jmjcare wrote on Jun 10^th, 2016 at 10:36pm:


Facts are facts and she did not progress to the final because she didn't meet the criteria and the judges selected more suitable speakers.

Deal with it.

15 June 2016

Palestinians living in the northern West Bank region have a new challenge at hand this Ramadan with Israel frequently turning off water supplies to these areas.

As a result, tens of thousands of Palestinians are in desperate need of water and becoming dependent on water tanks, which come at an additional expenditure of 250 shekels (Dh237).

According to a Gulf News report, Israel’s national water company, Mekorot, has either reduced or cut off supplies to major areas of the northern West Bank to prioritize supplies to Israeli colonies. The disruption, which has been going on since the beginning of Ramadan, is causing distress to Palestinians in the area.

According to the report, Mekorot cut off water supplies to the entire governorate of Jenin, several Nablus villages, the city of Salfit and surrounding villages. The company operates all West Bank water wells and has reportedly taken the decision without prior notice.

“Residents suffer badly in this hot weather and at this time of Ramadan,” Jenin mayor, Ragheb Al Haj Hassan, was quoted by the newspaper as saying. “Israel and Israel only is responsible for the water cuts as agreements signed with Israel clearly state that Mekorot should provide the northern areas of the West Bank with their needs of water,” Haj Hassan said.

The matter has been brought to the attention of the Palestinian Water Authority, which is supposed to take up the matter with Mekorot. “Water cuts are becoming routine, but in the past they used to alert us. Now, the Palestinians are being kept in the dark,” said Haj Hassan.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/06/15/Palestinians-left-hi...

June 17, 2016

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- An Israeli army commander testified in court Thursday that Elor Azaria, the Israeli soldier who shot dead Abdel Fattah al-Sharif while he was lying wounded on the ground after an alleged attempted stabbing in Hebron, saying there was no “operational justification” for Azaria’s actions, according to Israeli news media.

The company commander of Azaria, Maj. Tom Neeman, recounted to the court the chilling moments after the execution style killing that took place in Hebron’s old city on March 24.

After the deadly shooting, for which Azaria is now on trial for manslaughter, Neeman testified that he saw "Elor with his hands on the weapon, walking westward.”

"I approached him and asked, 'Why did you do it?',” Neeman continued, “He answered me, 'This terrorist was alive, and he needs to die.'" Neeman added: "I was angry at him for doing this. Essentially a shooting had been conducted at the scene that I was in charge of, without my permission."

Neeman also added that prior to Azaria’s murder of al-Sharif, no one had paid attention to al-Sharif, who was lying immobilized on the ground, or claimed that the he was booby-trapped.

The military prosecutor, Lt. Col. (Res.) Nadav Weisman, asked him if he had made an evaluation regarding a bomb or explosive belt, to which Neeman answered negatively.

Azaria has said he feared that al-Sharif may have been carrying an explosive device, though Neeman testified on Thursday that he did not notice anything suspicious about the al-Sharif’s clothing that would indicate a bomb or booby trap of any kind.

Neeman said he noted that the "terrorist dressed in black was moving his head. I saw the knife. It was relatively far away, not within his grasp."

Regarding the knife which Neeman said was “relatively far away”, new video footage surfaced earlier this month of an Israeli ambulance driver kicking a knife towards the body of al-Sharif.

The video footage, obtained by Israel's Channel Two, was expected to be shown to an Israeli military court to disprove earlier claims by Azaria that he shot the young Palestinian point-blank in the head after al-Sharif moved to grab a knife, according to the Israeli media outlet Ynet.

The footage shows that the knife allegedly used in the attack was far from al-Sharif when he was shot, notably showing an ambulance driving over the knife before it was kicked closer to al-Sharif’s body.

Earlier during the trial on Thursday, a pathologist who examined his body testified that Al-Sharif would have survived had he not taken that bullet to the head.

“The other bruises and damage were not lethal, not immediately,” said the pathologist, Dr. Hadas Gips. “Had he received medical care immediately he would almost certainly have survived. Even without it – the deceased might have survived.”

After footage released by human rights organization B’Tselem sparked outrage over the execution-style killing of al-Sharif, witnesses said that a second Palestinian killed in the case was also shot in the head.

In a statement, B’Tselem said it had spoken with two witnesses from the Tel Rumeida area of the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, where Abd al-Fattah al-Sharif, 21, and Ramzi Aziz al-Qasrawi, 21, were shot and killed after the two allegedly stabbed and moderately wounded an Israeli soldier at a military checkpoint.

A graphic video released by B’Tselem of al-Sharif’s death was met with wide condemnation from rights groups and international bodies, with the UN demanding an investigation into the soldier's apparent "extrajudicial execution."

However, according to information collected by a B’Tselem field researcher, testimony from Tel Rumeida residents regarding the death of al-Qasrawi, who was killed before al-Sharif, “raise concerns that al-Qasrawi was also executed with a shot to the head, as he lay injured on the ground after having been hit by gunfire elsewhere in his body.”

