Staggering Poverty is Mentally Fatiguing
Report: 775,000 children live in poverty
By Jerusalem Post Jan. 25, 2007
Over
1.5 million (1.63m.) Israelis live below the poverty line
….The National Council for the Child stressed that
I srael's
percentage of impoverished
children (one out of three) was the "highest in the
world."
The War Wearied and the “Mentally
Fatigued”
Chicago Terror Trial: Jury
still in Deliberations
Terrorism
jury suffering 'mental fatigue,' cuts work hours
By Mike Robinson AP Legal Affairs Writer
Chicago Tribune January 25, 2007
CHICAGO -- Jurors in the trial of two men charged with furnishing
money and fresh recruits to Hamas terrorists announced
Thursday that they are getting tired and are cutting their
work hours.. . .Jurors said in the note that they are
suffering from "mental fatigue." ….Jurors heard three months of testimony in
the case and have deliberated on the evidence for nine
days.
The First Word: Our bloodletting must stop
By Bassem Eid Jerusalem Post Jan. 18, 2007
Violence, it
seems, has become endemic to the Palestinian mind-set
and political culture. … The chaos surrounding Palestinian social and political life is
indicative of our having the wrong priorities…. Palestinians
need to realize that this may be our last chance for self-determination.
If lost, it could be lost forever. We cannot afford to
repeat the mistakes of the past; we cannot afford another
series of missed opportunities.
Do Not Bite and Devour…each
other
Debilitating public criticism
By Yagil Levy Haaretz 1-18-07
Dan Halutz is the first chief of staff to step down in the
wake of public pressure…. not because the political leadership
pushed him to do so, but because he has internalized the
fact that public confidence in him was at a nadir, making
it difficult for him to function, and causing an erosion
of confidence in him within the organization as well.
… The resignation of the chief of staff actually symbolizes
the weakness of civilian monitoring…. means that the army is sliding over into the area
of formulating policy rather than merely implementing
it, and involving itself in political
controversy and political bargaining.
Give Ehud Olmert a break
By Yosef (Tommy) Lapid Jerusalem Post Jan. 24, 2007
The government is wounded; it's bleeding; and all
those near enough to smell the blood are sinking their
teeth in the prime minister to take
yet another bite of his flesh.
Meeting of the Minds:
Top US official urges more pressure against
Iran
By Associated
Press Jerusalem
Post Jan. 21, 2007
"Iran is going to have to suffer the consequences of being
an international pariah," US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns told
the Herzliya conference at the IDC in Herzliya, emphasizing
Washington's desire for
a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
Iran
announces new missile tests as Ahmadinejad dismisses criticism
of economy
by Nasser Karimi,
Canadian Press January 21, 2007
TEHRAN, Iran
(AP) - Determined not to budge under pressure, Iran announced new tests of short-range missiles
Sunday, and hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed criticism that the country's economy has been hurt
by UN sanctions imposed for its suspect nuclear program.
Israel faces
nuclear Holocaust warns Gingrich
Newt
Gingrich: Haifa, Tel Aviv,
Jerusalem facing mortal
Iranian threat,
says former US
Speaker of the House
By Yaakov Lappin Yediot
Aharonot 1-23-07
"The
war in Lebanon demonstrated that Israel is facing a jihadist threat that runs through
Tehran, to Damascus,
to Gaza.
Hizbullah are not fighting for the coming
into being of a Palestinian state, but for the going out
of being of the Israeli state," he said.
BACKGROUNDERS
The problem with Syria
Middle Israel: By Amotz Asa-El Jerusalem Post Jan. 18, 2007
Optimistic
interpretations of Syrian intentions are inspired by Military
Intelligence, while the skeptics are nesting in the Mossad.
As Mossad chief Meir Dagan et al. see it, the
Syrians have undergone no epiphany, and rather than
reflect a strategic change of attitude toward Israel,
their statements
merely echo momentary diplomatic distress.
[Asa-El
provides an explanation of the Assad regime’s underlying
religious foundations and, therefore, regional moves.]
