Dear Family & Friends,

Look into the eyes of this beautiful Jewish couple, gunned down in very cold & vicious blood in front of their 4 little children by murderers whose religion tells them to kill for their god. I put in the articles about the ongoing Terror attacks against civilian Jews in Israel so you all in the world will take up cudgels against the slings & arrows of very filthy outrageous fortune…(to paraphrase Will Shakespeare). These are bloody acts of a people who live to die by their own blood cult by killing others – especially us Jews.

Don’t let the UN, or BDS, or the NIF or the too many other nefarious, hostile entities & influential peoples incite to kill us & ruin this wonderful world. You know who I mean!

We can’t hide from it – even as we worry about our own kin. We need to face it with courage & faith in our lives as Jews & as residents on this earth together with those who don’t like us or intend to live on this earth peacefully with us.

So learn up, man-up, (woman-up), speak up for us & yourselves.

Have a wonderful night. The moon is waning now. A great day getting ready for Shabbat & on Sunday Simchat Torah. Find a shul & people to dance with our Torah.

All the very best, Gail/Geula/Savta/Savta x 2/Mom

7.20,000 Israelis Ignore Terror & Visit Gush Etzion 8.Netanyahu at UN: The Palestinians have refused to end the conflict & make a final peace with Israel. 9.Netanyahu at UN: Iran’s Plan to Destroy Israel Will Fail

10.Obama’s Surreal U.N. Speech by Elliot Abrams

11.Racist Tyrants, Polygamist Islamists, Despots of Every Stripe: Why Are We Funding the U.N.? by Anne Bayefsky

12.Abbas Wins a Flag but Backs Off from ‘Bomb’ at Half-Empty United Nations 13.Netanyahu’s Pre-UN Speech Message: Legalize Adei Ad Outpost

14.Firebomb Thrown At Rachel’s Tomb

1.Israeli Parents Shot to Death in Palestinian Terror Attack

Two parents were shot to death in front of their children Thursday night by Palestinian Arab terrorists in Samaria. By: Hana Levi Julian JewishPress.com Oct. 1, 2015

Rabbi Eitam & Naama Henkin HY”D

Eitam Henkin, an officer in the elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit of the IDF, had no chance when a burst of gunfire slammed into his car from two different firearms on Thursday night. He and his Na’ama were killed within seconds before the horrified eyes of their four young children.

The lethal drive-by terror attack that killed the two Israeli parents took place shortly before 9 pm on the road between the Jewish communities of Itamar and Elon Moreh in Samaria, the IDF said.

At least two terrorists targeted the vehicle as the Henkins drove past the Arab village of Beit Furik. The couple, both in their thirties, lived with their children in the Jewish community of Neria, north of Ramallah, in Samaria.

Medics who arrived at the scene said they were forced to declare both the father and mother dead when they found no vital signs in either body. Both bore multiple gunshot wounds in the torso.

Military sources said bullets were found at the scene from two different firearms, a rifle and a handgun.

Their four children were rescued from the vehicle and taken to the Itamar Junction where they received initial treatment from Magen David Adom (MDA) medical personnel.

The 4-month-old baby, and four-year-old, seven-year-old and nine-year-old boys, were taken with light injuries to a nearby medical center for further treatment.

IDF Spokesman Lt.-Col. Peter Lerner said, “Gunshots fired at a civilian vehicle, slaughtered two parents in front of their children. The IDF is operating to pursue and locate those responsible for this ruthless, heinous barbaric attack.”

The route between the communities of Itamar and Elon Moreh was closed off for the time being, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit added.

One of the first to arrive on the scene, MDA paramedic Boaz Malka said, “It was a very difficult scene. We saw a vehicle in the middle of the road, and a man in his thirties lying next to it with wounds in his upper torso. Inside the car sat a woman in her thirties, also with severe wounds to her upper torso. They were without any signs of life, and unfortunately we were forced to pronounce them dead on the spot.”

IDF soldiers fanned out across the area to search for the murderers.

The attack took place barely 24 hours after Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas announced from the podium of the United Nations General Assembly that his entity had renounced the internationally-recognized 1994 Oslo Accords.

Abbas declared the PA no longer considers itself obligated to meet its responsibilities under the agreement it signed with Israel at that time.

Education Minister and Bayit Yehudi party chairman Naftali Bennett issued a statement following the attack, saying the PA leader’s “call to arms was taken up tonight in Israel, and it is red with blood. A people whose leaders encourage murder will never have a state,” Bennett vowed, adding, “This must be made clear. Now the time of talking is done and the time for action has come.”

In the hour before the attack, Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stood before the UN General Assembly and slammed the incessant incitement and propaganda used by the Abbas government to whip up the Palestinian street.

Violent Palestinian Arab attacks on Israeli civilians and security personnel with a corresponding uptick in anti-Israel Palestinian Authority government incitement has escalated over the past several months, particularly over the past several weeks and especially since the start of the Jewish high holy days.

About the Author: Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.

