SHABBAT SHALOM

FROM HIALEAH TO ISRAEL AND ALL THE DIASPORA

SHABBAT SHALOM !!!!

13 DEAD, MORE THAN 30 WOUNDED LATER and now...

Photo of Nidal Hasan wearing the garb of the shaheed the morning of his jihad against US soldiers at Fort Hood. Obama said his mass murder was “workplace violence.”

“Fort Hood shooter says he wants to become ‘citizen’ of islamic state caliphate,” By Catherine Herridge, FOX News, August 28, 2014

The convicted shooter in the Fort Hood massacre has written a letter to the leader of the islamic State saying he wants to become a “citizen” of the caliphate, in the latest example of the terror group’s reach inside the U.S.

The letter from Nidal Hasan, obtained by Fox News, comes after two Americans reportedly died fighting for ISIS in Syria. Sources late Wednesday identified the second as Abdirahmaan Muhumed, of Minneapolis. Fox affiliate KMSP-TV in Minneapolis reported that Muhumed was killed in the same battle as Douglas McArthur McCain, who grew up outside Minneapolis in the town of New Hope and most recently lived in San Diego.  The State Department said Thursday it could not confirm Muhumed’s death and efforts to reach his family were unsuccessful.  In the undated letter, Hasan — who fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 at Fort Hood in 2009 in what the Defense Department called “workplace violence”– tells ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that he wants to join the caliphate.

PS.-  SINCE HE IS SO PRO-ISIS...and he has been convicted of murder...we should take him to Fort Hood, Texas...in the middle of the parade grounds....soldiers and general public all around the stage and behead him...ISISL-style...but with an old knife.  That will be some justice rather than keeping him in jailed forever at the taxpayer's expense.

CNN (muslim-lovers channel) will get the exclusive....lol

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Hussein Obama should remember this phrase...

President Hussein Obama is telling the world he doesn’t have a strategy years after  jihadists began slaughtering non-Muslims and religious minorities in Syria.  Obama supported it. Now that they have succeeded in conquering whole swaths of the Middle East, he is telling these Islamic savages he has no strategy. In other words, Muhammad, have your way with the world.  Why doesn’t Obama give them the coordinates to our most sensitive military and intel sites while he’s at it.  The man is practically begging them to hit us.  No matter what they do, no matter how horrific, Obama smiles.
President Obama Says ‘We Don’t Have a Strategy Yet’ to Bomb ISIS in Syria,” President Obama admitted today that his administration does not yet have a strategy to combat the militant Islamic group ISIS that has seized large chunks of Iraq and Syria.

When the president was asked if he would seek Congressional approval for U.S. attacks on ISIS targets in Syria, he responded, “I don’t want to put the cart before the horse. We don’t have a strategy yet.” “Some of the news reports suggests that folks are getting a little further ahead of where we’re at than we currently are,” he added.  The president said he would consider his military options today with the National Security Council.  “The options that I’m asking for from the Joint Chiefs focuses primarily on making sure that ISIL is not overrunning Iraq,” Obama said during a news conference in the White House briefing room, using another acronym for the militant Islamic group ISIS.

Earlier this week, the president approved military surveillance flights over Syria, but air strikes in that country have not been authorized. U.S. military planes have carried out over 100 airstrikes in Iraq.  “As commander in chief, I will always do what is necessary to protect the American people,” he said today. “Our military action in Iraq has to be part of a broader comprehensive strategy to protect our people and to support our partners who are taking the fight to ISIL.”  Obama said he is dispatching Secretary of State John Kerry to the area to work with allies, and ordered Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to prepare “a range of options” for dealing with ISIS.

“It also means that states in the region stop being ambivalent about these extremist groups,” Obama said. “This should be a wake-up call to Sunni, to Shia, to everybody that a group like ISIS is beyond the pale; that they have no vision or ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.”  The president promised to continue to consult with Congress in the days and weeks ahead.  “I do think that it’ll be important for Congress to weigh in, or that our consultations with Congress continue to develop, so that the American people are part of the debate.” he said. “I will consult with Congress and made sure their voices are heard.”

