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Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:32 PM PDT

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10/25 Links Pt2: Still bickering over Balfour, Anti-Israel Textbooks in Boston, Sharpton's delusions

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 01:00 PM PDT

From Ian:
Dore Gold: Still bickering over Balfour
Nabil Shaath wanted his British readers last year to believe that the process that began with the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and ending up with the British Mandate in 1922 created the Jewish claim to a homeland. For him the Jewish homeland was entirely invented by British imperial interests and had no historical roots. In short, it was an illegitimate claim.
But that is a distortion of what happened for what was involved at the time was a British recognition of a pre-existing right. Moreover that British recognition was fully accepted by the international community by 1922, through the League of Nations.
'Sovereignty' - Israeli Right's Answer to a 'Two State Solution'
While speakers at the "One State for One People" conference earlier this month emphasized the need for the immediate annexation and full application of Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria - despite the area's large Arab population - an earlier conference discussed an alternative "Two-State Solution", which involved the empowerment and recognition of Jordan's Palestinian Arab majority.
Within that context, the new Sovereignty journal "aspires... to take another step toward conceptual and practical implementation of the Zionist alternative to the failed two-state vision that the Left has been presenting for decades," according to a statement by the Women in Green.
JPost Editorial: The boycott folly
Legal experts are split on whether it is illegal for individuals to live in such territory of their own free will, particularly when they displace nobody. Furthermore, the West Bank did not come into Israel's possession as an occupying power, because the land did not belong to any sovereign power. The Jordanian annexation of the area in 1949, which many Palestinians consented to – including those who rejected the 1947 UN Partition Resolution, which would have created a Palestinian state – remained unrecognized by the rest of the world. After its victory in 1967, Israel had as good a claim to the West Bank as anyone, if not a better one, considering that the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine recognized the Jews' deep ties to Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.
J Street, New Israel Fund slam ADL for Top 10 anti-Israel list
Two major left-wing groups issued a stinging denouncement of the Anti-Defamation League's list of "Top 10 Anti-Israel Groups in America" Wednesday, arguing that the lineup "exacerbates unnecessary confrontation" in an increasingly polarized Jewish community and that the choice of organizations cited was "shortsighted and unproductive."
Why is the Upper West Side JCC Supporting Israel's Enemies?
Extreme behavior like this represents a minuscule percentage among Israelis – or Jews anywhere in the world – but for the JCC to provide them with a forum is really absurd.
Zionist leader Berl Katznelson once asked, "Is there another People on Earth so emotionally twisted that they consider everything their nation does despicable and hateful, while every murder, rape, robbery committed by their enemies fill their hearts with admiration and awe?" Could anyone imagine an Italian Cultural Center showing movies that mock and harm their people?
The tiny State of Israel has enough enemies and challenges. This Upper West Side resident says shame on the Jewish Community Center.
Mens rea at Ha'aretz
Were this the first attempt by Ha'aretz's writers and editors to shoe horn Palestine into a story and some how politicise a totally apolitical event, some of us in "unhinged corners of the Internet" might buy this explanation
Reporters make mistakes. Editors fail to catch the mistakes of reporters, and can introduce new errors of their own.
However we don't. We can remember when Ha'aretz came up with a false land grab story, retracted a story about a ban on Arabic at a hospital or moved Israel's capital from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. Or any of the other 570 results CAMERA has for Ha'aretz. We remember damaging and malicious mistranslations of Hebrew and their lies about forced birth control on immigrants.
India 'Briefed Israel on Danger to Rajasthan Tourists'
Israel was briefed last month about a possible Indian Mujahideen attack against its citizens who visit the Rajasthan region of India, Indian home ministry and Israeli sources told the Hindustan Times Wednesday.
"The threats against Israelis are being seen as further evidence that a section of the Indian Mujahideen has adopted the pan-Islamicist agenda of al Qaeda," the newspaper reported.
Israeli Arab Woman Loses Nazareth Mayoral Bid in Landslide to Christian Incumbent
Israeli Arab politician, Haneen Zoabi, lost her bid to become Nazareth's first new mayor in 20 years. Zoabi, who ran against incumbent, Ramiz Jaraisi, who has been the city's mayor for almost two decades, only won 3,812 [10.4%] votes. Jararisi, a Christian, received 43.37 percent of the total.
Some of Zoabi's detractors said her Tuesday night loss was down to the fact that she is out touch with the people that she represented.
"PLO's Zoabi loses mayoral race in Nazareth because Israeli Arabs know she doesnt care about them," tweeted IsraelRadioGuy, a pro-Zionist blogger.
"Hanin Zoabi's crushing defeat in Nazareth to incumbent mayor proves Arab Israeli city not interested in her politics of hate and division," tweeted YaakovLappin, a journalist for The Jerusalem Post. (h/t Yoel)
BBC WS programme on women in military combat roles ignores one country
The synopsis of a BBC World Service radio programme titled "Women on the Frontline" which was broadcast on October 22nd 2013 informs audiences that its presenter Emma Barnett:
…examines which countries in the world do allow women to serve, and contrasts the experiences of these three women to present a picture of life for women on the military front line."
Whilst the list of countries in which women serve in combat roles as provided by Barnett is extensive and numbers some fourteen states, the only country in which women are conscripted and in which 92% of positions are open to them is excluded from her list.
Sharpton Compares Himself to Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel
Only the deeply self-obsessed and delusional Sharpton would compare himself to Wiesel, and his race-baiting to Wiesel's legacy of anti-genocidal activity -- especially given Sharpton's own record of anti-Semitism.
Scottish teacher to face disciplinary hearing for praising Hitler
A teacher at a private school in Scotland will have a disciplinary hearing for reportedly making anti-Semitic and other inappropriate comments during class.
"Hitler was not all bad — he killed the Jews," religious education teacher David McNally told high school students at the Kilwinning Academy in Ayrshire, according to The Herald Scotland. He also made inappropriate sexual comments to the students.
Boston Area Schools Called Out Over Anti-Israel Materials
The Boston-based nonprofit Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) took out the ads in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald,Newton Tab, Boston Metro, and Jewish Advocate. The ads cover research by concerned parents and students that has revealed the presence of anti-Israel texts in Newton schools including "The Arab World Studies Notebook," which claims that Israeli soldiers murdered hundreds of Palestinian nurses in Israeli prisons; "A Muslim Primer," which claims that astronaut Neil Armstrong converted to Islam, but that the anti-Muslim U.S. government warned him "to keep his new religion to himself or he could be fired" from his government job; "Flashpoints: Guide to World History," which asserts that Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem, is the capital of Israel, and that Jerusalem is the capital of "Palestine"; and other materials.
An Open Letter to Jerry Seinfeld and Jon Stewart: Boycott Roger Waters
As a fan, it saddens me to have to contact you on such an occasion; however, it recently came to my attention that you will both be performing at the Stand Up For Heroes benefit in New York City next month with Roger Waters.
Turning toilet trash into toilet paper
In addition to benefiting from the savings on processing, the city also saved money on energy costs because it used the resulting Recyllose as a biofuel to power the treatment plant. In addition, the study showed, the city realized significant environmental benefits, including a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, a reduction in the use of chemicals to treat wastewater, and a drastic decline in noxious odors from the plant.
Besides Safed, ACT has installed systems in other cities in Israel, including Beit Shemesh, and in several other countries, including Croatia and Mexico.
Israel-Canadian Consortium Unveils System to Monitor Reservoirs for Terrorist Poisoning
Presented at the WATEC Water Technology and Environmental Control Exhibition and Conference, in Tel Aviv, the system was shown to continuous spectrum analyzers to detect any organic change in water, providing water quality data every two minutes. It uses algorithms to identify the nature of any contamination, chemical, fuel, industrial waste, or paint thinner, for example.
Druze to Command Golani Brigade
Economics Minister Naftali Bennett, Chairman of the Bayit Yehudi faction, expressed satisfaction Thursday with the planned appointment of Col. Rassan Alian to head the Golani Brigade. Alian will be the first Druze to command the brigade.
IDF Blog: 40 Years Since the Yom Kippur War #4: The Ceasefire
Surprised by a synchronised attack of two well-equipped and powerful armies, the IDF nevertheless succeeds in 18 days of fighting to take back the initiative. After crossing the Suez Canal, Israeli forces advance in directions of Egypt's main cities. On the Golan front, the IDF turns back the Syrian, Iraqi and Jordanian advance. After two U.N. resolutions, a ceasefire finally holds. Here's how the Yom Kippur War came to an end.

