World is silent about reports that Hamas has executed more than 30 civilians accused of collaborating with Israel.

Hamas shot some 20 Palestinians on Monday night for protesting against Hamas for the massive destruction inflicted on their neighborhood in Shejaia by the IDF in the past weeks, Channel 10 reported on Tuesday.

Over the past few days, Hamas has executed more than 30 civilians from various parts of the Gaza Strip which it suspected of collaborating with Israel, unidentified Palestinian security sources told the Palestine Press News Agency.


Hamas claimed it had detected alleged “spies” in the area of Shejaia and said that they were executed after an investigation into some of them. Such investigations reportedly revealed weapons and communication devices in the possession of the "spies."

In the past Palestinian sources have quoted Hamas’ armed wing, Ezaddin al-Qassam as saying that it has used agents in civilian clothes to monitor the movement of suspected informants.

Hillary says Hamas must put Rockets in School because Gaza is very small

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Fusion TV's Jorge Ramos that part of the reason Hamas hides rockets in schools and civilian areas is "Gaza is small."

"I'm not a military planner but Hamas puts it's missiles, it's rockets in civilian areas, part of it is Gaza is pretty small and its densely populated," she said, neglecting the question of whether or not Hamas should have rockets in area to begin with.

Isaac Markowitz in Letter to Yeshiva World writes "Hide yourself and don’t fight or criticize them" (the Arabs)

The following is a non-edited letter, published in its entirety, as received by YWN: 
This guy calls Israel, "Palestine" and cares more what the world says, than his own brothers and sisters!

Hi Gentlemen, just want to let you know that you guys @ YWN are the most self hated jews in todays time…

 By supporting bloodshed in Palestine (by giving Chizuk to the army to fight enemies which will never end till Mushiach arrives)and young innocent boys being killed for no good reason just for ego) to criticizing Hon. President Obama Y”H and Senator Kerry by trying to help the situations and solve the crisis (which can only work by showing both sides sympathy), every comment in this site is being read by non-jews as jews also government officials know what to read and will pick the only the red lines which includes criticism against our officials and government and particularly against our President Obama y”h, you guys bring the most antisemitism to our own brothers in the world and especially in the Tri-State area, we are now in exile and have no right to criticize any officials, and by doing this you create on us even more enemies at home. 

We should thank Hashem that they are letting us practice Torah & Mitzvos w/o problems. Yiden! open your eyes and look what to Torah writes what our father Yakov said to his children “Lumo Tisruei” -Why are you showing yourself as like any other nation? Hide yourself and don’t fight or criticize them, this will only make it worse for Klal Yisroel and until freed be quiet and except the Gulos” There’s a lot more to say but this is just the tip of the fork and it’s not what i say but what the Torah says.

Isaac F. Markowitz
ifsmarcy@gmail.com

86.5 Percent Of Israelis Say ‘No’ To A Ceasefire In Gaza

The overwhelming majority of Israelis, 86.5% feel that for as long as Hamas tunnels are not all destroyed and the terror organization can fire rockets into Israel, there can be no ceasefire.

The poll was taken last weekend to determine the public’s view on the ongoing military operation. 504 people representing a cross-section of the population were questioned.


If a ceasefire is declared today, which of the following options best describes your feeling?

86.5%: Israel cannot agree to a ceasefire for as long as rocket fire continues and the tunnels are not eliminated.

9.7%: A ceasefire would be a good thing.

More men (89%) than women (84%) feel the fighting must continues. 

The residents of Yehuda and Shomron registered 90.5% in favor of continuing the warfare. 

Tel Aviv residents polled 86.9%, as opposed to 87% in southern Israel.

3.8% of respondents explained they do not know.

Among those favoring a ceasefire, women (11.61%) are a majority as opposed to men (7.9%). 

Southern residents favoring a ceasefire amount to 11.1% as opposed to 9.3% in Tel Aviv and 4.8% in Yehuda and Shomron.


When asked to rate the success of the operation to date; only 2.2% called it a major success. 22.6% feel is has yielded good results for Israel, and the majority, 47.6% feel the results are moderate. 86% of the participants stated they are seeking a decisive victory.

Obama: Muslims Built 'The Very Fabric of Our Nation'

On Sunday, President Obama and First Lady Michelle released a statement thanking Muslim Americans for their many “achievements and contributions… to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy.”

The comments were made to mark the celebration of Eid-al-Fitr, a time of spiritual renewal for Muslims which comes at the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan. 

The Obamas said in their statement that Eid “celebrates the common values that unite us in our humanity” and “welcomed their commitment to giving back to their communities.” 

The International Business Times reports that during Eid, Muslims join in Islamic prayer, while saying "Allahu Akbar," or "God is Great," and feasting.