Israeli Parents Shot to Death in Palestinian Terror Attack

2.MK Tzipi Hotovely: Terrorist Murder ‘More Proof Palestinians Don’t Want Peace’

Government ministers blamed Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas for Thursday night’s terrorist murder of an Israeli couple in front of their children. By: Hana Levi Julian JewishPress.com 10/2/15

Scene of shooting attack near Itamar and Elon Moreh on Oct. 1, 2015 Photo Credit: Ehud Amitun / Tazpit News Agency

The terrorist murder of Rabbi Eitam Henkin and his wife Na’ama in front of their four children in Samaria Thursday night proves “Palestinians do not want peace,” Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said in a statement.

The Likud minister drew a line from the attack straight to the Palestinian Authority’s abdication of its obligations under the Oslo Accords in a speech on Wednesday by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas.

“Abbas is inciting and the on the ground they are incited, and this is how the murderous mechanism that motivates murderous terror attacks in Judea and Samaria works,” she said.

“This type of incident is more proof that the Palestinians do not want peace but rather hatred, not dialogue but rather incitement and hatred. I strengthen the hands of the security forces in their search after the lowly murderers.”

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, a member of the Bayit Yehudi party, drew a similar conclusion. “This murderous incident that leaves behind a family orphaned of its parents is an outcome and direct continuation of Abbas’s mask of lies at the UN yesterday,” he told journalists.

“The responsibility is his, and his alone, and he must give an accounting for it. The response to the awful murder must be the annexation of Area C, an expansion of the settlement in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria,” he said, calling for the myriad of blocs under full Israeli control in Judea and Samaria to be annexed.

Likewise, Likud’s Culture Minister Miri Regev noted that 24 hours after the speech by Abbas, “a husband and wife were murdered in Israel. In his every word, Abbas encourages the murder of Jews and permits their blood. He inherited the path of [Yasser] Arafat and continues his criminal way that snatches the lives of innocents,” she said.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon vowed in his statement to pursue and capture the terrorists.

“This murderous terror attack this evening is a clear continuation of the incitement against the State of Israel and its civilians, and repeated attempts to carry out terror attacks,” Ya’alon said.

“The war against terrorism requires determination from us, a steel hand, and patience. We are fighting against a bloodthirsty relentless enemy, and with great sorrow we sometimes absorb losses on the way,” he added.

“At this time, the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) are pursuing the murderers. We will pursue them and we will not be silent until we place our hands on the murderers, and those who sent them.”

About the Author: Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.

MK Tzipi Hotovely: Terrorist Murder ‘More Proof Palestinians Do Not Want Peace’

3.Jewish Community to Hold Memorial Vigil Friday Outside of Palestinian Mission to UN

By: Ronn Torossian JewishPress.com Oct. 2, 2015

Eitam and Naama Henkin HY”D from Neria, murdered by terrorists on Oct. 1, 2015

Amcha-The Coalition for Jewish Concerns-and other Jewish organizations will hold a memorial vigil for the Israeli family who was killed tonight in Israel on Friday, October 2nd, 11 am, at the Palestinian UN Mission, located at Park Avenue & 65th Street, 115 East 65th Street, Manhattan.

Rabbi Avi Weiss will lead a memorial vigil for Rabbi Eitan Henkin and his wife Naama, both in their 30s, who were murdered by Palestinian terrorists in a drive-by shooting Thursday night in Israel.

Their four children who were also in the car escaped physical injury, but are psychologically traumatized.

“Just a day after Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas declared in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly that the Oslo Peace Accords with Israel are abrogated, Palestinian terrorists struck. Abbas incited this violence, and this blood is on his hands and is a direct outcome of Abbas’ speech at the United Nations,” noted Rabbi Avi Weiss.

“Our hearts are broken for the Henkin family. Rabbi Eitam Henkin was our granddaughter’s teacher at Nishmat, which was founded by Rabbanit Chana Henkin, R’ Eitam’s mother. It’s unbearable to imagine how four children watched their parents murdered in cold blood before their eyes. While our hearts and souls are now full of tears, I can’t help but place the blame directly at the feet of Abbas. When you declare in front of the world that all agreements with Israel are suspended, you send a message to go out and murder,” added Rabbi Weiss.

Rabbi Henkin’s parents are Rabbi Yehuda and Chana Henkin, who moved to Israel from the US. They are both world-renowned Jewish educators and religious thinkers. Chana Henkin founded the Nishmat Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies for Women in Jerusalem.

About the Author: Ronn Torossian is Founder and CEO of 5WPR, a leading PR Firm in New York and one of the 20 largest independently owned agencies in the United States. Ronn is an active Jewish philanthropist through his charity organization, the Ronn Torossian Foundation.

Jewish Community to Hold Memorial Vigil Friday Outside of Palestinian Mission to UN

4.Furious Israelis Protest Deadly Arab Terror Attacks in Judea, Samaria

Hundreds of Jews in Judea & Samaria demonstrated their rage & sadness over the terrorist murder of Rabbi Eitam & Na’ama Henkin.

