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Wednesday, Aug. 29 '18, י"ח באלול תשע"ח



HEADLINES:
1. LEFT LOOKS TO BLOCK DEMOLITION OF TERRORIST'S HOME
2. US, ISRAEL TEAM UP TO TIGHTEN IRAN SANCTIONS
3. 'NOTHING BEATS THE ONLY DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST'
4. KFC RETURNING TO ISRAEL
5. 'ABUSIVE ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS AT UN IS PATHETIC'
6. J.K. ROWLING CALLS OUT CORBYN'S ANTI-SEMITISM
7. 'TRUMP WAS FURIOUS WHEN HE LEARNED WHAT UNRWA, PA WERE DOING'
8. TRAGEDY AT HAIFA PORT


1. LEFT LOOKS TO BLOCK DEMOLITION OF TERRORIST'S HOME
by Ido Ben Porat

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HaMoked: Center for the Defense of the Individual, which benefits from New Israel Fund budgets, is providing legal assistance to the family of the terrorist who murdered Duvdevan fighter Ronen Lubarsky.

HaMoked filed petitions against the demolition order to the terrorist's house that was issued by Central Command head Nadav Padan at the beginning of the week.

The family of the fighter hopes the Supreme Court will not prevent the demolition and hopes the terrorist will be sentenced to death. "We congratulate the defense establishment on issuing a demolition order and hope the Supreme Court will not delay the demolition or render it meaningless by destroying a room or a wall," the family said.

According to them, "the purpose of the destruction is not revenge but deterrence and prevention of terror. We demand that the defense establishment toughen the sentence and issue a death sentence to the terrorist who murdered Ronen."

At the beginning of the week a demolition order was issued for the house of the terrorist who killed Lubarsky during an operation to arrest a terror cell planning a shooting attack on Psagot.

Sgt. Ronen Lubarsky, a Duvdevan fighter, was critically wounded with a marble block that a terrorist threw during an operation against a squad of terrorist operatives involved in shooting attacks in Judea and Samaria.

Jews against terrorist home demolitions
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Sgt Ronen Lubarsky Hy"d
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2. US, ISRAEL TEAM UP TO TIGHTEN IRAN SANCTIONS
by Arutz Sheva Staff

The US and Israel formed a new joint taskforce charged with ensuring that economic sanctions imposed on the Tehran regime are enforced.

The decision to form the new taskforce was formally adopted during a meeting Tuesday night between US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Israel's Finance Minister, Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu).

The meeting, which is the fourth between Mnuchin and Kahlon in the past 12 months, focused primarily on Iran and the economic sanctions reimposed on the rogue regime by the Trump administration earlier this year.

To ensure enforcement of the sanctions regime, the US Treasury Department and Israeli Finance Ministry agreed to form a joint taskforce, to be made up of US and Israeli officials from both the Department and the Ministry, which will be charged with tracking enforcement of sanctions in the hi-tech sector.

"The economic sanctions that the US imposed on Iran are proving themselves," Kahlon said.

"The meeting with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is intended to deepen our strategic-economic ties with the US. The joint taskforce which we established will be crucial in tightening sanctions on Iran."


3. 'NOTHING BEATS THE ONLY DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST'
by Mordechai Sones

A satirical video released by the Tzabar group in cooperation with the Derech Chaim movement today portrays an Arab Knesset member in his Knesset office and speaking in the plenum, wandering around the Knesset and freely inciting against the State.

The repeating refrain throughout the video is "Democracy here is a celebration, there's no country like it."

In the video, the Knesset member participates in a demonstration to liberate "Palestine" with PLO flags, pushes a policeman who came to maintain order in the area, participates in the Gaza flotilla that includes "a few blows with soldiers", and comforting terrorist's family members calling out "So come on, give us more missiles!"

The Knesset Member is also portrayed in his office displaying a picture of Abu Mazen, encouraging Hamas in its war against Israel, smuggles cell phones into jail because "with immunity I can do anything", and ending with the sentence "When the Knesset salary comes in, I let out one big laugh."

Boaz Albert of the Sabra group and one of the creators of the video says, "We've become accustomed to a strange and inconceivable reality in which the enemy uses our democratic game against us. What's perhaps more serious is that we're captives in this game, because this is a democracy.

"This reality is getting worse, and the enemy representatives in the Knesset are becoming bolder and more daring because of our inability to respond. We can be angry, we can protest, and we can simply present it as it is - they celebrate us, our naivete."

