GOOD IDEA FOR ALL OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES : Ministers to vote on taking away benefits from terrorists with Israeli citizenship

The benefits removed would include unemployment payments and other stipends from the National Insurance Institute.

The ministerial committee on legislation is to vote Sunday on a bill that would take away benefits from terrorists with Israeli citizenship who leave prison early.

The legislation, sponsored by coalition chairman Yariv Levin (Likud), is timely because Israeli- Arabs are expected to be included at the end of next month in final round of prisoners being released by Israel to the Palestinian Authority as a gesture in the diplomatic process.

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The benefits removed would include unemployment payments and other stipends from the National Insurance Institute.

“We should not tolerate the absurd situation in which terrorists who are released before their sentence is completed receive benefits from the state,” Levin said. “This includes terrorists set free in deals and diplomatic agreements.”

The Almagor organization, which represents terror victims and their families, is to meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in an attempt to persuade him to refuse to release terrorists who are Israeli citizens. The organization also wrote US Secretary of State John Kerry.

In an attempt to reach out to Israelis, Kerry’s Jewish brother Cameron penned a column that was translated into Hebrew and printed in Yediot Aharonot on Friday in which he explained the secretary of state’s commitment to Israel’s security.

Cameron Kerry recalled his brother’s first trip to Israel 30 years ago along with Jewish leaders from Boston. He remembered his brother’s amazement at how small the country is.

“His determination to reach peace in the Middle East was impacted by his deep understanding of the need to guarantee the security of Israel as the home of the Jewish people,” Kerry wrote. “That was what led him to understand that Israel’s long-term security requires a two-state solution.

Due to security, demographic and geographic realities, Israel cannot continue the occupation of the West Bank and remain both Jewish and Democratic.”

Almagor: Prisoner release gives 'tailwind' to terror

Almagor Terror Victims Association appealed to the High Court of Justice Monday morning in a final attempt to stop the third release of Palestinian prisoners.

As part of the framework to negotiations with the Palestinians, 26 prisoners are expected to be released Monday night.

 

The organization said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took back his promise to hold a special deliberation on any further release of prisoners who were Israeli citizens. Five residents of East Jerusalem, with blue Israeli ID cards, are expected to be released Monday evening.

The organization also asked in its petition to the court that it would release an injunction that would indefinitely postpone the release until a final court decision was made. Lawyer Naftali Vertzberger, who is representing Almagor, said "the appeal wasn't submitted lightly, considering the court's perseverance in its stance that it will not interfere in political decisions."

Almagor representatives said they were appealing because the ministerial committee deviated from its outline to release killers that were found guilty of multiple charges of murder, and to release five East Jerusalem residents, ignoring the damage it will have on Jerusalem.

 

'It gives terror a tailwind, which is what happened in the previous releases," they said.

 

The organization's lawyers said in regards to the release of two prisoners, one who was found guilty of four counts of manslaughter and the other with 16 counts of murder, that it was unreasonable that they would be returning home.

 

"The public's endurance in Israel can't take it and doesn't need to accept the early release of those who slaughtered innocent people, time after time," they said. "This low point, to release prisoners for political needs, stains and damages the moral degree of the State of Israel and its judicial system."

Elichai Ben Yishai, the brother of Ruth Fogel, who was murdered with her husband and three of their children in a terrorist attack in Itamar three years ago, came to the court to support the appeal.

 

"I'm embarrassed of our leaders' lack of justice, which is embodied in their tramping on all the State's values, which includes the premise that someone who killed won't walk around freely, and certainly not in the State's territory," he said.

 

"This isn’t just the struggle of victim families, this is being shouted from our mouths and the mouths of those murdered," Ben Yishai said. "I feel that tomorrow they could also let go those who killed my family – the Fogel family. And that would definitely cause a public uproar."

 

Ben Yishai said all of the prisoners who are expected to be released took innocent blood.

 

Yaakov Tobol, the father of Lior Tobol, who was killed by terrorists, said he felt the case was hopeless.

 

"My feeling is that we're standing up against hermetic walls, but we still want to fight," he said. "My son's killer served me food in a steak restaurant in Jerusalem. I'm afraid he's going to wait on me again. I won't be able to stand something like that."

 

'Two birds with one stone'

Almagor CEO Meir Indor said the Palestinian Authority doubly benefited from the release.