By: Hana Levi Julian JewishPress.com Published: October 2nd, 2015

Furious Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria came out in force Thursday night to demonstrate against the continuing deadly terror attacks that once again left Israelis dead, and others wounded.

The IDF fanned out to search for the perpetrators, who managed to escape following the attack.

In several locations around Samaria, there were reports of Jewish protesters hurling rocks at Arab motorists driving on the roads, according to the Hebrew-language HaKol HaYehudi website.

Hundreds of Jews poured out of their homes in communities where protests were held in various locations around Judea and Samaria.

Some 150 Jews from Kiryat Arba protested at the entrance to the city near the Harsina neighborhood along Highway 60. The protesters reportedly walked to Hebron and threw stones at some of the Arab homes in the city. Police blocked the mob and prevented the situation from escalating there; the group then began to march towards the nearby Arab towns of Beit Anun and Halhul.

Also at the Givat Assaf Junction and the Gidon Junction on the Alon Highway, hundreds of Jews demonstrated, blocking the movement of Arab vehicles.

Arab terrorists continued their attacks as well, however.

A 28-year-old Jewish woman was injured by Palestinian Arabs who were throwing stones near the Yitzhar Junction. The woman was evacuated to Beilinson Medical Center in Petach Tikva, to be treated for an eye injury.

The Palestinian Authority’s Hebron intelligence chief was also attacked late Thursday night, struck by stone-throwers as he drove through Samaria.

It is unclear who perpetrated the attack, which took place in the exact same spot where Rabbi Eitam Henkin and his wife Na’ama were murdered by Arab terrorists just a few hours earlier.

The intelligence chief’s vehicle was smashed by the rocks and the official himself was injured in the attack. He was taken to a nearby medical center for treatment, according to Ynet. The incident is under investigation.

The IDF has deployed four additional battalions to Judea and Samaria in the wake of the lethal terror attack that took the lives of Rabbi Henkin and his wife Thursday night.

The first of the supplementary units is to arrive on Friday and will assist the existing units in searching for the murderers as well as other terrorists in the region.

About the Author: Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.

Furious Israelis Protest Deadly Arab Terror Attacks in Judea, Samaria

5.Baby, Mother Hurt by Stone-Throwing Palestinian Arabs Near Tekoa

A woman and three children, including a baby, are wounded Thursday in stone-throwing attacks near Tekoa. By: Hana Levi Julian JewishPress.com Oct. 1, 2015

An Israeli police man looks on at a car on where the windows were smashed by a stones thrown by Palestinian Arabs near Tekoa. (archive) Photo Credit: Gershon Elinson / Flash 90

Clashes broke out between IDF soldiers and Palestinian Arabs in a village near the eastern Gush Etzion Jewish community of Tekoa on Thursday afternoon.

The confrontation was allegedly triggered when the military security coordination in Tekoa fired into the air to warn off villagers who had begun hurling rocks at a vehicle belonging to one of the families from Tekoa.

Residents of Tekoa had traveled to the Arab village near their town to protest Palestinian Arab stone-throwing attacks that injured a woman and a six-month-old baby, and traumatized two other young children a few hours earlier. The father was uninjured.

Israeli motorists driving in two separate cars had come under attack (Thursday Oct. 1) by Palestinian Arab terrorists on the road near the community, which is located close to the Herodian, site of the ancient tomb of King Herod.

Both drivers continued to navigate their vehicles until they reached the safety of Tekoa, where they were able to inspect the damage to their cars.

Medics from the Magen David Adom emergency response service provided first aid to the woman who sustained a leg wound, and the six-month-old baby who was cut by flying glass.

Two other young children were badly traumatized & required treatment for anxiety after the attack.

About the Author: Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.

Baby, Mother Hurt by Stone-Throwing Palestinian Arabs Near Tekoa

6.Indictment Reveals Horrific Plan for Terror Axe Attack on Bus

By: JNi.Media JewishPress.com Published: October 1st, 2015
Masked men in Gaza hold axes & a gun as they celebrate the axe/knife attacks in a Jerusalem synagogue in 2014.

(JNi.media) Two weeks ago, Sergeant Yuval Apel regained consciousness at Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv. In early August, Apel and his friend Yaron Ashkenazi were seriously wounded and their commander was lightly injured in a terror car attack near the village of Sinjil, an Arab town 13 miles northeast of Ramallah. But now, according to Army Radio, which obtained the indictment in their case on Thursday morning, it turns out that the plan of the Arab attacker, Raed Mohammed Ibrahim Beduan from the village of Biddu near Ramallah, was far more bloodthirsty and homicidal.

From the indictment, submitted Wednesday to the Judea Military Court against terrorist car attacker Raed Beduan, it appears that he had planned, after conducting two reconnaissance patrols, to carry out an attack against a bus full of Israeli civilians, ramming his vehicle into the bus and then murdering the injured passengers using an ax.

