"It's a miracle!" - Israelis show Colombians how to grow potatoes in the desert

They said it couldn't be done, but a group of Israeli agricultural experts have succeeded in helping local Colombian farmers grow potatoes in a harsh desert environment.

"From this desert you might receive stones, but not potatoes," that's what local farmers in Colombia's northern La Guajira desert said when presented with an Israeli proposal to grow potatoes in the region.

A year later, Israeli know-how and technology has won the day, and produced nothing short of a miracle as local farmers have harvested 11 tons of potatoes from the desert.

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Breaking - Southern Israel under heavy fire, 11 wounded

Palestinian terrorists operating out of the Gaza Strip fired more than 50 rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel on Tuesday and into Monday morning. Eleven border policemen were wounded in one of the attacks.

The attacks began during the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, and continued with a hail of rocket fire throughout the day. The only casualties reported were from a direct missile strike on a building near the coastal town of Ashkelon, where 11 officers with Israel's Border Police suffered light-to-moderate shrapnel injuries.

The assault continued on Wednesday morning with more short-range Kassam rocket attacks and at least one medium-range Grad missile attack that targeted the town of Beersheva.

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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood orders Hamas to attack Israel

Israeli security officials say that the rockets that landed on Friday in the area near Ovda and Mitzpeh Ramon, were launched after a request by senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. According to these officials, the rockets were launched from the Sinai Peninsula by a Bedouin unit, according to Hamas orders, even though Hamas itself wasn't the initiator of the launching, but responded to the request of the Brotherhood, who wanted such an event on the eve of the second round of presidential elections in Egypt. It is yet unclear why the Brotherhood requested such an unusual action, a first military strike against Israel, or whether the strike was aimed at specific sites in the area.

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Israel pounded by rockets from Egypt as situation heats up

Forces operating out of the Egyptian-controlled Sinai Peninsula fired two medium-range Grad missiles at targets in southern Israel on Saturday.

The missiles landed near the Negev town of Mitzpe Ramon and the Uvda Airfield, where Israel is mulling the construction of a new international airport. Both sites had never before been targeted by terrorist rocket fire.

There were no injuries or damage reported.

The attacks coincided with the final round of voting in Egypt's first presidential election since the ouster of former dictator Hosni Mubarak.

A firefight that left three people dead erupted along the Israel-Egypt border on Monday, just two days after Sinai-based terrorists fired two medium-range missile into southern Israel.

Around 6 AM Monday morning, a group of at least three terrorists crossed from the Egyptian Sinai into southern Israel and attacked a group of construction workers who were building a portion of the new border fence.

One construction worker was killed and another seriously wounded in the attack.

A team of IDF soldiers quickly responded to the scene, killing two terrorists and causing the others to flee. The army was still searched for the remaining terrorists at press time, and residents of southern Israel were warned to remain indoors.

On Saturday, forces operating out of the Egyptian-controlled Sinai Peninsula fired two medium-range Grad missiles at targets in southern Israel.

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Israel: Jesus was not born in Palestine!

Israel is conducting a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the Palestinian Authority from officially registering the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as a World Heritage Site belonging to the country of "Palestine."

Later this month, the UN's World Heritage Committee will meet in Russia to debate inclusion of several sites from around the world. The committee confirmed that the Church of the Nativity is one of sites to be discussed.

The Palestinian effort to label Jesus' birthplace as being part of "Palestine" was made possible by last year's decision by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to officially recognize the fictional state.

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US Ousts Israel From Counterterrorism Forum

The United States blocked Israel's participation in the Global Counterterrorism Forum's (GCTF) first meeting in Istanbul on Friday, despite Israel's having one of the most extensive counterterrorism experiences in the world.

Israel was excluded from the meeting due to fierce objections by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a Washington-based source told Globes news.


According the State Department’s website, the GCTF, which was established in September 2011, aims at “strengthening the global counterterrorism (CT) architecture in a manner that complements and reinforces the CT work of existing multilateral bodies.”

Twenty-nine countries are participating in the GCTF, ten of which are Arab and/or Muslim countries.

"The GCTF sought from the outset to bridge old and deep divides in the international community between Western donor nations and Muslim majority nations. And it has, I think, done that quite effectively," a top US official said at the press briefing prior to the opening session.

Republican politicians claim that since one third of the GCTF's members are Muslim countries, the Obama administration is trying to deepen ties with the Muslim world at Israel's expense, Globes noted.

