“Israel seems to be going to supply weapons to the Kiev regime. A very rash step. It will destroy all interstate relations between our countries,” he said on his Telegram account.
The statement is ominous as Russia is in the middle of a counter attack after the Kremlin pulled back its troops from the Northeast. The newest Russian general to command the war effort is nicknamed the Armageddon General and has been given a green light to use whatever means necessary to win.
Medvedev was answering what appears to be Ukraine’s intention to ask Israel for military aid after Russia’s use of Iranian drones on Kiev. “We will send an official request to Israel for immediate delivery of air defense systems and cooperation in the field,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in an official statement.
While Israeli PM Yair Lapid has been far more vocal in his support of Ukraine than his predecessor Naftali Bennett who continued Bibi Netanyahu’s policy of neutrality, but Lapid has so far refrained from arming Ukraine directly.
If the current caretaker government does in fact arm Ukraine, Putin’s response will be significant and extreme. After all, outside of the Ukraine, the largest amount of Russian troops on foreign soil is in Syria – not too far away from Jerusalem.
The problem with the drones that Iran is supplying Russia is not that they are significantly improving the military achievements of Vladimir Putin’s army on the various battle fronts in Ukraine.
The cameras installed on the Qods Mohajer-6 drones do improve the Russian army’s ability to collect intel from the battle field, and help it trace artillery and anti-aircraft forces, and movement of Ukrainian armored columns.
The United Nations praised the role of Qatar’s Assistant Foreign Minister Lolwah Al Khater and the Gulf nation for its support of Palestinian refugees.
In a meeting in Doha between Al Khater and the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the Qatari official was described as “a great advocate” for Palestinian refugees.
The agency was represented by Tamara Alrifai, UNRWA’s Director of External Relations and Communications.
“Assistant Foreign Minister Lolwah Alkhater is a great advocate for Palestine refugees, here in discussion about UNRWA’s role in protecting rights and contributing to stability in the region through our programmes especially in education,” said UNRWA.
The agency also applauded the Gulf state’s “longstanding support” of Palestinian refugees, as Al Khater “commended the outstanding work done by UNRWA”.
“Qatar’s historical support to the Palestinians stems from the moral stance of its leadership and people. I shall remind ALL of their duty to stop the shameful attacks of the Israeli occupation on Islam’s 3rd holiest mosque Al-Aqsa,” tweeted Al Khater.
Doha has continued to provide much-needed support to Palestinians through UNRWA with the help of various Qatari entities for more than 70 years.
Some of the local organisations include the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), Education Above All (EAA), and Qatar Charity. With Qatar’s help, the organisation was able to provide humanitarian assistance to more than five million Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.
UNRWA was formed in 1949, a year after the launch of the Nakba, or catastrophe, in which Israel forcibly displaced and killd Palestinians.
Between 1947 until 1949, at least 750,000 Palestinian from a 1.9 million native population were forced out of their own land by Zionists militias who later established Israel.
At least 450 towns and villages were depopulated.
There are up to 5.6 million Palestinian refugees, with at least 28.4% scattered in 58 UNRWA-run camps in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza.
More than 70 massacres have been committed by the Israal as it continues to forcibly displace Palestinians.
Qatar’s support
In April, Qatar Charity contributed $1.5 million to the UN agency to support at least 90,300 Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. The donation provided the beseiged population with food aid that benefitted them for three months.
Last year, the QFFD contributed $1,252,800 towards the UNRWA Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programme in Syria. The major contribution was under an initial donation of $20.7 million in 2019.
QFFD aimed to provide support to at least 438,000 Palestinian refugees in Syria who have been bearing the consequences of the worsening situation. In addition to their forced displacement by the Israeli occupation, Palestinain refugees suffer under the violence of the Syrian regime.
In 2020, QFFD donated $1 million in cash assistance to Palestinian refugees in Syria grappling with the conflict coupled with the Covid-19 outbreak. The donation was also part of the 2019 agreement between the Qatari organisation and UNRWA.
Qatar’s ongoing support for Palestinians comes as part of its advocate support for Palestine as the Israeli occupation continues.