Beduan furnished the ax and placed it in his car. On the day of the attack he drove to the Sinjil area, where he saw a bus loaded with Israeli soldiers. The bus moved away before he could carry out his plan, but then he spotted three soldiers who were walking by the side of the road and decided to murder them. He drove into them with his car, wounding two of them seriously, and then took the ax from the vehicle and went about killing the wounded soldiers who were lying on the road. That’s when the force commander, Major Daniel Elbaz, noticed him running and shot him, injuring him severely.

According to the indictment, Beduan decided to carry out his attack when he was watching news reports about the ascent of Jews to the Temple Mount, and the July 30 torching of a home in the village of Duma, where eventually four member of an Arab family perished. He decided to carry out a revenge attack and murder Israelis, and two days later he was already conducting his first preliminary tour. Just a week later, he carried out the car attack near the Sinjil intersection.

Indictment Reveals Horrific Plan for Terror Axe Attack on Bus

7.20,000 Israelis Ignore Terror & Visit Gush Etzion

The Givat Oz V’Gaon was among the sites overwhelmed with Sukkot holiday tourists from around the country. By: Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu JewishPress.com 9/30/15  Minister Ze’ev Elkin speaks at Givat Oz V’HaGaon at the “Simchat Beit HaShoeivah” on Tuesday. Photo Credit: Flash 90

Approximately 20,000 Israelis from all over the country visited Gush Etzion on the first day of Chol HaMoed Tuesday, numbers that regional council chairman Davidi Pearl said prove the strong connection between the area and all of Israel.

He added that the throng of visitors shows that terror cannot intimidate people.

Minister Ze’ev Elkin and Uri Ariel visited the Givat Oz V’Gaon park adjacent to the Gush Etzion junction. The area was dedicated to the memories of the three yeshiva youth were murdered by Hamas terrorists last year.

Thousands of tourists also traveled through Gush Etzion to visit the Patriarchs’ Cave (Maharat HaMachpela) in Hebron and the southern Hebron Hills.

Travelers reported a heavy presence of IDF patrols on Highway 60 to deter Arabs from trying to murder Jews with rocks and firebombs.

About the Author: Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu is a graduate in journalism and economics from The George Washington University. He has worked as a cub reporter in rural Virginia and as senior copy editor for major Canadian metropolitan dailies. Tzvi wrote for Arutz Sheva for several years before joining the Jewish Press

8.Netanyahu at UN: The Palestinians have refused to end the conflict & make a final peace with Israel.

By: Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu JewishPress.com Oct. 1, 2015

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the UNGA. Oct. 1, 2015. Photo Credit: screen capture webtv.un.org

Israel Defends Holy Shrines for Christians & Muslims

Prime Minister Netanyahu concluded his speech by telling the United Nations:

Mahmoud Abbas must stop spreading lies about the Temple Mount. He does not tell you that his people are using the Al Aqsa mosque to store explosives to attack our people.

It is Israel that defends the Temple Mount and the mosque.

It is Israel that protects holy shrines for Christians as well as Muslims.

It is Israel that ensures their safety.

Israel is not only defending itself.

It is defending you.

12:42 PM:

I remain committed to two states for two peoples in which a Palestinian state recognizes a Jewish state. Mahmoud Abbas said here yesterday he is not prepared to do this.

The Palestinians have refused to end the conflict and make a final peace with Israel.

You heard that rejection only yesterday from President Abbas. How can Israel make peace with a Palestinian partner who even refuses to sit and negotiate?

The United Nations can help peace by supporting direct negotiations between the parties. The United Nations will not help by trying to impose solutions or by encouraging Palestinian rejection.

The United Nations should rid itself of the obsessive bashing of Israel.

In four years of horrific violence in Syria, more than 250,000 people have lost their lives, more than 10 times the number of Israelis and Palestinians who have lost their lives in a century of conflict.

But last year, this assembly adopted 20 resolutions against Israel and one resolution against the savage slaughter in Syria.

Talk about justice! Talk about disproportionality!

Frankly, I am not surprised.

To borrow a line from Yogi Berra, when it comes to bashing Israel at the United Nations, it is déjà vu all over again.

Enough!

12:35 PM

Our small country is making a huge contribution to the entire world.

Israeli know-how is everywhere. It is in your smartphones; it is on your farm when you drip irrigate your crops. It is in your universities. It is in your medicine cabinet and on your plate.

12:31 PM

Israel is working closely with our Arab peace partners against the challenges of a nuclear Iran and ISIS. We are also working with other countries in our region. We all know that Iran and ISIS are our enemies.

Common dangers clearly are bringing Israel and our Arab neighbors closer.

But our closest relationship has been and always will be with the United States.

12:27 PM

For 100 generations, the Jewish people dreamed of returning to the Land of Israel. Even in our darkest hours, we never gave up hope of rebuilding our eternal capital of Jerusalem.

Here is my message to the rulers of Iran: Your plan to destroy Israel will fail.

And here is my message to the countries here: Whatever resolutions you pass, Israel will do whatever it has to, to defend our state and our people.