 

"The Palestinian Authority killed two birds with one stone," he said. "They get the prisoners back and they get a dramatic change in Israel's stance in regards to a unified Jerusalem. The government is letting the PA in the back door to Jerusalem, sponsoring East Jerusalem residents against the legislation that unified Jerusalem."

 

Israel Police have approved Almagor's protestmarch, which will go from the Prime Minister's Residence to Jaffa Gate. The organization had originally planned to march to the terrorist Ahmed Khaled's house, who is expected to be one of the released prisoners.

The Israel Prison Service is preparing for the release of the prisoners. Similar to past releases, the terrorists will be released 48 hours after their names are published, which won't be before midnight between Monday and Tuesday. The late night release is designed to minimize the picture of a valiant PA, and to prevent large gatherings to welcome back the prisoners.

 

On Monday morning, the prisoners were transferred to Ofer Prison where they will undergo a final security examination.

 

Security representatives said the chances of the prisoners returning to their terror activities is low.  

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Abbas vows there will be no peace agreement unless ALL prisoners go free

So the cats out the bag - releasing ten or twenty WILL NOT help bring peace - The PA & Hamas want ALL terrorists freed and they promise NO PEACE till they get their way - Thank you Mr Obama and Kerry

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that there would be no agreement with Israel as long as even one Palestinian remained in Israeli prison.

Abbas was speaking during a reception at the Mukata presidential compound in Ramallah for Palestinians released from Israeli prison.

Twenty-one prisoners were released to the West Bank, while another five were returned to the Gaza Strip, where Hamas did not hold a reception for them.After hugging and kissing each one of the freed prisoners, Abbas vowed to pursue his efforts to secure the release of all inmates.

“We welcome and salute our veteran heroes who were behind bars and have now entered the world of freedom,” Abbas told the released prisoners and their families.

Abbas said that the third batch of prisoners would be released after two months.

“Now we are talking about 104 prisoners,” he added. “But our joy would not be complete unless all the prisoners are released.”

Abbas strongly denied that he had agreed to continued construction in the settlements in return for the release of prisoners.

He said that “unpatriotic” people were behind the rumors about a “prisoner-for-settlement” deal.

“Settlement is null and void,” Abbas said.

The PA condemned the Israeli government’s decision to build new housing units in West Bank settlements and east Jerusalem neighborhoods.

Nabil Abu Rudaineh, spokesman for the PA presidency, said that the decision was “destructive to the peace process.” He said that the new plans are a message to the international community that Israel does not abide by international law and continues to place obstacles in front of the peace process.

Abu Rudaineh said that the plans prompt the Palestinians and Arabs to lose confidence in the ability of the Israeli government to make peace.

“All the settlements are illegal,” he said. “No settlement will remain on Palestinian territories.”

Israel, meanwhile, was angered and concerned by the celebrations that greeted the freed terrorists in Ramallah.

“Every time we see the celebrations in Ramallah for people who are guilty of the most heinous crimes against innocent people – civilians, the elderly and children – this is problematic and always raises questions about whether the Palestinians have really turned the corner,” Mark Regev, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s spokesman, said, pointing out that the Palestinians had committed themselves under the Oslo accords to no more terrorism.

“But instead of condemning terrorism, they are celebrating terrorists,” Regev stated. “I would ask the Palestinians what message they are sending to us when they celebrate their murderers, when they put them on a pedestal. And what is the message they are sending to Palestinian youth if they turn these people into heroes?” One government official said he did not know of any request sent by Israel to the Palestinian Authority, either directly or through the US, to tone down the celebrations. As was the case during the first prisoner release in August under the current negotiation framework, the 26 convicted terrorists set free Tuesday were released late at night both to reduce the size of the Palestinian celebrations and to limit the pictures of those festivities streaming into Israeli homes.

In a related development, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor wrote a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday, condemning a letter of condolence written by Abbas to the family of Mohamed Assi – a terrorist responsible for planning a Tel Aviv bus bombing attack last November that injured 29 people – who was killed last week during a firefight with IDF forces.

“With great pain we received the news of the martyr’s death, of the dear son, the late fighter Mohamed Assi, who was murdered by the killing gangs of the Occupation Army in cold blood,” Abbas wrote. “We express to all of you and to his distinguished family our sincere condolences on his passing and stress to you that the Occupation’s crimes will not frighten our people, and that the blood of all the martyrs will not be spilled in vain.”

