The Obama administration has taken steps to weaken Israel’s ability to defend itself against the Islamic terrorist group Hamas and other Islamist threats in the region by blocking a scheduled arms shipment.
An official told the Wall Street Journal that the move by the White House and the State Department stopped the transfer and said it was because they wanted to increase pressure on Israel to make concessions to Hamas. The White House also said they will have greater oversight of anything that might be shipped to Israel.
One unnamed Israeli official told the WSJ that the move could be in part because the Israeli government didn’t support the re-election campaign of President Obama. The move is being seen as revenge for saying Mitt Romney would be a strongrer supporter of Israel.
The report says that the President and his inner circle are “persuaded that Mr. Netanyahu and his national security team are both reckless and untrustworthy.”
“Today, many administration officials say the Gaza conflict — the third between Israel and Hamas in under six years — has persuaded them that Mr. Netanyahu and his national security team are both reckless and untrustworthy,” the Journal report said. “Israeli officials, in turn, describe the Obama administration as weak and naive, and are doing as much as they can to bypass the White House in favor of allies in Congress and elsewhere in the administration.”
Sources inside the Israeli government say that Prime Minister Netanyahu is counting more on the support of members of Congress and not counting on support from the President.
The attack was scheduled to happen on Rosh Hashana.
Hamas had built tunnels that opened into residential neighborhoods, a kindergarden and various hospitals.
The plan? Massive terror attacks from all the tunnels at the same time. Kill women. Kill children.
A report released by the Israeli Defense Forces outlines the details of a Hamas plan to launch the massive terrorist attack. The plot was discovered after the IDF moved into Gaza following the kidnapping and killing of 3 Israeli youths by the Islamic terrorist group.
According to the study, Hamas spent nearly $130 million building the concrete tunnels from the Gaza strip miles into Israel. The money was taken from humanitarian relief sent into the region for the purpose of rebuilding after the last conflict with Israel.
The report also shows that Hamas used children to build the tunnels and that at least 150 children died during tunnel construction from cave-ins and accidents. The children were taken from their families without their parent’s consent to be used in the tunnel construction.
According to the Times of Israel, most of the tunnels were lined with uniforms made to resemble uniforms of the IDF. The report says the goal was to confuse forces responding to the attack and make them unable to quickly stop the assault.
A documentary released by VICE News shows Islamic terrorists training children to be homicide bombers and killers.
“What do you want to be? A jihadist or to execute a martyrdom operation?” Abdullah Al-Belgian of Belgium asks his young son Abdullah. “A jihadist,” he answers.
“Who do you fight with?” filmmaker Medyan Dairieh asks another child featured in the documentary. “The Islamic State,” the boy answers. “Where are you going after Ramadan?” Dairieh inquires. “To the camp … to have training,” the child replies. “What are you going to do after?” Dairieh asks. “Fight the Russians [and] Americans. The infidels.”
The video has interviews with various terrorist operatives that say children under 15 are sent to what is called “Sharia camp” to be brainwashed with the creeds of the terrorists and extreme Islam. When they turn 16, they are sent to the military camp.
Children taken to the city of Raqqa, Syria are shown dancing and singing for the caliphate celebration after terrorists obtained control of the city.
Terrorist group Hamas used a 7-hour humanitarian cease-fire offered by Israel to launch two terrorist attacks on Israeli citizens.
A terrorist snuck into Israel and hijacked a bulldozer that he used to ram a commuter bus. The terrorist was killed by Israeli Defense Forces but not before a by-stander was killed after being struck by parts of the bus.
Local police told reporters that Hamas routinely uses heavy equipment to attack Israeli citizens during times of rush hour traffic.
The second attack came when a gunman on a motorcycle drove past an Israeli soldier near a university in East Jerusalem and opened fire. The soldier was hit in the stomach and rushed to the hospital where he was reported in critical condition.
Israel resumed their air strike campaign against Hamas rocket launching sites as they began to pull some of their ground troops out of the Gaza Strip.
The Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram has made another deadly attack on a Christian church in Nigeria.
The terrorists bombed Saint Charles Catholic Church in Kano, Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least 5 people and wounding 8 others. The bombing happened shortly after the ending of Sunday mass as the crowd was beginning to leave the building. Police estimate the weapon was an IED thrown from across the road.
The attack was one of two attempted in Kano on Sunday. A woman wearing a homicide bomb vest was surrounded and isolated by police, detonating her device where she could not cause damage. Five officers were slightly wounded when she detonated the device.
In a surprising show of support to the Christian community of Kano, Muslim officials cancelled the city’s celebrating of the Eid festival marking the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan.
