Midda Kinnegid Midda: Measure for Measure
June through August, 2011


Continued from January to May, 2011
To September, October, November, December, 2011




June 2011


June 2:

New Superbug Found in Cows and People
A novel form of deadly drug-resistant bacteria that hides from a standard test has turned up in Europe. Researchers found the so-called MRSA strain in both dairy cows and humans in the United Kingdom, suggesting that it might be passed from dairies to the general population. But before you toss your milk, don't panic: The superbug isn't a concern in pasteurized dairy products.



June 3:

Obama Signs Document That Tells Israel Jerusalem Is Not Your Capital
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
SUBJECT: Suspension of Limitations Under the Jerusalem Embassy Act
Obama signed this on June 3, 2011 – Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 7(a) of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-45) (the “Act”), I hereby determine that it is necessary, in order to protect the national security interests of the United States, to suspend for a period of 6 months the limitations set forth in sections 3(b) and 7(b) of the Act.
You are hereby authorized and directed to transmit this determination to the Congress, accompanied by a report in accordance with section 7(a) of the Act, and to publish the determination in the Federal Register.
This suspension shall take effect after transmission of this determination and report to the Congress.
continues

By what authority the acting president of America deems it his place to tell another sovereign nation where it’s capital may be located?

http://gulagbound.com/16838/obama-dictates-to-israel-jerusalem-is-not-your-capital/


San Francisco decides to vote on banning circumcision in the city. Offensive Anti-Semetic cartoons in the manner of the Nazis are used to promote legislation.
Defenders of legislation claim that it is about “human rights” and “protecting babies” from unnecessary procedures. Critics suspected there was "something vaguely anti-Semitic" about the whole proposal, since among Jews (and Muslims, as well) circumcising male babies is a religious duty, not just a medical procedure. Proponents against circumcision insist their proposal had nothing to do with Jews — it’s all about the rights of children.

Is it? Funny, they do not show any Muslims in their campaign literature. They show Jews only, and in a manner of the Nazi propaganda materials from the Holocaust.

If any one wondered if the ban proponents were lying about their motives not being anti-semtic, we think the campaign literature for the upcoming circumcision ban answers any and all questions. The campaign comic book, called “Foreskin Man.” Its baby-saving superhero features a caste of evil Jews doing battle with blond Nordic saviors. The comic's illustrator's name is Hess. Makes us wonder if he is any relation to Rudolf.

Below are a few examples of images taken from Foreskin Man, the campaign brochure for San Francisco’s anti-circumcision ballot measure.
Click here for the full story and cartoons at Pajamas Media.








June 4:

• Record Breaking Storm Hits California
California has been hit by a very unusual storm that has brought heavy rain to coastal and central California.
A deep low is circling off the Bay area, with a very strong front extending over the coastal areas. This kind of system in mid June it is highly unusual. Analysis of the difference between this pressure field and normal indicates that it is an extremely unusual anomaly.

• 3,500 evacuate as volcano erupts in southern Chile
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- One of the volcanos in the Caulle Cordon of southern Chile erupted violently Saturday, billowing smoke and ash high into the sky and prompting more than 3,500 people living nearby to evacuate.

• Lightning Strikes Peres' Plane

During his stay in Italy, Peres met Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, and the two reportedly discussed the stalled Israel-PA diplomatic process and possible ways to revive negotiations.
Officials at the president’s office refused to reveal details of the Peres-Abbas meeting in hopes of keeping them away from the press - and Israeli public - and refused to confirm whether the two spoke alone, but diplomatic sources hinted that such conversation indeed took place.
While Israeli presidents fill a ceremonial role and are expected to remain aloof from controversial or partisan issues like the peace process, it was reported in April that Peres and Abbas have maintained contacts away from the limelight in which they continue to pursue back-channel talks.
The Peres-Abbas meeting came despite Abbas’ insistence that Israel agree to preconditions before negotiations can begin, while simultaneously threatening he will launch a third intifada if negotiations fail.



June 7:

EU and Russia see eye-to-eye on Hamas
Russia and the EU frame joint position on relations with Palestinian unity government. Divisions with the US and Israel deepen,


Iran now thought to be two months from bomb
Data released by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran’s enriched uranium stockpiles and nuclear program.

