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Ahead of Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first official visit in the UAE, the Israeli leader spoke on the phone with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Sultan twice in recent weeks — both before and after the Arab League summit last week.
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The stillness of the night air was shattered on the evening of Sunday, May 21, 2023, when a group of friends walking on the mud flats near the Alaskan town of Hope encountered the undeniable power of Mother Nature.
20-year-old Zachary Porter of Illinois became stuck in the quicksand-like silt of the tidal mud flats as the tide was rising while his friends scrambled to free him.
Despite their best efforts and the arrival of the Hope-Sunrise Volunteer Fire Department, who responded to their 911 call, Porter could not escape the clutches of the quickly-changing shorelines and was tragically pulled beneath the surface before he could be rescued.
Turnagain Arm, a 48-mile estuary located just beyond Anchorage along the Seward Highway, is a powerful example of the harshness of the Alaskan landscape and the importance of respecting the power of the wild.
At low tide, the muddy ground appears solid, luring unsuspecting travelers into unwary steps across the flats – but beneath the surface is a tranquil layer of silt that, when disturbed, renders a powerful vacuum, trapping any would-be explorers before they can escape rising waters.
Such dangers are evident by posted warning signs, and it is essential to adhere to their advice; had Porter’s group paid attention, the tragedy that occurred them could have been avoided.
Rabbi Leo Dee, who said he is considering suing CNN for $1.3 billion, has retained the attorney and former Harvard Law school professor on a pro bono basis.
By David Swindle, JNS
Christiane Amanpour, CNN chief international anchor, apologized live on air on May 22 to Rabbi Leo Dee, whose wife, Lucy Dee, and two of his daughters—Maia, 20, and Rina, 15—were shot and killed in early April after terrorists shot at them while driving through the Jordan Valley.
Last week, Amanpour referred to the incident as a “shootout” rather than a targeted “shooting.” The news anchor said she “misspoke” and conveyed her apology to Dee.
Dee has said that he is considering suing CNN for $1.3 billion. Alan Dershowitz, attorney and emeritus professor at Harvard Law School, confirmed to JNS that he has been retained to represent Dee on a pro bono basis.
Dershowitz told JNS that Dee called and asked him to look into a potential lawsuit. “I think what Christiane Amanpour did was beneath contempt. I also don’t think it was a slip or an accident,” Dershowitz said. “I think it’s part of a long pattern of equating terrorists and their victims morally.”
The attorney added that he and the rabbi are “exploring various options.” He also answered several questions from JNS.
Responses have been lightly edited for style.
Q: You’re still considering a lawsuit, even though she’s apologized?
A: Oh, yes. The apology doesn’t negate the lawsuit. The apology was a very grudging apology. Basically, she first tried to apologize privately, but when he wouldn’t accept the apology privately, she was essentially forced to make this grudging apology on the air.
That may have some impact on damages, but it certainly doesn’t have any legal impact. What she said was defamatory. The rabbi and his family are not public figures. So there’s no malice requirement. The only requirement is that she said something that was false. And it was false. That’s defamation.
It also caused enormous emotional harm. There are various questions that arise: Where to bring a lawsuit? Who is the plaintiff in the lawsuit? What is the precise nature of the legal claim? Those are all issues that are being explored.
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Holocaust victims cannot be equated to journalists killed accidentally in a combat zone, critics of the anti-Israel singer stated.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Roger Waters was slammed Wednesday for equating Israelis with Nazis by comparing famed Holocaust victim Anne Frank to a Palestinian journalist accidentally killed recently by the IDF during a counter-terror operation.
Reactions came fast and furious after pictures spread on social media of the extremely antisemitic singer’s concert last week in Berlin. They showed a huge screen behind him projecting Frank’s name with the words: “Location – Bergen-Belsen, Germany; Crime – Being Jewish; Punishment – Death,” as well as Shireen Abu Akleh’s name, with the location being “Jenin, Palestine,” the crime noted as “being Palestinian,” and the same “punishment” as the teenager murdered in the German concentration camp.
