Elder of Ziyon Daily News |  |
- Iran's Press TV Acts Like Iran's Press TV
- West Bank Terror Jumps in November & December
- 90-year-old Saudi Weds 15-year-old Girl
- Anti-Semitic Incidents Up in Austria
- Burgas Bombing Investigator Sacked over Leak
- Monday Morning Links
- Photos from Recent Fatah Rally in Gaza
| Iran's Press TV Acts Like Iran's Press TV Posted: 07 Jan 2013 09:25 PM PST | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| West Bank Terror Jumps in November & December Posted: 07 Jan 2013 03:48 PM PST *** Throughout the Israeli media today there have been a number of reports based off the latest monthly report (I used it already for a post on Sunday) from the Shin Bet. For example, Ynet has a story titled, "West Bank sees rise in terror attacks," while the Times of Israel has one titled, "Terror attacks in West Bank, Jerusalem on the rise." Below is the data straight up. While most of the other reports have combined the number of attacks in the West Bank and Jerusalem, I have only included the number of attacks counted in the West Bank.
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| 90-year-old Saudi Weds 15-year-old Girl Posted: 07 Jan 2013 12:47 PM PST *** CHALLAH @ Al Arabiya The recent marriage of a 90-year-old Saudi man to a 15-year-old girl has sparked condemnation from human rights and social media activists in the kingdom. On Twitter especially, activists criticized the parents of the girl for giving her to a man decades older than her. In an interview, the groom insisted that his marriage was "legal and correct," and that he paid a $17,500 (SAR 65,000) dowry to marry the girl, who is the daughter of a Yemeni father and Saudi mother. The 90-year-old told the story of his first night with the bride. He said she entered the bedroom before him, and she locked the door from inside so he could not enter. This, he said, made him "suspicious about some kind of conspiracy" by the girl and her mother. He vowed to sue his in-laws to give him back the girl or return him the expensive dowry. Close friends of the bride's family said she was frightened on the wedding night, and locked herself in the room for two successive days before fleeing back to her parents' home. The member of the Saudi National Association for Human Rights (NSHR), Suhaila Zein al-Abedin, urged authorities to intervene "as soon as possible to save this child from tragedy." Abedin noted that marriage in Islam must be based on mutual consent, and this was not satisfied, as demonstrated by the girl's move to lock herself in the room. She said the girl's parents were also to be held responsible for marrying their daughter to a man the age of her great grandfather. Abedin urged the establishment of a minimum age of 18 for marrying girls, saying this would pave the way for punishing violators, according to a report by al-Hayat newspaper. Jamal al-Toueiki, a psychologist, said forced marriage may subject girls to abuse and violence, and this could lead to their suicide if nothing is done to save them.      | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anti-Semitic Incidents Up in Austria Posted: 07 Jan 2013 10:42 AM PST *** CHALLAH @ Israel Hayom The leader of Vienna's Jewish community says the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Austria reported to his office have doubled over the past year and adds that Jews feel threatened elsewhere in the EU as well. Jewish community president Oskar Deutsch tells the Kurier newspaper that the Jewish community registered 135 such incidents last year, compared to 71 in 2011. In comments published Monday, he named Hungary, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France and Greece as the EU countries where Jews are most under threat, adding that fearful Jewish families in Hungary have recently started to immigrate to Austria.      | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Burgas Bombing Investigator Sacked over Leak Posted: 07 Jan 2013 07:41 AM PST *** CHALLAH @ Sofia News Agency The Prosecutor's Office has dismissed investigator Staneliya Karadzhova as member of the team investigating the July 18 terror act in Bulgaria's Black city of Burgas. Karadzhova has been dismissed on January 3 by the Burgas Regional Prosecutor on grounds the investigator leaked in the media classified information about latest developments in the probe. On the same day, Karadzhova told the 24 Chasa (24 Hours) daily that Bulgarian police authorities have learned the real identity of one of the accomplices of the Burgas bus bomber. The Interior Ministry declined refuting officially the above statement, with Kalin Georgiev, Chief Secretary of the Interior, only saying that any comments on the subject would be detrimental for the investigation. For a rundown of basically everything related to the Burgas attack and the ongoing investigation go here.      | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 07 Jan 2013 06:07 AM PST From Ian *** JPost Editorial: Palestinian irresponsibility "Instead of choosing a path of self-empowerment and accepting responsibility for their own fate, Fayyad and other Palestinian leaders have opted yet again for the well-traversed road of self-victimization. Apparently, Palestinian leaders in the West Bank believe they will succeed in deflecting growing anger and frustration on the Palestinian street and redirect toward Israel. We hope they are wrong." Barry Rubin: Al Gore Sells Out (to al-Jazeera) "What would you call it if a former vice-president of the United States had sold his television network to a fascist or Communist front group at a time when such forces threatened America? Nothing very nice. But now Al Gore has sold out his admittedly obscure channel to al-Jazeera and taken a position on its board. Here's an interview of myself on this issue." MEMRI: Chief Islamic Judge of PA: We Want to File Suit against Britain for Balfour Declaration "Crime" VIDEO and Wife of Hamas MP Al-Hayya: A Woman's Role Is to Instill Love of Jihad and Martyrdom in Her Children VIDEO "Successive British Governments continue to tolerate the existence of large charities that encourage and provide for Islamist terror groups. By failing to separate British Muslims from the Islamist charities that exploit them, we flatter and legitimize supporters of terrorism as humanitarians and community leaders. In the US, the charity Interpal is a proscribed organization: when you help terror groups build homes, you are also helping terror groups build bombs." "The education minister has repeated remarks that Bahais cannot enroll in public schools, saying it violates the Constitution. "The Constitution only recognizes the three Abrahamic religions," Ibrahim Ghoneim told Akbar Al-Youm newspaper Saturday. "And as religion is a subject taught in schools, they do not meet the requirements for enrollment." "Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi rebuilt his cabinet Sunday, replacing 10 ministers and amplifying the Islamist presence in the government. The move, in which at least three Islamists were appointed to head major economic ministries, comes a day ahead of a planned visit by a top International Monetary Fund official to discuss an impending $4.8 billion loan." "Before Chavez came to power in 1999, there were 30,000 Jews in Venezuela. Now, the community has dwindled to just less than 9,000. Having experienced virtually no anti-Semitism in their history, the Chavez years ushered in a set of new and frightening experiences for Venezuela's Jews, from cartoons in the press that could have been lifted from the notorious Nazi newspaper, Der Sturmer, to the vandalism of the main synagogue in Caracas in 2009. As a depressing summary by Tel Aviv University's Kantor Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism noted last September, "Recent years have witnessed a rise in anti-Semitic manifestations, including vandalism, media attacks, caricatures, and physical attacks on Venezuelan Jewish institutions." IDE Americas Inc., a subsidiary of Israel's IDE Technologies Ltd, to design project - the largest of its kind in western hemisphere. "The Israeli desalination giant that is already responsible for the brunt of Israel's salty-to-fresh water transformation is now taking on San Diego, in the biggest desalination project to hit the western hemisphere." A line of products trusted by neurosurgeons and neuroscience researchers on six continents was developed by a Christian-Arab couple in Nazareth, Israel. "The company's recording and stimulation tools, which have both FDA (US) and CE (Europe) approvals, are helpful in two realms. Neuroscientists use them in the lab to understand more about the human brain, and neurosurgeons use them for treating patients with a variety of neural disorders such as Parkinson's disease and dystonia, a nervous system disorder that causes involuntary muscles contractions and spasms." "Israeli and Norwegian energy companies said they encountered a significant amount of natural gas in an offshore Israeli field. Norwegian energy company AGR said it encountered "significant signs of natural gas" during drilling operations in the Aphrodite-2 exploration well in the offshore Ishai license block. The well encountered a gas layer of 49 feet, the Platts news service reports." A herbal remedy for the 'bug crisis' Farmers nowadays are using more pesticides than ever. An innovation based on Negev herbs may be even more effective. "Herbs are for more than just tea — they may be the next big thing in the fight against pests. Particularly one herb that grows in Israel's Negev desert, whose medicinal properties have been known to the Bedouin for generations. Yaniv Kitron of Israel's EdenShield has discovered that it works pretty well as a natural "pesticide," too."      | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Photos from Recent Fatah Rally in Gaza Posted: 07 Jan 2013 02:30 AM PST *** Last Friday, Fatah held a major rally in the Gaza Strip celebrating the anniversary of its first terror attack. Fatah officials said that there was close to a million, if not more than a million people, while Hamas officials say that the crowd was no more than 200,000. While the rally seemed to be going well, parts of it were forced to be cancelled for what appears to have been an outbreak of scuffles between supporters of former Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Yahiya Rabah, a top Fatah official in Gaza, said the rally was cancelled "due to the huge number of participants and logistical failures." But witnesses said one pushing match was between supporters of Abbas and partisans of Fatah's former Gaza security commander Mohammed Dahlan, who was expelled from the party because of conflicts with Abbas. Another Fatah official, who spoke anonymously because he did not want to embarrass the party, said the rally was cancelled because hundreds of Dahlan supporters jumped up on the stage and clashed with Abbas supporters.Here are a selection of photos from the day.               |
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