• Unusual Solar Event
Solar event featured a solar flare, a coronal wave, a filament eruption, a coronal mass ejection, coronal rain and a coronal mass ejection.



June 9:

• Tornado Like Storm Hits Chile;winds of 75 to 110 m



June 10:

US Senators oppose Israel return to 1967 lines
New resolution proposed by Senators Lieberman, Hatch calls for US opposition to any Israeli withdrawal to 1967 lines, deals blow to Obama peace talk efforts.



June 12:

Report: US [Obama] gives Netanyahu ultimatum on resuming talks
The United States issues Netanyahu ultimatum on renewing negotiations with the Palestinians.
Netanyahu given 1 month to decide whether he agrees to accept US President Barack Obama's platform and resume talks based on 1967 lines.

White House attempts damage control trying to spin Obama's ambush of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month as not a sign of his hostility to the Jewish state, the administration spent the past week attempting to hammer Israel into submission on the question of the 1967 lines. As Eli Lake reported in the Washington Times on Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton renewed the demand that was the highlight of Obama’s May 26 Middle East policy speech: that Israel accept the 1967 lines as the starting point for future Middle East peace negotiations.

While the administration is trying to sell this pressure to Jewish supporters as being part of a master plan whose aim is to head off a vote in the United Nations on Palestinian statehood, it is a mistake to view it as anything other than a renewed attack on Netanyahu. Once again, the administration is misjudging both the Palestinians and the diplomatic situation.

• Norway: Devastating Floods
Torrential rains combined with melting snow have caused devastating floods across Norway.
The floods have washed away several houses and roads and caused landslides.

• Solar Flares and Moshiach
Solar flares are causing some mild panic throughout the world:
Solar Flares Could Disrupt Earth's Tech Infrastructure in 2013 -  Israel National News

"Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of the seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the bruise of His people, and healeth the stroke of their wound."   Isaiah 30:26

"When Moshiach comes, G-d will take the sun out of its shield and the wicked will perish from its strength, but the righteous will be able to endure it...."

• Volcanic ash cloud grounds flights
A cloud of ash from a volcano in southern Chile has forced Qantas to cancel flights to Tasmania and New Zealand.

• Volcanic ash strands 30,000 in Australia, NZ
Tens of thousands of passengers in Australia and New Zealand were stranded when airlines suspended flights Sunday as an ash cloud from an erupting volcano in southern Chile spread, threatening to damage engines.



June 13:

Obama rubber stamping the Arab position  


Wave of anti-Israel zeal, demonization of Jews growing at alarming rate in Italy
The first months of 2011 have confirmed Italy’s status as one of Iran’s biggest European trade partners, all while the ayatollahs pursue the means to perpetuate a second Holocaust. Rome is doing business as usual with the greatest totalitarian threat to international peace and security since the defeats of Soviet communism and Nazi fascism, providing a lifeline to an Iranian regime that is cruel at home, sponsors terror abroad and preaches anti-Jewish revolt.
“The old anti-Jewish libels are now aimed at the State of Israel”, says Stefano Gatti, one of the top researchers at the Center for Documentation in Milan.

• Dual quakes rock Christchurch, New Zealand
• A pair of earthquakes strike within 90 minutes of each near Christchurch, New Zealand



June 18:


Lieberman: Oslo Void If PA Declares State
by Gavriel Queenann, INN
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told European Union counterpart Catherine Ashton on Friday a unilateral declaration of statehood by the Palestinian Authority would nullify the Oslo Accords. The 1993 Olso Accords, which stipulate a bilateral framework and proscribe unilateral moves, serve as the basis for economic, infrastructure, and security cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. "A move like that will be a violation of all the agreements that were signed until today. Israel will no longer be committed to the agreements signed with the Palestinians in the past 18 years," Lieberman said


Pollard's father passes away
Jonathan Pollard's father, Morris, dies over weekend at age 95. The Pollard family asks President Obama to allow imprisoned son to fullfill religious obligation to bury his father. Obama cruely ignores request. Previous pleas to let him see dying father go unheeded.