Government officials say that Boko Haram has started receiving weapons and training from other al-Qaeda related groups like Al-Shabab in Somalia.
The Islamic terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria accepted responsibility for a homicide bombing in Baghdad that has left at least 31 people dead.
Another 58 people were injured in the blast, some very severely, and officials say it’s likely the death toll is going to rise.
Christian bishops in Iraq are now calling for the government to protect Christians who are being killed and driven out of their homes in masses. They’re calling for the government to also provide funding for the thousands of families suddenly displaced by Islamic extremists.
Over 35,000 Christians have been forced to flee the city of Mosul after ISIS threatened to kill them unless they convert to Islam or pay a huge fine. Many of them have fled to Baghdad, where ISIS targets them in attacks.
Christian relief group World Compassion estimates at least 750,000 Christians have been forced to leave their homes since the Islamists began their campaign in northern Iraq.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood up to the head of the United Nations during a joint press conference, calling out Ban Ki-Moon for elevating Hamas to a position other than a terrorist organization.
U.N. head Ban Ki-Moon told reporters at a press conference that the two sides need to “stop fighting, start talking.” He went on to talk about how too many Palestinian and Israeli mothers are burying their children because of the conflict. He also began to push the two-state solution saying nothing else was viable.
That’s when Netanyahu challenged him on his fundamental basis for the comments.
“You spoke about the regional developments,” responds Netanyahu at their joint press conference in Tel Aviv. “What we are seeing here with Hamas is another instance of Islamist extremist that has no resolvable grievance. Hamas is like ISIS, like al-Qaeda, like Hezbollah, like Boko Haram.”
“What grievance can we solve for Hamas? Their grievance is that we exist.”
Netanyahu said that Israel will continue to defend themselves in any way they feel is necessary to stop the terrorists.
Christians are fleeing the Iraqi city of Mosul after the Islamic terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria issued a “convert or die” order in the city.
The edict says that by Saturday all Christians in the city must convert to Islam, pay a large fine or be killed according to a statement read in mosques throughout the city.
“Christian families are on their way to Dohuk and Irbil,” Patriarch Louis Sako told AFP news agency. “For the first time in the history of Iraq, Mosul is now empty of Christians.”
Islamists have been going through the city marking the homes of Christians for easy identification.
Mosul reportedly contained around 35,000 Christians when the Islamic terrorist group launched their campaign to take over Iraq. Churches throughout the city have been ransacked and their possessions taken or burned.
The Islamists have also destroyed Christian or Jewish shrines or artifacts within the city, including the tomb of the Prophet Jonah.
A group of Islamic extremists attacked two major Christian villages leaving at least 30 people dead in one attack and two men burned alive in the second.
The Morning Star News of Kenya reported that the Islamists attacked Covenant Church near Hindi after the close of a Bible study. Two men hid inside the building while the rest of the Christians fled the attack and were burned alive when the Islamists torched the building.
Less than 48 hours earlier, the same group of Islamists attacked near Gamba and Hindi, killing all they found after telling Muslims and non-Christians to leave the area or convert to Islam. One of the dead with a 12-year-old boy from a Christian primary school and other man who was executed point blank, put in a pool of his blood and then had a Bible jammed into his back.
One witness said the attackers bound their victims before killing them.
“I was removed with my daughter from the house while the attackers tied my husband to the bedside before setting the house on fire,” a survivor told Morning Star News. “The attackers…targeted non-Muslims, whom they tied with ropes before slitting their throats.”
The government confirmed most of the dead had their hands bound behind their backs and had their throats slit.
One of the students killed had a small blackboard placed next to the body that read “Kick Christians out [of] coast.”
Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram has made another daring daylight kidnapping of young women from northern Nigeria.
The Islamist gunmen descended on a nomadic village just outside of Chibok, the town where the terrorists kidnapped 300 schoolgirls and young women on April 15th. The gunmen pulled a truck into the center of the village, forced women to enter the truck at gunpoint and then fled before local militia could respond to the incident.
“We tried to go after them when the news got to us about three hours later,” Alhaji Tar, leader of one of the vigilante groups, told Fox News. “The vehicles we have could not go far and the report came to us a little late.”
The attack was the only successful one by Boko Haram as Nigerian defense forces stopped raids on villages in Borno and Adamawa states. More than 50 terrorists were reported killed by the military during the raids.
The military also announced the terrorists are trapped in the area around a lake with the 272 girls kidnapped in April but there is no way to attack them without the terrorists being able to see the attack coming form a distance.