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4. KFC RETURNING TO ISRAEL
by Arutz Sheva Staff

KFC is planning to open branches is Israel, Israel Hayom reported.

Quoting Eretz Radio, the site said that while KFC isn't planning to open a Be'er Sheva branch in March 2019, official KFC representatives are in Israel and planning to re-launch their famous chicken menu in the country.

KFC has already tried and failed three times to gain a foothold in the Israeli market. The company's last attempt ended when they closed their last Israeli branch in 2012.

In a statement, KFC said, "We are very optimistic about the Israeli market, and we believe that that chain can succeed here."

"We are currently planning our re-launch in Israel. We will be able to provide further details at a later date."


5. 'ABUSIVE ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS AT UN IS PATHETIC'
by Arutz Sheva Staff

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US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley spoke on Wednesday night at a Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) conference.

In her speech, Haley reiterated the Trump administration's stance on the number of Palestinian Authority (PA) and Gaza "refugees" receiving aid from UNRWA, and said their "right of return" to Israel is not on the negotiating table.

Haley also said that the US needs to investigate whether the countries receiving US funding are interested in cooperation.

"What we should do is, the countries that we give money to, do they believe what we believe?" she said. "Are they still actually wanting to be our partner and work with us? If they're not and they're shouting, 'Death to America,' why would we give them a single penny? And so you are seeing the efforts of de-funding those things that are not helpful to us and that aren't in the United States' interest."

Regarding the UN bias against Israel, Haley said, "I knew that there was a bias against Israel, but I hadn't really put a lot of thought into it, until I attended the first session. And when I saw literally how abusive all of those countries were being to Israel, in a way that was pathetic - really I had no choice but to get up and say this is completely wrong."

"I came out and said, 'We are not going to condone this anti-Israel bias'."

"We started to make sure that the Israel-bashing sessions, as I call them, that they have once a month, we now try and talk about - they';re supposed to be sessions on the Middle East, not sessions on Israel. And so now we're actually making them talk about other areas in the Middle East.

"Now, frankly, they're scared to say anything negative about Israel because they don't want me to yell at them."


6. J.K. ROWLING CALLS OUT CORBYN'S ANTI-SEMITISM
by JTA

J.K. Rowling went head to head with a fellow British writer on Twitter over his criticism of Jewish complaints about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.

Simon Maginn, who has written five thrillers under his own name and satirical comedies under the name Simon Nolan, on Sunday in a tweet called Jewish outrage over Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's 2013 comments indicating that "Zionists" do not understand British culture "patently synthetic outrage," and called on a Jewish tweeter to "Explain your deep and wounding sense of injury."

Rowling, who is not Jewish, tweeted in response: "How dare you tell a Jew that their outrage is 'patently synthetic'? How dare you demand that they lay bare their pain and fear on demand, for your personal evaluation? What other minority would you speak to this way?"

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Maginn then called on Rowling to explain, noting that Corbyn has said that his comments did not refer to Jews but was "a rather complicated joke about the Palestinian Ambassador's fluency in English."

The opening salvos set up a back and forth that lasted throughout Sunday. Rowling tweeted several quotes from Jean-Paul Sartre's "Anti-Semite and Jew" — a famous essay on anti-Semitism by the philosopher — and lambasted him for demanding that a British Jew explain how he feels under anti-Semitic attack "when there are literally hundreds of accounts currently online explaining how British Jews currently feel?"

Maginn accused Rowling of "libel" for publicly calling him an anti-Semite in one of her tweets, but tweeted that "I'm not going to mount a legal action against you because I haven't got any money and you've got a lot, but false + defamatory = libellous. What a class act you are. What a nasty vicious little bully. Blocked."

Early Monday morning he continued his harangue, opening with a tweet reading: "BREAKING NEWS: From today, any statement by Jeremy Corbyn or his supporters is now *automatically antisemitic*, unless cleared by a panel comprising Dan Hodges, J K Rowling, Stephen Pollard and (wild card entry) David Baddiel."

Dan Hodges is a columnist for the Daily Mail who has accused Corbyn supporters of overt anti-Semitism. Pollard is the editor of London's Jewish Chronicle newspaper, and Baddiel is a British comedian and activist who campaigns against anti-Semitism in British soccer matches.

Maginn called on Rowling to apologize for "a sickening personal accusation against a complete stranger who disagrees with you politically," also tweeting that "your followers surely deserve better than this kind of behaviour from you. So do I. I deserve an apology."

Rowling, who has 14.4 million followers on Twitter, did not respond.