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SHOCKER! - Obama now unsure Palestinians even want peace

US President Barack Obama has come to realize what many Middle East observers have long known: that perhaps the Palestinian Authority leadership does not want genuine peace and coexistence with Israel.

Obama expressed that concern during a White House meeting with Orthodox Jewish leaders on Tuesday, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Over the past three years, Obama has seen the Palestinian leadership consistently refuse to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while at the same time trying to blame the impasse on Israel's rejection of far-reaching preconditions.

Washington's response to this frustrating situation has been increased pressure on Israel to make gestures toward the Palestinians, in particular by curbing Jewish construction in Jerusalem and the rest of Judea and Samaria. The apparent hope was that the Palestinians would soften up, but it also resulted in Israel feeling as though the Obama Administration was far less friendly to Israel than previous American governments.

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Israel: Obama to blame for crisis in Syria

A distinguished former Israeli ambassador to the United States on Thursday accused the Obama administration of prime responsibility for the international community’s failure to stop the killings in Syria.

Itamar Rabinovich, who was also Israel’s chief negotiator under prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in abortive efforts at peacemaking with Syria in 1992-95, said that “it’s not Russia that’s preventing intervention. Russia is the pretext, the alibi” for the lack of substantive international action. “If someone wanted to ratchet up the pressure on Syria, they could,” he said.

Itamar Rabinovich (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

The real block, he told Army Radio, is the US government. “The Obama administration is not looking for another major Middle East crisis before November.”

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Amazing Information about Israel - you must see this

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Canada taps in to biblical formula for prosperity

In spite of wide open governmental acceptance of liberal tenets like unregulated abortion (the price of which is unprecedented rates of breast cancer) and same-sex marriage Canada remains one of the world's most prosperous nations.

A great deal of research has gone into studying the connection between national prosperity and support for Israel. It has been heavily documented (see video below) that whenever the US favors the enemies of Israel there have been natural disasters which follow.

Now a Canadian pro-family leader is praising the Canadian foreign minister for taking a strong stand in support of Israel.

Recently The Globe and Mail reported that in a speech promoting Ottawa's plan to open an Office of Religious Freedom, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird told a U.S. audience that Canada is taking a stronger stand on defending human rights like religious freedom.

Baird's speech dealt most extensively with the persecution of Jews and Christians. He spoke of the organized massacre of Jews during the Spanish Inquisition, and the six million who died in the 1930s and 1940s because of their religious identity. Baird said the world cannot risk appeasing "Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran now, the same way the world appeased the Nazis."

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Under the leadership of Conservative PM Stephen Harper Canada has evolved into Israel's greatest ally and has openly declared, without stipulation, her support for Israel. Whether they know it or not, Canada has employed the biblical formula for national prosperity.

 ¶Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Psalms 122:6

Sixth Trumpet Watch - Israel pins Syria massacre on Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday voiced "revulsion" over the bloodshed in Syria, while accusing Iran and its Lebanese militia ally Hezbollah of being accomplices.

He was "revolted was by the incessant massacres conducted bySyrian President Bashar Assad's forces against ... civilians ... which continued over the weekend in the town of Houla," the premier's office said.

"Iran and Hezbollah are an inseparable part of the Syrian atrocities, and the world needs to act against them too," Netanyahu was quoted as saying.

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Ron Paul Supporters - Red Herring Addicts

FLASH BACK - 1981: Israel bombs Baghdad nuclear reactor!

FROM THE BBC:

"The Israelis have bombed a French-built nuclear plant near Iraq's capital, Baghdad, saying they believed it was designed to make nuclear weapons to destroy Israel.

It is the world's first air strike against a nuclear plant.

An undisclosed number of F-15 interceptors and F-16 fighter bombers destroyed the Osirak reactor 18 miles south of Baghdad, on the orders of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

The army command said all the Israeli planes returned safely.

The 70-megawatt uranium-powered reactor was near completion but had not been stocked with nuclear fuel so there was no danger of a leak, according to sources in the French atomic industry.

Mortal danger

The Israeli Government explained its reasons for the attack in a statement saying: "The atomic bombs which that reactor was capable of producing whether from enriched uranium or from plutonium, would be of the Hiroshima size. Thus a mortal danger to the people of Israel progressively arose."

It acted now because it believed the reactor would be completed shortly - either at the beginning of July or the beginning of September 1981.

The Israelis criticised the French and Italians for supplying Iraq with nuclear materials and plegded to defend their territory at all costs.

