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Tuesday, Sep. 11 '18, ב' בתשרי תשע"ט



HEADLINES:
1. NETANYAHU PRAISES US CLOSURE OF PLO WASHINGTON MISSION
2. WANTED TO END HIS LIFE NEAR REBBE NACHMAN
3. BOLTON: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT "DEAD TO US"
4. IRAN THREATENS ISRAEL
5. POWERFUL HURRICANE APPROACHES THE US
6. TERRORIST ELIMINATED AFTER TRYING TO SABOTAGE GAZA FENCE
7. WARSAW GHETTO VANDAL GUEST OF HONOR AT LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE
8. FIRE BREAKS OUT NEAR DEAD SEA


1. NETANYAHU PRAISES US CLOSURE OF PLO WASHINGTON MISSION
by Gary Willig

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu praised the Trump Administration's decision to close the Palestinian Liberation Organization's (PLO) mission in Washington DC Tuesday evening, following the conclusion of the Rosh Hashannah holiday.

"The US took the correct decision," Netanyahu said. "Israel supports these actions that are meant to make it clear to the Palestinians that refusing to negotiate will not bring about peace."

On Monday, the PLO announced that the US had ordered the closure of its Washington DC mission. The US State Department later confirmed the move, stating that the Palestinian Authority (PA) had consistently refused to engage with the US government or to support peace talks with Israel.

"We have permitted the PLO office to conduct operations that support the objective of achieving a lasting, comprehensive peace between Israelis and the Palestinians since the expiration of a previous waiver in November 2017," a State Department spokesperson stated.

Last November, the Trump Administration surprised the PA when then- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had determined that the PA ran afoul of a provision in a U.S. law that says the PLO mission must close if the PA tries to get the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israelis for crimes against Palestinian Arabs.

Later, however, State Department officials said that it was decided to keep the delegation open for at least 90 days, and at the end of that period, Trump could announce that he is prolonging its activity because it is vital for supporting "meaningful" Israeli-Palestinian negotiations


2. WANTED TO END HIS LIFE NEAR REBBE NACHMAN
by Uzi Baruch

A 23-year-old Jewish man from the US passed away in Uman over Rosh Hashannah after fulfilling his dying wish to be near the grave of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement, in Uman, Ukraine.

Over 2,700 people were evacuated to the hospital over the holiday in Uman, when over 30,000 religious Jews visited the town where Rebbe Nachman is buried.

The young Jewish man suffered from an advanced case of cancer and knew he was in his final days. As he dying wish, he asked to be flown to Uman for Rosh Hashannah so that he could die near Rebbe Nachman's grave.

The funeral procession is now moving to the grave of Rebbi Nachman. From there the body will be brought to the US for burial.

Yisrael Stark, the head of the United Hatzalah branch in Uman, said that the organization would continue to support Jewish pilgrims in Uman through Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which will take place next Wednesday.

"Hundreds of medics in the Union of Rescue volunteers helped strengthen the life saving unit of Ichud Hatzola's Uman branch on the occasion of the arrival of the tens of thousands in honor of Rebbi Nachman of Breslov in the city of Uman in Ukraine on the occasion of Rosh Hashana," he said.


3. BOLTON: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT "DEAD TO US"
by Arutz Sheva Staff

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John Bolton on Monday attacked the International Criminal Court in The Hague and said the United States would not cooperate with an illegitimate institution.

"For all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us," Bolton said at a meeting of the Federalist Society in Washington DC Monday.

He called the organization, which has been recognized by 123 nations around the world, "illegitimate," as well as "ineffective, unaccountable, and indeed outright dangerous."

He said that the US would "fight back" if the ICC launched investigations into alleged war crimes committed by US forces in Afghanistan, and added that "the central aim of [the ICC's] most vigorous supporters was to constrain the US."

"Would you consign the fate of American citizens to a committee of other nations [and] entities that aren't even states like the Palestinian Authority?" he asked.

Bolton threatened that the US would respond to ICC actions against US servicemen by imposing sanctions against ICC officials and prosecutors.

"We will not cooperate with the ICC. We will provide no assistance to the ICC. We will not join the ICC. We will let the ICC die on its own. After all, for all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us," he said.

Bolton also slammed the Palestinian Authority for filing a war crimes complaint against Israel with the ICC after the Israeli Supreme Court allowed the evacuation of an illegal Bedouin village.

"We will not allow the ICC or any other organisation to constrain Israel's right to self-defense," he said.

On Monday, the PLO announced that the US had ordered the closure of its Washington DC mission. The US State Department later confirmed the move, stating that the Palestinian Authority (PA) had consistently refused to engage with the US government or to support peace talks with Israel.


4. IRAN THREATENS ISRAEL
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi implicitly threatened Israel in an interview with the Associated Press Tuesday.

Addressing the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, as well as the Stutnex computer virus which set back Iran's nuclear program, both of which have been blamed on Israel, Salehi said: "I hope that they will not commit a similar mistake again because the consequences would be, I think, harsh."

