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Sunday, Feb. 24 '19, י"ט באדר תשע"ט





HEADLINES:
1. BENNETT: NETANYAHU, TRUMP PLAN TO ESTABLISH A PALESTINIAN STATE
2. WATCH: TIMES SQUARE FLOODED FOR SHWEKEY CONCERT
3. WOMAN DIVORCES AFTER HUSBAND FORGOT TO BUY HAMBURGER
4. 'STAGGERING' EVICTION OF 1 MILLION INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
5. TREE GROVE PLANTED IN MEMORY OF SLAIN TEEN UPROOTED
6. GANTZ-LAPID LEADS LIKUD, BLOCS TIED
7. WATCH: ARABS FORCE THEIR WAY THROUGH GOLDEN GATE
8. 'I PRAY OUR SEPARATED PEOPLES CAN RECONCILE'


1. BENNETT: NETANYAHU, TRUMP PLAN TO ESTABLISH A PALESTINIAN STATE
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Minister Naftali Bennett weighed in on the Trump peace plan as he entered Sunday's cabinet meeting. He claimed that a plan to establish a Palestinian state will be presented immediately after elections.

"Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump are in agreement on launching the plan to establish a Palestinian state immediately after the elections," he said.

"They are coordinated not to present the plan before the elections so as not to make it difficult for Netanyahu, but a day or two after the elections the plan for the establishment of a Palestinian state on 90% of the area and the division of Jerusalem will be presented.

"Lapid and Gantz will enter the government as a national peace government. The only way to stop this is with a strong and real New Right," he said.

Likud blasted the assertion, calling it a "complete invention with no connection to reality. After the elections Netanyahu will establish a right-wing government headed by himself."


2. WATCH: TIMES SQUARE FLOODED FOR SHWEKEY CONCERT
by Yoni Kempinski

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/259500


3. WOMAN DIVORCES AFTER HUSBAND FORGOT TO BUY HAMBURGER
by Arutz Sheva Staff

A UAE woman left her home and demanded a divorce after her husband forgot to buy her a hamburger on his way home.

According to the Khaleej Times, the woman, who is in her 20s, asked her husband, who was spending the night with friends, to pick up a burger she ordered from a fast food joint in Abu Dhabi and bring it home for her.

However, the husband forgot to pick up the hamburger and arrived home empty-handed at 3:00a.m. When the wife discovered the oversight, a fight broke out and the woman left her home.

Lawyer Hasan Al Mazrooqi noted that "being realistic will save people from going to the courts and filing for divorce to resolve marital disputes."

"The law stipulates that if there is no personal harm, couples are referred to a judge who will try to help them solve their problems. If the wife insists on the divorce, the post-marriage dowry will be voided."


4. 'STAGGERING' EVICTION OF 1 MILLION INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
by Mordechai Sones

India's Supreme Court has ordered its government to evict a million people from their homes for the good of the country's wildlife.

The Washington Post reported the ruling, issued Wednesday, concluded a decade-long case that pitted some of India's most vulnerable citizens' rights against the preservation of its forests.

The court told the government to evict over one million members of indigenous tribes from their homes in public forest land "because they had not met the legal criterion to live there", reported the Post.

With over 700 tribal groups, India is home to over 100 million indigenous people. While forest land is legally controlled by the government, people have lived in these areas for centuries. The number of affected people is estimated to go up to 1.89 million when more states comply with the order.

Human Rights Watch acting Managing Director Nicholas Dawes wrote the ruling had "staggering" implications for India's most marginalized.

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5. TREE GROVE PLANTED IN MEMORY OF SLAIN TEEN UPROOTED
by Arutz Sheva Staff

On Friday, residents of the village of Nokdim planted a grove of trees in memory of Ori Ansbacher on the outskirts of the community, opposite Tekoa, where Ori lived.

During the planting, clashes broke out between Palestinian Arabs who invaded the area and the residents. The army kept the invaders away and the planting continued.

According to TPS, residents on Sunday discovered that Arabs had entered the plot that had been planted, uprooted about 50 trees from the planting pits and stole most of them.

Shlomo Ne'eman, head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, said, "Only a week ago we witnessed agricultural terror in Kfar Etzion and we are once again witness to terror on Jewish agriculture by our neighbors. This phenomenon must not continue to lead to a large wave of destruction in Israeli agriculture."