Hamas' "political wing" calls for more terror attacks

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 11:00 AM PDT

From Hamas' Qassam Brigades site:
Member of Hamas's political bureau Saleh Aruri called on the armed wings of the Palestinian factions in the West Bank for more heroic operations that could inflict painful blows on the Israeli occupation and its lackeys, and torpedo their conspiracies.

Aruri made his remarks in a press release commenting on Israel's assassination of Mohamed Asi, a resistance fighter, on Tuesday morning.

The Hamas official highlighted that the resistance in all its forms are the only option to liberate the land and restore dignity and the usurped rights.

For his part, Abu Obeida, the spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades, mourned the death of Mohamed Asi, who were killed yesterday in armed clashes with Israeli soldiers west of Ramallah.

Spokesman Abu Obeida said that there are men in the West Bank waiting for the moment of the popular explosion in the face of the Israeli occupation.

"The occupied West Bank is like embers under the ashes, where there are resilient resistance and living martyrs waiting for a moment of explosion in the face of the occupation," the spokesman said.
Hamas seems to be motivated to try to activate terror cells in the West Bank for a few reasons.

For one, it is afraid that the peace talks might pan out.

Secondly, Hamas is under constant pressure to keep Gazans happy while maintaining its terrorist credibility. For example, yesterday Hamas denied rumors that the Gaza power plant was going to shut down, and it just so happens that an Israeli supplier sold 400,000 liters of diesel for use in the power plant. But Hamas can't be seen as cooperating with Israel even implicitly so it needs to encourage terror in places where it won't have to pay the consequences.

Thirdly, Hamas wants the balance of power in the West Bank to swing back in its direction. "Successful" terror attacks have historically been hailed by the Palestinian Arabs across the political spectrum, with very rare exceptions.

Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad have claimed that Mohamed Asi, the Tel Aviv bus bomber, was part of their group and that they were responsible for the operation.

10/25 Links Pt1: Iran's 'Down With USA' Competition, Saudi Arabia Belongs on the UNHRC