June 20:

•Japan's Green Tea Crisis
Japan's government banned green tea from parts of three prefectures: Tochigi, Chiba and Kanagawa; and banned tea from all of a fourth prefecture, Ibaraki. The authorities had detected levels of radioactive cesium in tea leaves above the legal limit of 500 becquerels per kilogram.



June 21:

Delta adopts Saudi 'no-Jew' fly policy
Challenge to discrimination building as Congress, lawyers warned of plan
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=314309

Saudi tourism: No Jews please
Islamic nation opens to holiday travelers, but not all
--WND


• China Floods Kill Dozens, Force Evacuations
Flood-hit areas of central and southern China hit with heavy rains. Millions of people forced to evacuate.

•Earth Continues to Crack Open & More Bird Kill Info
Cracks in the earth, Sink holes, bird and fish deaths, huge mega earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are on the rise.
The two most recent cracks in the earth , one in Ethiopia and the latest in Peru near Lake Titicaca have scientists up late nights trying to figure out why the earth would literally split open like a ripe melon without any earthquake at all.
The Peruvian split spewed large chunks of rock and earth and swallowed up a house and little boy in the process.  It is 3km long and 100 meters wide in some places.

• Volcanic Ash: More flight disruptions
Flights disrupted as a volcanic ash cloud from a Chilean volcano drifts across Australian airspace. The air cloud travels around Earth one-and-a-half times and is "particularly persistent in the atmosphere", Airservices Australia reported.



June 23:

• Nuclear experts killed in Russia plane crash helped design Iran facility
By Amir Oren
The five Russian scientists were among 44 killed earlier this week; no official investigation of foul play has been opened, though Iranian nuclear experts have in the past been involved in simil
By Amir Oren
The five nuclear experts killed in a plane crash in northern Russia earlier this week had assisted in the design of an Iranian atomic facility, security sources in Russia said on Thursday.
The five Russian experts were among the 44 passengers killed when the Tupolev-134 plane broke up and caught fire on landing outside the northern city of Petrozavodsk on Monday.
According to the sources, although Iranian nuclear scientists have in the past been involved in unexplained accidents and plane crashes, there is no official suspicion of foul play. Investigators are probing human error and technical malfunction as the causes of the crash.


• Historic Flooding Souris River Valley, ND.
12,000 evacuated
River surpasses its all-time high of 1,558 feet. Numbers are astronomical in terms of flows in the Souris.

• 6.7 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Japan

• Storm damages Chapel at Churchill Downs
Powerful storm spawns tornadoes through Louisville.

• Ocean life 'facing mass extinction'
Pollution, global warming and other man-made problems are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unprecedented in tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists has warned. Dying coral reefs, biodiversity ravaged by invasive species, expanding open-water "dead zones," toxic algae blooms, and the massive depletion of big fish stocks are all accelerating, according to the report, which is due to be presented at the United Nations on Tuesday.
"We now face losing marine species and entire marine ecosystems, such as coral reefs, within a single generation,'' the report said.
The rate at which carbon is being absorbed by the ocean is already far greater than at the time of the last globally significant extinctions, which wiped out up to 50 per cent of some deep-sea animals, the report said.
Overfishing has also reduced some commercial fish stocks by more than 90 per cent.
"We are looking at consequences for humankind that will impact in our lifetime."



June 24:

PM Says Abbas Must Recognize Israel's Jewishness Before Peace
PPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday said an end to the Israeli-Arab conflict would come when Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas recognizes Israel as a Jewish State."I will accept a Jewish state," Netanyahu said demonstratively during his closing remarks at the Israeli Presidents Conference in Jerusalem.
Netanyahu's remarks come the day after Abbas indicated he was willing to soften his position on Israeli construction in Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem as a precondition to talks and would, in his words, "tolerate" only a "limited building freeze."
The remarks also precede the arrival of Quartet envoys in Brussels to discuss potential ways to restart the Israeli-Arab diplomatic process.
Netanyahu also said peace had eluded the two sides for 90 years because the 'Palestinians' never accepted Israel’s existence in the region, within any borders.


