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Video: HaYovel Israel at 70 Celebrations, Dallas, Texas

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This was sent to us by a supporter for sharing.  Be warned, it is religious, so if this is not your cup of tea, feel free to move on.

NZ Friends of Israel

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Subject: Hi and Photos and Video from Israel 70 Celebration in Dallas

I wondered if anyone might be interested to hear some short messages from various people at the wonderful Hayovel Celebrations for Israel’s 70th in Glenn Beck’s Studios in Dallas the other night. 

As you probably know by now the Waller Family have brought 1000’s of volunteers in the last 14 years to Samaria to harvest the grapes of Israeli Vineyard Growers in line with Isaiah 61:5

After clicking on “Watch the Livestream Video” link the proceedings don’t really start until 46 mins in. (Harp music & eating dinner until then). 

At the 1.20 hour Glenn Beck is on

At 1.56 Pastor Rafael Cruz is on (Teds Cruz’s father = well worth a listen)

At about 2.12 Tommy Waller himself comes on & at 

2.30 our friend Sondra (Baras) gives a great message 

While we’re on Israel’s 70th can I just say how it felt like a kiss from Heaven for Israel to enjoy in peace and safety it’s big Birthday bash by observing it on it’s proper Hebrew date the 5th of Iyar. We’re all aware that cum the Gregorian date (the 14th of May) it might not be so joyous and peaceful given the Embassy Move and the start of Ramadan soon after etc. God is good!! 

Blessings 

xxxx

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PROUD TO SAY NO TO THIS U.N. JEW-HUNT | Daily Telegraph


Be proud that Australia was one of just two countries with the guts to vote against the hypocrites of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

We and the United States were alone in voting against Friday’s UNHRC resolution that Israel be investigated for killing 62 Palestinians protesting at its border with Gaza. Sadly, 16 others, such as Britain, Germany and Japan, abstained or went missing rather than denounce the investigation as a fraud.

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[Editors’ note:

Bolt is referring to a special session of the UN Human Rights Commission held on May 18.  They met to discuss whether to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate the circumstances of the deaths of Palestinian Arabs along the Gaza-Israeli border in recent days.

There are 47 seats on the UNHCR.  NZ is not a current member and so did not take part in the vote.

The results of the vote were as follows:

In favour (29): Afghanistan, Angola, Belgium, Brazil, Burundi, Chile, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.

Against (2): Australia and United States.

Abstentions (14): Croatia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Kenya, Panama, Republic of Korea, Rwanda, Slovakia, Switzerland, Togo and United Kingdom.

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→ 19 May 2018
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Hamas issues call for further violence along Gaza border | Jerusalem Online

After a week of deadly clashes along the Gaza border, Hamas is seeking to revive the violence with a massive march today.

Hamas is encouraging Gaza residents to protest along the border with Israel and clash with IDF forces today, the first Friday of Ramadan. On Thursday, the terrorist group issued a call for mass participation in the border protest, claiming that it would honor the 63 Palestinians who were killed this week in the area.

“We are calling on young people to participate in the Friday clashes with determination to honor the dead and strengthen the legitimacy of the resistance,” Hamas wrote on its official website. “It’s very important to participate in the ‘Friday Honoring the Dead’ protests in response to the massacre the occupation committed against freedom fighters.”

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New Zealand statement on Gaza deaths ‘regrettable’ – Israel Embassy | Newshub

Jacinda Adern, PM of New Zealand

Israel’s Embassy in New Zealand has hit back after our Government described the loss of life on the Gaza-Israel border as “one-sided”.

Palestinian officials say at least 60 people have been killed following violent clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called it a “devastating one-sided loss of life”, and said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) has voiced its concerns with the Israeli Ambassador on behalf of the Government.

But the Embassy took issue with Ms Ardern’s statement, saying Israel has the right to protect its borders.

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Egypt’s president announces Rafah crossing open for Ramadan | NZ Herald

Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi

…El-Sissi’s announcement is not expected to ease the lengthy, complicated security procedures that turn Palestinians’ trip to the Rafah crossing into a hardship. Egypt’s security and intelligence services haves lists of Palestinians allegedly involved in the Islamic insurgency and anti-government attacks during the 2011 uprising that forced longtime President Hosni Mubarak to step down.