12:23 PM

Israel will not allow Iran to sneak in or walk in to the ‘nuclear weapons club.’

12:20 PM

More than 70 years after the Nazis destroyed six million Jews, Iran declared it will annihilate Israel, and the response from this body has been silence – deafening silence.

If Iran were working to destroy your country, perhaps you would be less enthusiastic about this deal.

But Iran is building ICBMs – not to destroy Israel but to attack your countries.

12:15 PM:

If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.

When bad behavior is rewarded, it only gets worse.

12:11 PM:

In 2013, Rouhani began his “charm offensive” here at the United Nations, and now is executing more political prisoners and expanding world terror. In Iran’s case, the words speaks as loud as its action.

The deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards said in February: The Islamic Revolution is not limited by geographical borders. Yemen and Palestine are among the countries to be conquered by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

12:05 PM:

The nuclear deal with Iran does not peace more likely: it makes war more likely.

Since the framework agreement was signed six months ago, Iran has armed Houthi rebels in Yemen, it has provided Hezbollah with missiles so it can accurately hit any target in Israel, it has aided Syria, it has funded Hamas and it has promised to send operatives to the Golan Heights from where rockets recently were fired on Israel.

About the Author: Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu is a graduate in journalism and economics from The George Washington University. He has worked as a cub reporter in rural Virginia and as senior copy editor for major Canadian metropolitan dailies. Tzvi wrote for Arutz Sheva for several years before joining the Jewish Press.

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9.Netanyahu at UN: Iran’s Plan to Destroy Israel Will Fail

by TheTower.org Staff | 10.01.15 1:32 pm

In his speech today at the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listed a litany of incendiary statements and violent plots made by Iran and its terrorist proxy groups against the Jewish state, but promised that Iran’s “plan to destroy Israel will fail.”

He specifically noted that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had, in the middle of negotiations over the country’s illicit nuclear program earlier this year, published a book that contained a blueprint for destroying Israel. He criticized the world for not condemning Khamenei’s statement or his long history of support for violence.

Seventy years after the murder of six million Jews, Iran’s rulers promise to destroy my country, murder my people, and the response from this body and nearly every one of the governments represented here has been absolutely nothing. Utter silence. Deafening silence.

Netanyahu then stood silent for 44 seconds.

Later in the speech, he criticized the United Nations for having adopting 20 resolutions against Israel in the last four years, but only one against Syria, where more than 250,000 people have died—”More than ten times the number of Israeli and Palestinians who have lost their lives during more than a century,” Netanyahu noted.

While Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that his government no longer considered itself bound by the Oslo Accords and other agreements with Israel, Netanyahu asked Abbas to return to negotiations to bring about peace.

How can Israel make peace with partner who refuses to sit at negotiating table? Israel expects them to stand by their commitments. Abbas, I know it’s not easy, I know it’s hard, but we owe it to our peoples to try, because together, if we actually negotiate, and stop negotiating about the negotiations, and recognize each other, if we do it, then we can do remarkable things for our people.

[Photo: Washington Free Beacon / YouTube]

Netanyahu at UN: Iran’s Plan to Destroy Israel Will Fail

ISRAPUNDIT: from TED BELMAN: 9/30/15

10.Obama’s Surreal U.N. Speech By Elliott Abrams, NATIONAL REVIEW

President Obama’s U.N. speech today is filled with nice lines that unfortunately bear no relationship to his seven years of foreign policy — and in some cases, no relationship to reality. The speech had several strong paragraphs about freedom, human rights, and democracy. For example, Obama said: “I believe a government that suppresses peaceful dissent is not showing strength. It is showing weakness, and it is showing fear. History shows that regimes who fear their own people will eventually crumble.”

But his administration has in fact steadily reduced American programs supporting human rights and democracy, and reached out to tyrannies such as Iran and Cuba — delaying the day when they will “eventually crumble.”

He spoke of the nuclear non-proliferation regime as one of the “principal achievements” of the United Nations, but of course that regime has been endangered by his awful Iran deal more than by any other development in decades. (And in what sense were nuclear non-proliferation agreements negotiated by the United States an achievement of the U.N., anyway?)
It is Barack Obama who has led the way for three years in doing absolutely nothing about Assad’s terror. Obama spoke harshly of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, “who drops barrel bombs on innocent children” and uses chemical weapons, and he called for “a managed transition away from Assad.” But it is Barack Obama who has led the way for three years in doing absolutely nothing about Assad’s terror.

When in 2012 even Hillary Clinton advised that the United States had to do more, Obama rejected that advice and stood firmly for inaction. On Libya, he said: “Even as we helped the Libyan people bring an end to the reign of a tyrant, our coalition could have and should have done more to fill a vacuum left behind.” But why did the coalition not do more? Because Barack Obama rushed for the exits, not because “our coalition” got it wrong.