PA Pursuing Statehood Bid No Matter What

The Palestinian Authority will seek United Nations recognition for statehood in September even if peace negotiations with Israel are under way, a senior PA diplomat said Thursday.

• Huge 7.4 earthquake rocks Alaska
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake has struck Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands.
More info at : NOAA



June 26:


Australia joins Holland and New Zealand in Banning Kosher Slaughtering
Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick of Kosher Australia estimated up to 500 lambs a week were killed by kosher methods in Victoria. Calls to ban such practices were motivated in part by ignorance and anti-Semitism, he said. ''A ban would mean we would not be able to eat kosher meat. In our tradition the way the animal has to be killed is by quick cutting of the throat of the animal,'' he said. Stunning could kill an animal before it bled out, in violation of Jewish tradition, he claimed. Australian standards require livestock be rendered unconscious and insensible to pain before slaughter. Limited exceptions for cattle - broadly accepted by Muslim and Jewish groups - permit stunning with a captive-bolt pistol immediately after the throat is cut. ''We make a concession for beef because cattle have a tendency to be much stronger and resilient. Sheep literally become unconscious the moment the knife is cut across their throat. We believe such killing without stunning does result in immediate, painless death,'' he said.



• 6.7 earthquake rattlesnortheast Japan



June 27:

Iran tests missiles for hitting Israel, US bases. Poised for US-Turkish attack on Syria. Iron Dome for Haifa
Day Two of its war games, Iran flexed muscle in the direction of the US and Israel. After simultaneously test-firing 14 2,000-kilometer-range missiles at a single target, Com. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards' aerospace division, emphasized: "Iranian missiles can target US bases in Afghanistan and any part of Israeli territory." DEBKAfile: Iran is working on missiles capable of reaching West Europe and North America as well as planning to put a monkey in space in July.

• Nebraska Ft Calhoun Nuclear Plant Breach
Mississippi River floodwaters have breached some of the protection around the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant in Nebraska, and now the water has reached containment buildings and transformers. Electricity has been cut [...] and this will sound familiar—backup generators are working to cool the nuclear materials.


• Nir ben Artzi said this:
Every nuclear reactor, in every place in the world, whose purpose is to do evil and to destroy the world (making weapons), it will harm, it will collapse and it will destroy what is around them. The reactors in Japan that were damaged, this is called "letting the genie out of the bottle" and revealed the truth.  [Parsha Blog]
And now we continually have these nuclear plants in the news, experiencing technical difficulties, and in the line of fires and floods and being temporarily shut down.



June 28:

• Pump failure causes shutdown of The Salem 2 nuclear power plant in southern New Jersey - 28th June 2011

The Salem Unit 2 nuclear plant remained shut down this afternoon following a problem with a reactor coolant pump, according to a spokesman for the plant’s operator.

Salem 2 automatically went offline Sunday at 6:01 p.m. when the coolant pump tripped, said Joe Delmar, spokesman for PSEG Nuclear.

When the pump shut down, the auxiliary pump system automatically started to provide water to cool the reactor.

The cause of the pump failure is still being investigated, according to Delmar. The plant functioned as designed, he said.  Continue reading at: Pump Failure Causes Shutdown of Salem

• SANTA FE, N.M., June 27 (Reuters) - A raging wildfire on Monday briefly entered the property of the preeminent U.S. nuclear facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory, a vast complex that houses research laboratories and a plutonium facility.

A mandatory evacuation was ordered for the town of Los Alamos, which has a population of about 12,000. The speed at which the fire has grown surprises fire officials.
"The facility is very well protected from any kind of wild land fire threat," ... the facility survived a May 2000 wildfire that claimed some lab buildings and did more than $1 billion in damage.
FLAMES 50 FEET FROM NUCLEAR STOCKPILE
20,000 barrels of nuclear waste!
EPA TESTING THE AIR. The wildfire that surrounds the nuclear lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico, has grown to at least 61,000 acres amid mounting concerns about what might be in the smoke that's visible from space. Such fear has prompted the Environmental Protection Agency to bring in air monitors, along with a special airplane that checks for radiation levels.

