Israel hjälpte FN styrkor att fly

Irländsk nyhetsmedia rapporterar att de irländska FN styrkorna på Golan i Syrien tack vare hjälp från Israels armé räddades från att tillfångatas eller dödas av islamist trupper.
De irländska trupperna hjälpte de filippinska styrkorna som trotsade order från FN och vägrade ge sig till islamist styrkorna i området. Både de filippinska och irländska styrkorna undkom islamisterna oskadda.
FN styrkorna från Fiji som lydde order och gav sig utan motstånd hålls nu fångna av islamisterna och skall enligt islamistgruppen  al-Nusra ställas inför en shariadomstol.

Senior sources said that there would "almost certainly" have been UN casualties or deaths if it wasn't for the help given by the Israeli military, which has posts on high ground overlooking the UN observer bases in Quneitra. The Israeli assistance was described as "decisive" in the success of the mission. - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/foreign-affairs-minister-i-dont-want-irish-troops-sucked-into-syrian-civil-war-30567417.html#sthash.Ph8d8tjf.dpuf

Foreign Affairs Minister: 'I don't want Irish troops sucked into Syrian civil war' - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/foreign-affairs-minister-i-dont-want-irish-troops-sucked-into-syrian-civil-war-30567417.html#sthash.Ph8d8tjf.dpuf

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Brev från Daniel Tregermans föräldrar till FN:s generalsekreterare

For UN Secretary-General,

Mr. Ban Ki-moon

Dear Sir,

My name is Gila, I am an Israeli citizen, and I am a resident of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the border with Gaza.

A week ago, we lost our elder son, Daniel 4.5 yrs old, which was killed by a mortar shell, fired from Gaza into Israel deliberately.

I address you after your announcement to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to establish an international investigation Committee to investigate "Israel's crime" in the recent fighting in Gaza.

About us: Doron and I were married five years ago and we have three amazing kids: Daniel 4.5 yrs, Yoval 3.5 yrs and Uri 4 months old. We were a happy family. We lived in Kibbutz Nahal Oz near Gaza, and found ourselves constantly debating whether not to abandon Nahal Oz and move to another location, quieter, safer, far from rocket fire from Gaza, and far away from the alarms.

Then came the threat of terrorist tunnels, which Hamas members dug from Gaza to Israel under our home to hurt us. At night we heard noises and voices digging beneath us. Thus, in the last six months our children slept with the window closed and locked. We were afraid that they will be kidnapped from us.

Can you imagine our life, Mr. Secretary-General? How do you live in constant fear of mortar shell and terrorists emerging from tunnels?

Then, last Friday, Daniel was killed. All the precautions that we have taken have failed. Daniel, 4.5 yrs old, was killed in our House, while playing with Yoval in a tent built indoors and not outside, because it's dangerous. He was killed from a mortar shell that was shot by terrorists from Gaza, he died in our hands. Daniel died in front of his little sister and his best friend Yoval, 3.5 years old; he died in front of Uri, only four months old and right before our eyes, his mother and father.

We Failed. We couldn't protect our beautiful and talented baby. Daniel was killed from a mortar shell that was fired by Hamas members from an elementary school for boys in Gaza City. It wasn't a stray shell. It wasn't accidental death. From that school terrorists fired deliberately to the kibbutz to murder civilians — children, women, old people. This time they also achieved the goal. Daniel was killed almost immediately. Daniel's father, Doron, covered him with a blanket while crying bitterly and we escaped from home with two small children, leaving our precious son behind, in order to protect them from bombings who continued to explode around the house. Yoval, Daniel's sister saw the terrifying sight and understood that something terrible happened. It is unbearable to watch that little child staring at the wall, in overwhelming silence with teardrops from her eyes.

This week, while the "shiv'ah"(Jewish ritual of mourning) at Doron's parents home, we heard of your decision to appoint an international investigation Committee to investigate "Israel's crime" in the recent fighting in Gaza. You informed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu half an hour after our Daniel was killed, perhaps while he was lying dead in our living room, covered in a blanket.

The investigation Committee will examine the "crimes of Israel" during the fighting. The investigation Committee is not asked to investigate how terrorists shoot out of U.N buildings and schools.

The Committee is not asked to investigate how inside buildings of the United Nations and in hospitals in Gaza terrorist infrastructure flourish and maintain over time, or how from these places terrorist left for activity aimed against innocent people.

