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Monday, Jun. 17 '19, י"ד בסיון תשע"ט





HEADLINES:
1. 'THIS IS TERRORISM, NOT PEDOPHILIA'
2. ARABS SET FIRE NEXT TO YITZHAR IN SAMARIA
3. MK DEMANDS SHIN BET INVESTIGATE RAPE OF 7-YEAR-OLD
4. WHERE ARE THE WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS?
5. PALESTINIAN WORKER KIDNAPPED, RAPED GIRL FROM SETTLEMENT SCHOOL
6. ISRAEL HONORS TRUMP WITH INAUGURATION OF 'TRUMP HEIGHTS'
7. OFF-DUTY OFFICER KILLS MAN WHO ATTACKED HIM AT COSTCO
8. SHAKED: NOW IS THE TIME TO ANNEX AREA C


1. 'THIS IS TERRORISM, NOT PEDOPHILIA'
by Arutz Sheva Staff

Yisrael Beyteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman demanded Monday that the Arab man suspected of abducting a seven-year-old girl from her school and raping her be put to death.

"It caused me a deep shock: It's not pedophilia, it's pure terror - one of the worst I've ever heard of," Liberman said.

"This is precisely one of the cases in which I would not hesitate and demand that the court sentence the despicable terrorist to death," he added.

"It is a pity that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to torpedo the death penalty for the terrorists, despite his written and public commitment," Liberman said.

He quoted the Talmudic saying: "those who are merciful to the wicked will be cruel to the merciful in the end."

On Sunday, police revealed in a press release that a Palestinian Arab man from the town of Deir Qaddis, near Modi'in Illit, had been indicted for the abduction and rape of a seven-year-old Israeli girl from her school in an Israeli town in Judea and Samaria.

After befriending the girl, the suspect, who worked in the girl's school as a janitor, forcibly took the a house, where he forced to the ground and raped her.

On Monday, it was revealed that at least two other Palestinian Arab workers were present during the rape and helped the suspect by holding the victim's arms and legs, preventing her from resisting or fleeing.

While the primary suspect is in custody, the two other Arab workers have not been arrested.


2. ARABS SET FIRE NEXT TO YITZHAR IN SAMARIA
by Arutz Sheva Staff

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/264689

Palestinian Authority (PA) Arabs on Monday set fire to an area near the Samarian town of Yitzhar.

The flames are currently spreading from the direction of the Arab town of Einabus towards Yitzhar's Tekuma, Lehava, and Mitzpeh Yitzhar neighborhoods, as well as Mitzpeh Yitzhar's Chabad yeshiva.

Local firefighting teams and volunteers are working to extinguish the fire, and firefighting planes have been called in.

Residents from Yitzhar have been evacuated from their homes.

Samaria Regional Council Head Yossi Dagan called on the government to "immediately announce the creation of a special unit which will work to identify and capture the arsonists."

"We must end this insanity," he emphasized.

On Sunday, PA Arab arsonists ignited a fire near the town of Alon Moreh. By the time firefighting teams succeeded in controlling the flames, thousands of dunams had already been scorched.


3. MK DEMANDS SHIN BET INVESTIGATE RAPE OF 7-YEAR-OLD
by Arutz Sheva Staff

MK Ofir Sofer demanded that Prime Minister Netanyahu order the Shin Bet intelligence agency to open an investigation into the abduction and rape of a seven-year-old girl.

"I am shocked by this inconceivable act - the rape of a seven-year-old girl by a monster," MO Sofer wrote on Twittewr Monday.

Given that I find it hard to believe that there were three pedophiles standing next to her, I expect the prime minister and the defense minister to order the Shin Bet to launch an investigation as soon as possible."

On Sunday, police revealed in a press release that a Palestinian Arab man from the town of Deir Qaddis, near Modi'in Illit, had been indicted for the abduction and rape of a seven-year-old Israeli girl from her school in an Israeli town in Judea and Samaria.

After befriending the girl, the suspect, who worked in the girl's school as a janitor, forcibly took the a house, where he forced to the ground and raped her.

On Monday, it was revealed that at least two other Palestinian Arab workers were present during the rape and helped the suspect by holding the victim's arms and legs, preventing her from resisting or fleeing.

While the primary suspect is in custody, the two other Arab workers have not been arrested.


4. WHERE ARE THE WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS?
by Hezki Baruch, Chana Roberts

MK Idit Silman (United Right) on Monday slammed women's rights organizations for failing to condemn the violent rape of a 7-year-old Jewish girl.