The Palestinian cause has long been at the heart of Qatar’s foreign policy, with Qatari officials continuously condemning the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine and slam its ethnic cleansing of indegineous Palestinians.
During his speech at this year’s United Nations General Assembly in New York, Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani highlighted key issues concerning the Middle East region.
Amir Tamim renewed the need to implement international resolutions and press Israel to end its illegal occupation.
“The Palestinian cause is still unresolved, and in light of the failure to implement the resolutions of international legitimacy and with the persistent change of facts on the ground the settler-occupation has pursued a fait accompli policy,” said Sheikh Tamim.
The leader renewed Qatar’s full solidarity with Palestinians “in their aspiration for justice” while calling on the Security Council to “compel Israel to end the Palestinian territories’ occupation.”
The latest developments come amid a wave of controversial moves by some Arab nations to normalise ties with Israel.
In 2020, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed the Abraham Accords to establish full ties with Tel Aviv, in a move condemned by Palestinian factions across the board as a betrayal of their cause.
When it comes to major international conflicts throughout history, the Palestinian leadership has often, if not always, chosen to support “the wrong side.” From Adolf Hitler to Saddam Hussein, and now Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has opted to side.
During World War II, the Palestinians faced the decision to either support the Axis alliance or the great Allied powers. They chose the German Nazi Reich. Their then-leader Mufti Hajj Amim al-Husseini spent the duration of the war in Berlin, and allegedly advised Hitler to destroy all Jews in the Arab world. Local Arab communities were ecstatic when Nazi general Erwin Rommel invaded Egypt, and headed for Palestine.
Aprovocative ad campaign against antisemitism that used a digital image of Hitler raising his right arm concerned many at UC Berkeley this week and disturbed members of the Jewish community, according to the campus Hillel.
It also sparked ire. On Thursday, vandals threw “several” rocks at the vehicle, according to an organizer of the campaign, scaring its driver and damaging the truck and “part of the graphic,” the organizer said. In photos, a green patch on the display is visible where one of the rocks hit.
The Washington, D.C.-based conservative nonprofit Accuracy in Media sponsored the campaign, which was meant to oppose what the organization described as Berkeley Law’s “ban on Jews.” The campaign launched after a group of law students passed pro-BDS resolutions in August that included bans on hosting speakers who support Israel.
The truck said: “All in favor of banning Jews, raise your right hand.”
The BDS measures, which J. covered at the time, concerned Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus, but were thrust into the national spotlight more recently after an op-ed in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles used Nazi language to describe them. “Berkeley Develops Jewish-Free Zones,” in which attorney Kenneth J. Marcus argued that the bylaws were plainly discriminatory against Jews and represented civil rights violations, gained the attention of the national and Israeli media and was shared by prominent figures such as Barbra Streisand and Sarah Silverman to millions of Twitter followers.
The op-ed also prompted rebuttals, including from Jewish UC Berkeley professors who criticized the headline as misleading considering Berkeley’s robust Jewish community and Israel scholarship, and from Jewish journalist Rob Eshman who called the article “factual dross.”
The truck scared the crap out of us.
The mobile ad campaign consisted of a black box truck bearing digital images of a uniformed Adolf Hitler alongside other Nazis. It had been parked in front of Berkeley Law, according to Accuracy in Media president Adam Guillette, but then circled the campus after the rock-throwing incident.
The impetus behind the campaign, Guillette said, was outrage over a rise in antisemitism on college campuses.
“Things have gone from ‘very bad’ to ‘even worse,’” he wrote in a text message from an airplane to J., saying he had met with “thousands of students on literally hundreds of campuses throughout North America over the last two decades.”
“The amount of hatred, intolerance, and antisemitism is morally outrageous and it’s time for us to (non-violently) fight back,” he wrote.
As to criticism that the campaign was disturbing, Guillette said, “the growing anti-semitic climate on America’s universities is exceptionally disturbing, and it’s time we stood up to these hateful bullies.”
Reporting about $2 million in annual revenue, Accuracy in Media is a group “working to expose bias in mainstream” media, according to its website. It publishes investigations exposing what it views as a media slant toward progressivism on issues ranging from abortion to gender to Critical Race Theory.
