Below is from the Ynet News website:An article published this weekend in a leaflet distributed by anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox stream Neturei Karta asserted that the terror attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai was a punishment from God for the organization's collaboration with Zionist Israelis.
Six Jews were killed in the attack three weeks ago, including the two Chabad emissaries to the Indian city. Chabad Houses around the world serve as community centers for Jews regardless of the degree of their religious observance.
According to the article, Chabad was rightfully punished for its relations with "the filthy, deplorable traitors – the cursed Zionists that are your friends."
The writer went on to slam the Hasidic group for inviting to the emissaries' funeral "villainous heads of state who uttered words of heresy and blasphemy."
Chabad itself was imbued with "false national sentiment," the article said, and the organization's centers around the globe hosted religious Jews alongside secular ones without making any distinction "between good and evil, right and wrong, pure and impure, a Jew and a former Jew, a believer and a heretic."
The conclusion, according to the writer, was that "the road you (Chabad) have taken is the road of death and it leads to doom, assimilation and the uprooting of the Torah."
An Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes and an insult at George W. Bush, without hitting him, as the US president was shaking hands with the Iraqi premier at his Baghdad office on Sunday.
As the two leaders met in Nuri al-Maliki's private office, a journalist sitting in the third row jumped up, shouting: "It is the farewell kiss, you dog," and threw his shoes one after the other towards Bush.
Maliki made a protective gesture towards the US president, who ducked and was not hit.
The journalist, Muntazer al-Zaidi from Al-Baghdadia channel which broadcasts from Cairo, was frogmarched from the room by security staff, an AFP journalist said.
Soles of shoes are considered the ultimate insult in Arab culture. After Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled in Baghdad in April 2003, many onlookers beat the statue's face with their soles.
Some Iraqi journalists stood up to apologise.
The White House said Bush ducked to avoid the first shoe, while the second narrowly missed the president.
Bush said: "Thanks for apologising on behalf of the Iraqi people. It doesn't bother me. If you want the facts, it was a size 10 shoe that he threw".
Playing down the incident, the president later added: "I don't know what the guy's cause is... I didn't feel the least bit threatened by it."
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A Frum resident from Rockaway Manor, an adult group home in Far Rockaway, has been missing since Tuesday morning.His 56 years old his 5-6 does not walk fast his name is Allen Rothman. Mr. Rothman could be anywhere from Far Rockaway, Monsey, Brooklyn If anyone has ANY information, please contact Chaverim In Monsey at 845-371-6333 or call 718-496-3107, as well as 911. The police have been notified and are looking as well.Boro Park Shomrim, volunteers from Chaveirim & Misaskim, along with many ordinary people have joined the search.Boro Park Shomrim is asking for anyone who is available to assist in the search to please go to 716 Beach 9th Street (near Corneiga) at the Young Israel of Far Rockaway.Please daven for him. Avrohom ben Baila Rochel
White House Press Secretary: President Is Well Aware Of Pollard Pardon Request
December 4, 2008
SEE NOTE AT END OF ARTICLE:The following is a question which was asked by a reporter at Wednesday’s White House press briefing to Press Secretary Dana Perino:
REPORTER: Two questions. Two hundred of Israel’s rabbis and other Israeli leaders, including generals, petitioned the President concerning the very serious health condition, in his 23rd year in prison, of Jonathan Pollard. And they asked the President to give him clemency. I’m wondering, does the President — he is aware of this, and what is the reaction?
MS. PERINO: The President is well aware of the request to pardon — or commute the sentence of Jonathan Pollard, but as I said to Kathleen, I’m not able to comment on where those things stand. I just — it’s a private matter for the President and if and when there would be an action that the President would take, then we would let you know.
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Hillary Clinton's selection to serve as Barack Obama's secretary of State follows her strong race for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination against him. Clinton was among a number of top national security officials named by Obama on December 1. Obama said he would nominate Robert M. Gates to remain as defense secretary, and nominated Gen. James L. Jones, a retired Marine commandant, for national security adviser, Eric H. Holder Jr. for attorney general, Susan Rice as ambassador the UN, and Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano for homeland security secretary.
Her eight years as first lady and nearly equal amount of time as senator from New York have given her broad exposure to U.S. foreign policy. In the Senate, Clinton followed U.S. military moves in Iraq and Afghanistan as a member of the Armed Services Committee. She has worked on climate change issues while serving on the Committee on the Environment and Public Works, and has also been closely involved in homeland security issues.
Clinton has projected a pragmatic but tough approach on national security issues. Her stance toward Iran is a case in point. She has called for a revival of diplomacy with Iran, while at the same time warning the Iranian regime in strong terms about the consequences it would face in the event of an attack on Israel. During the presidential primaries, Clinton proposed that the United States extend a nuclear deterrent to U.S. allies in the Middle East, as a response to Iran's suspected program to develop nuclear weapons technology.
Clinton voted to authorize the war in Iraq in 2002, but has since become one of the harshest critics of the Bush administration's foreign policy agenda, promising throughout her presidential campaign to end the war. Other areas of national security emphasis during her campaign included a call for stabilizing Pakistan and for preventing nuclear proliferation. Her Foreign Affairs essay in late 2007 included a call to revive what she saw as sagging U.S. credibility in the world.
As first lady, Clinton traveled abroad extensively. At the 1995 UN World Conference for Women in Beijing, Clinton spoke out against human and women's rights abuses in China and around the world. "It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls," Clinton said, or "when women and girls are sold into slavery or prostitution."
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