(JNS.org) An Israeli Air Force (IAF) aircraft successfully killed two terrorists affiliated with the Defenders of al-Aqsa terror organization in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday.
One of the terrorists, Anis Abu Mahmoud el-Anin, was in the final stages of planning an attack against Israeli civilians. The other terrorist, Ashraf Mahmoud Salah, had admitted in a previous investigation to helping others plan attacks on Israel from Egypt.
The IDF has become more concerned with Gaza terrorists taking advantage of the situation in Egypt to launch attacks against Israel. Both men were also involved in smuggling weapons into Gaza, the IDF said.
‘Support Israel, Defeat Jihad’ ad to appear on NYC subways
(JNS.org) An advertisement condemning radical Islam and supporting Israel will appear in 10 New York City subway stations beginning next week, despite city attempts to prevent the campaign, CNN reported.
The ad, which has generated some controversy over its message, reads: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man, Support Israel, Defeat Jihad.”
New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) initially refused to allow the ad to appear. However, a federal judge overturned the MTA decision, arguing that the ad is protected under the First Amendment.
“We don’t think it’s controversial,” said Pamela Geller, the executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), the organization behind the advertisement. “It’s truth. The MTA has run anti-Israel ads before and no one had an issue about it. ‘Any war on innocent civilians is savagery’: What’s controversial here?”
One injured in French kosher supermarket explosion
(JNS.org) A package bomb exploded Wednesday inside a suburban kosher grocery store near Paris, France. One person was wounded.
The explosion in Sarcelles (Val d’Oise) happened after two hooded individuals dressed in black entered the store in the morning, placed the package and threw what may have been a rock or a Molotov cocktail, according to different accounts from people on scene, Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
It is still unclear whether the incident is connected to the riots that broke out in the Middle East after a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad was recently posted on YouTube, or connected to the decision by a French newspaper to publish caricatures representing the prophet.
Sixty-thousand people reside in Sarcelles, many of them Jews. “We might be Jews but this is our country, our life is here and we won’t be scared away easily. I just don’t understand why the police doesn’t take more drastic measures against those Muslim rioters,” said Charlie Levy, an owner of a business close the supermarket.
Polls: Swing state voters fear Obama foreign policy, but Florida Jews still prefer him
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) A public opinion poll conducted in the battleground states of Florida and Ohio reveals widespread belief that U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign policy strategy, particularly regarding Iran, may fail. The poll also reveals favorable views of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Commissioned by Secure America Now, which describes itself as non-partisan, the foreign policy poll was taken after the start of the recent wave of anti-U.S. protests in the Middle East.
More than 65 percent of voters in Florida and a similar percentage of Ohio voters said Obama’s policy would not convince the Iranians to halt their nuclear program. More than three-quarters of Florida voters and 70 percent of Ohio voters said a nuclear Iran would arm terrorists who would use the nuclear weapons to attack the U.S. A full 61.2 percent of Florida voters and 58.8 percent of Ohio voters said they approved of an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Nearly 48 percent of respondents in Florida and 45.9 percent of Ohio voters expressed favorable opinions of Netanyahu. Just over 50 percent of Florida voters and 56.6 percent of Ohio voters said the language calling Jerusalem Israel’s capital had been intentionally omitted by the Obama administration before being put back in the Democratic party platform.
The American Jewish Committee, meanwhile, released a different poll showing that Florida Jewish voters place Obama ahead of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney by 69 percent to 25 percent. Five percent of respondents were undecided, but none of them indicated a leaning toward Romney, the National Jewish Democratic Council noted in a statement on the poll. A recent Gallup poll also found that Obama is leading Romney 70 percent to 25 percent among Jewish voters nationwide.
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