Then came Cuba, perhaps the most offensive part of Obama’s speech. Here is what he said: In this new era, we have to be strong enough to acknowledge when what you are doing is not working. For 50 years, the United States pursued a Cuban policy that failed to improve the lives of the Cuban people. We changed that. We continue to have differences with the Cuban government, we will continue to stand up for human rights, but we address these issues through diplomatic relations and increased commerce. And people-to-people ties. As these contacts yield progress, I am confident that our Congress will inevitably lift an embargo that should not be in place anymore. Change won’t come overnight to Cuba, but I am confident that openness, not coercion, will support reforms and better the life the Cuban people.

Nowhere in all of this did he call for democracy in Cuba. Nowhere did he call upon the regime to free political prisoners; instead he said “change won’t come overnight,” as if the regime had not been resisting change through executions and jailings for more than 50 years. His only actual demand was made not to Castro but to the U.S. Congress, to fully end the embargo of Cuba. Now, human-rights conditions in Cuba have actually deteriorated in Cuba since his policy of embracing the regime was announced last year, giving the lie to the claim that “we will continue to stand up for human rights.” In fact, if President Obama wanted to stand up for human rights in Cuba, today’s address to the United Nations was a perfect opportunity. He blew it.

Some of the tougher language here, like that against the Assad regime, is welcome. But as with the talk about Ukraine, it won’t scare Putin or Assad or the Iranians. They’ve heard it all before and watched as Obama failed to act when American interests were on the line. They listened again today when he said he would never hesitate to use military force, but they recall the chemical-weapons red line in Syria that disappeared and the refusal to act forcefully on Ukraine or Syria, and they see Obama presiding over a steady decline in American military strength.

It’s hard to believe they will wince and withdraw after hearing U.N. General Assembly speech number seven from Obama. Obama concluded this speech by saying: “We are called upon to offer a different type of leadership. Leadership strong enough to recognize that nations share common interests, and people share a common humanity.” That’s a nice summation of Obama’s approach, and as we look at the global mess he has created, those words should stick in our minds. Our next president will also have to offer a “different kind of leadership,” one that realizes that the conduct of vicious regimes in China or Russia or Iran or Cuba won’t be affected by warm words about “common interests.”

Today was vintage Obama, & one can only be thankful that his next U.N. speech will be his last. — Elliott Abrams is senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict.

ISRAPUNDIT: from TED BELMAN: 9/30/15

11.Racist Tyrants, Polygamist Islamists, Despots of Every Stripe: Why Are We Funding the U.N.? By Anne Bayefsky, NATIONAL REVIEW

The parade of dictators and despots taking the U.N. stage on Monday, as the organization marks its 70th anniversary, was nothing short of spectacular. As were the lies they told without batting an eye to a friendly and respectful audience. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has his hand out for an additional $20 billion this year, so let’s look at what American taxpayers are getting for their large chunk (one-quarter) of the U.N’s bills.

Xi Jinping, President of China, said “we must endeavor to meet” the goals of “democracy and freedom.” Meanwhile, he is an iron-fisted ruler of an undemocratic state where 1.3 billion people languish without civil and political rights.

Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, said that without the U.N. — “unique in its legitimacy” — “we would be left with no other rules than the rule of force.” This from a megalomaniac who gobbled up Crimea and now occupies other parts of Eastern Ukraine by force. Putin also said, “Everything that contravenes the U.N. Charter must be rejected.” Except apparently Chapter 1, article 1, which commits the organization to maintaining international peace and security and suppressing acts of aggression.
Raúl Castro, president of Cuba, said: “The international community can always depend on Cuba to raise its honest voice against injustice . . . and for . . . international order that really focuses on the human being, his dignity and well-being.” No matter that the Castro brothers have denied elementary freedoms to the people of Cuba for more than half a century.

Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, said that “respecting and upholding human rights is the obligation of all states” and that “now is our time to leave our own positive mark in the history of human development.” A racist ruthless tyrant, Mugabe spent decades raping and pillaging Africa’s breadbasket until it was a basket case.

Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, emir of Qatar, said: “We affirm our commitment to fight terrorism,” adding that Qatar is “pursuing an approach based on the rule of law, transparency, justice, and human dignity.” This polygamist bankroller of Hamas, with close ties to the Taliban and the Muslim Brotherhood, inherited the country — like his father before him — as a family business.

And then there was Hassan Rouhani, president of Iran, who described his rise to power this way: “Two years ago, the people of Iran in a competitive election with their votes gave me a mandate.” It was an election in which 686 candidates tried to register, eight were allowed to run, and every woman was disqualified.

Rouhani continued: “We propose . . . no country be allowed to use terrorism.” These are the words of the leading state sponsor of terrorism. “Iran . . . has never had the intention of producing a nuclear weapon,” he claimed. But in the words of the IAEA: “Iran has carried out activities that are relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device.” To top it off, Rouhani threw in some deep-rooted anti-Semitism: “The inhumane actions of the Zionist regime” lay at the “roots of today’s wars, destruction, and terror.”