Following Obama’s remarks, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted the president would have “significant congressional support” if he engages legislators in the development of his plans.  “The president needs to develop a regional strategy, working with our allies, to defeat ISIL and to use the full extent of his authorities to attack this enemy force,” McConnell, R-Ky., wrote in a statement. “But don’t forget, the threat from ISIL is real and it’s growing — and it is time for President Obama to exercise some leadership in launching a response.”   Following his remarks, Obama convened a meeting with the National Security Council in the Situation Room, with Vice President Joe Biden, Kerry, and several senior military advisors. Since video emerged Aug. 19 showing the beheading of American journalist James Foley, Obama has fought back against fresh criticism of his foreign policy, promising to be “relentless” in his fight against the emerging threat posed by ISIS.

- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2014/08/president-obama-islamic-state-isis-president-obama-says-dont-strategy-yet.html/#sthash.56AQFVT7.dpuf

Obama said he has asked Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to prepare options for confronting Islamic State and said Secretary of State John Kerry would travel to the region to help create an anti-Islamic State coalition.  Obama's strategy for Islamic State is not limited to military action. It includes supporting moderate Sunni rebels in Syria and encouraging a unity government in Baghdad between Shi'ites and Sunnis, who have engaged in sectarian battles.  "My priority at this point is to make sure that the gains that ISIL (Islamic State) made in Iraq are rolled back and that Iraq has the opportunity to govern itself effectively and secure itself," he said.  Obama said the options he had requested from military planners at the Pentagon focused primarily on making certain that Islamic State is "not overrunning Iraq."  Congressional concerns over potential US military strikes in Syria have increased.

In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, Democrats James McGovern of Massachusetts and Barbara Lee of California and Republican Walter Jones of North Carolina asked for Congressional debate and a vote on any authorization to use military force.  Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, said he thought Obama would have "significant congressional support" if he provided a strategic plan to protect the United States and its allies from the Sunni militants.  Obama promised that he would consult Congress, but unlike a year ago when strikes were considered against Syria, he did not vow to seek specific congressional authorization.  "I don't want to put the cart before the horse," he said. He said news reports have suggested he is on the verge of an elaborate strategy for defeating the group without consulting Congress.  "That's not what's going to happen," he said.

Intelligent Elevator (Ascensor Inteligente)

THESE TWO "SINISTER" CHARACTERS DO HAVE AN STRATEGY DESIGNED TO MAKE YOU LAUGH...LAUGH WHILE YOU CAN...UNDER SHARIA LAW THESE TYPE OF THINGS WILL NOT BE PERMITTED.....LOL

THE NEWS TODAY ARE RATHER GRIM...WARS...MASSACRES...FLOODINGS....HUSSEIN OBAMA DOES NOT HAVE AN STRATEGY FIGURED OUT YET-BUT HE IS WORKING ON IT....BUT IT IS A LONG THREE DAY WEEKEND...TIME FOR GOLF AGAIN OR PERHAPS A MINI-VACATION WITH THE FAMILY...THE WEATHER LOOKS FINE AND ISISL IS TOO FAR AWAY TO RUIN HIS GOLF GAME...here I attached the famous statue of THE THINKER by Auguste Rodin...this is our "president" pondering what we are all pondering...and PINKY would ask...WHAT ARE WE DOING TONIGHT, BRAIN? and Hussein Obama would answer...PINKY, I YET HAVE TO FIGURE OUT....LOL

IS ISRAEL TRULY AN APARTHEIDT STATE????

EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT CATHOLIC...

LA VERDAD SIEMPRE DUELE PORQUE ES LA VERDAD...LEELO Y SABRAS PORQUE LA VERDAD OS HARA LIBRE....LEE, RAZONA, APRENDE...PARA QUE DESPUES NO DIGAN QUE NO TE LO DIJERON...QUE NO SABIAS...

EYE-OPENER - even if you are not Catholic

 

Charity Hospital run by the Sisters of Charity in New Orleans , along with the Upjohn company developed the plasma system in the 1930's that saved so many lives in WWII, Korea , Vietnam and in the Middle East now.

During the Civil War most of the nurses were nuns.

Today, one out of five people in this country receive their medical care at a Catholic hospital.