"My colleagues, the female Knesset members, and the women's organizations, where are you when it comes to the subject which you toil for tirelessly?" Silman asked. "The country should be in shock! The squares should be filled right now with women screaming about a little girl who was ripped to pieces, whose life will never be normal again."

Though the Palestinian Authority Arab rapist has been arrested, at least two others who aided him in the rape, laughing at the girl, pinning her to the ground, and telling her she "deserves it," still walk free.

Zehut chairman Moshe Feiglin questioned: "Would the Arab who raped a seven-year-old girl from the Binyamin Region had dared to rape a girl from his own village, Deir Qaddis, in such a fashion? Of course not - and not just because his own life would be severely shortened and his family would have been forced to leave the village. It would not have happened because in a large portion of these rapes, in which an Arab rapes a Jewish girl or woman, there is another factor at risk, other than the physical temptation."

"'You deserve it' - that is what the rapist's friends said - according to reports - while they held the girl's hands and feet. When an Arab rapes a Jew, there's a nationalistic aspect to it as well. When an Arab rapes a Jew, it's not just sexual, it's not just nationalistic, it's rape because of nationalism."

United Right leader Bezalel Smotrich said, "There is no limit to the brutality and cruelty. If we could only sentence this scum of the earth to death. Nothing less. Such a monster does not deserve to breathe the air of our world."

Ayelet Lash, a right-wing activist, wrote: "Two friends of the Arab suspect were also present in the house where the 7-year-old girl was raped. They laughed at her, held her hands and feet so that she could not protest what was done. And as of now, they have not been arrested."

"Now imagine what kind of morning you would have woken up to if the rapist was a settler and the girl was a Palestinian.

"Think about the crazy raids the Shabak would have carried out in that town, if they had been Jews.

"Think about the newscasts which would have opened for two weeks on that topic.

"Think about the Prime Minister, the ministers, the MKs, from the right and left, who would have run to their microphones to condemn this.

"Think about the women's organizations, the feminist jihad.

"But a Jewish girl?

"Crickets.

"It's cheap blood.

"In a normal country, this morning, the entire village should have been castrated and an hour later put on buses and kicked out to Syria."


5. PALESTINIAN WORKER KIDNAPPED, RAPED GIRL FROM SETTLEMENT SCHOOL
by David Rosenberg

A Palestinian Arab man was indicted Sunday for the kidnapping and rape of a seven-year-old Israeli girl he met during his work at an Israeli school.

According to the indictment filed by prosecutors at the Ofer military prison outside of Jerusalem, the suspect, a resident of the Palestinian Authority-controlled town of Deir Qaddis west of Ramallah and north of Modi'in Illit, had been employed at a school in an Israeli town in the Binyamin district of Samaria.

The suspect had worked as a janitor at the school, and met the victim while working there. He befriended the girl, the indictment claims, speaking with her and giving her candies.

One day, however, the suspect kidnapped the girl, taking her by force to a house in the area, where he forced her down and raped her.

During the rape, the young girl screamed and called for help, but was held down by several other Arab men who helped the suspect rape her.

Afterwards, the suspect let the girl return home.

Following an extensive, months-long investigation, authorities filed the indictment Sunday, charging the suspect with aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping.

Attorney Haim Bleicher from the Honenu organization, who is representing the family, said in a statement Sunday:

"This was an extremely cruel and shocking incident, during which other people were present, apparently other Palestinian workers who humiliated the girl and mocked her and helped the accused," said Bleicher, calling the accused and the other workers who took part in the assault "a group of scum who went against all human values because the victim is Jewish."

Despite their involvement, Kan journalist Carmel Dangor wrote Monday, no arrests have yet been made of the workers who aided the suspect in carrying out the rape. At least two additional suspects are believed to have taken part in the attack.

"There were friends of the Palestinian suspect present in the house while the rape of the seven-year-old girl was taking place," wrote Dangor. "They laughed at her and held her arms and legs so she couldn't fight back."

"As of now, they haven't been arrested."

"They told her 'You deserve this, and if you want to leave here, don't tell anyone'," the victim's parents revealed, according to Channel 12.


6. ISRAEL HONORS TRUMP WITH INAUGURATION OF 'TRUMP HEIGHTS'
by David Rosenberg

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/264649

The US mission to Israel took part in a special naming ceremony in the Golan Heights Sunday afternoon, marking the formal naming of a new town in the Golan after President Donald Trump.