The truck made several stops around Berkeley. (Photo/Courtesy Accuracy In Media)
Guillette, though, rejected the characterization “right wing” or even “conservative” to describe his group, saying AIM is a “freedom-oriented organization with staffers from a variety of ideologies and political parties.” It describes itself as being “on the forefront of the culture wars.”
A one-time political activist who launched the Florida chapter of Americans for Prosperity, Guillette has experience capturing media attention — he was formerly a vice president at Project Veritas, an influential and highly controversial right-wing organization known for surreptitiously recording and publishing interviews with liberal activists to generate negative publicity for progressive causes.
While AIM’s campaign garnered some approval on social media from those outraged at the Berkeley Law groups’ Zionist bans, it received pushback from a number of Jewish community members including leadership of the Berkeley campus Hillel.
Some said they were shocked and disturbed by the images of Hitler, or could not discern what their political angle was.
“Saw this bus on my morning run,” wrote Grace Stewart, a UC Berkeley student, on Instagram. “Very scary.”
The San Francisco office of the Anti-Defamation League decried the campaign in a tweet, even as it said it opposes efforts by Berkeley Law groups to ban Zionist speakers.
“The addition of more antisemitism, like using Hitler imagery to score cheap rhetoric points, only trivializes the memories of the six million,” the ADL wrote.
Berkeley Hillel released a statement offering support to students who had seen the images, saying staff were on hand to talk “24/7.”
“We know some of you may have seen a truck driving around campus this morning with a disturbing image prominently displayed,” the group wrote in an Instagram post. “Berkeley Hillel rejects antisemitism of any kind, and in all its forms. We also reject subjecting Jewish students to additional fear and trauma.”
“During the season of Sukkot, a time of joy and celebration, we are saddened that students are having to confront such ugly images,” the statement said.
The box truck campaign was just the beginning of a larger effort from Accuracy in Media, leadership said, to oppose antisemitism including with geo-targeted digital ads.
“This will be a long, long campaign,” Guillette said.
At Berkeley this week, in the midst of ongoing news and social media attention on the anti-Zionist bylaws (coverage that has exasperated the law school dean, a progressive Zionist himself), the AIM truck was but one of a few campaigns on campus to combat antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment.
On Thursday, the pro-Israel activist and actress Noa Tishby visited Sproul Plaza to speak with students, attracting some protests from pro-Palestinian students.
Also this week the Jewish-run nonprofit JewBelong, which combats antisemitism with cheeky billboards and viral messaging, parked one of its box trucks outside the Berkeley Hillel. Its box truck, which is bright pink, is part of a campaign launched in October targeting Bay Area universities and well-frequented sites with messages opposing antisemitism. It said: “We’re just 75 years since the gas chambers. So no, a billboard calling out Jew hate isn’t an overreaction.”
JewBelong had nothing to do with the AIM truck, co-founder Archie Gottesman said. “The truck scared the crap out of us,” she added.
Today, a palestinian Arab doctor was reportedly among those killed during a shootout between IDF troops and palestinian Arab terrorists in Jenin. Other reports have him as seriously injured.
Either way, the haters are already trying to paint him as a new Shireen Abu Aqleh, the victim of an Israeli “execution.” But like in the case of Shireen, we do not know for sure who shot him.
We do, however, know a number of things.
Palestinian Arab terrorists took cover behind an ambulance
Footage shows the terrorists using an ambulance for cover, the occupants acting as “human shields.”
Another video being shared on social media seems to show how while the ambulance was entering the alley to retrieve a terrorist’s body, there was no shooting from the bottom of the alley where our soldiers were standing. Only after the ambulance blocked the alley did shooting resume, seemingly from the terrorist side.
Palestinians are sharing an edited clip on social media The deceased doctor was a terrorist supporter and possible terrorist himself
The doctor killed was named as Dr Abdullah Abu Tin. Here is what he looked like at his day job:
He has also been pictured holding a weapon:
as well as with two armed children:
who are presumably his own kids:
No matter what, Israel will be blamed
If an investigation reveals Israel did shoot the doctor, albeit accidentally, we already know how it plays out.
If an investigation shows a terrorist bullet was the cause, the world media, so-called human rights organizations, and Israel-haters will be silent.
