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Friday, May. 10 '19, ה' באייר תשע"ט





HEADLINES:
1. 'US WON'T DARE ATTACK IRAN'
2. BERLIN: ISRAELI CLARINET PLAYER BEATEN AT ANTI-ISRAEL EVENT
3. FARRAKHAN TALKS OF 'SATANIC JEWS' AT CATHOLIC CHURCH ADDRESS
4. DRIVER ARRESTED AFTER 4 KILLED IN CRASH NEAR MODIIN
5. POMPEO VOWS 'DECISIVE' RESPONSE TO ATTACK BY IRAN
6. LIVE: INDEPENDENCE DAY TORCH-LIGHTING CEREMONY
7. RACHELLE FRAENKEL: TRAGEDY AND UNITY
8. INDEPENDENCE DAY IN THE IDF


1. 'US WON'T DARE ATTACK IRAN'
by David Rosenberg

Iran will not engage in talks with the US, a senior Iranian official said Friday, adding that the United States would never "dare" to attack the Islamic republic.

Yadollah Javani, the deputy leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps' political bureau, told the Iranian Tasnim outlet that Iran will not negotiate with the US, according to a report released Friday.

"We will not negotiate. There will be no negotiations on any issue with the US," Javani said, adding "and the US will not dare to attack Iran."

"We will not surrender."

Javani went on to say that Iran was not suffering the kind of "internal disarray" he suggested the US believed would set in following its restoration of sanctions on Tehran.

"With the new sanctions and pressures imposed by the United States… Trump thought that Iran would face a kind of internal disarray and would eventually negotiate with the United States, but in practice it did not happen."

"In 2018, the Trump administration was confident that Iran would be in turmoil, and would be forced to negotiate with the US… but in practice this did not happen."

Javani's comments came after President Donald Trump urged the Iranian regime to agree to talks with the US aimed at ending its nuclear program – while hinting that the US could use military force against Iran.

At an impromptu news conference at the White House, Trump declined to say what prompted him to deploy the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group to the region over what was described as unspecified threats.

"We have information that you don't want to know about. They were very threatening and we have to have great security for this country and many other places," he said, according to Reuters.

Trump was then asked whether there was a risk of military confrontation with the American military presence in the area.

"I guess you could say that always, right? I don't want to say no, but hopefully that won't happen. We have one of the most powerful ships in the world that is loaded up and we don't want to do anything," he replied.

On Thursday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatened a "swift and decisive" US response to any attack by Iran.

"The regime in Tehran should understand that any attacks by them or their proxies of any identity against US interests or citizens will be answered with a swift and decisive US response," Pompeo said in a statement quoted by AFP.

"Our restraint to this point should not be mistaken by Iran for a lack of resolve," he made clear.


2. BERLIN: ISRAELI CLARINET PLAYER BEATEN AT ANTI-ISRAEL EVENT
by Arutz Sheva Staff

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/262972

An Israeli musician studying in Germany was attacked by a mob of Arabs at an anti-Israel event in Berlin last week.

As can be seen in footage of the incident which surfaced Thursday, an Israeli man, later identified as 27-year-old Daniel Gurfinkel, was beaten by a group of Arab men at a pro-BDS, anti-Israel event held in Berlin's Hermann Square.

Gurfinkel, a clarinet player, is studying music, along with his twin brother, at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler music conservatory in Berlin.

The incident occurred last Saturday, as Gurfinkel was passing through the square, when he noticed the anti-Israel demonstration which was being held there to protest the upcoming Eurovision competition in Tel Aviv.

When Gurfinkel called out "Israel" in response to the anti-Israel demonstration, he was immediately attacked by a group of Arab men.

"Immediately, right after the first word I tried to get out to defend Israel, they already started to attack me," Gurfinkel said, according to Israel Hayom.

Police officers at the scene were slow to respond, Gurfinkel said, initially choosing to ignore the attack.

"They beat me over the head, and the police who were passing by responded with indifference."

Only after five minutes or so did the police intervene, Gurfinkel said.

