A Muslim Arab from Jerusalem has joined the search for Nashat Milhem, who shot two Israeli civilians to death in Tel Aviv on Friday and wounded another seven.

Israel police, aided by IDF soldiers and volunteers, are still conducting a large-scale manhunt after Nashat Milhem, the Israeli Arab terrorist who killed two and injured seven in a Tel Aviv shooting attack on New Year’s Day.

A Muslim Arab from Jerusalem has also joined the efforts to capture Milhem. Mazen Qaq, who acts as the chairman of the Committee of Jerusalem’s Old City Merchants, has offered a substantial cash reward for any viable information which could lead to Melhem’s capture.

“If I saw him today I would capture him myself, or at least do whatever it takes for him to be captured,” Qaq told the Israeli press on Tuesday.It is suspected that Milhem has fled to Palestinian Authority-administered territory in Judea and Samaria. Police announced earlier in the day that Tel Aviv residents can calm down regarding the danger posed by Milhem, who is likely armed and could strike again. “As of this morning, the tension in Gush Dan [Tel Aviv district] can be significantly reduced,” Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich stated.

Qaq, who is willing to pay $10,000 of his own money as a reward, said he considers himself to be an Israeli Arab, rather than a Palestinian, and that he represents many Arab business owners in Jerusalem.

“We need to stop with the ‘Arab against Israeli’ narrative. We are all cousins who wish to live in peace,” said Qaq. “This is a man who acted against citizens of Israel, I will not let a man like that destroy our security and our mutual trust.”

Qaq explained that he was motivated to take this action out of the need to restore the trust and close relations between Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews, which, according to him, have been damaged by the recent wave of terrorism.

However, not everyone is enthusiastic about Qaq’s award initiative. “Whoever is offering money, or whatever initiative someone has taken, is completely irrelevant to the operation,” Chief Inspector Micky Rosenfeld, the Israel police foreign press spokesman, told Tazpit Press Service (TPS).

“We are working on an operational level and on an intelligence level for a realistic solution,” Rosenfeld stated.

By: United with Israel Staff and Michael Zeff, TPS

Mugabe, Kagame: A comparative analysis May 25, 2014 in Editorial Both Robert Mugabe and Paul Kagame are celebrated freedom fighters who gallantly fought their way to leadership of their respective countries after protracted wars.

Sunday Opinion with Farai WT Taderera Mugabe left home for Mozambique to join the liberation war against colonial rule while Kagame started as a high-ranking officer in the Ugandan Army before he left to lead the Rwandan Patriotic Front on its assault against the French- supported Hutu government of his homeland.

Politics The post-genocide transitional government of national unity of Rwanda took office in 1994 headed by Pasteur Bizumungu as president, but only responsible for home affairs, while Kagame was the defacto ruler as both vice-president and minister of defence, with an added
responsibility of foreign affairs.

Later on in the late 1990s Kagame began to publicly disagree with Bizumungu, accusing him of
mismanagement and corruption so much that the president resigned and the Supreme Court appointed Kagame as the Acting-President. He proceeded to appoint a commission
which drafted a new constitution that was approved by referendum in May 2003.

Among its many laws, the new constitution also sought to prevent Hutu or Tutsi hegemony over political power by prohibiting the formation of political parties along any tribal or ethnic lines.

It is this law that Kagame used to silence opposition in his efforts to preserve unity. For example, the Democratic Republic Movement (MDR), the second largest party after
the RPF in the transitional government, was banned after it was found guilty of spreading divisive ideology by a parliamentary commission.

Bizumungu, who had gone on to form an opposition political party which was hounded out of existence, was later arrested and only released by presidential pardon in 2007.

Kagame was elected for his first seven-year term as President in August 1993 according to the new constitution, after silencing and/or co-opting members of the opposition into the RPF.

Currently serving his final second term, allegations abound of his crack teams in pursuit of opposition elements who flee for safety to neighbouring countries in the region.

Kagame appears in no hurry to retire as he scoffs at critics when asked whether he will change the constitution in order to run for a third term. He insists that countries should be left to decide their own destinies and that he was not elected to leave office, but to do
business on behalf of the Rwandans.

Mugabe came to power as Prime Minister in 1980 and seven years later, amended the constitution to make himself President.