Updates:
14/11/22: According to the Jerusalem Post, Secretary of the Fatah Movement of Jenin Province told Quds News Agency that al Teen was killed while “fighting side by side” with the palestinian Arab terrorists.
14/11/22: A further indication he was a terrorist:
15/10/22: Arab media posts confirm he was a terrorist (hat tip: Uri):
Auto-translation: Equipment of the intertwined doctor Abdullah Abu al-Tin.
His gun lasted against the invaders and the approach of the resister lasted.
May God accept him from among the martyrs
Auto-translation: This is what the engaged commander, Doctor Abdullah Al-Ahmad Abu Tin, left and the location of the sniper’s bullet that hit him.
We’ve all heard about what’s taking place in Iran, where young women are pushing back against the regime that is punishing them for not wearing proper head-coverings.
Is that the only way to run a country with religious morals? Can the land of Israel ever be a Jewish State? Is it stuck working on being a democracy?
Perfectly timed for the commencement of the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot), the heads of the United Kingdom Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches revealed their true agenda.
Whether one calls it a case of “true confessions” or “immaculate deceptions” the plain truth is that behind all the interfaith expressions of friendship, there dwells a residual and inescapable denial of the authentic relationship between the Jewish People and the city of Jerusalem.
Although this does not come as any surprise to those with any knowledge of Christian/Jewish relationships during the last two thousand years, this latest revelation still burst like an unexpected pronouncement among Jewish communal leaders lulled into believing that revisionist theologies had been consigned to the best-forgotten past.
Although masses of Christians now acknowledge the irrefutable connection between the Promised Land and the Holy City with the Jewish People, it seems that the Anglicans, the World Council of Churches and the Vatican still cannot reconcile themselves to this fact. Christian Zionists are vilified and delegitimize, which makes one wonder whether the next step is branding Jesus as an illegitimate “settler.” The PA has already claimed him as the first “Palestinian” martyr, and this nonsense naturally percolates down to the ignorant via local Church statements.
What shattering event precipitated these latest edicts from the Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster?
As I predicted in my last op-ed, the new UK Prime Minister’s offer to investigate moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Israel’s Capital would unleash a firestorm of outrage.
So it has come to pass with all the usual suspects lining up to vent their venom at the idea of an investigation, let alone any sort of actual implementation. Included in the choir of righteous protesters are the Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, sections of the media, Islamic groups, self-professed guardians of human rights and, of course, representatives of some Christian denominations.
Unsurprisingly, not to be left out are also some Jewish protesters who never miss an opportunity to malign the Jewish State as well as self-declared “Zionists” such as the Reform Movement who are terrified that moving to Jerusalem will destroy a peace process that is already dead in the water.
The opposition of the British Foreign Office is a given, especially when one understands that this is a long-standing stance.
Some people are mystified as to why the Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster are also jumping on the bandwagon. In actual fact, there is no mystery involved.
As far as the Roman Catholic Church is concerned, the issues are crystal clear. The Vatican has never really reconciled itself to the fact that one of the main pillars of its theological doctrines has been demolished. With the re-establishment of Israel and the return of Jews from far-flung parts of their dispersion, the dogma that Jews are eternally punished for something that may have happened two thousand years ago is no longer valid. They may, in recent times, have recanted this malignant theological belief, but obviously, it was either a charade or someone has let the proverbial cat out of the bag.
It was only in 1993 that the Vatican was forced to acknowledge reality and extend official recognition of Israel. However, conveniently overlooked by those rejoicing this decision was the awkward truth that the Roman Catholic Church still refuses to accept the fact that Jerusalem is once again restored to its rightful status as the political and religious centre of the Jewish People. Despite years of interfaith fraternity and mutual expressions of tolerance, the “elephant in the room” was never addressed.
With the British PM’s declaration to “investigate” shifting its embassy, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the UK has made it clear that the Vatican’s eternal desire to wrest Jerusalem away from the Jews and turn it into an internationally controlled city is very much alive and well. After Abbas, the PA life President and Abdullah, the Hashemite Monarch, spouted vile lies at the UN General Assembly and accused Israel of heinous crimes against Christians, it was only a matter of time before major Christian denominations jumped on the bash Israel bandwagon.
