Turkish PM Erdogan: Israelis ‘will drown in the blood they shed’
(JNS.org) Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued his verbal offensive against Israel on Sunday, Aug. 3, telling a rally in Istanbul that Israelis “will drown in the blood they shed.”
“Just like Hitler, who sought to establish a race free of all faults, Israel is chasing after the same target,” said Erdogan, who is up for re-election Aug. 10.
“[Israelis] kill women so that they will not give birth to Palestinians; they kill babies so that they won’t grow up; they kill men so they can’t defend their country. … They will drown in the blood they shed,” he said, Reuters reported.
In July, Erdogan accused Israel of committing “genocide”and waging “terrorism”against the Palestinian people during its conflict with Hamas in Gaza, and said the Jewish state has “surpassed Hitler in barbarism.”The Turkish leader also dismissed the possibility of working with Israel in the future.
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Islamic Jihad terrorist prisoners dig tunnel to flee Israeli jail
(JNS.org) The Israel Prison Service (IPS) discovered an apparent escape tunnel under the toilet of a cell shared by eight prisoners from the Palestinian terror group Islamic Jihad in northern Israel’s Gilboa prison on Sunday. The IPS said it received “intelligence” that led it to uncover the tunnel, which was up to 16.4 feet long.
The terrorist prisoners had apparently opened the sewage pipe under the toilet in their cell and began to dig a path under the prison, which stands on a foundation of concrete posts. This meant that the debris from the digging was not immediately noticeable.
Two of the eight prisoners in the cell are serving life sentences, one for murder and the other for conspiracy to commit manslaughter. Another prisoner is serving a 25-year sentence for conspiracy to commit manslaughter. The others are serving shorter sentences.
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Israeli foreign minister suggests U.N. mandate in Gaza
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, speaking at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on Monday, suggested the possibility of a U.N. mandate in Gaza after Hamas is toppled.
“There are three options,” Lieberman said, addressing the possible outcomes of the Gaza conflict. “A [diplomatic] arrangement, Hamas’s submission, or a state of limbo where we respond when they open fire.…In my opinion, the third option is irrelevant; otherwise Hamas has the option to open fire whenever it pleases. A country cannot be at the mercy of a terror organization.”
Lieberman also addressed questions about what would happen if Israel topples Hamas, saying, “I think there are a few possible answers here, one of them being a U.N. mandate. We saw a U.N. mandate work in Kosovo, and therefore I think we need to work to bring back a U.N. mandate to the region.”
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Dubai security chief slams Hamas leader’s lavish lifestyle in Qatar
(JNS.org) Dubai police commander Dhahi Khalfan, who gained fame for alleging Israeli Mossad involvement in the assassination of Hamas official Mohammed al-Mabhouh at a Dubai hotel in 2010, has strongly criticized Hamas’s close ties with Turkey and Qatar, in addition to its abandonment of the Egypt-Saudi Arabia alliance.
“Hamas must cease firing rockets at Israel and accept the Egyptian cease-fire proposal, accept the Saudi leadership and abandon Qatar,” Khalfan wrote on Twitter.
Khalfan also criticized Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal for his lavish lifestyle in Qatar during a conflict in Gaza.
“He who lives in luxurious five-star hotels in Qatar cannot meet achievements for the Palestinians. The Palestinians must unite around Abu Mazen (Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas),” he tweeted.
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Saudi king condemns Gaza conflict, but not Israel
(JNS.org) Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Friday broke his silence on the Gaza conflict, which started in early July, by condemning the conflict and the inaction of the international community.
“This [international] community, which has observed silently what is happening in the whole region, was indifferent to what is happening as if what is happening is not its concern,”Abdullah said in a statement on Saudi state-run television.
Despite describing the situation in Gaza as “war crimes against humanity,”the Saudi monarch stopped short of calling for action against Israel.
The Gaza conflict has highlighted a growing rift in the Arab world, pitting Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia against Turkey and Qatar, who both support the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
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