In pursuance of his quest to create a one-party state, he coerced the only opposition then, Zapu, into his Zanu PF party; a process that was never really consummated at grassroots level despite the official rhetoric and the cosmetic appearance of unity.

Since then general elections have been religiously held, with the outcome always in his favour,
especially from the year 2000 with the advent of formidable opposition from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai.

Any talk of regime change is viewed as treasonous despite the fact that, that is what elections are all about; a process to challenge the ruling party and replace it with another through the will of the majority.

The war in the DRC The two were protagonists on either side of the Congo War where Kagame
fought to topple Laurent Desire Kabila while Mugabe defended the Congolese leader.

Human Rights groups and other independent organisations have accused both parties of plundering the host country’s mineral wealth.

Rwanda’s economy is alleged to have directly benefitted, with reports of the creation of the so-called Congo Desk where mining companies were allegedly taxed and minerals sold for
the benefit of Rwanda. In the case of Zimbabwe, it is reported that only senior army and government officials personally benefitted from the plunder.

On the economy Shortly after assuming the Presidency, Kagame launched Vision 2020, an ambitious economic development programme consisting of a list of projects for the government to transform the highly impoverished agro-based economy into a middle income country before the year 2020.

As a result, annual economic growth averaged 8%, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita increased from US$ 567 in 2000 to US$1 592 in 2013.

With 90% of the population in agriculture, Vision 2020 has resulted in the service sector alone
contributing 43,6% of GDP while tourism is the leading foreign exchange earner with 16% of visitorsbeing from outside Africa.

On the business front, the Rwanda Development Board asserts that a business can be authorised and registered in 24 hours; hence the country ranks 52 out of 185 countries
in the world and three out of 46 in sub-Saharan Africa for its overall ease of doing business.

Transparency International ranks it eight out of 47 in sub-Sahara and 66 out of 178 in the world on its corruption index.

On the contrary, Zimbabwe has embarked upon so many economic blueprints, including a Vision 2020 of its own, and even the latest, Zim Asset which is still to be launched with all its attendant shortcomings; this is more than six months after the last elections.

Average annual income has reduced drastically from US$950 in 1980 to below US$400 by the year 2003. One of the earliest development projects, the Economic Structural Adjustment
Programme (Esap), was abandoned midstream.

Even the Land Reform Programme with all its lack of planning, shortcomings and haphazard launch, is still heralded as a monumental success notwithstanding the glaring evidence of food shortages and economic decline.

On a 2010 list of the top 10countries in the world led by Liberia and Mongolia, Transparency
International rated Zimbabwe as thefourth most corrupt.

Conclusion The two men believe they have the divine right to rule until “they have
accomplished their tasks”.

Mugabe will not lift a finger to create the right atmosphere for investment and development of Zimbabwe.

Instead, he looks at such initiatives from a political standpoint; any economic development that takes place must recognise his unfettered rule and comply with programmes
that perpetuate his political life. He has made it known that he is not going anywhere any time soon as he
reserves the right to stand again in 2018.

Kagame on the other hand believes that he is the only one who knows what is good for the people of Rwanda and he has the credentials to prove his point, namely a thriving
economy.He does not see why he should stepdown if he is delivering for hispeople.

The people in turn do appreciate what he has done for them, but believe that at the end of the day, democracy must prevail and he should accordingly pass the baton when his second and final termexpires in 2017.

Ku wa 17 Nzeri 2017,Nerekwa Nyir’uRwanda Kigeli V Ndahindurwa,ahungutse avuye mu mahanga aho yaramaze imyaka myinshi cyane.Yaje aherekejwe n’abajyana be bacye cyane batarenze (2). Uburyo yajemo bw’uruburyo butunguranye kuburyo har’intebe ya bukunzi yari mu cyanya cyayo itegereje uyicaraho,maze mbona umwakagara nawe amaze kwitunganya aturutse mu burengera-zuba bw’umurwa mukuru w’uRwanda yerekeza ahaherereye intebe yabukunzi.

