With the councils in Judea and Samara talking about the government having a policy of a silent freeze on building, Josh Hasten, International Spokesman for Gush Etzion, tells Israel National News that the situation is very serious.
Hasten blames this silent freeze on American pressure and/or internal pressure on the Israeli government which has coalition members from Meretz and Ra’am who are against building.
A number of lawmakers from Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party have expressed opposition to demands leveled by the United Arab List in exchange for its full return to the coalition.
Several Yamina MKs are opposing the UAL’s demands and stated, “As far as we are concerned, the UAL party can leave, we won’t tolerate their threats and their irrational demands for them to stay in the coalition. If they want to continue to help the Arab sector, great. If they want more than that, they have no place here.”
Sources reported that Bennett and UAL party chairman Mansour Abbas had reached a compromise under which UAL will end its self-imposed suspension from the government, restoring the 60-60 balance in the Knesset. As part of the deal, Bennett reportedly agreed to some of Abbas’ demands. One condition for the UAL’s return is that Israel consult with Jordan regarding any changes to policy on the Temple Mount.
If Bennett bows to Abbas’ demands it speaks disturbingly of Bennett’s continued willingness to appease the Arabs. Will violence on the Temple Mount cease totally if Abbas gets what he wants? Highly unlikely. This is truly a government in crisis that is not asserting it’s legal right to the Temple Mount. With Bennett’s leadership we could potentially see yet another piece of Israel being dangerously compromised.
The Hamas terrorist organization has claimed responsibility for the deadly shooting attack in Ariel ion Friday night. The attack claimed the life of security guard Vyacheslav Golev at the entrance to Ariel..
The statement asserted that “this attack came as part of a series of reactions by the Hamas military wing to the “aggression” against the Al Aqsa Mosque.” Planned for weeks, Hamas identified a weak spot in Ariel’s security.
As another Jew falls victim to terror, Prime Minister Bennett will keep appeasing the Arab Islamists, and talking the talk, right?
The Palestinians have a clear goal and that is the destruction and total elimination of Israel. The continued placating of Palestinians seems OK while Jews are punished and deprived of their rights.
Doug Altabef in today’s Jerusalem Post opinion piece says, “Our very sovereignty is at stake. If we are unwilling to assert it, to project and to protect it, we are sending a clear signal that it, our sovereignty, is in play.” We couldn’t agree more. It’s time for Israel to apply and exercise sovereignty in ALL of Israel. The one Jewish country in the world must utilize the one tactic in Israel’s security and defense toolbox that has yet to be enforced. It’s long overdue.
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If Israel does not assert sovereignty, it will lose it – opinion, by Doug Altabef/Jerusalem Post, May 2, 2022
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-705698
Hamas claims responsibility for Ariel terror attack, by Israel National News, May 2, 2022
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan held a press conference outside the Security Council hall Monday as discussions took place on the Arab instigated violence in Jerusalem.
Erdan’s speech focused on the lies of Palestinian terrorist organizations regarding the violence in Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and how the UN avoids threats such as Iran and its nuclear program, or its terrorist branches like Hezbollah. “… I say – enough. Stop placing Israel and extremist terrorist organizations on an equal footing with each other. In your actions, you are legitimizing terrorism and only contributing to the escalation of violence,…Wake up. The truth is right in front of you, it’s time to get your head out of the sand.”
Similarly, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in a Saturday night phone call with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, stated he was disappointed at the lack of U.N. condemnation of the recent rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. The international community “must not serve the agenda of the [Palestinian] terrorist organizations.”
AFSI applauds Amb. Erdan and Prime Minister Bennett for calling out the UN on its consistent double standards and failings when it comes to Israel. We wish the UN would become a truly objective organization and implement the values and principals of its charter evenly and fairly. Until then, we won’t hold our breath.
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Amb. Erdan presents the truth of the Temple Mount at the UN, by Israel National News, April 25, 2022
Bennett criticizes UN for not condemning Gaza rocket attacks, by JNS Brief, April 24, 2022
Israeli National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata met on Monday in Washington for a new round of strategic talks with White House NSA Jake Sullivan. Israel has been pushing the Biden administration to set up a Plan B for the two allies to carry out in case the stalemated nuclear negotiations with Iran fail.
Israel Hayom on Tuesday morning reported what it described as a dramatic turnaround in Israel’s assessment of the chances of signing a nuclear agreement between Iran and the superpowers. The newspaper cited two senior political sources in Israel that suggested the chances for a nuclear agreement are low to nil. Those same sources stressed there may still be a surprising reversal leading to the signing of the deal but insisted that “the possibility that the parties will sign an agreement in the foreseeable future is receding at an exponential rate.”
We pray that the longer negotiations drag on, the better a chance we have of seeing this disastrous attempt to negotiate with the number one sponsor of state terror fall apart.
White House: US ‘listening to Israel’s security concerns’ about Iran, by i24NEWS, April 26, 2022
400 youths and adults holding Israeli flags started the march from Safra Square in central Jerusalem toward the Damascus Gate of the Old City.
Police refused to authorize the planned route of the march, citing security considerations and positioned squad cars and trucks at Tzahal Square, between Safra Square and the Old City, to prevent marchers from progressing. Despite efforts by the marchers to circumvent the blocks, they met with no success.