Today, the Catholic Church teaches 3 million students a day, in its more than 250 Catholic Colleges and Universities, in its more than 1200 Catholic High Schools and its more than 5000 Catholic grade schools.

Every day, the Catholic Church feeds, clothes, shelters and educates more people than any other organization in the world.

The new Hussein Obama Health Mandate could end all this and the tax payers would have to make up the loss ..

Also, all Catholic adoption services would come to an end; a human disaster.  All fight against abortions would practically end.

There are more than 77 million Catholics in this country. It takes an estimated 50 million votes to elect a president. So???????

I am asking all of you to go to the polls in 2014 and be united in replacing all Senators and Reps with someone who will respect the Catholic Church, all Christians, the Jewish people and their nation...ISRAEL, and all Religions with perhaps the exception of islam (refuse to use caps).

Mr. President, you said, "The USA is not a Christian Nation". You are wrong - we are a Christian Nation, founded on Judeo-Christian values allowing all religions in America to worship & practice freely. Something islam will never do.  

ONE NATION UNDER GOD, said our Founding Fathers...and they certainly did NOT mean islam...

Oh, by the way, on muslim heritage America, as you said.........

Have you ever been to a muslim hospital,

heard a muslim orchestra,

ever seen them marching on a 4th of July Parade,

seen a muslim band march in a parade,

know of a muslim charity,

ever seen muslims shaking hands with a muslim Girl Scout,

or ever seen a muslim Candy Striper volunteering in a hospital?

 

Have you ever seen a muslim do much of anything that contributes positively to the American way of life?

Remember the first/second attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Lockerbie Bombing, the Boston Marathon Massacre, the Ft. Hood Massacre...all we needed to learn about the islam,  we learned it on those occasions...

Let's circulate this to as many as possible.  The enemies of a free and pluralistic society based on Judeo-Christian values are here, among us...so let us be vigilant and alert.

And remember the election coming up in 2014 and 2016!!!

THE TRUTH ALWAYS HURTS BECAUSE IT IS THE TRUTH ... READ AND REASON BECAUSE THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE.  READ IT AND LEARN SO LATER YOU COULD NOT CLAIM THAT YOU DID NOT KNOW...

“What is next for ISRAEL?” by Moshe Feiglein MK

I have spent the past few weeks speaking in many different Jewish communities in the USA. So far, I have addressed over 2,000 people. At every one of my presentations I am asked a simple, three-worded question: “What is next for ISRAEL?”  My answer is direct and honest: Until Israel elects a government that bases its actions on authentic Jewish values, our beloved homeland will continue to be pounded by missiles, rockets, terror-tunnels, suicide bombers and everything else the enemy can throw our way.  People who know me are often surprised at this answer since I generally am very optimistic about Israel’s future. They therefore tend to ask me again, “What will be?” When that happens, I switch to my optimistic, positive self and answer that I am positive that what I said is true, yet optimistic that the new leadership we need is on its way!

Folks, let’s be honest. We are losing the game. Our present government is so concerned with world opinion that it spends more time and energy explaining the war than fighting it! Our leadership is desperate for acceptance and love, so it exits Gaza before the job is done. Immediately after yet another ridiculous ceasefire, Israel rushes to show the world how many trucks of humanitarian aid are being sent to help Gaza’s civilians and we make sure this is all filmed in HD quality so the liberals who watch CNN, BBC, and Sky News can see how nice the Jews are.

It amazes me how each and every time a ceasefire is declared, the result is that we cease and they fire. We help their civilians and they use them as pawns in their bloody war of hate. And this is played out time and time again. How foolish can we be?  Let me be perfectly clear: If this is how we play the game, we will lose. By that I mean we will lose everything. Hamas will grow bigger and bigger and eventually Hizbullah – with its 80,000 missiles – will join the “fun” from the north. This will inspire those Arabs living inside Israel who identify with these terror groups, and we will wind up fighting a enemies on all sides – and from within!  You think they have just been digging tunnels in Gaza? Wait until you see what our enemy has in store for us in Hebron, Ramallah, Jenin, and East Jerusalem!