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT

From Ian:
Straightening the Dog's Tail
Given that Europe is bankrupt, both morally and financially, the United States alone bears the burden of supporting over 22% of the malfunctioning UN and its often-corrupt agencies. Instead, the U.S. should demand that the oil-rich Arab states give citizenship, with attendant rights and privileges, to their Palestinian residents, to enable the UN to focus on rehabilitating the millions of new Arab and Muslim refugees created by the catastrophic Arab Spring. Even as we witness the artificial Arab states, created in 1916 by the Sykes-Picot Agreement, disintegrate, the United States and the West seem to insist on creating a new artificial Arab state called "Palestine," which will soon be a hotbed of extremism, terrorism and bloodshed, exactly like the others.
The "Palestinian people," we recall, are not a group at all, but rather Arab immigrants, many of whom who settled in the late 19th-early 20th century in what was part of the Ottoman Empire, and who fled in 1947, when Israel was attacked, then after the war asked to return. The Arabs who did not flee,still live in Israel and, whatever one thinks of Israel, are at least freely able to enter all leading professions, including the parliament and the highest court.
David Ignatius: The U.S.-Saudi crackup reaches a dramatic tipping point
The Saudis' pique, in turn, has reinforced the White House's frustration that Riyadh is an ungrateful and sometimes petulant ally. When Secretary of State John Kerry was in the region a few weeks ago, he asked to visit Bandar. The Saudi prince is said to have responded that he was on his way out of the kingdom, but that Kerry could meet him at the airport. This response struck U.S. officials as high-handed.
Saudi Arabia obviously wants attention, but what's surprising is the White House's inability to convey the desired reassurances over the past two years. The problem was clear in the fall of 2011, when I was told by Saudi officials in Riyadh that they increasingly regarded the U.S. as unreliable and would look elsewhere for their security. Obama's reaction to these reports was to be peeved that the Saudis didn't recognize all that the U.S. was doing to help their security, behind the scenes. The president was right on the facts but wrong on the atmospherics.
Defense Min.: West Needs to Wake Up
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon (Likud) said Thursday that the West needs to "wake up" from the idea that the Middle East's problems will be solved through democratization.
"The western idea of bringing what succeeded in Europe – democracy – to the Middle East, is really irrelevant," he said at a financial conference in Tel Aviv. "It stems from ignorance, from not being well acquainted with the Middle East, in large part from naïveté, confusing wishes for reality. Even if it comes from good intentions – 'We'll bring you a good idea' – it smacks of patronizing."
Arab Teens Indicted in Racist Attack on Jewish Family
Five Arab teens from Jerusalem, all aged 14-15, have been indicted for an anti-Semitic attack targeting a Jewish family's home in the Old City.
The youths are accused of property damage motivated by racism, attempted assault motivated by racism, and rioting.
Police Tighten Restrictions on Jews at Temple Mount
Police have tightened restrictions on Jewish access to the Temple Mount in recent days, according to Jews who ascended to the Mount this week.
The Temple Movements' United Headquarters says police will not let more than ten Jews into the Mount at any given time and that families and homogeneous groups are split up in order to achieve this purpose.
Ashton Meets Abbas, Urges Reconciliation with Hamas
A statement from Ashton's office said she reaffirmed support for the PA's state-building efforts and for the need for the factions to reconcile "as an important element for the unity of a future Palestinian state and for reaching a two-state solution."
Bodies of Sbarro bomber and other terrorists set to be released to PA
Israel is reportedly to release the bodies of numerous Palestinian terrorists, including those of suicide bombers, to their families early next month.
It was not immediately clear how many bodies were involved; Hebrew news reports Thursday varied wildly, from just a few to several dozen, and there was no official comment on the numbers and identities of those involved.
MK Urges PM: Abbas is an Enemy, Not a Peace Partner
Yogev's letter came as Israeli leaders plan to release more terrorists, as part of an ongoing raft of "goodwill gestures" by the Israeli government to the Palestinian Authority. Abbas has strongly pushed for all terrorists in Israeli prisons to be freed.
Abbas' concern for terrorists is a red flag, Yogev warned. "Is Abu Mazen [Abbas] a peace partner? Or perhaps an enemy in a time of war?" he asked.
New report says Iran can have nuclear bomb in a month
The report, by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, claims Iran has significantly shortened the time needed to "break out" to a nuclear bomb with the installation of new centrifuges in the Fordo and Natanz plants, and advanced IR-2 machines at Natanz.
