PM Netanyahu on 19 June 2017 blasted Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas for his continued incitement against Israel. In a series of tweets, Netanyhau condemned the PA for naming – not for the first time – a public square after a terrorist. This time, the PA named a square in Jenin after arch-terrorist Khaled Nazzal. Nazzal was responsible for planning the 1974 Ma'alot massacre, in which terrorists entered a school in the northern town of Ma'alot and took dozens of children and teachers hostage. 22 children and four adults were murdered in the attack. "Palestinian President Abbas tells the world that he educates Palestinian children for peace. That’s a lie,” tweeted Netanyahu. "President Abbas: stop poisoning the minds of Palestinian youth. Educate for peace, not terror." Naming a square after Nazzal is just another example of ongoing PA incitement to terrorism against Israel. The PA regularly names schools, public squares and community centers after terrorists who murdered Israeli citizens. (INN) How grave is the tragic truth that Palestinians are destroying the souls of their own society and especially children. They do so by furthering media and school text book incitement against Israel, and promoting the hero worship of terrorist from the cradle on. Pray against the sacrifice of Palestinian children to jihadist hatred and murder. [Comment]

 Iran on Sunday 18 June 2017 fired missiles from the western part of the country into eastern Syria targeting what it called "terrorist bases” in Deir Ez-Zor. The attack was in retaliation for combined attacks in Iran earlier this month in which 17 people were killed. The USA and Saudi Arabia were specifically mentioned by an Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman as part of its audience for the "message” it sent by firing the missiles. Israel, although not explicitly mentioned, has been the focus of constant threats by Iran. After Iran launched six missiles into Syria, an adviser to the Iranian foreign minister, Sheikh Hussein al-Islam, said that Israel "is the main enemy” of Iran and that Israel should be worried.” Israeli PM Netanyahu responded sharply saying "I have a message to Iran: Do not threaten Israel. The army and our security forces are constantly monitoring the activity of Iran in the region.” Netanyahu further said the activity also includes "Iran’s attempts to establish themselves in Syria and, of course, to transfer advanced weapons to Hezbollah and other operations." Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Israel was not worried by Sunday's strike. "We are prepared for every development," he said’. (Media Line/Arutz-7/J.Post) [Comment]

The world’s democracies collectively snubbed the UN Human Rights Council’s annual condemnation of Israel in Geneva on 19 June 2017 when none of their representatives attended the council’s presentation and debate on "Item 7” - a permanent agenda item focused on the "Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories.” The seats of all the democratic nations represented on the council were empty for the duration of the discussion, sparking protests from Arab countries. In an address to the council on 6 June 2017, USA Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley charged that "Item 7 is a scandalous provision that must be removed.” Hillel Neuer - executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch NGO said, "The democracies are absent to protest prejudice - because this is the only agenda item that singles out one specific state, the Jewish state. Not Syria, Sudan or North Korea is treated this way.” Nonetheless, the absence of these countries did not prevent routine denunciations of Israel, with serial human rights abusers like Syria, Lebanon and Venezuela attacking Israel’s human rights record and depicting it as the "greatest threat to peace in the Middle East.” (Algemeiner) Continue to pray that UN anti-Israel bias will be confronted and overcome in all UN branches. [Comment]

 

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Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani launched a scathing attack on Israel, calling it "aggressive and racist” and saying it will always remain a source of threat to the nations in the Middle East and humanity in general. Larijani's attack came in a message to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, on the 17th anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon. He expressed confidence that unity and solidarity among different Lebanese groups would shape a "bright future” for people in Lebanon and the Islamic resistance movement. This is not the first time that Larijani, who is referred to in Iran as a "moderate conservative”, has attacked Israel. He has in the past referred to Israel as a "cancer” and once boasted of the fact that Iran provided Hamas with the technology it has used to rain down rockets on Israel from Gaza. Larijani is not alone in his attacks of Israel, as Iranian officials consistently threaten the Jewish state. In Dec. 2016 Iran’s defense minister warned that if Trump’s policies lead to a war in the Middle East, it would result in the destruction of Israel. Many of the threats against Israel have come from Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has referred to Israel as a "cancer” and in the past threatened to "annihilate" the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. In Feb. 2017, a senior member of Iran's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission and a former Revolutionary Guards official, said that if attacked, Iran could hit Tel Aviv with a missile within seven minutes. (INN) [Comment]

Israeli Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi said this week that neither he nor PM Netanyahu see the two-state solution as viable. Hanegbi claimed that he himself had never backed the two-state solution and Netanyahu no longer has the same vision he outlined in 2009. According to Hanegbi, Netanyahu said "The Palestinians have emptied the two-state solution of its content. Under the conditions they want at present, it is simply not something we can consider. There is no partner for an agreement." Netanyahu and Hanegbi are not the only Israelis who have given up on the two-state solution. A recent op-ed by Dr. Max Singer, posted by the Begin-Sadat Center suggested most Palestinians believe reaching a peace agreement with Israel is tantamount to admitting "defeat in their 100-year struggle. Continued Israeli [so called] occupation is one of the Palestinians' best weapons against Israel,’ he wrote, "and they will not give it up while their war to eliminate Israel continues." Israel is not facing a dilemma about relinquishing sovereignty over disputed areas, Singer said. "There is zero chance that there could be a real peace agreement now regardless of how much land Israel would be willing to give up," he explained. "A true two-state solution would finally defeat Palestinian and Arab efforts of a century, and they are not yet ready to accept defeat.” (CBN) The root of the problem is that making peace with Israel is against their religion: Arabs under the banner of Islam have hurtled themselves against the Jewish State in numerous wars and continual terrorism. Children from infancy are taught to hate and kill both Jews and Christians. Now, almost an entire generation is fully programmed to carry out the assignments taught in their youth. Asking the Palestinians and Arab nations to be nice to Israel amounts to wishful thinking on the part of well meaning but uninformed, and in many cases ambitious politicians. Likewise the majority of Israelis are fed up with talk of slicing off more of the Jewish State and handing it over to terrorist foes in hopes of ending the Middle East Conflict. Understandably, the trial run of sacrificing the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians, in hopes of non violent co-existence with its Islamist neighbors, has proven to be a lethal illusion and is dead. Why should it not be? From the onset Israel has been subjected to peace "double dealing” from a nest of venomous entities rooted into a religion that hates every nation and creed not in submission to Islam, and calls especially for the destruction of Israel. [Comment]