President Mahmoud Abbas authorized the 2018 PA budget on Sunday with a law that says 7% of each budget must go to paying terrorists, or to their families, if they’re killed in the act.
This is an increase in payments to terrorists and their families by nearly $56 million, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avi Dichter (Likud) said overnight Monday, when a bill to discourage the practice passed a first reading.
Jerusalem Post story HERE
Iran tested and deployed the Russian-made S-300 anti-aircraft missile system that has long worried U.S. and Israeli military officials because it gives the Islamic Republic a “generational improvement in capabilities,” the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency disclosed, according to Bloomberg.
Source: Artuz Sheva
US Senator Marco Rubio spoke at the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington D.C. Tuesday, to explain the importance of the US-Israel relationship.
“I think America standing with our allies is important.”
“I think Israel stands for everything we hope the Middle East will become: A free-enterprise democracy. If we had more countries like that in the Middle East our lives would be a lot simpler.
The United Nations discourages peace between Israelis and Palestinians by perpetuating an “illusion” that the existence of the Jewish state has caused the region’s conflicts, Nikki Haley, the US envoy to the UN, said on Monday.
Haley told the crowd that Israel “is not going away.” Realization of that at the UN is the key to ending Israel’s isolation there.
Vice President Mike Pence addressed a crowd at an Iowa campaign rally, where he reiterated the Trump administration’s commitment not to certify Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s 30-minute speech covered “the good, the bad, and the beautiful” in Israel and the surrounding region. Netanyahu last appeared live at AIPAC in 2015. See video for full speech.
World Israel News reports that the head of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, and BBC reporter Yolanda Knell were allegedly members of an invite-only Facebook group through which virulent anti-Semitism was promoted.
The UK Labour Party confirmed this week it is investigating as many as six party members for their involvement in a secret Facebook group that trafficked in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, Holocaust denial, and other ideologies promoted by racist sources such as the Daily Stormer
Rich Lowry’s article about the Democrats and their love for Louis Farrakhan, lays out a terrifying scenario. Why is it acceptable in this country, where freedom of religion is one of our basic rights and precepts, for a major political party, the Democrats, to embrace an openly malevolent anti-Semite and Nation of Islam leader like Farrakhan? How can a strong supporter of Farrakhan, and equally anti-Semitic Congressman, Keith Ellison, become the Democratic National Committee Deputy Chairman? Why is it acceptable for six members of the Black Caucus to boycott President Trump’s State of the Union address, but openly embrace Farrakhan? There’s a photo of former President Obama, happily smiling with Farrakhan. Why was that not enough to raise questions about Obama’s alliances?
As a proud Jew, it offends me no end to be called “Satanic” and to be warned by the Nation of Islam leader that my ‘time is up, my world is through’. It offends me that he openly cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in proclaiming the Jews the controllers of the world. And now, as Lowry points out, Farrakhan blames the Jews for ‘transgenderism’.
Farrakhan’s supporters, including women who organized the Women’s March, like Linda Sarsour, as well as Illinois Congressman Danny Davis, and tragically, even some misguided Jews in J Street, are shaming our nation. There is no place in this remarkable country of ours for such slander and hatred against the Jews. None of this would be tolerated for any other people or religion. The Democrats who are embracing Farrakhan and Ellison must understand that they are leading America down a dark path. We pray they will see the light.
Helen Freedman
For additional reading on this deeply terrifying and troubling issue, see Jack Englehard’s OpEd in Arutz Sheva.
JoeSettler, blogger for The Jewish Press, reports on a question asked of Ron Dermer, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, at the 2018 AIPAC Conference.
Dan Weiss asked Dermer how he thinks Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration will advance peace. Dermer begins his response with a bit of history.
Read more HERE.
Dermer also firmly stated that Israel is “dead serious” about enforcing its red lines in Syria.
Watch the full interview HERE
AFSI Chairman Mark Langfan’s expresses his deep concerns for calls for a two-state peace plan.
AIPAC’s chairman endorses it and rumors have been circulating for over a week that Trump will unveil a plan offering a two-state solution.
The bottom line is this: how can the Palestinians be given a state when they have refused to stop financial compensation to terrorists who commit acts of terror against the Jewish people? This, along with ongoing Palestinian brainwashing, does not make a good recipe for statehood. Furthermore, Trump’s rumored plan to sanction a two-state solution is not in the best interests of the United States.
Mark spells out all the details for us today in his Arutz Sheva Op Ed
