After Berkeley Protests Shut Down Peter Thiel Speech, it was felt that Bill Maher Is Our Only Hope
[because Maher is determined to address graduates of the University of California at Berkeley during
the winter commencement exercises this Saturday, despite threats of protests]; Bill Maher delivered the
keynote address at UC Berkeley commencement without incident.
UCLA Prof Assigned Pro-Israel Book in Order to Trash It. This could have been an attractive method of
providing both sides of an issue, but that theory was undermined by his request [Be sure to borrow or
buy used copies of the Dershowitz and Carter books; I'll be damned if either of those two poseurs get a
dime in royalties from my course]. Such hostility is directed @ Carters 1985 work that describes his
experience negotiating the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, for this act has been despised
by anti-Israel activists for its required recognition of Israels legitimacy by the Arab World; it has nothing

to do with Carters scathing anti-Israel polemic, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid (2006), and his
many public apologias for the terrorists of Hamas.
Middle East studies professors who engage in anti-Israel activism like to fashion themselves the victims
of persecution for their views, when, in fact, the opposite is true: academia celebrates such views, while
shunning pro-Israel perspectives. Campus Watch reported that a recent panel discussion in Washington,
DC, included speakers [such as Rashid Khalidi and Steven Salaita] who were engaged in this sort of selfproclaimed victimhood, all the while turning Israel and its supporters into the perpetrators.
To the Students for Justice in Palestine, a Letter from an Angry Black Woman
student organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is prominent on many
college campuses, preaching a mantra of "Freeing Palestine." It masquerades as though
it were a civil rights group when it is not. It is thus high time to expose its agenda and lay
bare some of the fallacies it peddles.
pillaged the Middle East, subjugated the indigenous peoples living in the region, and
foisted upon them a life of persecution and degradation - you do not get to claim the
title of "Freedom Fighter."
doctrine) to destroy the Jewish state, you do not get to claim that the prejudices you
peddle are forms of legitimate "resistance."
their children on rooftops in the hopes they will get blown to bits; who heap praises
upon their fellow gang members when they succeed in murdering Jewish school boys
and bombing places of activity where Jews congregate - you do not get to claim that you
are an advocate of human virtue. You are not.
nd
lynchings of Jewish men, women, and children by referring to such heinous occurrences
as part of a noble "uprising" of the oppressed - that is racism. It is evil.
my people have always been Zionists because my people have always stood
for the freedom of the oppressed. You do not have the right to invoke my people's
struggle for your shoddy purposes.
UN
Palestine and the UN: Another Gambit
The Security Council Intifada
The Palestinians' UN Charade Collapsed
Palestine's Bid at the UN: Better Off Postponed
Stopping an End Run to Palestinian Statehood
Jordan Submitted Palestinian UN Resolution Calling for Israeli Withdrawal from West Bank [Text]
Israel Calls Palestinian UN Draft a Gimmick
U.S. Does Not Support Palestinian UN Resolution
Kerry Urges "Other Options" as Palestinians Seek UN Resolution
U.S. to Veto Palestinian UN Resolution
Netanyahu Asks French President to Halt UN Initiative on Palestinian State
Geneva

Questions for the Geneva Convention Meeting - An International Committee of the Red Cross manual
states: "Occupation ceases when the occupying forces are driven out of or evacuate the territory."
Canada to Boycott Fourth Geneva Convention Met in Geneva
Israel Slammed Geneva Convention Conference
Geneva Conference Criticized Israel
EU
EU Backs Palestinian Dictatorship
EU Lawmakers Stopped Short of Palestine Recognition Vote
Europe Needs an Anti-ISIS Playbook
Netanyahu: Europe 'Learned Nothing' From the Holocaust
Netanyahu to Europeans: Stop Rewarding Palestinian Intransigence
Europe Delivered Triple Blow to Israel, and to Europes Jews - The European Court of Justice in
Luxembourg removed Hamas from its list of terrorist organizations yesterday on a technicality;
meanwhile, 115 miles away in the European Parliament, members were busy voting by a majority of 498
to 88 to recognize
U.S.: EU Should Keep Sanctions Against Hamas
EU Foreign Policy Chief: Hamas Must Remain on our Terror List - EU foreign policy chief Federica
Mogherini said Wednesday she is committed to keeping Hamas on its list of terrorist organizations. She
told the director-general of the European Jewish Association, Rabbi Menachem Margolin, that the EU
would appeal the Court of Justice's ruling, which had been "procedural," and would make sure that
Hamas will again be blacklisted.
EU Court Annuls Hamas Terrorist Designation
EU Envoy to Israel: We Are Committed to Hamas' Return to Terror List
Hamas and the Decision by the European Union Court
The EU Vote Was Not Worth the Hysteria
The EU court decision, which removed Hamas from its list of terror organizations, was based on the
premise that there had been no information on Hamass status provided by EU states or persons. EU
officials tried to suggest yesterday that such information would be coming soon, so that Hamas would
be quickly re-instated on the list. Well... maybe, and maybe not. Please, see the Elder of Ziyon for a
more complete analysis of this. What is most significant here is that:
...since the EU was founded in 1993, despite spending tens of thousands of manhours and untold millions of euros on Middle East topics and on the ground in Israel
and the territories, no effort has been made to document Arab terrorism. (Emphasis in
the original)
Think about it. The EU wants to be a part of the peace process - it is part of the Quartet
- and it has given lots of money to anti-Israel NGOs. It has no problem criticizing Israeli
actions and parsing the statements of Israeli ministers to find evidence of anything
offensive.
Yet in all that time, no EU official has felt it was important to research and report on
Arab terrorism! Not one bothered to visit the site of suicide bombings and read official
Hamas statements taking credit for them. Not one bothered to follow up on Hamas

incitement, on Hamas anti-Semitism, or on Hamas' public statements declaring all of