The statement further reads that the administration “wishes Muslims in the United States and around the world a blessed and joyous celebration.” The letter ended with salutation of “Eid Mubarak,” which roughly means “blessed celebration.”

IDF reservist in uniform and his children attacked by Charedi in Beit Shemesh

An IDF officer who was on military operations inside the Gaza Strip was attacked while on temporary leave by a Charedi in Beit Shemesh on Monday. Haredi politicians were quick to condemn the incident.

The officer, who is from Netivot, was visiting his children who were staying with their grandparents in Beit Shemesh and went to pray in a synagogue which he was unaware is used by members of an extremist haredi group in the city, the Kikar Hashabbat website reported.

He arrived by car at a synagogue in Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet, home to radical Charedi groups, while in uniform. While he was praying, several Chareidim smashed the windows of his car and he was verbally abused as he left the place of worship.

Shas chairman MK Arye Deri denounced the attack calling in “an act of terrorism” and calling for the perpetrators to be dealt with like terrorists. “The hand that is raised against a soldier must be cut off.”

MK Yaakov Litzman of United Torah Judaism (UTJ) called the incident “extremely serious” and called on the police to bring the perpetrators to justice.

“This is a communal crime and a terrible injustice that will besmirch an entire community. The police must treat such wild people with severity,” he said on Kol Barama radio.

UTJ MK Moshe Gafni said it was an incident of the most extreme severity and was also a desecration of God’s name which endangered the Charedi community.

Yesh Atid and Beit Shemesh resident MK and Rabbi Dov Lipman welcomed the condemnations of the attack by Charedi politicians but said that the fierce attacks from the Charedi world on the recently passed law for haredi conscription had contributed towards the atmosphere of hate towards the IDF.

“While I applaud the condemnation of the attack from haredi leaders and I know that only small numbers of extremists would ever attack soldiers, I don't think the haredi political and rabbinic leaders can claim complete innocence,” Lipman said. “Their non-stop incitement against the government and the suggestion that haredim should serve in the army plays a role here. Had the haredi community called 500,000 people to a prayer rally on behalf of the soldiers instead of against the draft law which implies against army service, I believe the picture would be very different even among the extremists.” 

IDF Begins Shelling All Along Northeastern Gaza

IDF artillery began shelling targets all along the northeastern Gaza Strip, Channel 2 reported Monday evening after 8 p.m. 

Earlier , the IDF sent messages to thousands of Palestinian Arabs living in the region to flee, shortly after a mortar shell killed at least four people in Israel.

"A short while ago, phonecalls were made and text messages were sent out to the civilian population of Shejaiya, Zeitun and eastern Jabaliya calling them to evacuate immediately towards central Gaza City," a statement from the IDF said, referring to three areas to the north, south and east of Gaza City.


Such phonecalls are usually a prelude to an IDF attack on a region, and are meant to reduce civilian casualties.

Shortly afterward, the IDF began striking areas of Gaza that had not been attacked before, including Zeitun and Jabaliya.


Israel had appeared to be winding down its attack operations in Gaza Monday and contenting itself with blowing up the remaining tunnels from Gaza into Israel. However, a serious incident in which at least four Israelis were killed by a Hamas mortar changed all that.

At least four, possibly five, people were killed when the mortar shell scored a direct hit on a home in the Eshkol region Monday afternoon. Four other people were seriously injured. The injured were taken to hospitals in Beersheva and Ashkelon, Voice of Israel public radio said.

In another serious incident, five Hamas terrorists were eliminated near Kibbutz Nahal Oz. They appear to have infiltrated via an attack tunnel.


The house was hit in a major round of rocket firing Monday afternoon, as the last vestiges of what was supposed to be a 24-hour truce evaporated. By 6 p.m., Hamas had fired nearly two dozen rockets at Israel, most of them in the late afternoon. Iron Dome missiles shot down two rockets, one over Ashkelon and one over Sderot. At 7:30, rockets were fired at the Hadera and Binyamina region, not far south from Haifa.

Israeli Leader To Obama: 'Leave Us Alone Already'

Reeling from President Obama’s Sunday call for an "immediate unconditional ceasefire" in its war against Hamas, a senior member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government told Israeli Army Radio that Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry should “leave us alone already; go bother Syria.”

The official, Housing and Construction minister Urial Ariel, complained that White House pressure on Israel was “outrageous” and designed to “help Hamas.” Obama, he charged, is trying to prevent Israel from defeating a global terrorist menace at the very moment when Israel “has Hamas against the wall."

"It was obvious that international pressure would mount eventually," Ariel told Israel Radio. "Yes, we should have acted faster and more aggressively to address the rockets and tunnels, but we never thought it would be the Americans who would lead the pressure.”


