A court has ruled that two Palestinian groups are responsible for terror attacks that killed Americans.
The Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization were found liable by a jury in Manhattan for supporting six terrorist attacks within Israel between 2002 and 2004.
The jury awarded the families of the victims $655.5 million dollars under a special terrorism law.
The case has been running through courts for a decade in an attempt to hold the Palestinian Authority responsible for funding and supporting terrorism within Israel and the surrounding region.
The ruling is a big win for Israel as well as the victims, because Israel can now claim the groups that many Western governments have claimed are the “moderates” in the region are actually funding and supporting terrorism.
The Palestinian groups said they plan to appeal the verdict.
The mayor of Jerusalem and his security guard wrestled a Palestinian attacker to the ground on Sunday after he stabbed an ultra-Orthodox Jew at an intersection.
Mayor Nir Barkat is shown on security footage walking to the attacker with his security guard before lunging at him and pinning the attacker to the street. Once the man was subdued by the Mayor, other residents came and restrained him until police arrived on the scene.
The video shows the attacker waving a knife around in the air before stabbing one man and attempting to stab a second. The victims were not seriously hurt according to police officials.
“My bodyguard took out his weapon and when he aimed at the terrorist, the terrorist dropped his knife and we immediately tackled him on the ground to make sure that he cannot continue with the terror attack,” Barkat told reporters.
Barkat was an officer in a paratroopers unit before going into business and politics.
Anti-Semitism is on the rise at the University of California Davis as one Islamist is claiming victory at forcing Sharia law on the campus.
Jewish students were threatened and harassed as they were speaking out against a student government resolution to divest from Israel as part of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
The anti-Semites waved Palestinian flags in the face of the Jewish students before the 8-2 vote in favor of the anti-Semitic movement.
The pro-terrorists in the audience yelled “Allahu Akbar!” following the vote. The vote was pushed by the pro-Hamas terrorist organization Students for Justice in Palestine.
Immediately after the vote, swastikas were spray painted on a Jewish fraternity’s home.
The celebration among Islamists on campus was loud and immediate. Azka Fayyaz, who is a member of the University of California Davis student senate, posted on Facebook following the vote: “Hamas & Sharia law have taken over UC Davis.”
The murder of 17 in Paris by Islamic terrorists? It’s Israel’s fault.
That’s the view of former President Jimmy Carter.
Carter appeared on the left-wing comedy show “The Daily Show” and told host Jon Stewart that you had to place the blame for the origin of the terror attack on Israel.
“Well, one of the origins for it is the Palestinian problem,” Carter said. “And this aggravates people who are affiliated in any way with the Arab people who live in the West Bank and Gaza, what they are doing now — what’s being done to them. So I think that’s part of it.”
Carter didn’t elaborate how the end of Israeli-Palestinian conflict would somehow stop the anti-Semitism by Muslims throughout the world. He did go on to say that the attack was a “new development” in Islamic terrorism.
“But I think this is a new evolutionary development in terrorism, where people go into Syria, they get trained there, they have a passport from France, from Great Britain or from the United States,” he added. “They stay there for a few months and learn how to be a terrorist and then they come back through Turkey and you know they have been there and you know who they are. And I think this event in Paris is going to waken up the people in charge of security to watch those people more closely than they have in the past — and not single out all of the Muslims in the country.”
The head of the UN has taken an anti-Israeli action in stating that Palestine will join the International Criminal Court on April 1.
The move will allow Palestinians to harass Israel repeatedly with false accusations before the ICC.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed documents to join the ICC a day after the UN Security Council rejected their resolution for a three year deadline to establish a Palestinian state on Israeli occupied lands.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon posted on the UN’s treaty website that he was acting in the “capacity as depositary” for the ICC’s documents of ratification when allowed Palestine to enter April 1, 2015.
The move is part of an Palestinian campaign to attack Israel following the 50-day war started by Palestinians kidnapping and killing Israeli teenagers. The move has seen blow back for the Palestinians, as Israel has withheld $100 million in tax funds and the Obama administration said they are reviewing the $440 million per year they have been sending to Palestine.
