Weekly Since 1924 INSIDE: Home $40 PER YEAR WITHIN MONROE COUNTY, $42 OUTSIDE COUNTY/SEASONAL 70¢ PER ISSUE n VOL. XCVIII, NO. 8 n ROCHESTER, N.Y. n AV 16, 5780 n AUGUST 6, 2020 Hezbollah Stockpiled Israel Offers Lebanon Chemical Behind Beirut Blast In London and Germany Humanitarian and Medical Aid Following Beirut Disaster BY LILACH SHOVAL AND ARIEL KAHANA Israel has offered Lebanon humanitarian aid following a huge explosion in Beirut on Tuesday that killed at least 78 people and left more than 4,000 injured. Israeli Prime Minister Benja- min Netanyahu has approved medical and humanitarian aid to Lebanon, and has instructed National Security Council head Meir Ben-Shabbat to speak with Lebanese soldiers stand outside American University of Beirut (AUB) medical U.N. envoy Nickolay Mladenov centre following an explosion in Beirut. (Mohamed Azakir/Reuters) to determine additional ways in which Israel can help, accord- BY LAHAV HARKOV grams of ammonium nitrate in ing to a statement by the Prime Hezbollah kept three metric southern Germany, which were Minister’s Office. tons of ammonium nitrate, the uncovered earlier this year. Israel Defense Forces Spokes- explosive thought to be behind The Beirut explosion took man Brig. Gen. Hidai Zilber- the mega blast in Beirut this place at a warehouse that held man tweeted: “Humanitarian week, in a storehouse in Lon- 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate aid to Lebanon — now is the don, until MI5 and the London that had been confiscated from time to rise above any conflict.” Metropolitan Police found it in a ship. IDF Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, 2015. The Iran-backed terrorists kept head of the Arabic division of The Lebanese terrorist group the explosive in thousands of ice the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, also stored hundreds of kilo- (Hezbollah — Page 10) (Disaster — Page 4) Environment Minister Pelosi Gives $14,000 to Omar’s Warns of ‘Beirut-Like Re-election Campaign Disaster’ in Haifa Port (JNS) — U.S. House Speaker her political action committee Meaux, outraised Omar be- BY ALEXANDRA LUKASH Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has do- and another $4,000 from her tween April and June with $3.3 Minister of Environmental nated $14,000 to the re-election campaign committee to Omar million to Omar’s $470,000. Protection Gila Gamliel warned campaign of Rep. Ilhan Omar on July 22, a week after Pelo- Melton-Meaux spent more on Wednesday of a catastrophic (D-Minn.) in Minnesota’s 5th si endorsed Omar’s re-election than $1.7 million during the event in the Haifa Port chemi- Congressional District, accord- campaign. first few weeks of July, while cal deposits a day after a mas- ing to Federal Election Com- Omar will face four oppo- Omar spent $784,000 during sive blast shook the Lebanese mission records released on nents in her district’s Aug. that period — leaving the for- capital of Beirut in an event Thursday. 11 Democratic primary. Her mer with $695,000 on hand to believed to have stemmed from Pelosi gave $10,000 from top opponent, Antone Melton- (Pelosi — Page 7) similar storage units. The Likud minister said she Analysis … has been warning about the potential dangers of the Haifa The Progressive World: Port chemical facilities since she entered office in May. Gam- Minister of Environmental Protection liel added she is promoting a Gila Gamliel. (Avi Moalem) An Antechamber to Evil plan that will see all chemical depots moved out of the Haifa port, but there could also be an BY MELANIE PHILLIPS scribed Jews as “cowards and metropolitan area within five accident due to negligence or, (JNS) — After days of an- snakes,” likened them to the years. God forbid, a missile strike on ti-Semitic rants on social Ku Klux Klan and suggested “The problem is that there is the relevant places.” media, the “Grime” rap- they should be shot. a very concentrated population “Although it will be a long per Wiley has finally been He could do this with im- in the area, placing factories process, we will be able to barred from Twitter and Face- punity because no one saw fit with dangerous substances move all the factories from the book following outrage by to stop him until protests had there could be life-threatening,” port within five years. Even Jews and others that he was escalated into a 48-hour boy- said Gamliel. “The plan I am more so, we could make Haifa allowed to use these platforms cott of Twitter. Days of brazen promoting will see to all facil- Port Israel’s greenest attraction for his vicious incitement. incitement against Jews had ities and hazardous materials with green environmental in- This episode was particu- elicited merely indifference removed from Haifa.” dustries within a decade.” larly chilling. It involved a from content providers or The Ministry of Environmen- Former commander of the sustained onslaught of an- even attracted support. tal Protection and the defense IDF combat engineering unit ti-Jewish invective by a prom- Indeed, after Wiley was apparatus are monitoring the (Haifa — Page 4) inent public figure who de- British rapper Wiley. 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