According to ISIS, which has tracked Iran's nuclear program for several years, Tehran could have enough uranium for a nuclear bomb in 1–1.6 months by converting all of its 20-percent enriched stockpile. Using only 3.5% enriched uranium, Iran could have four nuclear bombs in about two months, the group estimates.
Iranians compete for 'Down With USA Great Award' in nationwide essay contest
Iran's Revolutionary Guards and its affiliate organizations have set up an international festival under the title of "Down With USA Great Award" to coincide with other events marking the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy.
Participants are to submit essays in several categories, including "Why Death to America?" "America and Human Rights," "America and Oppression," "The False Democracy in America," "America in the Hands of Worldwide Zionism," "America and Iran Fear-mongering," and "America and Dictatorship," an Islamic regime media outlet, Tasnim, announced Wednesday.
Security Insiders: "US Appears To Be Moving to a Containment Strategy" on Iran
Instead of halting enrichment, Iranian negotiators have reportedly offered to allow more intrusive inspections of its nuclear facilities.
Even that concession, however, may be beyond the willingness or ability of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to provide. The Iranian foreign ministry declared on Tuesday that approval of the so-called Additional Protocol that would codify such inspections was reserved for the Iranian parliament. Last Saturday, however, Iranian Parliament Member Mansour Haqiqatpour declared that the Iranian parliament would not consider the Additional Protocol unless the U.S. lifted sanctions.
US: No sanctions lifting at front end of Iran nuclear talks
The United States is not looking to ease sanctions on Iran "at the front end" of negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program, a senior White House official said on Thursday.
The Islamic republic would have to take "concrete steps" to address its program before Washington could provide sanctions relief, Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to President Barack Obama, said at the Reuters Washington Summit.
Sanctions have Iran in biggest crisis since Iraq war, ex-Mossad head says
Dagan, who ran the Mossad from 2002-2010, said Thursday that unemployment in Iranian urban areas was at 30-35 percent and equally high — if more difficult to measure — among Ayatollah Khamenei's base in the more rural areas of the country. "A connection, which didn't used to exist, has been created between the nuclear project and the economic situation," Dagan said.
Secondly, the "alliance of comfort" between the Persians and the Azeris in Iran, along with the Kurds and Baluchs, has begun showing ever greater signs of tension, contributing to what Dagan called a window of opportunity in which the Iranians were open to negotiating.
Iran gives Christians 80 lashes for communion wine as UN blasts human rights record
The four men were sentenced Oct. 6 after being arrested in a house church last December and charged with consuming alcohol in violation of the theocracy's strict laws, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide. They were among several Christians punished for their faith in a nation where converting from Islam to Christianity can bring the death penalty. According to a new October UN report by Ahmed Shaheed, UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, such persecution is common, despite new President Hasan Rouhani's pledge to be a moderate.
Turkey Slams World's Failure in Dealing with Syria Crisis
Davutoglu said that Turkey, which has received more than 600,000 Syrian refugees, would keep its border with Syria open to people fleeing the violence but said the world needed to share the humanitarian burden.
"I have to express our deep disappointment and frustration because of the absence of a proper reaction by the international community regarding the humanitarian situation on the ground," he told reporters in Kuwait during a bilateral visit, according to Reuters.
Analysis: Turkey's Fruitless Quest for Armed Drones
Taraf claims the decision came as retaliation from Washington after it was reported that Ankara revealed information about Israeli spies who were operating in Iran, identifying them to Tehran. It may be true that the spy issue, leaked to the Washington Post last week, is now being used to explain the U.S. decision, but a closer reading of local media reports shows a long and fruitless Turkish search for armed UAVs indicating that their request was simply one that the U.S. never intended on granting.
Saudi Arabia belongs on the U.N. Human Rights Council
As for Mr. Neuer's analogy, it has to be kept in mind that we're not talking about a typical fire department. We're talking about a fire department of the Fahrenheit 451 variety. We're talking about firemen who start fires. We can get upset about what one U.S. diplomat described as its "pathological obsession with Israel." Or we can accept the UNHRC for what it has become: a joke that hasn't yet realized that it is a joke.
To fully appreciate the comic possibilities, Saudi Arabia absolutely must be on the UNHRC, and so must every other tinhorn dictatorship, failed state and repressive monarchy on the planet. Every regime that persecutes gays, crushes the press, promulgates medieval anti-Semitic libels, views women as chattels, lops off the hands of thieves, stones adulterers–well, you get the idea.