Salehi said that he hoped the 2015 nuclear deal would survive despite the withdrawal of the US and the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran.

"I think [Trump] is on the loser's side because he is pursuing the logic of power," Salehi said. "He thinks that he can, you know, continue for some time but certainly I do not think he will benefit from this withdrawal, certainly not."

He said that Iran was stronger now and better able to resist sanctions than it had been before the signing of the 2015 deal. "If we have to go back and withdraw from the nuclear deal, we certainly do not go back to where we were before. We will be standing on a much, much higher position."


5. POWERFUL HURRICANE APPROACHES THE US
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Hurricane Florence strengthened to a Category 4 storm Monday as it made its way towards the Carolina coast.

The powerful storm has maximum sustained winds of about 130 mph, and is expected to intensify even further before making landfall on Thursday night.

The storm is expected to make landfall along the border between North and South Carolina.

The Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, has ordered more than a million people living near the coast to evacuate their homes. Northam added that the storm is expected to affect the entire state and called on all residents to prepare for it.

In addition, US President Donald Trump urged residents to be careful and listen to the orders of the security forces. "My people just informed me that this is one of the worst storms to hit the East Coast in many years. Also, looking like a direct hit on North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Please be prepared, be careful and be SAFE!" he tweeted.


6. TERRORIST ELIMINATED AFTER TRYING TO SABOTAGE GAZA FENCE
by Elad Benari, Canada

IDF troops on Sunday afternoon identified a suspect who approached the security fence along the Gaza border and tried to sabotage it.

The soldiers opened fire, wounding the suspect, who was taken for medical treatment by the Israeli forces. Later, the suspect died of his wounds.

Earlier on Sunday, security forces identified three suspects who tried to cross the border fence in northern Gaza. The suspects were arrested and taken for questioning. Two knives were found on the bodies of the suspects.

On Friday, in the weekly violent riots along the border, about 7,000 Gazan Arabs participated in five disturbances along the perimeter fence.

According to data from the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, 210 demonstrators were injured, 45 of them as a result of gunfire.

Some of the rioters burned dolls in the form of US President Donald Trump, while others tried to infiltrate Israel. On Saturday as well, four suspects were arrested trying to infiltrate Israel, after which a knife and ax were found in their possession.

(Arutz Sheva's North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Rosh Hashanah in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)


7. WARSAW GHETTO VANDAL GUEST OF HONOR AT LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE
by Gary Willig

Ewa Jasiewicz, an anti-Israel activist who vandalized a wall of the Warsaw Ghetto with anti-Semitic graffiti, is set to be a guest of honor at a conference of the British Labour party later this month, The Times reported.

In 2010, Jasiewicz spray-painted 'free Gaza and Palestine' in English and Hebrew onto one of the last remaining walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, where Jews were rounded up by the Nazis during World War Two and where nearly 100,000 Jews died as a result of the inhumane conditions imposed on them by the Nazi regime. Another 300,000 were sent from the Ghetto to the Nazi death camps, where most of them were murdered.

She is scheduled to speak at a conference run by Momentum, the radical organization which forms the bedrock of support for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has himself been accused of anti-Semitism and who will also address the conference.

In 2002, Jasiewicz suggested that members of the Israeli Knesset be assassinated and appeared to praise the murder of Israeli civilians, according to The Times. She wrote while staying in Jenin that a member of a family she was staying with "went and opened fire on some Israeli civilians in a market somewhere a few months ago."

"I don't get why activists can't go and do the Knesset or something, or do a sophisticated politician bump-off like the PFLP?" she added, referring to the 2001 assassination of former Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization.

Jasiewicz was deported from Israel in 2004 after a court found that she was providing aid to terrorist organizations.

Jewish groups condemned the decision to host Jasiewicz at the conference as another example of the Labour party's acceptance of anti-Semitism.

Euan Philipps, a spokesman for Labour Against Antisemitism, called for Jasiewicz to be removed from the conference.

"Jon Lansman (the founder of Momentum) and Jeremy Corbyn must personally intervene to ensure that Ms Jasiewicz is removed from the schedule for the Momentum Conference," Phillips told The Times.

Last week, a poll showed that nearly 40% of British Jewry would strongly consider leaving Britain if Jeremy Corbyn is elected prime minister.


8. FIRE BREAKS OUT NEAR DEAD SEA
by Arutz Sheva Staff

A fire broke out during the holiday in the Einot Tzukim reserve near the northwestern coast of the Dead Sea.

The fire caused the burning of hundreds of acres of vegetation and the temporary blocking of Route 90.

Three young men, including two residents of eastern Jerusalem and a resident of nearby al-Eizaria were arrested on suspicion of starting the fire with flammable material.

The suspects were arrested at the end of a chase after they raised police suspicions in the Dead Sea area. There were funnels in the vehicle and there was a sharp smell of skipping from the vehicle and the passengers' clothing.

The suspects were interrogated and subsequently brought before the court for the purpose of extending their detention.




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