Sephardic rabbi Shimon Ba’adani says visiting the holy site was strictly ‚strictly prohibited‘ by party‘s spiritual leader‘s past ruling.

At least six Gaza residents were killed and 60 others were wounded on Friday by Israeli soldiers positioned at the security fence next to Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the border with the Strip.

At least six Palestinians were killed and over 60 were wounded during clashes with Israeli forces near the Gaza border fence Friday afternoon, and one Palestinian and approximately 410 Palestinians were wounded during clashes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Last year Phil interviewed several of these religious zealots at a demonstration in Jerusalem. The demonstrators chanted in Hebrew, “The mosque will burn, the temple rebuilt.” One spoke of possibly blowing up the mosques during a war. “We don’t know the exact details. There are some hints in scripture. It’s possible an earthquake could destroy the buildings, it’s possible a war could destroy it,” he said, then cited a leading Israeli rabbi who in 1967 “called someone powerful in the Israeli army and told him to blow up the Al Aqsa Mosque.” But the Israeli army missed “that window of opportunity.”

Did you ever wonder why the U.S. gives so much military aid to Israel and vetoes any resolutions critical of Israel at the U.N.? According to Chuck Freilich, a former deputy national security adviser in Israel and now a senior fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School, it’s thanks to the Israel lobby.

Freilich writes in the Jerusalem Post that the American Jewish community needs to close rank behind AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) after the Iran bruising.

Brandishing their typical black and yellow flags and Hebrew signs boasting “Kahane was Right” and “There is no co-existence with cancer,” hundreds of right-wing activists took to the streets of Jerusalem Thursday night in a growing phenomenon of public demonstrations led by the country’s leading fascist groups such as Lahava and La Familia.

Most people in the United States have chosen to ignore the catastrophic situation the US government has caused in both Iraq and the greater Middle East. One could easily argue that both the catastrophe that is today‘s Iraq as well as the bloodbath in Syria stemmed from the US wars against Iraq, which began in 1991 and continue to this day.

An official told the Times that

there would no longer be any more recruiting of so-called moderate Syrian rebels to go through training programs in Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates. Instead, a much smaller training center would be set up in Turkey, where a small group of “enablers”—mostly leaders of opposition groups—would be taught operational maneuvers like how to call in airstrikes.
In London, Carter held up cooperation with Kurds as a model for going forward.

(8.Oktober) “The AC-130 records its attacks with high resolution gun cameras,” says the post on Wikileaks, the website founded by Julian Assange that publishes news leaks and classified information. “According to military procedure, this footage should have been retained along with the cockpit audio. A post-massacre inquiry report referred to as an ‘AR 15-6’ should have also been commissioned. We are raising a U.S. $50,000 bounty to obtain the footage, the cockpit audio, the inquiry report and other relevant materials.”

Hundreds of extremists march in Jerusalem, asking passersby if they were Arab; head of Lehava group arrested.

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Footage captured at the scene shows the woman holding a knife, while surrounded by IDF soldiers and security guards. In Hebrew and English, they instructed the woman to put down her weapon.

Israel Police arrived at the scene and again told the woman to drop the knife. Finally, when she refused again, soldiers and police officers shot her in the lower body.

A video of the incident shows the Palestinian woman surrounded by Israeli security forces at the bus station and appearing to hold an object in her hand.
Amid shouting, the security forces open fire multiple times at the woman, who drops to the ground. She appears to pose no threat to the heavily armed forces when she was shot.

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(7.Oktober) Witness accounts to Ma‘an claim that an Israeli man opened fire at the teenager while she was near a pharmacy in the al-Wad Street in the Old City, a few meters away from the Council Gate leading to Al-Aqsa Mosque.
They said she was assaulted by the Israeli man and did not have any sharp objects on her person.