• Extreme Electrical Storms in Holland
Extreme lightning storms coincide with Dutch ban against Kosher Slaughtering. Dutch Jews fearful of increasing acts of anti-semitism taking over the Neatherlands.



June 29:

U.S. Designates Israel as Country That Tends ‘To Promote, Produce, or Protect’ Terrorists; Also Calls Israel Anti-Terror Partner

• Scottish Nuclear plant shuts down reactors as Jellyfish invade cooling pool.




July 2011:


July 2:

Fire at breaks out at French Nuclear Plant, residents worried as column of black smoke is released into sky.  
EDF power Tricastin, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux. The cause is an explosion of transformer at unit 1 plant.



July 5:

Iran has nuclear warhead pilot
Tehran executes four nuclear-capable missile tests, and has constructed a nuclear warhead prototype. Iran exploited months of furious Arab unrest for high speed, undisturbed progress. Western and Israeli intelligence wake up to some unpleasant surprises.


The World Council of Churches declares the Jewish State "a sin" and "occupying power," at Conference.
Ynet News
The World Council of Churches, an ecumenical Christian body based in Genève and boasting 590 million worshippers, just ended a four-day conference in the Greek city of Volos. Not a single word of criticism was uttered there against the Islamists who are persecuting Arabs who believe in Jesus. 
Lutherans arrived to Volos from the United States, Catholics and Protestants from Bethlehem and Nazareth, Orthodox Christians from Greece and Russia, lecturers from Beirut and Copts from Egypt. The conference declared the Jewish State "a sin" and "occupying power," accused Israelis of "dehumanizing" the Palestinians, theologically dismantled the "choseness" of the Jewish people and called for "resistance" as a Christian duty.  
The conference denied 3,000 years of Jewish life in the land stretching between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, took sides against the very presence of Israel, likened the defensive barrier that has blocked terrorism to "apartheid," attacked Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria invoking the name of God and conceptually dismissed the Jewish state, imagining it to be a mixture - Islamic, Christian and perhaps a bit Jewish. It even legitimized terrorism when it talked about the "thousands of prisoners who languish in Israeli jails," proclaiming that "resistance to the evil of occupation is a Christian's right and duty."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4090528,00.html





• Phoenix, AZ: Massive dust storm descended on the Phoenix area Flights delayed as strong winds toppled trees and caused power outages for thousands of residents in the valley. The cloud originated in Tucson area before moving north across the desert. Radar data showed the storm's wall of dust had reached as high as 8,000 to 10,000 feet.



July 6:

• 7.8 magnitude Eathquake hits New Zealand



July 7:

• Thousands of dead fish in Red River Love County, Oklahoma

• Dead Fish Wash Up On Lake Michigan Shores

• Vietnam: Fish die en-masse in Hanoi’s famous lake

• Lake at Marden Park closed after dozens of dead fish found

• Stadium roof collapses in Holland



July 8:

Egyptian Leader Threatens Jews, Christians: "Whole World Belongs To Us"
Egyptian Shaykh Safwat Hegazy, threatens Jews, Christians and the the world. According to Translating Jihad (TJ), he stated:
“Jerusalem belongs to us, and the whole world belongs to us.” He states the Islamic caliphate will return, and that “every land upon which Islam has set foot will return to us.” He makes poignant references to Qurayza and Khaybar, which are clear threats against the Jews, and also states, “we will kill anyone who has polluted the al-Aqsa Mosque.”



July 9:

124 Refused Entrance to Israel, Jailed
Hundreds of anti-Israel activists arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport on Friday as part of a “fly in flotilla.” Border officials refused to grant 124 of them entrance, and they were brought to Givon and Ela prisons to await deportation.
Those refused entrance – citizens of Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Holland, and the United States – were on a list sent out to airports in advance of the planned fly-in. Another 200 of those whose names were on the list were prevented from boarding planes to Israel.
Many others successfully entered Israel. From there, some continued to a Palestinian Authority-controlled region of Samaria, where they joined a riot in the village of Nabi Salah during which they clashed with Israeli troops.
Others are believed to have taken part in a second riot, near the Kalandia checkpoint outside Jerusalem.
The “fly in” and Nabi Salah demonstration were both meant to protest in favor of the PA demand that millions of descendants of Arabs who fled pre-state Israel in the 1940s be offered Israeli citizenship.