Under the banner of combating terrorism, Egypt began razing the town of Rafah in 2014 and demolished most of the residential buildings nearby except for the southern section to curb underground tunnel smuggling of fighters and weapons. Tens of thousands of Rafah residents have been evacuated. Egypt blamed Hamas for smuggling fighters and weapons into Egypt from Gaza through underground tunnels.

The measures were meant to create a buffer zone as part of Egypt’s efforts to purge northeastern Sinai of Islamic militants following the 2014 Islamic State group bombings that left dozens of soldiers dead. So far, Egypt has created a 5-kilometer (3 mile) buffer zone and is in a process of expanding it to 7 kilometers (4.3 miles).

Besides the buffer zone, Egypt has declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew across northeastern Sinai including Rafah, which means travelers arriving after 7 p.m. at the crossing have to wait until 6 a.m. the next morning to leave.

The Egyptian army continues to fight Islamic insurgents in northern Sinai.

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Egypt Is Opening the Rafah Border Crossing with Gaza for the Entire Month of Ramadan | Time

The Rafah Crossing

(CAIRO) — Egypt’s President Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi says he has ordered the opening of the Rafah border crossing with Gaza for the entire Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the longest length of time since 2013.
El-Sissi wrote on his official Twitter account late Thursday that the opening would “alleviate the burdens of the brothers in the Gaza Strip.”

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UN rights chief backs calls for inquiry over Gaza deaths | NZ Herald

Zeid al-Hussein

BERLIN (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights official says there’s “little evidence” that Israel made an effort to minimalize casualties during protests by Palestinians earlier this week and is backing calls for an inquiry.

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‘By Supporting UNRWA, We Keep The Conflict Alive,’ Swiss Foreign Minister Declares After Visit to Jordan | Algemeiner

In an unexpected departure from the international consensus in support of UNRWA — the UN body that sustains the descendants of the Palestinian refugees of the 1948 War of Independence — Switzerland’s foreign minister has stated that continued funding for the agency without the reform of its mandate is perpetuating the Palestinian conflict with Israel.

“Today [UNRWA] has become part of the problem,” Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis told a group of Swiss journalists as he flew home from an official visit to Jordan on Thursday. “It provides the ammunition to continue the conflict. For as long as Palestinians live in refugee camps, they want to return to their homeland.”

Cassis continued: “By supporting UNRWA, we keep the conflict alive. It is a perverse logic, because actually everyone wants to end the conflict.”

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→ 18 May 2018
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Dead baby strategy | Gatestone Institute

If this were the first time that Hamas deliberately provoked Israel into self-defense actions that resulted in the unintended deaths of Gaza civilians, the media could be excused for playing into the hands of Hamas. The most recent Hamas provocations — having 40,000 Gazans try to tear down the border fence and enter Israel with Molotov cocktails and other improvised weapons — are part of a repeated Hamas tactic that I have called the “dead baby strategy.” Hamas’ goal is to have Israel kill as many Gazans as possible so that the headlines always begin, and often end, with the body count. Hamas deliberately sends women and children to the front line, while their own fighters hide behind these human shields.

Hamas leaders have long acknowledged this tactic. Fathi Hammad, a Hamas Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, stated as far back as 2008:

“For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: ‘we desire death like you desire life.'”

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→ 18 May 2018
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Mideast conflicts connected by vying powerbrokers | NZ Herald

The modern Middle East has been plagued by ruinous wars: country versus country, civil wars with internecine and sectarian bloodletting, and numerous eruptions centered on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

But never in the last 70 years have they seemed as interconnected as now with Iran and Saudi Arabia vying for regional control, while Israel also seeks to maintain a military supremacy of its own.

Russia, the United States and Turkey make up the other powerbrokers in a region where not only wars but proxy battlefields within those wars are on a feverish and hostile footing.

The ongoing wars in Syria, Yemen, this week’s mass killing of Palestinians by Israel in Gaza, Turkish-Kurdish hostilities, and the potential for an all-encompassing war sparked by an Iranian-Israeli conflagration in Syria or Lebanon, all have tentacles that reach across borders and back again.

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