Israel Report Is a Student Publication of Sudan

Israel Report Is a Student Publication of Sudan

To provide greater exposure to primary Israeli news sources and opinions in order to become better informed on the issues, and to gain a better understanding of the wide range of perspectives that exist in Israeli society and politics. Issue 991 • January 29, 2016 • 18 Shevat 5776 ISRAEL SLAMS UN CHIEF'S HYPOCRISY (Israel Hayom 1/27/16) The Ministry of Health in Gaza spokesman denied the reports, claiming no Israeli officials in Jerusalem were infuriated on Tuesday by U.N. Secretary- bodies were brought to the hospital from the tunnel collapse. On Saturday, General Ban Ki-moon's criticism of settlement activities in Judea and the Ministry reported that a Hamas militant was killed in tunnel collapse in Samaria. Khan Yunis. Addressing the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, Ban said, "As oppressed Hamas has been steadily rebuilding its military terrorist infrastructure since peoples have demonstrated throughout the ages, it is human nature to react since Operation Protective Edge last summer, including the restocking of its to occupation." The U.N. chief called Israeli settlement activities "an affront to rocket arsenal and the digging of attack tunnels, including some that reach the Palestinian people and to the international community. ... They rightly inside Israeli territory. raise questions about Israel's commitment to a two-state solution." It is estimated that since the end of Protective Edge, Hamas has dug dozens At the same Security Council meeting, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. of tunnels of varying lengths. Samantha Power said the U.S. "strongly opposes settlement activity," but she 32 tunnels were dug by the summer of 2014, and according to a senior IDF added that "settlement activity can never in itself be an excuse for violence." source, they were all destroyed completely during the war to the extent that it Later on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stinging would be impossible to reconstruct them. response to Ban. Gaza and Israel's southern coastal areas have been especially rainy during "The U.N. secretary-general's remarks give a tailwind to terrorism," the winter storm system of the past days. The weather station at Kibbutz Netanyahu said. "There is no justification for terrorism. The Palestinian Be'eri near the Gaza border recorded 114 millimeters of rain this week. murderers do not want to build a state -- they want to destroy a state and they say this openly. They want to murder Jews simply because they are CIVILIANS APPREHEND STABBER IN GIVAT ZE'EV (YNet 1/27/16) Jews and they say this openly. They do not murder for peace and they do not Civilians apprehended a terrorist on Wednesday night after he seriously murder for human rights. wounded a man about 50 years old in the settlement of Givat Ze'ev near "The U.N. lost its neutrality and moral force a long time ago and the Jerusalem. The victim was taken to the trauma center at the Shaare Zedek secretary-general's remarks do not improve the situation." Medical Center in Jerusalem in serious and unstable condition. He was taken Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon accused the U.N. Security into the operation room. Council of hypocrisy, saying: "Once again, the State of Israel is singled out, The attacker, around 18 years old, opened the door to one of the restaurants and treated differently from all other nations in the world. During the past four at a gas station near the Giv'onim Junction on Route 436 and stabbed a man months, Israelis have been stabbed in their homes, shot at in the streets, and that was standing there in his upper body. run over by terrorists using cars as weapons. Over the course of this wave of He fled the scene, dropping his knife, and was caught some 200 meters violence, 30 people have been killed, and hundreds have been injured. south of the gas stop by civilians who pursued him. Another knife was found "During this period of time, the Council has adopted 12 resolutions, 12, on his person. against terrorism, and condemned terrorist attacks in France, Sinai, Lebanon, Mali, Tunisia, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Somalia, and Israel Report is a Student Publication of Sudan. "Not once were the lives of Israelis murdered by terrorists recognized by this Daniel Zolty, Editor-in-Chief Zev Jarashow, Yosef Segal, and Yonatan Kurtz, Editors Council. No condemnation, no expression of solidarity, not even a statement We are proud to be distributed by these institutions, though they do not necessarily support or condone of concern. any of the material published: "The facts don't lie. The Security Council has been hypocritical when it comes Anshei Chesed Cong., Boynton Beach, FL Hillel at California State University - Long Beach Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies Hillel at Columbia University to Israel." Boca Raton Synagogue, FL Hillel at Johns Hopkins University Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said, "Terrorism in Paris and terrorism Carmel School, Hong Kong Hillel at Yale University Chabad of Oak Park, CA Hillel High School, Deal NJ in Otniel is the same terrorism." Cong. Agudath Achim, Bradley Beach, NJ Jewish Center of Teaneck, NJ In a Facebook post, Construction Minister Yoav Gallant asked, "Will the U.N. Cong. Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, NJ Kehillas Bais Yehudah Tzvi, Cedarhurst, NY Cong. Ahavath Achim, Fairfield, CT Kemp Mill Synagogue, Silver Spring, MD secretary-general also justify the terrorists from France?" Cong. Anshe Shalom, Jamaica Estates, NY Mizrachi Shul, Johannesburg, SA Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid said: "Terrorism against innocent civilians cannot Cong. Beth Aaron, Teaneck, NJ North Shore Hebrew Academy HS, NY Cong. Beth Shalom, Monroe Twp, NJ Suburban Torah Center, Livingston, NJ be justified, we must not provide explanations for it. It is inconceivable that Cong. Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, NJ The Learning Shul, Columbia, SC anyone in the world -- certainly not the U.N. secretary-general -- says that Cong. Ohr Torah, Edison, NJ Woodsburgh, NY Minyan terror is the 'result' of something." Cong. Rinat Yisrael, Teaneck, NJ Young Israel Bet Tefilah of Aberdeen, NJ Cong. Sons of Israel, Allentown, PA Young Israel of Brookline, MA Cong. Zichron Mordechai, Teaneck, NJ Young Israel of East Brunswick, NJ REPORT: EIGHT HAMAS MILITANTS KILLED AFTER HEAVY RAINS Cong. Zichron R. M. Feinstein, Brooklyn, NY Young Israel of Fort Lee, NJ Delray Orthodox Synagogue, Delray Beach, FL Young Israel of Hancock Park, CA CAUSE TERROR TUNNEL TO COLLAPSE (JPost 1/27/16) East Denver Orthodox Synagogue, CO Young Israel of Holliswood, NY At least 8 Hamas militants were killed digging underground tunnels after Flatbush Park Jewish Center, Mill Basin, NY Young Israel of Houston, TX Harvard University Library Young Israel of New Hyde Park, NY heavy rains northeast of Gaza City caused the tunnel to collapse, according Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, NY Young Israel of North Woodmere, NY to a report by Israel Radio citing Palestinian sources. Hillel at Baruch College Young Israel of New Rochelle, NY Hillel at Brandeis University Young Israel of Sharon, MA Stormy weather led to the collapse of a tunnel in al-Tuffah, which is in YI Shomrai Emunah, Silver Spring, MD northern Gaza. According to the media reports, the militants were killed We encourage our readers to subscribe to our sources on the internet. For more information or to during the tunnel's collapse and were buried alive. subscribe by e-mail, reach us at [email protected] 2 When the terrorist threw his knife during his escape, it hit and injured Hillel against Iran’s nuclear program a central plank of his campaign, while his Hagar, who was chasing after him. rivals in the center-left would focus their message on the growing inequality The terrorist was lightly wounded when he was caught, but civilians at the in Israeli society and the struggles of the middle-class. scene blocked the path of an ambulance trying to take him to the hospital. He According to campaign insiders interviewed by Segal, they advised was eventually taken to the Hadassah Medical Center on Jerusalem's Mount Netanyahu not to try and fight his opponents on the economic battlefield, Scopus, suffering from minor bruising. though Netanyahu wanted to respond with figures on Israel’s growing exports Moshe, who works at a nearby bakery, described the attack: "I was at the and GDP. But they didn’t think that Iran would be a vote-winner either. bakery and we heard screams. We saw the terrorist running away. He threw Knowing that the key was winning back the reluctant Likudniks, they urged the knife and hit one of the guys. Two people tackled him to the ground and him to fight a much more visceral campaign. A skeptical Netanyahu was won then we jumped him - five or six of us - and beat him with stones to the head. over and in his public appearances and in the Likud’s propaganda, Herzog Then the police came and took him, and an ambulance evacuated him." and his partner Tzipi Livni were mercilessly portrayed as “the left” who Civilians gathered at the scene of the attack called out "Death to Arabs." One couldn’t stand up to Israel’s enemies. But it didn’t work. of them said, "Look what's happening here - and what the government cares Likud’s own polling in the last weeks of the campaign was even worse for about is demolishing a synagogue." Netanyahu than the four-seat gap predicted in the media – it had him trailing by six. Instead of changing tack, they doubled down. Likud had mapped out ISRAEL'S ELECTRICAL GRID ATTACKED IN MASSIVE CYBER ATTACK its potential support, over a million Israeli voters, eschewing other parts of the (JPost 1/26/16) electorate.

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