So, what’s the answer? Do we run for our lives? No – heaven forbid! First we must realize how serious the problem is. I am not exaggerating or trying to depress anyone. I am merely stating a fact that the enemy is growing and we are sleeping. The second point is to find a solution, and here is where I return to my jovial, positive self since the solution is already here – we just need to embrace it and help it become a realit 

 The solution is strong and proud leadership that bases all its decisions on Jewish concepts and values. There is no need to “reinvent the wheel.” Our Torah spells it all out. We need to fight wars the way Moses and Joshua did. Read about their battles and how they fought. Then continue reading about Yiftach, Gideon, and the mighty Samson. These are not characters in a Jewish super-hero comic book. These men were real and led the nation of Israel with courage and honor.

Actually, it wasn’t only men – make sure you also read about women such as Devorah and Yael and their deeds of valor. These brave women didn’t care about world opinion – only G-d’s opinion – and they fought the enemy until it was completely defeated.  After you have read about these heroes and their battles, you are ready for the ultimate Jewish leader – King David – a king whose dynasty we pray every day will be restored.  Moses, Joshua, Yiftach, Gideon, Samson, Devorah, Yael, David – these are the leaders we need, and when they reappear on the scene, Hamas, Hizbullah, and the new bully on the block, ISIS, will run into their caves like scared little mice.

Is it possible? Will we actually see such leaders in the 21st century? I firmly believe – to the bottom of my soul – that the answer to that question is yes, but only if we make it happen. Hashem has not thrown us to the wolves. He didn’t lead us back to the Promised Land after 2,000 years as some kind of practical joke. We are here, back where our nation belongs, so let’s make it happen.  Hashem has given us all the tools, but it is up to us to build the house with the tools He provided. The biggest problem in today’s modern state of Israel is its leadership. Everything else has fallen into place, yet without authentic Jewish leadership, nothing is secure. Everything is at risk. That is why I have dedicated my life to finding that leadership and bringing it to the helm of the Jewish nation.

That is what my group, Manhigut Yehudit – the Jewish Leadership

Movement – is all about. We have identified the problem and are working 24/7 at solving it with leaders who follow the guidelines of the great Jews listed above. We do not claim to come close to these great men and women; compared to them, we are nothing more than ants standing next to elephants. Yet, we follow their guidance and direction, are motivated by their actions and challenges, and are inspired by the way they dedicated every moment of their lives to our father and king.  I urge each and every person reading these words to spend some time on our website, www.JewishIsrael.org. Read our articles and watch some of our videos. Follow the daily activity of Moshe Feiglin MK who is an example of the kind of leader we need so badly. And most important of all, if you identify with our goal and mission, help bring it to reality. Help turn the state of the Jews into the Jewish state so that when people ask me, “What will be?” I can tell them only good news – that Israel will be a light unto the nations, the home of every Jew in the world, and a place where true peace exists throughout the land!

Am Yisrael Chai!

Mashaal Vows Cease-Fire a Step to New ‘Resistance’ War against Israel

By: Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu | Published: August 28th, 2014

Hamas’ supreme leader Khaled Mashaal dashed any hopes of long-term peace with Israel in a speech in Qatar on Thursday in which he shot from the hip at Israel and also at his terrorist organization’s new partner, the rival Fatah movement headed by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas.  His lengthy speech in Qatar, which has financed Hamas terror and which fought Egyptian cease-fire proposals, followed by one day a “victory” speech by Ismail Haniyeh, the senior Hamas political leader in Gaza. Mashaal’s silence while Haniyeh accepted the cease-fire is a clear sign of a fierce power struggle between Hamas in Gaza and between Mashaal and Qatar, which holds the purse strings.

Mashaal also claimed victory, with lies that Hamas missiles hit the Ben Gurion Airport, which is not true, and that more than 5 million Israelis hid in bomb shelters, a gross exaggeration. However, there is no doubt that Hamas succeeded in scaring the daylight out of millions of Israelis, interrupting a few flights and generally turning half of Israel into sitting ducks.  And this won’t be the last time, regardless of a cease-fire, he warned.  “Whatever happened [in Gaza] is not the end to this story, and this is not the last operation to free Palestine. It was an important stop on the way to victory,” Mashaal declared.  His speech threw every obstacle possible on the road to negotiations with Israel. The talks are supposed to begin in a month, leaving open the possibility, or probability, that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is carrying on secret negotiations that will be formalized in 30 days.