Egypt hires US lobbying firm; Al Jazeera sees Zionist fingerprints

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Last week, In The Capital reported:

It's no secret that foreign governments are some of the biggest clients on K Street. A government, whether friendly or dictatorial has a lot to gain by having a lobbying presence on Capitol Hill. Even Syrian President Bashar Assad used D.C. based firm BLJ Worldwide to help his public image in Washington. So then it should come as no surprise that over the weekend the nation of Egypt hired one of Washington's most well known strategic communications firms to represent it to members of Congress.

On Friday the Glover Park Group filed lobbying registration forms to the Department of Justice, stating that they will "provide public diplomacy, strategic communications counsel and government relations services" for Egypt, as well as acting as a communications liaison between Egypt and members of Congress and the White House.

This is Egypt's first new lobbying contract in Washington since its existing contracts were all terminated in early 2012. In the years surrounding the 2011 Arab Spring, Egypt maintained a multifaceted lobbying team here in Washington. They had a contract with Bob Livingston, founder of the Livingston Group, which succeed in stalling "a Senate bill that called on Egypt to curtail human rights abuses." Livingstone also lobbys for Turkey, and has been credited with successfully thwarting Congressional plans to declare what happened in Armenia in 1905 a genocide.

Egypt also has previously help contracts with Toby Moffet of the Moffet Group and Tony Podesta of the Podesta Group. Together, these two joined up with Bob Livingston to form the PLM Group, which counted Egypt as its top client for nearly four years.