Yesterday, Prime Naftali Bennett Minister decided to bar MK Itamar Ben Gvir from the site: “We will not permit MK Itamar Ben Gvir to approach Damascus Gate, and from a legal perspective, we are entitled to prevent him from going there,” the police commander said, contradicting Ben Gvir’s insistence that his parliamentary immunity accords him the right to go wherever he pleases.
On Tuesday Bennett decided to close the Temple Mount to Jews – the Jewish people’s holiest site – until Ramadan concludes. Conveniently, the closure also coincides with the first demand by Mansour Abbas and his Islamic Ra’am party as a condition for their return to Bennett’s coalition. That demand is the end to all Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount.
Even though it has been the norm over the last few years to close the Temple Mount to Jews during the last days of Ramadan, it’s been done to pacify the Muslims, who would only resort to violence if Jews were to ascend. Such routinized violence cannot be rewarded with sole access to the Mount. If that’s all they know then they shouldn’t be allowed there to begin with. Jews who wish to pray or march – in peace – on their rightfully owned land are being denied their legal rights.
It certainly sounds like Bennett is enforcing a zero tolerance policy against the Jews and maintaining the division of Jerusalem. His continued appeasement of Arab Islamists is damaging the very heart of Israel. What more will he sacrifice to stay in power?
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was interviewed yesterday by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. She grilled Bennett on the latest wave of violence and its implications for his and his government’s political future.
Asked to explain why he allowed IDF soldiers to enter the Temple Mount, given the fact that the footage is then broadcast over the world and inflames tensions, Bennett replied, “As usual, you’re starting in the middle of the story.
Amanpour grilled Bennett on false facts, such as, “The West Bank has been occupied since 1967, settlers are allowed to be there … they are there and they are violent, this minority, and it is generally deemed illegal by the rest of the world,” to which Bennett pushed back saying the statement is “blatantly false.”
Bennett staunchly defended Israel in this interview and it’s not the first time he has done so, now or before becoming Prime Minister. He defends Israel so well; it’s becoming clear that instead of his current position he should take on a new public relations role that disseminates and defends the truth about Israel across worldwide media outlets. There is much needed PR to counteract the endless false narratives against Israel that we don’t see coming from Israel itself. If the world is to know the truth then Israel must be the one to disseminate it.
Benjamin Netanyahu, in his 1993 book, “A Place Among the Nations”, was right to point out that the one thing Israel must do is to mass communicate to the world. “Having rediscovered its military capabilities, Israel is now in the midst of discovering the political capacities it needs to survive in a swiftly changing world. These capacities require, I believe, a major overhaul in Israel’s abilities to present its policies before world audiences.” ~~A Place Among the Nations, Page 386.
Deactivating Palestinian dog whistles, by Douglas Altabef/JNS, April 20, 2022
Thousands of people from all over the country marched to the Samaria community of Homesh Tuesday. They called on the government to leave the Homesh yeshiva where it is and not to harm the Jewish communities of Samaria.
Marchers included were MKs Idit Silman, Bezalel Smotrich, Michal Waldiger, Orit Struck, Etty Atia, Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan, Rosh Yeshivat Homesh Rabbi Elishama Cohen and the families of terror victims Yehuda Dimentman and Shuli Har-Melekh.
Ettya Dimentman, the wife of Yehuda, who was murdered in a terrorist shooting attack near Homesh in December, said: “The land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel, we are neither settlers nor extremists, we are just coming home. All the soldiers who fell all the years in the wars, what did they fall for? They fell because they reclaimed the land of Israel.”
The Homesh Yeshiva exists on legally owned Jewish land. Leave it where it is!!
AFSI WILL BE VISITING HOMESH ON OUR UPCOMING CHIZUK MISSION!
On Shabbos morning a terrorist armed with a knife was stopped while attempting to breach the security fence around the Jewish community of Beit El. The individual was apprehended and admitted he was looking to carry out a terror attack. On Sunday Jews walking in the Old City of Jerusalem towards the Kotel were beaten by Arab assailants.
On Sunday, Arabs attempted to block Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount by placing stones at the passageways used by Jews. Five people were injured when stones were thrown at buses carrying worshipers to the Kotel.
As tensions at the Temple Mount continue, reports are coming in that southern Israel is under rocket attacks.
The Islamic council which provides spiritual leadership for the Southern Islamic Movement and the United Arab List has instructed the party to halt all cooperation with the Bennett government, citing law enforcement efforts against Arab rioters on the Temple Mount. Some supporters of Mansour Abbas within the party have begun to express doubts about the UAL’s continued presence in the coalition. MK Walid Taha told Channel 13 Sunday afternoon that he is “not optimistic about our future in the coalition.”
The Bennett government is poised to lose its majority in the Knesset. Without the support of the UAL, it would be unable to defeat no-confidence votes in the Knesset. The stability and continuity of Israel’s government is now under threat of a full collapse. The casualties of this potential collapse are the Israeli people who are not only still under daily terror attacks but are unable to see the country move forward with a fully functional and productive government.
WATCH: Jews viciously attacked on way to Western Wall, by World Israel News Staff, April 18, 2022
With Passover approaching, it is timely to revisit Zionist ideologue Zeev Jabotinsky’s Passover message, in an article “Four Sons” which speaks of his deep understanding of the meaning of the four sons’ story traditionally read on Passover. A profound understanding of the story of the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt at Passover is said to be adapted to the psychology of four typical children, four typical Jews.
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Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s Passover message, by Ronn Torossian/Arutz Sheva, April 15, 2022