An IDF officer has released a report showing the number of IED attacks by Palestinians on Israelis has jumped ten fold in 2014.
The rise of 20 IEDs during 2014 compared to 2 in 2013 is indicative of a rise of across-the-board violence in the West Bank.
“The level of sophistication is not very high,” said Maj. Irad Hershkovitz, the demolitions officer of the Shomron Regional Brigade. “It’s not Yahya Ayyash. It’s not the Second Intifada. But there has been a very significant rise.”
Maj. Hershkovitz told the Times of Israel that most of the IEDs are explosives placed inside a cheap metal casing along with a watch or cell phone timer.
However, he said a crackdown has been taking place on bomb makers in the West Bank.
“The solution is the waves of arrests that we do,” he said, noting that the army is active in Area A, which is under full Palestinian control, and within the refugee camps surrounding Nablus. “There is not a night in which a few Palestinians are not arrested,” he said. “Nothing else can be done. That is what stops the wave of terror.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that if he was re-elected they would not be removing Israeli settlements from the West Bank.
“I don’t think withdrawing settlers is practical at the moment,” Netanyahu said. “I don’t think it will happen.”
Netanyahu continued his talk to say that he is still supportive of creation of a Palestinian state that he proposed in 2009 but that because of the actions of Palestinians, the plan is basically rendered meaningless.
The Prime Minister spoke about his issues with President Barack Obama but said that despite the actions of the Obama administration, there is a record amount of support for Israel among U.S. citizens.
Netanyahu said that the skyrocketing housing prices were the fault of previous Ehud Olmert. He said that during Olmert’s reign, the construction projects in Tel Aviv area came to a halt causing established property prices to jump.
France is explaining the controversial decision to vote in favor of Palestinian statehood at the U.N. Security Council.
France’s ambassador to Israel said his nation was backing the resolution because they wanted to encourage Israel and the Palestinians to resume their peace negotiations.
Ambassador Patrick Maisonnave had been summoned to the Israel Foreign Ministry after the vote because of Israel’s “deep disappointment” with the actions of the French government. Israel had previously said they would reject any resolution from the U.N. that put a timetable on the statehood for Palestine.
France had objected to the wording of the resolution and had tried to push a more moderately worded document that was rejected before the vote on the Palestinian measure.
The measure failed in the Security Council by one vote. Palestine’s response was to try and obtain statehood at the International Criminal Court so they could continue their campaign against Israel.
Just days after the United Nations shut down Palestinian attempts to force the world to recognize them as a nation, the leadership of the Palestinian Authority are now attempting to attack Israel in an international court.
The Palestinians claim that Israel committed war crimes beginning on June 13, 2014, the day after three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and murdered by Palestinian affiliated terrorists.
The move comes after Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas signed the ICC’s founding treaty and filed a formal request for Palestine to be considered a member state. It will take weeks for that process to be approved by the Court.
Palestine had been upgraded in a unanimous vote to “observer status” in December. The previous times Palestine has come after Israel at the ICC the cases have been dismissed because Palestine had no authority over the areas where they alleged crimes had taken place.
A PLO official told Haarets News Agency that it was important to get Palestine in the ICC because then civilian groups could file lawsuit after lawsuit against Israel.
A local chapter of the United Auto Workers has announced they are joining the boycott of Israel in support of the Palestinians.
UAW Local 2865, the union that represents teaching assistants at the University of California, voted to join the boycott on December 4th. The basis for their anti-Semitic decision was they claim Israel is launching “ongoing human rights violations” against Palestinians.
The margin of passage was 66% to 34%.
The ballot language passed by the group calls for the university and the UAW to “divest[ing] their investments, including pension funds, from Israeli state institutions and international companies complicit in severe and ongoing human rights violations as part of the Israeli oppression of Palestinian people.”
Officials admitted that only 2,168 of the 13,000 reported members of the chapter voted on the measure.