"I've been living in Berlin for about four years now, and I never imagined that something like this would happen."

Despite the violent attack, Gurfinkel said he would "continue to defend by country."

There are no reports of arrests.


3. FARRAKHAN TALKS OF 'SATANIC JEWS' AT CATHOLIC CHURCH ADDRESS
by David Rosenberg

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/262970

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan spoke at a Catholic church in Chicago Thursday night, decrying social media outlets for banning his account, while denying accusations of anti-Semitism and racism.

Farrakhan was invited to speak at the St. Sabina Church in Chicago by the congregation's controversial spiritual leader, Michael Pfleger.

Pfleger, who has in the past invited controversial figures in the past, including Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright, offered Farrakhan an opportunity to speak out at St. Sabina a week after Facebook and its subsidiary, Instagram, banned the Nation of Islam leader.

During his roughly hour-and-a-half address at St. Sabina, Farrakhan denied having ever used hateful or bigoted rhetoric, despite a long history of racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and black supremacist comments.

"I have not said one word of hate. I do not hate Jewish people. Not one that is with me has ever committed a crime against the Jewish people, black people, white people. As long as you don't attack us, we won't bother you."

"The enemy is so hateful of me. I have never been arrested. No drunken driving. What have I done that you hate me like that?"

Farrakhan again referenced "Satanic Jews", a phrase he has used for decades, drawing nationwide criticism, but said he did not believe all Jews fell into this category.

"I'm here to separate the good Jews from the Satanic Jews."

Pfleger, who introduced Farrakhan at the event, said he had received a wave of hate mail and angry phone calls over his decision to host Farrakhan, going on to call the Nation of Islam leader a "bold voice against injustice done against black people".

"This past week, I have been cursed at, received an overwhelming amount of hate calls, emails, hateful Facebook postings. It is interesting to me that those who accuse him of hate have been so hateful this past week. Oh, the hypocrisy."

The 85-year-old Farrakhan has sparked numerous controversies since the 1980s, drawing criticism for his attacks on Jews, whites, and homosexuals.

In 1984, Farrakhan was unanimously censured by the US Senate after he called Judaism a "gutter religion", while comparing himself to Adolf Hitler.

Over the years, Farrakhan has blamed Jews for the trans-Atlantic slave trade and American slavery, accused American Jews of being part of the "Synagogue of Satan", compared Jews to termites, warned of the eventual annihilation of whites, claimed that white people were artificially created by a mad scientist and calling them only "potential humans", accused "the Jews" of helping Adolf Hitler "get the Third Reich on the road".

"Rabbis and historians have given to us an undeniable record of Jewish anti-Black behavior, starting with the horror of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, plantation slavery, Jim Crow, sharecropping, the labor movement of the North and South, the unions and the misuse of our people that continues to this very moment," Farrakhan said in 2010.

In 1990, Farrakhan claimed "the Jews got a stranglehold on the Congress". Six years later, he called American Jews the "wicked deceivers of the American people," saying Jews have "sucked their blood" and "wrapped your tentacles around the US government."

Last year, he called the Talmud "filthy, so filthy," and "ugly", while deriding Jews as "Satanic people".

Farrakhan also blamed Jews for homosexuality, and claimed that white people were unnatural and that the white race would be coming to "an end".

Earlier this year Farrakhan led a chant of "Death to Israel, Death to America" during a visit to Tehran.

In October 2018, Facebook removed a video uploaded by Farrakhan's account in which he called Jews termites.

"I'm not an anti-Semite. I'm anti-termite," the Nation of Islam leader said.


4. DRIVER ARRESTED AFTER 4 KILLED IN CRASH NEAR MODIIN
by Reut Hadar

Israeli police have arrested the driver involved in a fatal crash Thursday afternoon near the city of Modiin.

The driver, a 44-year-old Arab resident of the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, was arrested Thursday night in connection with the crash. On Friday morning, the suspect was brought before the Petah Tikva Magistrates Court, which extended his arrest. Police say the driver is being held on suspicion of negligence resulting in death, reckless driving, and deviating from the lanes designated for driving.