Exasperation, even fury at Obama and Kerry’s treatment of the Jewish state is already at historic heights in Israel. If opinion polls measuring popular approval for Israel’s current operation against Hamas are accurate, Israelis are nearly unanimous in their support for the war; 87% of the normally fractious Israeli public supports Israel continuing its group operation against Hamas until that terror group’s capacity to threaten Israel is destroyed-- while only 7% support Obama’s call for Israel to impose an immediate and unconditional ceasefire. 

For point of reference, 15% of Israelis are Muslim Arabs.


Like almost everyone else, Deputy Likud Leader Tzipi Hotovely rejected Kerry’s ceasefire plan outright, telling the daily Israel Hayom newspaper that "Incredibly, America now seems to be serving only the interests of Hamas.”


President Obama spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu on Sunday, calling upon the Israeli leader to impose an "immediate, unconditional humanitarian cease-fire that ends hostilities now and leads to a permanent cessation of hostilities based on the November 2012 cease-fire agreement." 

In an apparent attempt to soften initial reports that President Obama was harsher and more demanding of Israel than he was on Hamas during his call with Netanyahu, the White House late Sunday issued a statement that said in part, "The President stressed that, ultimately, any lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must ensure the disarmament of terrorist groups and the demilitarization of Gaza."


According to the White House statement, Obama also tried to correct the impression that American support for the dormant Egyptian ceasefire proposal had waned with the recent pro-Hamas proposals issued by Kerry.


Kerry has been bitterly criticized by many officials in Israel, Egypt, and throughout the Arab world. Even the Palestinian Authority is reportedly outraged at Kerry’s seeming adoption of Hamas’s negotiating positions.


Palestinian Authority officials were irate late week upon learning Kerry had adopted nearly all of Hamas’s positions in his most recent ceasefire proposal. Asharq Al-Awsat, a Palestinian daily published in Ramallah, quoted an unnamed but reportedly senior PA official as saying, "Kerry tried to sabotage the PA by ignoring the Egyptian cease fire plan that we [Palestinian Authority] and Israel had already both accepted.”


The Palestinian official went on to claim that the Kerry plan “repeatedly demonstrates a complete and fundamental misunderstanding of the Middle East.” “Kerry’s plan," he said, was written to “appease Hamas and its allies, Qatar and Turkey.” He didn’t even have the “decency to inform relevant officials in Cairo, Ramallah or Israel."


As outrage against Secretary Kerry quickly grew into a firestorm, senior American officials briefed Israeli journalists late Sunday trying to defend Kerry's talks with Qatar and Turkey, which he claimed were only mean to help mediate with Hamas.


Using some of the same language as on other occasions when Kerry’s diplomatic interventions have either backfired or worsened matters, Secretary Kerry’s defenders claimed the criticism of him and his efforts was “offensive” and “insulting."

Facebook Says Page Calling for Death to Jews is no problem!

A Facebook page calling for the death of Israeli Jews does not violate the social network’s “community standards,” according to multiple messages sent by Facebook in response to user complaints.

The page in question, is named, “Death to zionst baby killer israeli jews.” The page, which spells “Zionist” incorrectly, features an Image of Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu as a vampire with blood dripping down his chin as he feasts on a child. It was started on July 25.


Individuals complaining about the page were greeted with the following message (screen captured above):

We reviewed your report of Death to zionst baby killer israeli jews. Thank you for taking the time to report something that you feel may violate our Community Standards. Reports like yours are an important part of making Facebook a safe and welcoming environment. We reviewed the Page you reported for containing hate speech or symbols and found it doesn’t violate our Community Standards.

Last Thursday, a mob of more than a dozen men assaulted a Jew in his suburban Paris home who had been identified through a French Facebook page that listed the faces and identities of Jews to be attacked. The social network declined to remove the page until after the assault had taken place.

UPDATE: Facebook has since removed the page.

(Source: WashingtonExaminer.com)

Obama upset because of Israel Criticism of Kerry "the dope", Not upset about Abbas' criticism of Kerry

Obama administration officials are fuming over Israeli criticism of Secretary of State John Kerry’s latest bid to secure a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.

In unusually harsh language, officials say the criticism of Kerry could put the relationship between the U.S. and Israel in jeopardy. They also say the personal attacks on Kerry cross a line and are particularly disappointing at a time of active conflict.

Israeli media commentators have leveled almost nonstop criticism at Kerry in recent days over his attempts to bring Qatar and Turkey into the cease-fire negotiations. Both countries are viewed by Israel as strong Hamas supporters.

The U.S. officials insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter on the record by name. White House national security adviser Susan Rice is expected to address the situation in the Middle East later Monday.