“Terrorism does not begin with an attack on a bus or a café,” Prosor asserted. “That is how terrorism ends. Terrorism begins when its perpetrators are indoctrinated with words and thoughts of hate.”

Abbas’s letter was “just the most recent example of the incitement poisoning the next generation,” Prosor added. “In classrooms, textbooks, and houses of worship, Palestinian children are being taught hate instead of peace; violence instead of tolerance; and martyrdom instead of mutual understanding.

I urge you to condemn the rise in incitement and to urge others in the international community to do the same.”

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SHOCKING Bias of the BBC in their anti-Israel and pro-Palstinian reporting

The BBC, yet again, has shown its anti-Israel credentials in its latest report on the Terrorist releases from prison and the so-called settlement building in East Jerusalem. This blog has dissected this latest BBC anti Israel trade and placed in our own comments.

For your reference the BBC's report is included in 'Italic Courier' whilst our replies to their sentences are included in 'Arial normal non Italic' replies. We hope you enjoy the report and our comments.


The Report is as follows :


BBC report begins

"Israel has announced plans to build new homes in a Jewish settlement in occupied East Jerusalem, hours after freeing 26 Palestinian prisoners".


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The BBC still endlessly continues to refer to East Jerusalem as 'Occupied' - the fact that it was occupied beforehand and liberated back to the Jewish people is something the 'BBC' overlooks. History, biblical proof and even religious references proving beyond doubt that Israel is the Jewish homeland and Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish world is lost upon the self interested little lefties at the BBC. They would almost certainly laugh at this last statement, totally disregarding the Jewish faith, whilst at the same time bending over backwards to accommodate Islamic sentiment and concerns. 


BBC

Officials said the construction of 1,500 housing units at Ramat Shlomo was one of four projects given approval.
The Palestinian Authority said the move was "destructive to peace efforts".


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So the PA considers it Destructive does it? We wonder if the PA is also concerned about the destructive nature of shooting 9 year old Israeli children in the neck? Or sadistically butchering Israeli soldiers after kidnapping them? Or firing thousands or Rockets into Israel from their friends in Gaza, hitting schools, civilian dwellings and murdering and maiming thousands? Does the PA feel the same concern that one of their 'citizens' threw a grenade last week on a school bus? Or the countless other murders committed by those acting on behalf of this tin pot little administration? Better still does the BBC feel any worry or concern?  


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"It is believed to be an attempt by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to assuage anger in Israel at the release of the long-term prisoners overnight".


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NOTHING could 'assuage' the anger at the release of these barbaric murderers, rapists, murders of children and the butchers of future innocents, as inevitably will be the case. So for the BBC to argue that somehow Benjamin Netanyahu was trying divert attention just shows the depths of their own morality and thinking.


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"The convicted murderers were freed as part of a US-brokered agreement to resume direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after a three-year hiatus".


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CONVICTED MURDERERS  is the right word! It was a US brokered 'Deal' struck to appease the cry babies of the PA who are never content with any deal for long before they're demanding yet more concessions. It was a deal struck by the Obama administration, supported by the EU and UK, that has effectively put Israel in an even more perilous situation and has given Israel's enemies more 'Skilled' terrorists to cause havoc, murder and maim. It was a deal struck that was all weighed heavily on the so-called Palestinian side and was biased in every way detrimental to Israel's interests.  


BBC
"The men - the second of four groups to be released over nine months - were welcomed by thousands of people in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, including Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas".


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Yes this is very true. The 'peace loving' Palestinians were seen dancing in the street, chanting insults at Israel, burning Israeli flags, hanging by the neck effigies of Israelis and Jews, Shouting 'death to Jews'  'Israel will burn in hell fire'  and many other enchanting words of peace.

'Worried'


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"On Wednesday morning, the Israeli interior ministry placed an advert in a Jerusalem newspaper announcing that it was pressing ahead with a project to expand Ramat Shlomo.
The plans, which were approved by the Jerusalem district planning committee in September 2011, include the construction of 1,531 housing units, public buildings and gardens.
The government also approved the development of a tourism and archaeology centre near Jerusalem's sensitive Old City, as well as plans for the establishment of a national park on Mount Scopus in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem campus.
An estimated 200,000 settlers currently live in East Jerusalem, alongside 370,000 Palestinians".