“Good morning to everyone but Roger Waters who spent the evening in Berlin (yes, Berlin) desecrating the memory of Anne Frank and the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust,” Israel’s foreign ministry tweeted.
Likud MK Danny Danon blasted him for the comparison to the Palestinian Al-Jazeerah journalist, who, he pointed out, was “shot while in an active combat zone.”
“Waters seeks to compare Israel to the Nazis,” he added. “He is disgracefully one of the biggest Jew haters of our time. And he is a worse musician than David Gilmour.”
During a battle last May with terrorists in the Palestinian city of Jenin in Samaria in which hundreds of bullets were fired at Israeli troops, Abu Akleh was inadvertently shot by one of the IDF soldiers while covering the clash as a journalist. The Palestinian Authority and Al Jazeerah charged that she was intentionally murdered, a claim the IDF vehemently denied, while apologizing for the accident.
The Stop Antisemitism organization called the comparison “sickening,” and asked in outrage, “How did Germany allow this to happen in 2023?!”
Waters, who is an extreme leftist and a BDS advocate, has made the comparison before, as the slides are part of his anti-establishment audio-visual show whose theme is that democracies like the U.S. and Israel are violent and suppressive.
He put on much the same performance last year at Madison Square Garden in New York, with clips also shown of police violence during Black Lives Matter protests in American cities and the flashing of names of police victims such as George Floyd, as well as messages such as “F*** the Occupation” and pictures of the security fence between Gaza and Israel.
At the Berlin concert, Waters was also seen dressed in an SS uniform and “firing” a dummy rifle. While it is illegal in Germany to display any Nazi symbols, several people defended Waters’ costume on Twitter by saying that the performer was simply “reenacting a scene” from a 1982 movie based on an album by the Pink Floyd band Waters fronted for years ago.
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A remarkable event occurred at the beginning of the year, to which few gave much attention. The GDP of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) surpassed that of the G7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) in terms of purchasing power parity
Resident of northern Arab town had reportedly scoped out sites for terror attacks and conducted intelligence-gathering missions for Hamas.
By Adina Katz, World Israel News
A 20-year-old Israeli citizen of Arab descent was recruited by the Hamas terror group in Gaza and was plotting to carry out an attack in the Jewish State before being arrested by Israeli intelligence and security forces, the Shin Bet security agency said in a media statement on Wednesday morning.
The detainee, identified as Nadir Mahajne, is a resident of Umm Al-Fahm, an Arab city in Israel’s north. He reportedly made contact with Hamas recruiters based in the Gaza Strip online in December 2022.
His Hamas handlers instructed him to perform intelligence gathering missions for determining the ideal place for a terror attack. Mahajne surveyed local areas that are typically crowded with civilians and security sites in Israel’s north, and reported that information back to Hamas.
Hamas told Mahajane to bomb a bus line in the coastal city of Hadera, the Shin Bet said. Mahajne was reportedly in the process of taking concrete steps to facilitate the attack, but the security agency did not reveal what those actions were.
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“This investigation reveals, once again, the efforts of Hamas to promote terror attacks within Israeli territory while publicly denying its involvement [in such attacks], and its false representation that it is attempting to maintain the status quo within the Strip,” a Shin Bet official said in a press release.
The official added that Hamas regularly attempts to “cynically exploit Israeli citizens for the purposes of terror activity” and that the terror group’s leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, holds the ultimate responsibility for the efforts to recruit Arab-Israelis.
Mahajne’s hometown of Umm Al-Fahm is a hotbed for Islamic extremism, with Sheikh Raed Salah, the head of the outlawed northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, hailing from the city.
In March 2021, Umm Al-Fahm residents and cousins Ibrahim and Ayman Agbariya committed a deadly ISIS-inspired terror attack at a bus stop in the city of Hadera, shooting and killing two Border Patrol officers and wounding several others before being shot dead by security forces.
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