Maginn has tweeted against Jews in the past. In July, in response to the Labour Party rejecting the complete international definigion of anti-Semitism, he wrote: "Astounding isn't it, that a group which claims to be silenced, oppressed, powerless manages to keep the story running day after day, week after week, month after month, in every Tory paper and on the Tory BBC. Must be terrible to be so oppressed, so silenced."

It is not the first time that Rowling has debated anti-Semitism on Twitter. In April, she posted a screen grab of a non-Jew attempting to explain what Judaism is — "Judaism is a religion not a race" — and explained why this is hardly relevant to defining anti-Jewish bias.

She tweeted: "Most UK Jews in my timeline are currently having to field this kind of crap, so perhaps some of us non-Jews should start shouldering the burden," she said. "Antisemites think this is a clever argument, so tell us, do: were atheist Jews exempted from wearing the yellow star? #antisemitism."

She also responded when someone argued that Arabs can't be anti-Semitic because they are Semites. "The 'Arabs are semitic too' hot takes have arrived," she tweeted.


7. 'TRUMP WAS FURIOUS WHEN HE LEARNED WHAT UNRWA, PA WERE DOING'
by Hezki Baruch

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David Bedein, the head of the Center for Near East Policy Research, spoke to Arutz Sheva about the late Arizona Senator John McCain, who passed away on Saturday after a year-long battle with brain cancer, and of the US administration's rejection of the so-called 'Palestinian right of return.'

"Ten years ago, exactly, I had the opportunity to meet Senator McCain when Noam Bedein (Bedein's son and the head of the Sderot Media Center) organized a briefing for Senator McCain in Sderot when he was running for president. And he brought him to a house which had been destroyed by missiles," Bedein said.

"I came down there as the correspondent for the Philadelphia Bulletin and covered the event. A few months before Senator McCain had given over an interview to Amir Oren from Haaretz where he talked about his commitment to push Israel for unilateral withdrawals from Judea and Samaria," he added.

"We're sitting in the living room which had been destroyed by missiles. I asked Senator McCain, 'well, how do you react? Will you change your position now that you've seen what happens when Israel hands over territory to the other side?'

"He got very angry at me and said: 'No. You have to understand: Israel has a peace partner. Israel had better withdraw as soon as possible from the West Bank and give it to Abbas. Abbas is a man of peace.' He was very angry and he said 'I don't like your question,'" Bedein recalled.

"My conclusion is that while McCain was, as he saw it, very favorable to Israel, it would have been very difficult to deal with a McCain Administration where we had someone who loved Israel so much, but was at the same time demanding withdrawals.

"It was easier to deal with Obama, who simply didn't like Israel so much and demanded withdrawals," Bedein said.

Bedein praised the reports that the Trump Administration would reject the 'right of return.'

"This is the conclusion of a process over the last two year: In December of 2016 I had the opportunity to meet with president-elect Trump's adviser, who was about to come to Washington. She was here in Jerusalem, and I showed her the [UNRWA] schoolbooks," he said.

"She told me who she was working for, and she asked if she could have all of the books. I gave the books to her, and for the last two years, our office, the Center for Near East Policy Research, has been in touch with the administration at the highest levels, giving them everything we could about the schoolbooks.

He said that the center's most recent report showed that "the right of return through the armed struggle become the most important and dominant theme of Palestinian Authority and UNRWA education."

"This got directly to the president of the United States, and he blew his stack, because he was told by the Peres Center for Peace ... that the Palestinian Authority has a peace curriculum. They just didn;t tell them that the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA had vetoed that peace curriculum.

He showed how a fifth grade textbook instructed students to model their lives after Dalal Mughrabi, one of the terrorists who carried out the Coastal Road Massacre in 1978, when 38 Israelis were murdered by terrorists.

According to Bedein, COGAT, the Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories, is what is preventing reform of UNRWA. "They need feedback that an education system which teaches children to murder Jews is not appropriate for a peace process."


8. TRAGEDY AT HAIFA PORT
by Ido Ben Porat

A 33-year-old diver who was involved in underwater work was killed Tuesday at the Haifa port.

The scuba diver, a resident of the Galilee, was critically injured during his work, after which he was treated by an MDA team and evacuated to Rambam Hospital in Haifa while efforts were made at resuscitation, but doctors at the hospital soon confirmed his death

The diver is an employee of the company building the new gulf port in the eastern part of Haifa Bay.

According to estimates, the diver was sucked into a pipe while carrying out work and was trapped, leading to his death. Investigators from the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Transport were summoned to the scene and an investigation was opened by police.




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