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The bit about the 'settlers' is a bit confusing because if anything the settlers are the Palestinians. Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish people, like mecca is the capital of Islam. Would the BBC refer the Muslims as settlers living near Mecca if, for example, the remains of a synagogue was discovered near to Mecca and Jews demanded that the area was a place for Jewish worship?


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"Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war and formally annexed the area in 1980. Settlements built there and elsewhere in the occupied West Bank are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this".


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Israel 'captured' East Jerusalem.....The BBC just don't get it do they? Or 'Annexed' and again 'Occupied' - then the words 'Illegal' and finally that good old 'international law' - Oh and naturally Israel disputes this....Um we wonder why?

The BBC is so desperately trying to place Israel into a category Israel is not. Israel is a democratic, law abiding, humane, modern Western country. Its citizens are equal as in any western country, discrimination is illegal, like in any civilised country and the law protects everyone, Jew, Christian, and Muslim alike. The Israeli Defence Forces accepts Jews, Christians and Muslims and all serve Israel proudly. So why is it that this vile corporation called the BBC continue to vilify, lie about and try to destroy the decent reputation of this only middle eastern democracy? Why? Why doesn't it treat the nations around Israel with the same scorn? Why doesn't it talk about the 'Occupied' territory of Gaza that was stolen from Israel in yet another deal 'Brokered' by the US in 2005 and since used as a rocket launch pad by Hamas to kill Israeli women and children? Why doesn't the BBC talk about the 'Illegal' activities of the PA and Hamas, like smuggling through tunnels, harbouring terrorists, making public hate speech's boasting of Israel's annihilation and the butchering of Israeli woman and children in the most horrific manner? We wonder if any 'International Law' might be a bit disregarded there?


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"Israel regards Jerusalem as its eternal and undivided capital. However, Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state".


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Israel 'Regards' Jerusalem as its eternal and undivided capital the BBC states. Well yes, Israel does, like Britain 'Regards' London as its eternal and undivided capital and Washington is considered the eternal and undivided capital of the US and if we're going to be Islamic about it Mecca is regarded as the eternal and undivided capital of Islam.

The BBC seems to again overlook history, thousands of years of history, biblical history and fact. One day in the not too distant future the BBC will be forced to recognise this 'eternal and undivided' historical fact because Israelis will not give in one instant to the demands of this interfering corporation and they will fight to their dying breaths for their country and their history, no matter how much it offends some busy liberal bodies in the London offices of the BBC.

Wednesday's announcement is seen as an attempt by Mr Netanyahu to placate right-wing members of his coalition government and many Israelis who have sharply criticised his decision to release 26 prisoners convicted of killing Israelis between 1984 and 1994.


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"This is a difficult decision that we have made with a heavy heart," his Defence Minister, Moshe Yaalon, said on Tuesday.
Mr Netanyahu was reportedly persuaded by US Secretary of State John Kerry earlier this year to agree to the prisoner release programme after Mr Abbas agreed not to insist that all settlement construction was halted before he would restart negotiations".


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Well John Kerry, under the orders of his Islamist boss Obama, forced Israel into a corner with backing of the Arab dominated UN. This whole deal was pushed through by an anti-Israel US government and supported by a gang of corrupt leaders at the UN whose records for human rights are abysmal. And Mr Abbas agreement 'not' to insist on settlement building was halted was so solid it was broke before the ink dried on John Kerry's papers.  


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"The Palestinian Authority reacted angrily to Wednesday's announcement, but it was not immediately clear if it would have any impact on the talks.....


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Ummm we bet it does.....


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"We are worried and concerned that if Israel continues with the expansion of settlements, this might kill the two states vision which we would like to see on this land," Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said.


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We told you it would!


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"Nabil Abu Rudeina, a spokesman for the president, told the AFP news agency that the move "destroys the peace process and is a message to the international community that Israel is a country that does not respect international law".


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Really? Like throwing hand grenades on school buses won't upset the apple cart then? Or the PA allowing and even funding dancing party goers who are chanting death messages to Israel and openly attacking Jews on the West Bank, this then is good for and 'Vision' is it?


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"In a statement, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he understood Israel had taken a "difficult step" in continuing to release prisoners and appreciated the gesture, but warned: "Settlement activity is contrary to international law and constitutes an obstacle to peace.
"Any measures that prejudge final status issues will not be recognised by the international community," he added.