The current prevailing opinion in state departments, foreign ministries, and college lecture halls is that all this is unsurprising, irrelevant, and harmless hot air. That claim, however, is harder to sustain after listening to the U.N. chief whose outlook and behavior is fashioned in the image of these thugs.

The secretary-general condemned Israel before he thought to criticize “Da’esh [ISIS], Boko Haram, and Al-Shabab.” He worried that “the fight against terror” and terror itself were a “cycle” of human-rights abuses. Democracy merited one mention near the end of his remarks.

It’s Barack Obama, though, who provided the most pitiful image. Casting but a shadow of America’s former self on the world stage, he stepped into this moral morass for the seventh time in his presidency.

He said: “Democracy in the United States is certainly imperfect. At times, it can even be dysfunctional.” And for the umpteenth time in his tenure, he trotted out the warmongering, trigger-happy, American straw man: “We see an argument made that the only strength that matters for the United States is bellicose words and shows of military force.” Said no American ever.

The president belittled his opposition at home with his most revealing statement of all: “We see in our debates about America’s role in the world a notion of strength that is defined by opposition to old enemies, perceived adversaries, a rising China, or a resurgent Russia; a revolutionary Iran, or an Islam that is incompatible with peace.” Since when are China, Russia, revolutionary Iran — still holding American hostages — and the self-proclaimed Islamist brand that is actually incompatible with peace, only “perceived” adversaries?

Obama’s fibs are no less toxic than those of the men who took the U.N. podium when he was done. He boasted, “The last two decades prov[e] that in today’s world, dictatorships are unstable.” If we’re not counting Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Raúl Castro, Hassan Rouhini, Robert Mugabe, and Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani (and more) — since these tyrants alone are the living embodiment of five decades to the contrary. Bad guys rarely go quietly into that good night.

The president conceded that Iran, “as of this moment, continues to deploy violent proxies.” But his response was surreal: “Chanting ‘Death to America’ does not create jobs.” The U.N. at 70 is an institution where the big lie wins, so it falls to an American president to be — at the very least — a truth-teller.

The U.N. at 70 is akin to a false God whose devotees are the morally bankrupt, intimidated, neutered, or ashamed.

Shame on us if it turns 71.

12.Abbas Wins a Flag but Backs Off from ‘Bomb’ at Half-Empty United Nations

Abbas also faked out Israel by saying that no agreements are valid if Israel does not agree to his interpretations. By: Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu JewishPress.com 9/30/15 Latest update: Oct. 1, 2015

Abbas at the U.N.
Photo Credit: Al Jazeera screen shot

Mahmoud Abbas informed the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday that he has submitted a request to the Security Council for recognizing the Palestinian Authority as an independent country based on its territorial demands with its capital in Jerusalem.

He also conditioned the Palestinian Authority’s abiding by agreements on Israel’s doing the same, which in his view means agreeing to all demands for a new state based on the Arab world’s terms.

However, the fact that the General Assembly was half-empty symbolizes the decreasing interest in the “Israeli-Palestinian” struggle and is a follow-up to President Barack Obama’s speech earlier this week in which he totally ignored the issue.

Abbas did not drop his threatened “bombshell,” perhaps a direct cancellation of all agreements, after a warning from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to keep his cool. Instead, he spun the yarn that the Palestinian Authority honors all agreements but that Israel does not..

His favorite point was “illegal settlements.” There is no agreement with the Palestinian Authority that Israel will not retain a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria, unless negotiations conclude otherwise. But Abbas is relying on U.N. resolutions as “agreements.”

Since he has the support of most of the United Nations and foreign media, he can get away with the semantic trickery.

Abbas referred to Israel as an “occupying power” five times in his 40-minute speech, and he played on theme of the “Holy Land” six times, alleging that the “occupying power” prevents Muslims from worshipping at the Al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is expected to tell the General Assembly in his speech that the Palestinian Authority is behind vicious incitement on the Temple Mount in an effort to change the status quo and prohibit Jews from the holy site.

Abbas’ speech was filled to the brim with accusations against Israel, which afterwards called the address one of “incitement,” while he acted as the eternal peacemaker.

He rewrote history for a receptive audience and media, stating in part:

We entered those negotiations with open hearts and attentive ears and sincere intentions, and we were ready with our documents, papers and proposals. But the negotiations broke down just weeks after their launch…..

Sincere efforts and endeavors undertaken by international parties were repeatedly wrecked by the positions of the Israeli government, which quickly dashed the hopes raised by the launch of negotiations last September.

Unsurprisingly, Abbas weighed into “settlements.” an issue on which he has the full backing of the Obama administration. He told the United Nations:

Settlement activities embody the core of the policy of colonial military occupation of the land of the Palestinian people and all of the brutality of aggression and racial discrimination against our people that this policy entails.

This policy, which constitutes a breach of international humanitarian law and United Nations resolutions, is the primary cause for the failure of the peace process, the collapse of dozens of opportunities, and the burial of the great hopes that arose from the signing of the Declaration of Principles in 1993 between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel to achieve a just peace that would begin a new era for our region.