"The State of Israel must define agricultural terror as terrorism in every way and bring about a solution to these phenomena, which occur throughout the State of Israel, both in the north, in the south and in Judea and Samaria," he said. "A hard hand must be used and these incidents must be treated like terror in every way. It cannot come to the point of reaching human lives. This is the order of the day and we have to turn on the light for decision-makers."


6. GANTZ-LAPID LEADS LIKUD, BLOCS TIED
by Arutz Sheva Staff

A poll published this morning in Yediot Aharonot found that the Blue and White Party leads by a six-point margin over the Likud, although both parties poll with one less seat than they did last week.

According to the poll, if elections were held today, Blue White would win 35 seats. The Likud wins 29 seats, Labor for 9 seats, United Torah Judaism 7 seats, Hadash-Ta'al - 7, the New Right - 6 seats, Shas 5 seats, the Jewish Home-National Union-Otzma alliance 5 seats, Ram-Balad 5, Kulanu 4, Yisrael Beyteinu 4 seats and Meretz 4 seats.

Zehut and Gesher do not pass the electoral threshold.

The poll also found that the balance between the blocs remains unchanged: The right-wing bloc has 48 seats and the center-left bloc 48 seats, the haredim 12 seats and the Arabs 12 seats.


7. WATCH: ARABS FORCE THEIR WAY THROUGH GOLDEN GATE
by Ido Ben Porat

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/259460

Hundreds of Arabs arriving for Friday prayers breached the Golden Gate and entered the site.

The Arabs shouted incitement against Jews and breached the area, which has been closed off for the past 16 years, since it was discovered that those running the site were connected to the Hamas terror organization.

Large police forces are at the scene and it has been decided not to remove the Muslims from the site.

On Thursday night, Israeli police arrested 60 Arabs who were planning to riot on the Temple Mount during Friday's prayers.

"Due to the calls to disturb order during the Friday prayers on the Temple Mount, the police have brought in reinforcements to prevent any intention of disturbing order during the prayers on and around the Temple Mount," a police statement read.

Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader, called on Palestinian Authority Arabs to march to Al-Aqsa mosque and to arrive there from all parts of "Palestine."

In an announcement, Haniyeh said, "I call on the masses of our nation in Al-Quds (Jerusalem - ed.), the [West] Bank, and the territory occupied since 1948 (Israel - ed.) to arrive at Al-Aqsa mosque and to congregate there and stand steadfastly there, to protect it and to stand as a strong building in order to foil the steps of the occupation."

According to Haniyeh, Israel closed the Golden Gate and institutions connected to Al-Aqsa mosque in order to force facts on the ground in preparation for a division of the Temple Mount between Muslims and Jews and as part of a gradual takeover of the site.

He called on those organizing the Palestinian Arabs' "struggle" to "protect" Al-Aqsa mosque "in all ways and using every means." According to him, "the new plots will not succeed, and we will protect Al-Aqsa with our lives and our blood, no matter what the price in victims."


8. 'I PRAY OUR SEPARATED PEOPLES CAN RECONCILE'
by Yoni Kempinski

Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, believes that Israelis and Palestinian Arabs can accept each other's existence.

"25 years ago Baruch Goldstein killed 29 Palestinians & wounded 125 in a universally condemned attack in Tomb of the Patriarchs/Sanctuary of Abraham. I pray our separated peoples can reconcile as Isaac & Ishmael did before they jointly buried their father Abraham at that holy site," he tweeted.

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/259484

Greenblatt is currently working on the US peace plan that will be made public after the April 9 elections in Israel. Washington has refused to provide details about the plan but believes that the plan is capable of bringing an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Speaking to Arutz Sheva last week, the US envoy said, "I think you will see a plan that is fair, realistic, and implementable with enough detail where people can actually imagine how it might succeed. It will not just be just aspirational principles or slogans."

"We have developed it to a degree that people will clearly understand the many benefits and opportunities that can be achieved by this vision, as well as the suggested compromises. We hope that people keep an open mind and judge it on its merits. It will be up to the parties to decide if and how to move forward," he continued.

Greenblatt also made clear that "we are not making demands of either side. We hope to be able to facilitate a deal if it is possible. I think it is clear that thus far President Trump has been perhaps the greatest president for the State of Israel in the history of the State of Israel. The vision should be reviewed in that context."