Four passengers of the minibus the suspect was driving were killed and nine more injured when the vehicle crashed into a security barrier on the side of the road on Route 443. One of the injured was listed in moderate condition, the eight others in light condition.

The passengers were recently released convicts who had been paroled and released to a halfway house in Jerusalem. The parolees had been out of the halfway house on a day trip in honor of Independence Day Thursday, and were on their way back to Jerusalem when the minibus crashed.

MDA emergency first responders treated the victims at the scene before evacuating them to Sheba Tel Hashomer Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Assaf Harofe in Tzirfin, and Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem.


5. POMPEO VOWS 'DECISIVE' RESPONSE TO ATTACK BY IRAN
by Elad Benari

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday threatened a "swift and decisive" US response to any attack by Iran.

"The regime in Tehran should understand that any attacks by them or their proxies of any identity against US interests or citizens will be answered with a swift and decisive US response," Pompeo said in a statement quoted by AFP.

"Our restraint to this point should not be mistaken by Iran for a lack of resolve," he made clear.

At the same time, he stressed, "We do not seek war."

"But Iran's 40 years of killing American soldiers, attacking American facilities, and taking American hostages is a constant reminder that we must defend ourselves," said Pompeo, referencing the 1979 Islamic revolution that transformed Iran from close US ally to sworn foe.

The statement comes several days after the US announced it would deploy a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan later said he approved the deployment because of "indications of a credible threat" by Iran.

In addition, Iran announced on Wednesday it would reduce some of its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal but would not withdraw from it completely, in response to the US withdrawal from the deal.

Following that announcement, Pompeo blasted Iran and said, "The Iranian regime's announcement that it intends to expand its nuclear program defies international norms and is a blatant attempt to hold the world hostage."

He called on the international community "to hold Iran's regime accountable for its threat to expand its nuclear program."


6. LIVE: INDEPENDENCE DAY TORCH-LIGHTING CEREMONY
by Arutz Sheva Staff

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/262881


7. RACHELLE FRAENKEL: TRAGEDY AND UNITY
by Judy Simon

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What really happened on that terrible summer of 2014?

The country heard the news of three teenage boys who had gone missing, and people of all ages and walks of life sprang to action, in prayer, in activism, and in comforting each other and the families of the boys.

How did this affect the families themselves? How did they react to the kidnapping? To the news of the murder? How did they decide to bury the boys together instead of in three separate home towns?

One brave mother, a Torah and Talmud scholar herself (more about this on the show), shares her personal experience. Rachelle Fraenkel speaks about her own whirlwind of emotions, her coping techniques, her connection with G-d through it all, the Kaddish prayer which she recited aloud at the funeral, and mostly, of the embrace that she and the other families felt from Jews in Israel and around the world. Rachelle tells of the projects that the families have initiated in the wake of the tragedy, of the feeling of togetherness and unity despite existential differences of opinion, and of experiencing the full spectrum of human emotions without becoming those emotions.

Tune in to get to know a truly inspirational woman. A must listen!

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8. INDEPENDENCE DAY IN THE IDF
by Mordechai Sones

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/262939

Israel's Independence Day: About 302,000 people visited the Tel Nof Air Force Base, Ramat David, the Haifa Air Force Base, and the Israel Air Force Museum in Hatzerim.

The Air Force flew over dozens of cities and towns, with 62 air crews and 36 IAF aircraft.

At the Navy base at the Red Sea, a flotilla was held in honor of Independence Day along the coasts, where four vessels of the 915 company passed the shores of the city of Eilat.

The Armored Corps in Latrun presented a large-scale display of ground forces, armor, artillery, combat engineering, and combat collection. The display included a variety of ground-based weapons such as tanks, bulldozers, armored personnel carriers, and cannons.

In the army exhibitions in Judea and Samaria there were various military vehicles, including tanks and engineering tools, arms depots of sector battalions, engineering and sappers, and camouflage teams of the Nitzan combat unit and other security forces.

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