Gaza Terrorists using Google Earth to Pinpoint Targets
Terrorists in Gaza have a new tool helping them to fire on innocent civilians living in southern Israel – the popular satellite mapping program Google Earth. A group of terrorists from the Al-Aksa Martyrs' Brigades recently described their use of the program to a reporter for Slate Magazine.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145551

•Japan: Earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 hits off the northeast Japan coast, prompting a tsunami warning



July 10:

U.S. backs Lebanon on maritime border dispute with Israel
In the next few days Israel will submit to the United Nations its take on where its maritime economic border with Lebanon should be, as the two countries scramble for gas reserves estimated to be worth billions of dollars.
Israel’s position is due to be approved by the cabinet on Sunday; Jerusalem argues that Lebanon’s proposal includes major areas belonging to Israel.
The Foreign Ministry official said Israel had asked the Americans to relay a warning to Lebanon on the matter. Foreign Ministry officials told Hof that Israel would not allow a provocation on the matter or an attack on Israeli gas installations. They said Israel would consider such an attack an attack on its sovereign territory and would retaliate “strongly” against Lebanon.
“It’s important to provide the UN with the Israeli version of the border as soon as possible, to react to Lebanon’s unilateral move,” a senior Foreign Ministry official told Haaretz. “Not responding could be interpreted as a tacit agreement. We must act fast to ensure Israel’s economic rights in these areas.”


UN ‘Human Rights’ Official Apologizes to Jews and Animals
INN
The United Nations Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur on Palestinian rights, Richard Falk, has published an “apology” for the publication of an anti-Semitic cartoon showing a kippah (skullcap)-wearing dog on his Internet blog.
The apology, however, is just as offensive, as it is directed equally toward both Jews and animals, as if each was insulted by being compared to the other.
It shows Lady Liberty taking her dog for a walk. The dog wears a shirt labeled “USA” and dons a Jewish kippah on its head. It is shown gobbling a pile of bloody human bones while wetting Lady Liberty’s foot.
Falk responded on that same day by saying: "It is a complete lie. I know nothing about such a cartoon, and would never publish such a thing, ever." Later that day he deleted the cartoon. He explained: "Maybe I do not understand the cartoon, and if it offends in this way I have removed it from the blog. It may be in bad taste to an extent I had not earlier appreciated, but I certainly didn’t realize that it could be viewed as anti-semitic, and still do not realize." 
In another post Wednesday he commented: "I did not perceive any racist connotations, and certainly no anti-semitic implications, and since it offends people I have removed it without understanding why." He also blamed his imperfect eyesight, at age 80, for causing him to think that the dog's Star of David-adorned kippah was a helmet.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs CommAfter initially denying that he had even published the cartoon, Falk removed it from his blog. He issued this “apology”:
"With apologies, I realize that the cartoon...  had strongly anti-Semitic symbolism that I had not detected before it was pointed out to me... 


Bank of China Being Sued for Ties to Hamas
A Judge in the Supreme Court of the State of New York ruled Friday that a lawsuit filed by a group of 84 Israeli terror victims against the Bank of China can proceed.
The 84 plaintiffs, who include family members of victims of terrorist bombings and rocket attacks carried out by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas in 2006 and 2007, are claiming that the Bank of China facilitated the attacks by providing wire transfer services to both terror groups.
Between that date and January 2007, the Bank of China carried out dozens of wire transfers for the two terror organizations, totaling several million dollars.
Most of the transfers, which were initiated by the two organizations' leaderships including in Iran and Syria, were made to a single account in Guangzhou, China belonging to Said al-Shurafa, whom the plaintiffs claim is a senior operative and agent of both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
According to information provided by the plaintiffs, Shurafa then transferred the funds from his account to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas coffers in the West Bank and Gaza "for the purpose of planning, preparing for and executing terrorist attacks."

The Bank of China responded that Hamas is not considered a terrorist organization in China," added Leitner.













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