It wouldn't investigate how Hamas is abusing the Palestinian people, and how its members impose on residents of Gaza, even on children, digging tunnels aimed only for terrorism against Israel.

It wouldn't investigate how after these excavations carried out under duress and in slave-like conditions, the Hamas murdered the diggers, even the children, just to be sure they won't be able to pass information to Israel.

Why are you silent? Does your silence indicate consent with the abuse of the Palestinian people and the Israeli people?

The answers to these questions will remain unknown.

And I want to ask you, Sir:

Are you and the U.N does not see the links that make up the global terrorism picture?

The terrorists units, fully equipped and full of hatred that attacked us in our homes, are the same units that kidnapped 43 UN observers in Syria; They are the same units that decapitated innocent people in Syria and Iraq; those unites crashed aircrafts into crowded buildings in 2001 in New York; those unites threaten the essence of democratic life, and life itself, in Europe, in the United States and anywhere on the plant.

Let me tell you some more about the history of our lives here, on the border with Gaza. My husband's parents, Doron, also live near the border fence and three and a half years ago a Qassam rocket exploded and destroyed their home.

Up until a few years ago they had good relations with the residents of Gaza. They hired workers from Gaza to work in their fields and Paulina, Daniel's grandmother, drove them home – to Rafah, every evening after work. They use to invite each other for weddings and other celebrations and often traveled to Rafah or Gaza to enjoy life at cafes there.

All that ended when Hamas rise to power and ordered the civilians who worked in Israel, to kill their Israeli employers; otherwise, Hamas would hurt their families. Daniel's grandparents used to tell us this, longing and hoping that the good proximity will resume. They even found ways to maintain contact with their friends from Gaza during the mortar shell. Like the parents of Doron and their friends from Gaza, we want to live in good proximity, in peace and security. It is our hope that our neighbors, the people of Gaza will be able to live peacefully in their homes and build and develop their beautiful country. We believe that the vast majority of the people on this plant do not want to see the sights of blood, tears and fire of the radical Islam movement, but to live peacefully, enjoy kid's laughter, wait for a better tomorrow.

We do not seek the people responsible for our Daniel's death.

We only wish your response and your voice against this crime and the crime Hamas committed against their own people. 

Gila and Doron Tregerman

Parents of Daniel (RIP), Yoval and Ori

Nahal Oz, Israel

Hjärnan bakom kidnappningen av de tre judiska pojkarna ställs inför rätta

Israel kommer att väcka åtal mot Hussam Hassan Kawasme, medlem i Hamas, som stod bakom och planerade kidnappningen och morden på de tre judiska pojkarna i juni.
Kawasme arresterades den 11 juli, de mördade pojkarna hittades på hans mark.
Hussams bröder har också varit inblandade i terrorattacker tidigare. Brodern Mahmoud var inblandad i en terrorattack i BeerSheva 2004, han har suttit i israeliskt fängelse men frigavs som "betalning"för att få fri Gilad Schalit från fångenskapen i Gaza.
Mahmoud deporterades till Gaza och därifrån har han hjälpt brodern Hussam med finansieringen av kidnappningsoperationen.
De två personer som misstänks ha utfört själva kidnappningen är fortfarande på fri fot. Den ena av dem är släkting till Hussam Kawasme.

Israel indicts Hamas mastermind in kidnap, murder of three Israeli teens 

Den israeliska regeringen kräver nu att Mahmoud Abbas avbryter samarbetet med Hamas i samlingsregeringen.
När kidnappningen utfördes i juni lovade Abbas och andra ledare för de palestinska myndigheterna att de skulle vidta sådana åtgärder om det visade sig att Hamas stod bakom kidnappningen.

Israel says Abbas must sever ties with Hamas following connection to kidnapping of Israeli teens
(Jerusalem Post)
"Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki was even more direct during an interview at the same time with Reuters, saying: “If Hamas was behind [the kidnappings], which no one can say right now, then this would be a blow to the reconciliation process. If we reach that conclusion, then the president [Abbas] will make drastic decisions.”

Palestinierna föredrar våld visar ny opinionsundersökning

En opinionsundersökning bland palestinierna på västbanken och i Gaza kan läsas här:

Special Gaza War Poll

 Undersökningen ger ingen upplyftande bild av människornas åsikter och man kan bara konstatera att den hjärntvätt de utsätts för av de palestinska myndigheterna och Hamas har burit frukt.

Några exempel:

- Om presidentval skulle hållas nu skulle Hamas tidigare premiärminister i Gaza Ismail Haniyeh (61%) vinna stort över Mahmoud Abbas (32 %).