The statement said: "We again call upon them to desist from this horrifying, inhuman deed. Under no circumstances will we allow an enemy to develop weapons of mass destruction against our people."

The attack took place on a Sunday, they said, to prevent harming the French workers at the site who would have taken the day off.

There have been no reported casualties.

The Osirak reactor is part of a complex that includes a second, smaller reactor - also French-built - and a Soviet-made test reactor already in use.

Iraq denies the reactor was destined to produce nuclear weapons."

In 1981 Israel bombed the nuclear facilities in Iraq... with no casualties. The anti-war crowd in Ron Paul's camp are against striking Iran's facilities preemptively because of the babies and women and loss of life. Yet that is not at all what anyone is suggesting. Simply put, the US and Israel are not taking off the table the option to take out Iran's nuclear facilities militarily. That is all. Using the women and children, when they are not even in the equation, is called a "red herring". In debate, a "red herring" is anything that diverts attention from a topic or line of inquiry. So whenever the idea of taking out an Iranian nuke site is proposed they say "what about the women and children"?

Neither the Israelis nor the US are proposing war with Iran. Their response could lead to that but it would be their choosing. Israel simply wishes to eliminate the threat from Iran, even recently in fact, that they have Israel`s annihilation as a primary objective. See this post for more on that.

FLASHBACK: "All the blame is on Israel" - Ron Paul

FLASHBACK: "All the blame is on Israel" - Ron Paul

This interview with Iran's state-run PressTV ran on January 5, 2009. Ron Paul says that the U.S. should stop supporting Israel, defends Hamas, excuses suicide bombing, and calls Gaza a concentration camp: "To me, I look at it like it's a concentration camp, and people are making bombs, like, they're the aggressors?"

Fact: Iran IS Out to Destroy Israel... the rumors are TRUE!

Well it really is amazing the level to which certain people will insert their heads into the sand. Like ostriches they carry around a view of the world which looks like everyone wants the same thing and if the war mongers would simply put their weapons away everything would be just dandy.

And the Paul-bots are the worst offenders; lashing out at the notion that Iran could possibly desire to do harm to Israel or the US. Lashing out at the notion that America somehow has a role to play in the world as a bulwark against tyranny and oppression from powers that would slit all of our throats given the slightest opportunity.

Yet that is the very reality we face every day. Protected we are from the harsh realities that exist outside our western walls. Protected by a mighty military force too powerful to be breached by Islamic fundies hell-bent on killing for Allah. And those who choose to ignore this existential threat do so resulting in the peril of us all. And when the evidence is presented they lash out saying "no, it cannot be. The military industrial complex is protecting big corporations and it's all made up hype".

It is a false accusation; a red herring designed to take one's attention away from the man having his head severed from his body in the name of Allah. It is ignoring the women having their clitoris removed or the daughters slaughtered in the name of honor. It is ignoring the stoning of the amorous caught in embrace. It is burying one's talent and an affront to almighty God.

America does have an assignment from heaven. It is her duty to be the wall against worldwide religious disease and hateful dogma. It is her God-given strength which causes pirates to tremble and fascist regimes to crumble. It is her influence which has caused prosperity to flourish and opened doors for the Gospel to go out into the whole world. It is her inventiveness and rugged individualism which has caused knowledge to increase and the ability to travel, both physically and virtually, which has done this. Without America there would be a new Hitler at our door steps with the passing of each generation.

And now we are faced with a new terror. Iran, or ancient Persia, is at a place of achievement. Iran is on the verge of having the most destructive weapon ever conceived. One bomb dropped on Japan killed 80,000 people instantly. That is one third of the population of that city - dead - in an instant. America did it to end a war. Iran wishes to start one.

The wife of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, an Iranian nuclear scientist who was assassinated in Tehran in January, said Tuesday that her husband "sought the annihilation of the Zionist regime wholeheartedly," according to Iran's semi-official Fars news agency.

"Mostafa's ultimate goal was the annihilation of Israel," the agency quoted Fatemeh Bolouri Kashani as saying Tuesday.

And now a website with close ties to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has outlined why it would be acceptable to kill all Jews and annihilate Israel.

Conservative site Alef has published a doctrine detailing why the destruction of the nation and the slaughter of all its people would be legally and morally justified.

The doctrine, first reported by WND.com, warned that the chance to remove the 'corrupting material' of Israel must not be lost - and that it would only take nine minutes to wipe it out.

And it said it was a 'jurisprudential justification' for Iran's Islamic government to then take the helm.