He repeated what has become an Arab mantra, totally unsubstantiated by facts, that Israel is conducting “excavations that threaten our holy places, and its military checkpoints prevent our citizens from getting access to their mosques and churches.”

Abbas managed to bring Israeli Arabs under his umbrella, warning that the Israeli government is imposing “new conditions…that will transform the raging conflict in our inflamed region into a religious conflict and a threat to the future of a million and a half Christian and Muslim Palestinians, citizens of Israel.”

His speech exposed the Palestinian Authority strategy of using the original peace agreement with Israel as a basis to demand that all its conditions be met under “negotiations,” which in essence have left nothing to be negotiated.

Abbas recalled that in 1988, “We agreed to establish the State of Palestine on only 22% of the territory of historical Palestine – on all the Palestinian Territory occupied by Israel in 1967.”

History has proven that every concession Israel was seen – correctly – by the Arab world as a sign of weakness that enabled the Palestinian Authority to go for broke, including the demand for the immigration of five million Arabs into Israel from foreign countries, an issue that Abbas threw into his speech.

He made it clear in his address that there is no room for compromise. he stated:

The goal of the Palestinian people is the realization of their inalienable national rights in their independent State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, on all the land of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.

He also repeated his “renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism” even though incitement and praise of terror as an official Palestinian Authority policy have been reported at least once a week in the JewishPress.com based on translations and publication of incitement uncovered by Palestinian Media Watch.

Abbas previously has said that negotiating with Israel no longer is practical, but he reversed his view for the sake of the General Assembly, stating:

I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.

His statement was an open declaration that nothing is to be negotiated.

Abbas also claimed that the Palestinian Authority, as a country, will have “rules and regulations for ensuring accountability and transparency in the work of our Ministries and departments; to entrenching the pillars of democracy as the basis for the Palestinian political life.”

For the record, Abbas now is serving the 11th year of his four-year term, of office after the first and only elections.

The Palestinian Authority flag was raised Wednesday at the United Nations for the first time, another symbolic sign of statehood that both Arafat and Abbas have rejected without conditions that would pave the way for the eventual Arab takeover of all of Israel as Palestine” and as defined on official Palestinian Authority maps.

The issue of freedom of religion in his envisioned state was clear in his speech.

Abbas said: I come before you today from the Holy Land, the land of Palestine, the land of divine messages, ascension of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the birthplace of Jesus Christ (peace be upon him), to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people in the homeland and in the Diaspora, to say, after 63 years of suffering of the ongoing Nakba: Enough. It is time for the Palestinian people to gain their freedom and independence.

He made no mention of Judaism or Jews in his “Holy Land.”

About the Author: Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu is a graduate in journalism and economics from The George Washington University. He has worked as a cub reporter in rural Virginia and as senior copy editor for major Canadian metropolitan dailies. Tzvi wrote for Arutz Sheva for several years before joining the Jewish Press.

13.Netanyahu’s Pre-UN Speech Message: Legalize Adei Ad Outpost

Government lawyers admitted to the court that there was massive illegal building on the outpost, claimed by leftists as a source of violence.

By: Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu JewishPress.com 9/30/15

Israeli soldiers with Adei Ad residents and Arabs from nearby village

Government prosecutors have told the Supreme Court Wednesday it intends to legalize the controversial Adei Ad outpost in Samaria while admitting that it was built illegally.

The announcement came hours before Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly and may indicate that the Prime Minister is going to match Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ hardliner stance towards Israel by making it clear that the number of “settlements” will grow.

However, the announcement also could be part of a political deal with leaders of Judea and Samaria, legalizing the outpost but continuing an unofficial building freeze or carrying out the dismantlement of other outposts.

The government response puts a huge hole in efforts by the anti-settlement Yesh Din organization, which has petitioned the court in the name of four Arab villages to order the expulsion of Adei Ad residents.

The government told the Supreme Court that it will examine the status of all the Adei Ad land, which the community says is state land. The court previously has rejected Arab claims that Arab land belongs to them.

A closer probe of the status could result in the government’s widening the area that is considered state land, in director opposition to Arab claims of ownership.

Approximately 40 families live on Adei Ad, which was built in 1998.

About the Author: Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu is a graduate in journalism and economics from The George Washington University. He has worked as a cub reporter in rural Virginia and as senior copy editor for major Canadian metropolitan dailies. Tzvi wrote for Arutz Sheva for several years before joining the Jewish Press.

Netanyahu’s Pre-UN Speech Message: Legalize Adei Ad Outpost

14.Firebomb Thrown At Rachel’s Tomb By: Tazpit News Agency Published: September 29th, 2015

Fortress Rachel (Rachel’s Tomb)
Photo Credit: Mendy Hechtman/Flash90

A firebomb was thrown at the parking lot next to Rachel’s Tomb on Tuesday evening.

No damage or injuries were reported.

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15.Explosive Device Near Kever Rachel By: Jewish Press News Briefs Published: Oct 2,, 2015