The Prime Minister suffered another blow to any trust that Israelis may have for him with a report on Thursday that he met secretly with Jordanian King Abdullah, and perhaps Abbas, prior to the cease-fire, circumstantial evidence that Israel negotiated under fire, contrary to Netanyahu’s promise.  If Mashaal gets his way, there won’t be any talks because one of the new powers in Gaza is slated to be Abbas, whose security forces would patrol Gaza borders, according to the Egyptian proposal. That would provide Cairo with another tactic to get rid of Hamas.  Mashaal nailed Abbas to the wall in his speech, accusing him of throwing cold water on the resumption of the intifada during the war by allowing his security forces to limit protests.  “The next operation needs to use all of the Palestinian capabilities, not just part of them,” Mashaal said. “The resistance is holy and weapons are holy. There is no such thing as a country without weapons.”

A country or not, Gaza still has at least 2,000 rockets as well as anti-tank rockets and presumably anti-aircraft missiles. It still has rocket factories, one of which was filmed in production by Hamas during one of the failed cease-fires during the war.  Netanyahu had demanded that any halt in violence would be accompanied by disarming Hamas, but this week’s cease-fire only left the issue to be put on the negotiating table, along with Hamas’s demands for a deep-sea port and an airport.

 

Mashaal’s speech was full of hate and crude accusations that Israel inflicted a “Holocaust” on Gaza by “destroying schools and hospitals,” which all but the most extreme anti-Israel media now know were used by Hamas as rocket launching and terrorist command centers.  “We are against what Hitler did to the Jews, and Israel committed a second Holocaust in Gaza.  Israel is an embarrassment to Jews and to the entire world,” according to Mashaal.  His rhetoric was aimed at Abbas as well as Israel. If and when negotiations begin, Egypt and the United States will be on the side of Abbas, who despite his unity government with Hamas has proved politically smart by a patient and single-minded tactic of using international support to slowly but surely win concession after concession from Israel until there is nothing left to negotiate.  Including Gaza as part of the Palestinian Authority works to Abbas’ benefit because it will solidify position that a Palestinian Authority state needs to on contiguous territory, meaning that Sderot residents can start packing up and leaving their homes as well as their bomb shelters, which would save Hamas lots of time and money when digging terror tunnels from the Western Negev to Ashdod.

Mashaal’s aim is the same as Mashaal, but his strategy is different When Mashaal says that there will be

another war to “free Palestine,” he is referring to all of Israel, from Kiryat Shmona in the north to Eilat in the south, and from the Dead Sea in the east to the Mediterranean Sea on the west.  Abbas talks about a “two-state solution,” the magic phrase that sends U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry into hallucinations and hypnotizes the foreign media into pretending that the Palestinian Authority’s maps of “Palestine” don’t include the existence of Israel.  But Mashaal reminded everyone in his speech that he has people on his side.  He thanked his sponsors for terror, namely Qatar, Turkey, Yemen and Algeria, and he thanked South Africa and Latin American countries for boycotting Israel.

PS.- DON’T WORRY YOU HADJI SCHEISSE…WE WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU…AND THIS TIME WE WILL NOT BE SO “CIVILIZED.”  NO MORE “KNOCK ON THE ROOF” OR WARNING MESSAGES OR PHONE CALLS TO LET YOU KNOW WE ARE COMING…WE WILL GET YOU WHEREVER YOU ARE, IN A SCHOOL, HOSPITAL, MOSQUE…OR EVEN IN A U.N. COMPOUND…WE WILL NOT WORRY ABOUT PUBLIC OPINION…BECAUSE THIS IS OUR SURVIVAL…THE SURVIVAL OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE!!!

Like brother, like sister! Birds of the same feather...