The article, written by Khamenei's strategy specialist Alireza Forghani, is now being run on most state-owned conservative sites, indicating it has the regime's support.

So the rumors really are true. Iran really is trying to gain the advantage so that it can wipe Israel off the map. It is receiving assistance from Russia, China, and North Korea. Let us reject the obtuse thought patterns which would reject the reality on the ground. Let us also reject any candidate which would applaud the objectives outlined by the Iranians themselves. Let us continue to fulfill our assignment from the Lord. Because, as Ronald Reagan once said, if America fails, the world has nowhere else to turn.

Newt was RIGHT! - "Palestinian People" is a made-up designation

Newt Gingrich made a stunning declaration this week by declaring that the Palestinians are an "invented" people who want to destroy Israel. Historically speaking he is absolutely correct. Here is a video from the PPSIMMONS Youtube channel with an excerpt from the interview plus commentary. Following that you will find another video which examines the truth about the Israel/Palestine "conflict" in truthful, historical context.

One Israeli Jew Worth a THOUSAND Palestinian Terrorists

BBC

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Israel and Hamas have agreed a deal for the release of Sgt Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held hostage by Palestinian militants for five years.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the deal had been reached after arduous talks, and that Sgt Shalit would be back with his family "within days".

Israel is likely to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.

Sgt Shalit was captured in a cross-border raid in 2006, and repeated attempts to free him have failed.

But Mr Netanyahu said in a national TV address: "We have concluded arduous negotiations with Hamas to release Gilad Shalit. He will be coming home in the next few days."

'Window of opportunity'

The militant group Hamas, which runs Gaza, said in a statement that there were tens of thousands of people on the streets celebrating the deal.

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Analysis

Paul Danahar

BBC Middle East Bureau Editor

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It is hard to overstate how important the fate of Gilad Shalit is to Israel.

Almost every family in the country has a son or daughter serving in the military. Shalit's capture resonates with them all. He is probably the most recognisable figure in the country.

It is for that reason that the government is ready to swap him for - according to Hamas officials -1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails.

But after so many false dawns why now? The timing is important because Hamas has been on the back foot in recent months after Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's attempt to get Palestinian membership at the UN gained huge support in the occupied territories.

This is their way of showing their more violent approach can also win results. What will be key politically for both sides is how many high-profile prisoners Israel has been ready to give up.

The group's leader Khaled Meshaal appeared on TV to hail the swap deal as a victory for the Palestinian people.

He promised to carry on working to free every Palestinian prisoner held in Israeli jails.

The BBC's Jon Donnison in Jerusalem says Sgt Shalit's family and the families of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails will not believe a deal has been done until their relatives are home.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted an unnamed official in Mr Netanyahu's office as saying that "a brief window of opportunity has been opened" that could lead to Gilad Shalit's release.

The official added: "The window appeared following fears that collapsing Mid-East regimes and the rise of extremist forces would make Gilad Shalit's return impossible."

An Israeli source involved in the talks was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying that the deal called for 1,000 Palestinians prisoners to be freed in two stages.

The first involves the release of 450 for the soldier, with the remaining 550 to be freed later.

Some of the 5,000 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel have been convicted of serious crimes, but others are being held without charge.

Israel's Channel 2 TV reported that both sides had shown greater flexibility in recent talks.

Indirect talks over 25-year-old Sgt Shalit's release - being mediated by Egypt and Germany - had focused on prisoner exchanges.

In October 2009, Hamas released a video of the soldier calling on Mr Netanyahu to do everything to free him.

Occupy Wall Street activist blames 'the Jews'

ISRAEL TODAY

It was only a matter of time before activists involved in the "Occupy Wall Street" economic demonstrations began to blame "the Jews" for America's financial woes.

A YouTube video making the rounds over the weekend showed one such activist holding up a sign that read "Hitler's Bankers - Wall St" and shouting, "The Jews control Wall Street!"

The few who dared to heckle the man were told to "go to Israel."

When a liberal blogger in the crowd questioned if the man was planted by the hated right-wing Fox News, the man replied forcefully, "A f*cking Jew made that up," before resuming his chant of "Freedom of speech, freedom of speech."

While the man was mocked by several passersby, Jewish blogger JoshuaPundit noted that the majority neither said nor did anything to put an end to the anti-Jewish hate speech.

Meanwhile, Democratic congressional leader Nancy Pelosi, who has led an effort to co-opt the Occupy Wall Street movement as part of the Democratic presidential campaign, had this to say of the demonstrators: "God bless them."