As far as the head of the Anglican Communion is concerned, his opposition to Jerusalem is also according to a well-honed script. The Israel-based representatives of the Church of England have, over many years, together with the heads of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches, toed the Islamic party line. Ignoring the inconvenient fact that Christians are a diminishing minority in the PA, Gaza and other Arab Islamic countries and that only in Israel have Christians increased in numbers, these Church leaders continue to parrot the fables churned out by Ramallah and elsewhere. Years of Jew bashing means that accusing Israel of original sin is a natural daily exercise in truth perversion.
In order to placate and curry favour with those preaching against Israeli control of Jerusalem, the Archbishop of Canterbury obviously feels compelled to join the choir. Where this leaves interfaith dialogue is an interesting conundrum. The UK Chief Rabbi and the Archbishop of Canterbury are “buddies” of long-standing. Will the Chief Rabbi make it abundantly clear that Jerusalem is not up for sale and internationalization, or in classic British stiff upper lip style, will the outrageous statements of the Christian clerics be swept under the carpet?
Coincidentally or perhaps by some divine plan, Israel has welcomed two thousand Evangelical Christians who have travelled from many countries to be here for the Feast of Tabernacles. They will be marching with bands, banners and joyful songs through the streets of Jerusalem, proclaiming their fervent belief that Jerusalem is the eternal and undivided Capital of the Jewish nation. It is true that they also have an alternative religious agenda which often conflicts with expressions of unconditional love and support.
As Jews from all over the world and locals make their pilgrimage to Jerusalem during Sukkot and gather at the Kotel, the prophecy of Zechariah is being fulfilled in our time.
Not all Christians have been seduced by the revisionist theologies which seek to sever the connection between Jews, their Land and their Holy City.
It is time that they made their collective voices heard loudly and clearly.
Meanwhile, don’t hold your breath that the UK Government will actually make the trek to Jerusalem.
The new Palestinian terror group called the Lion’s Den is said to be behind the fresh wave of violence in Nablus, as well as recent terror attacks aimed against Israeli civilians and soldiers in the West Bank.
According to estimations, the group consists of some 50 Palestinians, all under the age of 30. It has no affiliation with any “established” terror organizations, and is described by residents of Nablus as “local thugs.”
The Lion’s Den
“They hurt our economy, deal in protection racket and behave like criminals,” said one local resident. The group’s main goal revolves around targeting Israeli security forces, encourage other youths to imitate them and as a result become social media “terror influencers.”
The IDF warned the Palestinian Authority that it intends to raid Nablus to detain members of the group, but the PA requested to shift the course of action because every Israeli raid in the West Bank generates economic damage and scares away tourists.
The Lion’s Den has no headquarters or a chain of command. Nor do they have any organizational conduct from which any solid intelligence could be generated. They have managed to become quite the headache for PA’s Preventive Security Service (PSS), which appears to be helpless in the face of the group’s emergence.
But for the IDF, they are just another terror group. They must be stopped and Israel can’t wait for the PA to get itself together and do it since Israelis are the ones who end up paying the price.
According to the IDF, two assailants arrived in a vehicle to a spot close to the settlement of Shavei Shomron in the West Bank, and fired at troops who were conducting operational activity in the area. The forces didn’t return fire, and the incident is being investigated by the IDF to draw conclusions.
The same happened during a terror attack on Saturday, in which female soldier Noa Lazar was killed. And unlike that attack, which was aimed against Border Police officers, the shooting near Shavei Shomron involved elite IDF troops – yet, still was not prevented.
Soldier Noa Lazar who was killed in attack on Saturday with her sister
(Photo: Courtesy of family)
On Tuesday evening, I toured the area of the attack and spoke to several IDF soldiers. They said there is great difficulty in maintaining operational awareness when each vehicle passing by could potentially be carrying terrorists who could at any moment open fire at troops.
The conclusion is that Israel needs to create deterrence, and then uproot terror elements from the general population across Palestinian cities. Only this time, it seems to be a more complex issue.
According to the Palestinians, terror elements are now interconnected with the criminal ones – which unfortunately happens way too often in the Arab sector even inside Israel.
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