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Is that right? UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was right about the difficult step and he wants to remember it, as well as Abbas's 'promise' about 'Not' demanding any halts to settlement building, before he opens his trap and starts condemning Israel. He also, before sprouting words like 'International Law', needs to consider the attacks on Israel, the barbaric murders of innocent Israelis, even in the last month or so, as well as the thousands upon thousands of Rockets fired at Israel by his pals in Gaza, not forgetting the hate, vile anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic nations that surround Israel and that want Israel wiped off the map. 

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Bereaved families of terrorist victims : State betrayed us

Publication of names of 26 prisoners to be released in second phase awakens fury of victims’ families. Alongside Palestinian shouts of joy, relatives of murdered criticize decision, political situation which led to it. ‘We are giving up on all that is important, dear to us, in return for 1,000 houses past Green Line,’ says one

Harsh criticism of the government and anger that murderers will have a new life, while victims and their families remain only with grief – these are the feelings accompanying relatives and acquaintances on the Israeli side of the second phase of the release of Palestinian prisoners.

On Sunday night, the names were published of the 26 Palestinian prisoners who are set to be released on Wednesday as a gesture to thePalestinian Authority in light of the resumption of peace negotiations. Shortly afterwards the Palestinian shouts of happiness mingled with the Israeli cries of despair.

The prisoner release directly affected the family of Isaac Rotenberg, a Holocaust survivor who was murdered with an ax at a Petah Tikva construction site about 19 years ago. One of the killers – Atiyeh Salem Musa – was released two months ago during the first phase of the agreement, while his partner, Hazem Kassem Shbair of Gaza, is expected to be released now. Israel is slated to release a total of 104 prisoners in four batches.

"During the night, someone called the media and told me my husband's murderer was going to be set free," said Rivka, Rotenberg's wife. “This is a terrible thing, I can’t believe they’re releasing him. It floods me with all the feelings I had since then. I woke up this morning with the image of the police car that came to our home that day home to inform me that he was murdered; this is a picture that I cannot get out of my head.”

Attorney Ian Feinberg worked in Gaza for theEuropean Union in an attempt to assist in economic development and bringing in foreign investors. He was murdered in 1993 by Omar Issa Masoud, along with three other people who participated in a work meeting. His sister, Dr. Gila Molcho of Haifa, responded in tears to news of the killer’s release.

"I woke up to a black morning," she said while criticizing the "formula" that allows the release of terrorists in exchange for continued construction beyond the Green Line. “We are simply giving up on everything that is important and dear to us and for what? One thousand houses? It would be better to write on all those houses the names of our loved ones, like the tombstones."

Immediately upon publication of the names of the prisoners to be released, celebrations began in the homes of their families. Dozens of residents of the Dheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem flocked to the home of the parents of Issa Nimer Abed Rabbo. Abed Rabbo is the longest serving prisoner on the list, convicted of the murders of Revital Seri and Ron Levi near the Cremisan Monastery south of Jerusalem in October 1984. Abed Rabbo's mother told Ynet that although her son has spent long years in prison, she would find it difficult to wait until Tuesday. "I'm happy. I want to thank God andAbu Mazen (Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas)."

Sharif Hasan Abu Dhailah, also set to be released, was convicted in the murder of Avi Osher in June 1991. He stabbed Osher in the back while working together in the packing house of the Jordan Valley's Bekaot settlement orchard, then he stole his gun. The media at the time reported on "the first time an Arab worker turned on his employer." Ten months later, Abu Dhailah was captured when he tried to fire on vehicles in the area.

“Our family is grieving and bows its head today in the memory of my father," said Merav Osher, the daughter of the victim. "He surprised him from behind, wiped his machete and went back to the packing house to drink a cup of coffee."

She added, "We are very disappointed with the state and its erroneous decision. I am disgusted by the (low level of the) argument and by the exchanges, as if we were discussing whether or not to deliver tomatoes and if so, at what price. The state decided a murderer was worth a house, and has decided to make peace with murderers, and we see this as a serious betrayal of us. The justice system did no justice. They stuck one last knife in our back.”

She said, "Together with my father, many things were murdered. For me and my brother, they murdered our childhood. I was 16-and-a-half and he was eight-years-old. They murdered all the hopes and dreams of my mother, and made her sick. We are anxious, very worried. We experienced a serious trauma, and the second trauma came from our home, from Bibi (Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) and his government. They did not consider for a moment or give any thought to what happens to people who sit at home and mourn until today over the death of a human being."

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