Syria hallucinations
President Assad won't be disengaging from Iran
or Hizbullah
By Zalman Shoval Yediot Aharonot 12-27-06
In recent weeks Syria has engaged in a diplomatic and political
offensive against Israel
and the United
States, and not without
success, we must admit. It has been aided by quite a few rash and unwise remarks by certain Israeli politicians
and journalists, as well as American politicians hostile
to the Bush Administration's policy.
“Three
dimensional chess in a dark room”
Dept
of Defense News Briefing with British Lt. Gen. Lamb from
Iraq
U.S. Dept
of Defense 1-19-07
On Iraq: “It's
hard pounding. This is as complex as I've ever seen
anything I've ever done. This is really difficult. This
is three-dimensional chess in a dark room. But hard
pounding is what Wellington said at Waterloo
before he went on to win as part of a coalition.”
Israel
Inside Insight
The life and times of Moshe Katsav
By Amotz Asa-El Jerusalem Post Jan. 24, 2007
For
most of its 58 years the Israeli presidency was mainly
about laying cornerstones, cutting ribbons, visiting charities,
accepting ambassadorial credentials and strolling alongside
military bands with colorfully dressed kings and well-tailored
presidents. Not
anymore.
.. .There is only that much you can do for your country when you are
so busy asking what you can do for yourself.
Rule of lawlessness
By Dan Izenberg Jerusalem Post Jan. 18,
2007
Review:
The Struggle
of Democracy against Terrorism By Emmanuel Gross University
of Virginia
Press
We will return to the question of how a democratic state, committed to human rights and the rule of law
at home and in its international relations, is supposed
to confront terrorists who deliberately embed themselves
among the civilian population. But this issue is only
one of the many that Gross addresses. Others include the
interrogation of terrorist suspects, the use of administrative
measures such as administrative arrests, house demolitions,
imposition of curfews, closures and roadblocks, the incarceration
of "illegal fighters," intelligence-gathering
techniques that invade privacy, the use of civilians as
human shields, targeted assassinations and how to cope
with the terrorists' use of their own people as human
shields.
Peres
grateful to Nasrallah, Ahmadinejad
Vice
premier says Iranian president is doing a great job. 'Without
him, the world would not unite in an anti-Persian policy,'
he tells Herzliya Conference
By Yoav Kapshuk
Yediot Aharonot 1-22-07
Peres added that he supported
the US
stance, which views Syria
as part of the axis of evil. "The United
States believed that (Lebanese Prime
Minister Fouad) Siniora should control Lebanon and it cannot go with Syria, while Syria wants to strengthen Hizbullah and is sponsoring
Khaled Mashaal," he concluded.
Anglicans helped create Israel
By Matthew Wagner Jerusalem Post Jan. 26, 2007
Evangelical
Anglicans of the 19th century played a central role in
the process that led to the establishment of the State
of Israel, according
to documents to be made available for the first time next
week by the Christ Church
Center near Jaffa
Gate in Jerusalem. "It is impossible
to understand the Balfour Declaration of 1917 without
first understanding the theological developments that
reached their peak in 1850," said Kelvin Crombie,
a historian and member of the Christian Missionary Among
the Jewish People (CMJ).
HOT, YES running Jews for Jesus ads
By Etgar Lefkovits Jerusalem Post Jan. 22, 2007
Jerusalem city councilwoman Mina Fenton, a prominent anti-missionary activist from
the National Religious Party, said that
the approval of the broadcasts in Israel by the Communications Ministry
represented "the corruption of Jewish morals,"
and was indicative of a country facing a "crusade
of money."
The ever-sensitive
issue of TV missionary activity comes amid burgeoning
ties between Israel and the evangelical Christian world
and follows a recent decision by YES to drop Star World
and by HOT to discontinue BBC Prime, moves which have
triggered a firestorm of protests by the English-speaking
public in Israel.
* “Jews for Jesus”
is anti-missionary code for any Jewish ministry
that believes Yeshua is the Messiah of Israel. The label is not limited to the
affiliation with organization known as Jews for Jesus.
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