A sign at the entrance of the future town was unveiled during the ceremony for the yet-to-be built community of Ramat Trump, or Trump Heights.

The Israeli cabinet met Sunday in the Golan town of Kela Alon, near the site of the new community, to formally approve the establishment of Ramat Trump.

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman joined Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and members of his cabinet at the ceremony.

"This is a historic day," Netanyahu said, sitting next to Friedman. "We are about to approve construction of a new town in the Golan, something that hasn't happened in quite a long time...and we'll be honoring a great friend of Israel, President Donald Trump, who recently recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, the first foreign leader to do so."

Trump Heights sign
Matty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem
Following Netanyahu's comments at the special cabinet meeting in the Golan, Ambassador Friedman thanked the prime minister for the decision to name a new town after the American president, calling it an "extraordinary gesture that you and the State of Israel are making to the President of the United States."

"It is well-deserved, but much appreciated. We look forward to working with you and with the Government of Israel to continue to strengthen the alliance between the United States and Israel."

Some opposition members, however, criticized the event, calling a hollow "publicity stunt".

Blue and White MK Zvi Hauser, who served as an adviser to Netanyahu in the 1990s, mocked the ceremony, saying the actual construction plan for Ramat Trump lacked any of the details necessary to build the town.

"What does a successful PR campaign look like? Exactly like this. The government will convene a festive meeting in the Golan and announce the establishment of a new community called 'Ramat Trump.' Anyone who reads the fine print in this 'historic decision' will understand that it is nothing more than a non-binding Fake policy. There is no budgeting, no planning, no location for settlement, and there is not really a binding decision to implement the project. But the main thing was that they insisted on deciding on a name for the dummy community."


7. OFF-DUTY OFFICER KILLS MAN WHO ATTACKED HIM AT COSTCO
by Arutz Sheva Staff

An off-duty Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer on Friday shot and killed a man who local police said "assaulted" him while he was holding his child at a southern California Costco, CNN reported.

The unidentified officer fired his weapon in the Corona store, killing 32 year old Kenneth French and injuring two of French's family members, the Corona Police Department said.

The officer suffered minor injuries and was later released from the hospital, while his child was not injured, according to the police department.

"The Department has initiated an Administrative Investigation and is working with the Corona Police Department to learn more about the incident," Los Angeles police said in a statement.

Lt. Jeff Edwards of the Corona police said he believed the incident to be the result of an argument.

"From my understanding, from some people we talked to, there was apparently an argument inside," Edwards said. "Some type of argument and ensued into a gunshot."

He added that panic broke out in the store as people believed there was an active shooter and fled the scene, leaving behind belongings - whose rightful owners Corona police are now trying to find.


8. SHAKED: NOW IS THE TIME TO ANNEX AREA C
by Arutz Sheva Staff

📹 To watch the video: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/264656

Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (New Right) urged the Israeli government to begin annexing Area C of Judea and Samaria, warning the country could miss a historic opportunity to do so if it pushed off annexation.

Speaking at the annual Jerusalem Post conference in the Israeli capital, Shaked said that Israel had been presented with a unique "window of opportunity" in the Trump administration, and must not miss its chance to create "facts on the ground".

While Shaked expressed support for the White House's plan to help develop the Palestinian Arab economy in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, calling it a "positive" move which would also benefit Israel, she added that Israel must not make any territorial concessions or permit the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Instead, the former Justice Minister said, the Jewish state must extend its sovereignty over Area C – the roughly 60% of Judea and Samaria which Israel retains full control over.

Turning to the upcoming elections, slated for September 17th, Shaked confirmed that she planned on running again, despite her loss in the April 9th election.

When asked by journalist Dana Weiss if she had decided to run again, Shaked responded: "Probably, yes."

The former Justice Minister also said she would not 'rule out' any possible alliance with other right-wing parties, and suggested she may run again on the New Right ticket with former Education Minister Naftali Bennett.

"Not at all!", said Shaked when asked if she had made up her mind not to run again with Bennett.

"Naftali Bennett and I are partners for many years. We are ideological partners, and I think that we did a revolution in Israeli politics. When we entered the Knesset, it was well-known that a Palestinian state would be established. Today, everyone is talking about annexation. We did some huge stuff, and I hope that we'll be able to work together in the future."

"I am not ruling out anything that can help create a big Right bloc."