Check out his short little piece about another arrest of a Boston Muslim family member in the Marathon bombing. The NY Times has little to say .. Perhaps because they can’t blame Israel.  Muslims slaughtering and threatening to blow up cities, people, etc., isn’t news, according to the NY Times; Jews defending themselves against such savages –now, that’s a horror.  Keep importing these devout Muslim killers, Hussein Obama who pathetically suffers from indecision, weakness, fecklessness, and pro-islamic foreign as well as domestic policy.  “Boston Suspect’s Sister Charged in NY Bomb Threat,” NY Times, August 28, 2014 (thanks to June)

NEW YORK — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehvz) sister has been accused of threatening to bomb a New York City woman and has been arrested.  Police say Ailina Tsarnaeva (tsahr-neye-EH’-vuh) made the threat via telephone Monday and turned herself in Wednesday. She’s charged with aggravated harassment.  Police say the North Bergen, New Jersey, resident is due in court Sept. 30.  Tsarnaeva has been required to check in with Massachusetts probation officers since last October after prosecutors say she didn’t cooperate with a counterfeiting investigation. Her lawyer in that case hasn’t returned a message seeking comment. A working home phone number for her can’t be found.  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is charged in the April 2013 marathon explosions, which killed three people. He has pleaded not guilty.

Shelling on the Golan Heights: Syria Testing Israel’s Resolve?

Fierce fighting across the border around Quneitra; the crossing may now be in rebel hands. 

Bad news for Israel?           

  By: Hana Levi Julian |Published: August 28th, 2014

Although an open-ended cease-fire is in force with Gaza, two people were wounded in northern Israel on Wednesday in the course of three shelling attacks from Syria.  At around 10 pm, Syrian forces fired two mortar shells from across the Golan Heights, both exploding in open areas north of the Quneitra valley. It was the third attack in a single day, the most intensive shelling from Syria in months. No one was physically injured and no property damage was reported in the attack. Earlier in the evening, a 52-year-old kosher supervisor at a winery on the Golan Heights was lightly wounded by Syrian tank fire aimed at an Israeli kibbutz along the border. The victim was evacuated to Ziv Medical Center in Tzfat (Safed). A local vineyard and a gas pipeline were both damaged in the attack.

Hours earlier, in the morning, an IDF officer was moderately wounded and two Israeli vehicles were damaged in a similar attack. A barrage of Syrian mortar shells was fired from across the border  – again, from the Quneitra area. The officer, who sustained shrapnel wounds to the chest, was airlifted to Rambam Medical Center.  The IDF attacked two Syrian positions in response to the mortar fire. IDF officials said Jerusalem holds the Syrian army responsible for maintaining order on the Syrian side of the border.  Originally security sources said the attacks were due to “errant fire” due to the conflict taking place between government troops and opposition forces in Syria.  Fierce fighting is reportedly taking place between the forces fighting on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad, and rebel fighters. It is not known which opposition forces are involved in this battle, nor whether some or all of the factions have banded together to fight Assad’s army.   The Syrian side of the Quneitra crossing has fallen into rebel hands, only 200 meters (219 yards) from the border with Israel. But whose?

At least two of the three opposition factions involved in the war have vowed to dedicate themselves to Israel’s destruction when they have ‘completed their task’ in Syria. One of those is the Islamic State, or ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.)  Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have been assisting Assad since the start of the civil war in March 2011, as have the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla terrorists. Other mercernary fighters have joined the effort as well.  Opposing them are three major, separate streams of rebels: the Western-backed ‘moderate’ secular and Muslim factions led by the Syrian National Coalition and its Free Syrian Army, the Islamic Front which is headed by the Al Qaeda-linked Al Nusra Front (Jabhat al Nusra) along with the Ahrar el-Sham, and which includes some 13 rebel brigades, all rejecting the Syrian National Coalition; and the ISIS  ‘Army of Islam’ comprised of 43 Salafi Muslim factions was formed last year in Syria, led by Sheikh Mohammed Zahran.

 

Last year Al Nusra also clashed with Kurdish militias over control of local gas resources and over the institution of Shari’a Islamic law in Kurdish areas. The same Al Nusra recently handed over long-missing American journalist Peter Theo Curtis, kidnapped by the group and held hostage since October 2012, to U.S. authorities via the Quneitra crossing, into Israel.  The IDF has ordered farmers and civilians to stay away from the border and part of the area has been closed to civilians as a precaution.