According to two eyewitnesses, the B’Tselem statement added, “after both al-Sharif and al-Qasrawi were lying injured on the road, clearly posing no danger to anyone, and even before additional troops and the paramedics arrived on the scene, a soldier (or officer) went up to al-Qasrawi and shot him twice in the neck or head from several meters away.”

When contacted for comment, an Israeli army spokesperson dismissed the latest B'Tselem report.

"The claims made by the organization B'Tselem are not consistent with the findings of the operational investigation and contradict the information available to the IDF (Israeli army) concerning this event. The shooting of the assailant was carried out to remove the threat posed by the assailant when he attacked security forces with a knife," she told Ma'an.

However, footage taken by the eyewitnesses after the moment when al-Qasrawi, wearing a light gray sweater, was reportedly killed showed blood flowing from the young Palestinian’s head

Palestinians have in the past voiced strong distrust of Israeli probes into violations carried out in the occupied area, and Amnesty International last summer said Israel’s system of military investigation failed to meet the standard criteria for effective investigations.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771907

Published story of the Palestinian News Agency!!

Seriously. It's pathetic.

One mans anti-Jewish crusade....

Got any holocaust denial stories for us too?

What about Iran's anti holocaust cartoon day (supported by Palestinian Authority btw).

Your credibility is almost zero now...

PALESTINIAN AND NEWS INFO AGENCY

Cutting and pasting non stop stories biased to just one side.
I'm starting to think this a paid bot.

Jun 19, 2016

An Israeli opposition leader agreed to return to Israel’s 1967 borders in secret talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2014, says a report by Israel’s television.

During the 2014-2015 election cycle in Israel, Isaac Herzog, the leader of Zionist Union, agreed to hand over the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem) back to Palestinians, according to Israel’s Channel 10.

The report was considered by some as an attack against Herzog in the wake of his row with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the ruling party.

The agreement, negotiated between Herzog’s delegate, Efraim Sneh, and an unnamed Palestinian representative, was made as part of a peace deal for the future.

“I learned that there is someone to talk with, something to talk about, and that we can arrive at understandings on everything,” Sneh said of the negotiations.

Since Netanyahu managed to defeat Herzog in the election, the negotiations stalled, Sneh claimed.

Herzog had accepted full withdrawal to the 1967 borders although land swaps had also been discussed over four percent the territory.

He had also promised to provide financial compensation for the majority of Palestinian refugees.

Palestinian officials have not yet commented on the matter.

The leader of the center-left party admitted to holding the talks, saying, “Most peace agreements came after a difficult round of bloodshed between peoples fighting each other. The right always offers us war and then runs to sign peace treaties. We are just offering to reverse the order.”

Netanyahu, who leads the center-right Likud party, has on various occasions rejected any notion that the Israeli regime should even consider withdrawing from territories it seized in 1967.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been expelled from their homeland to the West Bank and Gaza Strip as well as countries in the region and worldwide since the 1948 Israeli occupation.

Consequently, the Israeli regime has encouraged the immigration of Jews from all over the world to the occupied Palestinian lands.

Tel Aviv has also been busy constructing illegal settlements beyond the 1967 borders.

The UN and most countries regard the settlements as illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbids construction on occupied lands.

Despite that, the regime has kept up with its expansive policies, the latest sign of which was Sunday approval of $18 million in extra funding for the illegal settlements.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/06/19/471220/palestine-1967-borders-israel-isa...

June 17, 2016

Israel is to build a “super concrete wall” around the Gaza Strip which will extend dozens of feet over and underground, the Jewish state has announced.

At the same time, all major US Jewish organizations—which fanatically support Israel—have opposed Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall on the US-Mexican border.

According to a report in Israel’s Ynet News, Israel’s defense establishment plans to build a concrete wall “tens of meters underground as well as aboveground along the Gaza Strip border.”

It has previously been estimated that such a project would cost tens of billions of shekels. However, under the new plan the construction costs are estimated to reach NIS 2.2 billion, Ynet News said.

Doubtless this will come from the US$11 million per day that the American government gives in “aid” to the Jewish state.

The wall will stretch along the 60 miles of the southern border around the Gaza Strip, and will in fact be the third defense system of its kind that Israel has built along the border.

The first 60-kilometer barrier was constructed in 1994 following the Oslo accords while the second system was built following the decision to disengage from Gaza in 2005.

In a parallel effort, the IDF is currently erecting a wall around sections of the border with Lebanon, adjacent to which a number of Israeli towns are located.

At present, a fence already exists along the border, but the wall is intended to make an infiltration even more difficult.

* At the same time, all of the US’s formal Jewish organizations, which support Israel, have condemned Donald Trump as “divisive” and “racist” for daring to suggest that America build a wall with Mexico in order to keep infiltrators out of the US.

The extremist Jewish agitator organization, the Anti-Defamation League, for example,

Describing plans to build a wall with Mexico as a “myth,” the ADL said, “From the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall, history shows us that people find ways to cross walls.

“As long as there is poverty and suffering in other parts of the world, people will continue to come to the US to seek a better life, no matter how big a wall we build.”

This Jewish opposition to a wall does not seems to apply to the ADL-supported state of Israel. Once again, it is one set of rules for Jews, and another for Gentiles.

http://newobserveronline.com/israel-build-super-wall/