Ku wa 17 Nzeri 2017,Nerekwa Nyir’uRwanda Kigeli V Ndahindurwa,ahungutse avuye mu mahanga aho yaramaze imyaka myinshi cyane.Yaje aherekejwe n’abajyana be bacye cyane batarenze (2). Uburyo yajemo bw’uruburyo butunguranye kuburyo har’intebe ya bukunzi yari mu cyanya cyayo itegereje uyicaraho,maze mbona umwakagara nawe amaze kwitunganya aturutse mu burengera-zuba bw’umurwa mukuru w’uRwanda yerekeza ahaherereye intebe yabukunzi.

Nerekwa Nyir’uRwanda nawe azanywe n’inyoni igendera mu kirere ivuza ubuhuha bw’umuduhero,mbona ageze ku kibuga mpunzamahanga cy’ikanombe,ahakurwa n’ikinyabiziga cyimujyana mubuengera-zuba bw’umurwa wa Kigali.bitewe ni uko umwakagara yari yabanje imbere,nerekwa Nyir’uRwanda ikinyabiziga kimutwaye acyivamo ahita agendesha amaguru yerekeza aho intebe yabukunzi iherereye.

Bitewe ni uko umwakagara yari yagiye n’ikinyabiziga,ahura n’uruhurirane rw’ibinyabiziga,maze,atinda mu nzira,bituma Nyir’uRwanda yagiye namaguru amutanga ku ntebe yabukunzi.Nerekwa abambari b’umwakagara bose bakorwa n’isoni mbona rubanda rw’Umwami runejejwe ni uko Nyir’uRwanda asubiye ku ntebe yabukunzi.

Uhereye uwo mwanya abambari b’umwakagara batangiye kuva mu murwa mukuru w’uRwanda batangira gushoka ishyamba bahunga kw’ima ingoma ya Nyir’uRwanda.Habaho amahoro asesuye abanyarwanda babona umunezero bari barabuze nyuma y’igihe kinini cyane.

Maze bahamagarira ingabo zahoze ar’iza fpr,ngo zirinde Nyir’uRwanda ziranga,ako kanya igihugu cy’igihangange ku isi cyohereza ingabo z’abazungu ariko  bo mu bwoko bw’Abirabura,baraza barinda umutekano w’ighugu.Inkotanyi zibonye ko,ingabo zamahanga arizo airinze igihugu kandi ko habonetse umugisha ku gihugu,bose bazira icyarimwe basaba kwinjizwa mu ngabo z’igihugu.

Barakirwa ariko nabonaga bafite icyimwaro cyinshi cyane kuburyo bamaze gushyirwa mu ngabo byarabagoye cyane kwegera Umwami w’uRwanda KIgeli V. Ndahindurwa,cyakora ntacyo yabatwaye kuko yababereye umubyeyi baahinduka abana b’igihugu.

Ku wa 18 Nzeri 2014,Nerekwa umukuru wa fdlr yifashe ku itama,ngo kubera ko,ibyo bari biringiye byose bihindutse impfabusa,numva ijwi ry’Uwiteka rivuga ngo,uko byagenze muri 1945,ngo ninako na nubu bigiye kugenda muri uyu mwaka wa 2014.Ni uko mbona abanyarwanda bari bafite ibyiringiro muri fdlr mbona birangiye uko niko Uwiteka avuze.

A mother of six was the victim of a brutal terror attack Sunday – the 28th fatality since the upsurge of Palestinian violence that began mid-September.

The 39-year-old woman brutally slaughtered in her own home in Judea late Sunday afternoon was identified as Dafna Meir, a mother of six, including two foster children, ages 4 to 17.

Meir was also a dedicated nurse at Soroka University Medical Center in Be’er Sheba.

“In the name of all Israelis, I want to give strength to all the children of the family. All of us are hurting and share in the painful grief. We will find the terrorist, and he will pay the full price for this heinous murder,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on his Facebook page.

The terrorist was an employee in the small Jewish community and this enabled him to enter Otniel and carry out the barbaric attack.

The funeral will take place Monday morning at Har Hamenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem.

As of Sunday night, the search is still continuing for the terrorist. The community remains in lockdown.

“We will not rest until we settle accounts with the terrorist, wherever he is,” Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon declared. “Today’s murder at Otniel teaches us yet again what a cruel enemy we are up against.”

By: Terri Nir, United with Israel