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Day 39 – Arab Bank Tried for Terror Ties; GetTaxi Gets Funding; PLO Envoy Hails Israel’s “Annihilation”

by TheTower.org Staff |

Today was the thirty ninth day of Operation Protective Edge.

The Tower today covered the start of the Arab Bank trial at Federal District Court in Brooklyn. The Arab Bank, which is based in Jordan, is being sued for knowingly financing terrorist operations of Hamas. According to the suit, the bank facilitated payments to families of suicide bombers.

Israel21c covered the  Israeli startup GetTaxi, which has just received $150 million in funding. GetTaxi is a free app that allows users to hail cabs from their phone. GetTaxi is about to start a corporate service in New York and expand its operations to new European cities.

The PLO’s ambassador to Iran pronounced that “Israel’s annihilation has begun,” according to Iran’s semi-official news agency. Salah Zawawi made the comments this week. PressTV also reported that Zawawi called Israel’s self-defense part of “a Western plot aimed at weakening the religion of Islam.”

Hamas’ spokeswoman Isra Al-Mudallal acknowledged that her organization intimidated journalists not to reveal sites where terrorists were launching rockets from. In an interview with a Lebanese television she said that ” journalists who wanted to ‘[film] the places from where missiles were launched’ were ‘collaborating with the occupation.’”

The Israeli website Mida published a profile of Brig. Gen. Tsuri Sagi who helped create the modern Kurdish army in 1966. He helped Kurdish fighter defeat armored Iraqi forces at the battle of Mount Handrin. Now Sagi says of the Kurds, “the Israelis are the only ones they trust.”

The Associated Press reported on the growing discontent in Gaza of Hamas rule noting that criticism was remarkable given that “”[u]nder Hamas rule, it’s rare and dangerous to share even as much as a hint of criticism of the government with outsiders.”

[Photo: NTDTV / YouTube ]

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