- 79 % anser att Hamas vann kriget i Gaza och lika många anser att det var Israels fel att kriget bröt ut.

- 86 % anser att raketbeskjutningen mot Israel skall fortsätta om inte blockaden upphör.

- 94 % är nöjda med Hamas militära prestation

- 78 % är nöjda med hur Hamas har försvarat civila i Gaza

- 53 % anser att väpnad konfrontation är det bästa sättet att bilda en palestinsk stat

- 57 % säger att de stödde kidnappningen av de tre judiska skolpojkarna i juni

- 54 % säger att de stödde dödandet av pojkarna

- 72 % understöder att Hamas konfrontationspolitik överförs till västbanken

Hamas's Haniyeh would trounce Abbas if elections held today, Palestinian poll says

28 dagar i juli - en berättelse om en vanlig israelisk familj

Jenny Hazan, mor till två små barn, skriver om hur det var att leva i Tel-Aviv området under kriget i Gaza.

28 Days in July 

 "No Israeli will be the same again. We will add these scars to the others we have collected over the years, throughout the wars."

"Freden i Mellanöstern hotas av judarnas byggande"

När judar planerar att bygga något i sitt urgamla hemland väcker det motstånd över hela världen.
Israel ändrade i söndags status för ett 400 hektar (1000x4000m) stort landområde nära Betlehem så att det blir möjligt att planera området och möjligtvis bygga den femte israeliska staden på  det som allmänt kallas västbanken men som historiskt sett är Judéen och Samarien.
USA fördömer tilltaget och kräver att Israel återtar sitt beslut, likaså FN.
EU instämmer i  fördömmandet och säger att man inte kommer att godkänna några förändringar i 1967-års gränser och upprepar mantrat att bosättningarna är illegala och ett hinder för freden.
Det finns ingen gräns från före 1967, bara en vapenstilleståndslinje mellan Israel och Jordanien och den sägs det uttryckligen i vapenstilleståndsavtalet att inte skall ha någon betydelse för var en framtida gräns skall dras. Tyvärr verkar EU inte bry sig om ingångna avtal.
Påståendet att bosättningarna är illegala och ett hinder för freden har inte heller mycket med verkligheten att göra. Judarna har enligt internationella avtal rätt att bygga och bo i området, de har alltid gjort det, och under tiden som det inte fanns någon judisk bosättning i området (mellan 1948-1967) var det inte fred mellan Israel och araberna.
För de palestinska araberna företrädda av PLO, Fatah och Hamas är det inte bosättningarna i Judéen och Samarien som är ett hinder för freden utan den judiska staten Israel, men det här tycks vara för svårt för ledarna i EU att fatta.

US officially calls on Israel to reverse land appropriation 

Propaganda på de palestinska myndigheternas TV

För de palestinska TV-tittarna beskrivs Israels bombningar av Gaza som något som kan jämställas med Al-Qaidas terrorattack mot World Trade Center i New York 11 september 2001.
Följande filmklipp har visats upprepade gånger de senaste dagarna med texten "samma terror".



Palestinian Media Watch skriver:

PA TV: Israeli bombing of building in Gaza 

was "terror" equal to 9/11
In its latest efforts to demonize Israel, the Palestinian Authority is claiming that Israel's bombing of a building in Gaza was like the Islamist terrorist organization Al-Qaeda's airplane attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. PA TV produced a short 20-second video with a split screen showing one of the hijacked planes hitting the Twin Towers in 2001 opposite Israel's bombing of a 12-story building in Gaza from which Hamas terrorists operated. PA TV News aired this video in several news reports in the past week.

As the buildings collapse, the words "Same Terror" appear on the screen.

What PA TV chose to hide from its viewers were the following facts:

• The building in Gaza housed an operations room of Hamas terrorists and was therefore a military target.

The World Trade Center housed no terrorists and was a deliberate attack on civilians.

• Before the attack in Gaza, Israel warned all the civilians in the building to evacuate. Nobody was killed in the attack.

There was no warning before the World Trade Center attack. Close to 3,000 innocent civilians were murdered.

Palestinian Media Watch has documented that PA policy is to demonize Israel  with many varied libels. Comparing Israel's targeting of terrorists to the murders of 9/11 is another kind of demonization. Often the PA will cite a true event and use it as a starting point for its libels. In this case, Israel did destroy a building. But everything else is false.