Since ending their contracts D.C. lobbying firms, Egypt has had a less than stellar relationship with the United States government. Just this past week the State department announced that they were suspending the planned delivery of military equipment to Egypt, as well as cutting $260 million in aid.

The Glover Park Group, one of the largest strategic communications firms in Washington, has experience representing foreign governments on Capitol Hill. They have held contracts with Turkey, Taiwan, and Dubai in the past, and will likely have a significant impact in improving Egypt's standing with the United States.
The contract goes for $250,000 a month, which is considered very high.

The Glover Park group has also represented Colombia and South Korea.

All of this makes sense. However, Israel haters (and shills for the Muslim Brotherhood) need to find a Zionist angle, and they always can.

The bizarre Middle East Monitor site notes:
The Glover Park Group is no stranger to Israel. The group's managing director, Arik Ben-Zvi, is an Israeli citizen who served in the Israeli army and consulted on Israel's elections. In addition, one senior executive previously served as the National Deputy Political Director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, also known as AIPAC, the most powerful arm of the Israel Lobby in the US, while another senior executive served in its legislative department.
Al Jazeera picks up the story, without really adding anything (but not giving credit to MEM.)

To put in a little context, Glover Park lists 45 people in its leadership team. The haters found one of them was born in Israel and another used to work for AIPAC. Even though GPG has hired Muslim-majority countries in the past, the conspiracy theorists among the Arabs pretend that Israel is somehow behind this contract in order to embarrass Egypt.

Syrian war keeps expanding into Lebanon

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 05:00 AM PDT

From Ya Libnan:
Clashes between gunmen of rival Lebanese sects in the northern city of Tripoli have killed seven people since clashes flared earlier this week, security officials said Thursday.

The latest round of fighting that began four days ago in Lebanon's second largest city has wounded another 50 people, officials said. That comes as disputes from neighboring Syria's civil war frequently inflame sectarian grievances in Tripoli.

The clashes pit gunmen from two impoverished Tripoli neighborhoods against each other, areas that are home to opponents and supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The Bab Tabbaneh district is largely Sunni Muslim, like Syria's rebels. The other neighborhood, Jabal Mohsen, mostly has residents of Assad's Alawite sect, a Shiite Islam offshoot.

The latest bout of fighting began building after Oct. 14, when a Lebanese military prosecutor pressed charges against earlier this month against seven men, at least one whom from Jabal Mohsen, for their involvement in twin bomb blasts near two Sunni mosques in Tripoli on Aug. 23 that killed 47 people.
Judging from the ICRC paper about the laws of occupation, I think a serious argument can be made that Lebanon is occupied, today, by Syria/Iran under international law.

The definition of occupation in that paper allowed occupation by proxy, if the group that runs the occupied territory is a puppet for the occupier. Since Syria did occupy Lebanon from 1976 to 2005, and now Hezbollah (which is an arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards) effectively controls large parts of Lebanon as well as much of the government, that means that Lebanon is still occupied today, notwithstanding a few years when it was ostensibly free.

Syria of course does what Iran wants it to.

Hamas cell from Hebron planned to send bombs on small UAVs into Israel

Posted: 25 Oct 2013 02:37 AM PDT

Walla reports that the PA broke up a Hamas cell based out of Hebron that planned to launch terror attacks by outfitting remote control planes with bombs.

PA security forces arrested several Hamas university students in Hebron who were preparing to launch small bomb-equipped drones into Israel. Interrogation of the cell members revealed that they previously conducted several test flight tests with the UAVs.

Israeli security sources confirmed the report and noted that recent Palestinian security forces posted some impressive achievements in their struggle against the terrorist organizations in the West Bank.

Also yesterday:
A group of men in Qalandiya refugee camp blocked a main road Thursday to protest the Palestinian Authority's continued detention of a political prisoner, witnesses told Ma'an.

Locals said that the protesters shut down the camp's central street - one that connects Ramallah to cities in the southern West Bank - and additionally closed entrances to the camp, burnt tires and threw stones at passersby.

The men were protesting the Palestinian Authority's detention of Rabee' Hamad, a man who was released from Israeli prison 8 months ago, locals said.
The riots snarled traffic for miles on the main road between Jerusalem and Ramallah.
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