SIXTH TRUMPET WATCH - Report: Assad threatens to attack Tel Aviv in case of NATO strike

YNET NEWS

Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday threatened to set fire to the Middle East, and especially to Israel, if NATO attacks Syria, the Iranian Fars news agency reported.

In a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Assad said: "If a crazy measure is taken against Damascus, I will need not more than six hours to transfer hundreds of rockets and missiles to the Golan Heights to fire them at Tel Aviv."

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World opinion swings back against Israel

Israel Today Magazine

Even when the Palestinian regime openly identifies itself as an impossible peace partner, it never takes long before the international community finds an excuse to again blame Israel for the lack of a peace agreement.

Earlier this week, the world was taken aback by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' brash unilateral push for statehood at the UN. For a brief moment, the world sided with Israel as it pleaded in vain for Abbas to return to the negotiating table.

But already on Thursday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton returned to the familiar rhetoric, suggesting that the construction of a few apartments in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem is what's really blocking peace.

"We believe that this morning's announcement by the government of Israel approving the construction of housing units in east Jerusalem is counter-productive to our efforts to resume direct negotiations between the parties," Clinton told reporters. "We have long urged both sides to avoid any kind of action which could undermine trust, including, and perhaps most particularly, in Jerusalem, any action that could be viewed as provocative by either side."

EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and British Foreign Secretary William Hague also condemned what they called "provocative settlement activity."

The three diplomats were referring to Israel's approval of the construction of 1,100 new apartments in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, which is already home to tens of thousands of Jews. The Palestinians claim Gilo as part of their future state, as it lies on the side of Jerusalem that was illegally occupied by Jordan prior to 1967.

It is worth pointing out that while Clinton is quick to jump on Israel for building a few apartments, she has not been consistent in calling out the "kind of action which could undermine trust" when it comes to the Palestinians.

For instance, Palestinian police forces have been operating in eastern Jerusalem in violation of signed agreements for the past couple of years. The Palestinian Authority has also resumed political activity in Jerusalem, again in violation of signed agreements.

Israel: Palestinians leave little hope for peace

ISRAEL TODAY MAGAZINE

For Israelis, the unilateral motion by the Palestinian Authority to gain admittance to the UN as a sovereign nation epitomized the Palestinian approach to the peace process over the entirety of the past 15 years.

In short, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put it in numerous interviews while visiting the US this week, "the Palestinians want a state, but don't want to give us peace."

On top of seeking to achieve their political goals in the absence of an agreement with Israel, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' speech to the UN was, in most Israelis' eyes, an act of incitement.

Abbas' speech, during which he all but labeled Israel as illegitimate, "distorted the historical record and showed open hatred and hostility for the Jewish state," Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin told Japanese Ambassador Haruhisa Takeuchi on Monday.

Prior to his speech, Abbas' delegation handed out maps of "Palestine" to UN members. The maps erased Israel completely and replaced the entire Jewish state with a Palestinian one.

Rivlin concluded that Abbas' actions "leave little hope [for peace]."

Nevertheless, Netanyahu and Western leaders continue to urge Abbas to return to the negotiating table.

At the weekend, the Middle East Quartet - the US, EU, Russia and the UN - submitted a proposal for the immediate resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

The proposal calls on both sides to set aside their differences and return to the negotiating table without preconditions. The Quartet plan envisions a rapid series of meetings, including a summit in Moscow, concluding with a final status peace deal to be signed no later than December 2012.

Israeli officials responded favorably to the proposal, while the Palestinians rejected it outright.

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki called the Quartet proposal "incomplete" because it failed to incorporate the Palestinians' preconditions - that Israel immediately halt all Jewish building in Judea and Samaria and agree to the pre-1967 armistice lines as the future border even before negotiations have begun.

The Palestinian side's intransigence was clear for all to see.

US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro told Army Radio on Tuesday that the Palestinian insistence on preconditions is not consistent with the terms of the peace process or American policy.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said she spoke to Abbas by telephone "insisting" that he reopen peace talks with Israel based on the Quartet's proposal.

Israeli President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres on Monday urged Abbas to "not waste time."

Netanyahu expressed in an interview with NBC's Meet the Press his concern that Abbas and the Palestinians are trying to "detour negotiations" in such a way as to make a genuine peace impossible to achieve.

"They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it," stated Netanyahu.

The UN Security Council is expected to vote on the Palestinian motion for statehood in the coming weeks, but there are rumors it may purposefully delay the issue. If it does come to a vote, the US has vowed to veto the motion.