Israel occupied and all Israelis to be targets for attack.
Not one.
Apparently, the entire EU presence in the Middle East is meant to document Israeli
building in the territories and to ferret out price tag attacks. Thousands of pages are
written about whether Israeli products that are manufactured on one side of the
Green Line but packaged on the other side are considered contraband in Europe. But
not one official report has been written that says that Hamas took credit for a terror
attack. (Emphasis added)
There is a huge blind spot in the most studied place on the planet, and yet in 21 years
the EU has not been able to write up a single report on Palestinian terrorism.
Is there any more evidence needed of EU bias against Israel than this?
Israel
"Tunnel of Hope": Jews Who Tunneled Their Way to Freedom in 1942
Ancient Rock Refers to King David
Royal Entryway Discovered at Herod's Palace
Israeli Public Health Practices in the West Bank and Gaza improved steadily since 1967.
The Resilience ofTikkun Olam - Repairing the World
Jerusalem Municipality to Distribute 100 Free Christmas Trees
Israel Inaugurated Farm in Senegal
Israeli Politics
ISRAEL MUST END THE PROCESS WHEREBY SHE IS A SITTING DUCK
Dershowitz: Netanyahu Gets 'Bum Rap' on Settlements [might this signal a shift in his posture?]
Netanyahu Slammed Rivals for Coordinating with Kerry; specifically, Livni and Peres conspired with Kerry
against Israel [recalling that Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin carried on pre-Oslo agreement
negotiations with the PLO behind the backs of Prime Ministers Shamir and Rabin, and then presented
the deal as afait accompli to Rabin].
Israeli Politics - Eli Yishai has made it official. He has broken with the Shas party and is forming a new
party, Yahad Together. It is being watched very closely, for it appears that it will not be just a
duplicate of the haredi party, Shas, but will bring in national religious elements as well. It aims to be a
party that, indeed, unifies people in their concern for religious values and political nationalism.
Although it is early to make predictions, it carries genuine promise. [Yoni Chetboun, who just left
Habayit Hayehudi because of some deep discontents, will be joining Yishai. And now all eyes are on the
relationship between Uri Ariel and Naftali Bennett; if Uriel walks out of Habyit Hayehudi with his
Tekuma faction, he would very likely join Yishai.] There are very early predictions that, when the dust
settles, this new party might bring in as much as seven mandates. Aryeh Deri, who now heads Shas, is
having conniptions. But on Aryeh Deri, who is not exactly the model of an upright politician, it looks

good. Apparently Yishai who was pretty much shafted by Deri - will take a fair amount of support with
him and has already received the endorsement of some significant rabbis.
Hamas-Gaza
Hamas Deputy Leader Says Iran Ties Repaired
Behind the Hamas-Iran Rapprochement
Netanyahu: We will not ignore even one rocket
Gaza Posters Depict Hanging of PA Leader Abbas
Hamas Militant Killed, Four Injured, in Gaza "Work Accident"
Hamas Official: Arafat Gave Us Arms for Second Intifada Attacks
Save the Palestinians, Stop Hamas
Islamic Militants Claim Responsibility for Bombing French Center in Gaza
Gaza Reconstruction Materials Diverted to Hamas for Tunnel Repairs
Hamas Reconstructing Terror Tunnels, Preparing For War Against Israel
In Gaza, Rehabilitation Is Slow
Hamas: We Will Not Be Satisfied with a Palestinian State within 1967 Lines; We Thank Iran for Weapons,
Rockets
Hamass International Triangle of Bases: Gaza, Turkey and Qatar
Israel struck Hamas training facility in response to rocket fire
Intifada-III Agitation
The Arab World may be Turning Its Back on the Palestinians
Shedding No Tears for Dead Palestinian Terror Minister
Palestinians threw stones, injured Israeli boy
Abbas Advisor: All of Palestine Will Return to Us Even If It Takes Time
Most Palestinians Accuse Abbas of Silencing Dissent
Palestinian Incitement against Israel Can and Should Be Curbed
Iran
Doing Stupid Things with Iran
Iran has know-how to build nukes, senior cleric claimed
Iranian Support Seen Crucial for Yemen's Houthis
12 Months Is Insufficient Time to Stop an Iranian Nuclear Breakout
Iraq
Iran's "Boots on the Ground" in Iraq
U.S. Fears New Iraqi Prime Minister Isn't Serious about Sunni Outreach
TOP JIHADISTS KILLED; MORE US TROOPS GOING TO IRAQ
Syria
ISIS Approaches Israel's Border with Syria
Syrian Army Defector Documents Atrocities by Assad Regime
Islamists Rout Syrian Government Troops

U.S. Says Europeans Tortured by Assad's Death Machine