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U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday Again Invoked a Six - Month Delay on the Move of the U.S. Embassy
Dec 4th, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;Anti-Israel

A level of anti-Semitism that most world leaders insist can never be reached again following the Nazi Holocaust is popping into view in the Ukraine, where outrageous accusations against Israel and the Jews have become a centerpiece of the country's presidential election.

The controversy first sprang up last week when a noted academic said at a political-academic conference that he has proof that Israel had imported 25,000 Ukrainian children and then harvested their organs. He claimed before the 300 participants in the Kiev gathering that another Ukrainian man had tried in vain to find 15 Ukrainian children adopted in Israel, only to later discover that they had been taken by Israeli medical centers to be used for "spare parts."

Other professors lecturing at the event presented written works blaming "the Zionists" for Ukraine's past and present difficulties.

That conference apparently gave the spark needed by presidential candidate Sergey Ratushnyak to begin spewing his long-held anti-Semitic positions. In his previous campaign to become mayor of the town of Uzhgorod, Ratushnyak said the Jews were to blame for the Nazi Holocaust because they had stolen German property. He warned that the same was starting to happen in the Ukraine.

Twenty-six Israeli Knesset members sent a letter of protest to the Ukrainian government, but that prompted hostile demonstrations outside the Israeli Embassy in Kiev, where Ukranians warned Israel and the Jews against trying to "assert control" over their country.

Two other presidential candidates, one of them a Jew and the other accused of being a Jew by his political opponents, have blasted Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko for not only allowing but actually facilitating the use of anti-Semitism as a campaign tool.

Rabbi Eliyahu: Religious Mks Supporting Anti - Torah Terror Deal
Dec 4th, 2009
Daily NewsArutz Sheva - Gil Ronen
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

 
\Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the Head Rabbi of Tzfat (Safed), pummeled religious ministers and Knesset members for their support of the rumored deal to release 1,000 terrorists from jail in exchange for abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.

"It is a wonder in my eyes, how religious and Hareidi Knesset members vote for a deal that contradicts the Torah,” he told Arutz Sheva. “Are Netanyahu and the media more important than the Torah for them? Murderers must not be released and murderers must not be assisted in murdering Jews. I have no doubt that [Shas spiritual leade Rabbi Ovadia [Yose knows these verses.”

The leading Zionist rabbi, who is the son of former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, told listeners that there are numerous Torah laws against the upcoming deal. “It is known that 'prisoners are not to be redeemed by more than they are worth,'” he quoted the Mishnah, “but that is a reason that pertains more to deals with an economic price.”

However, he said, there is also a serious prohibition on releasing murderers. “Even the release of [Nazi criminal Adol Eichmann, who already lacked the means to murder Jews, was forbidden,” Rabbi Eliyahu explained, “because putting a murderer on trial has a deterrent value, in order to signal that Jewish blood cannot be spilled freely.”

Another Jewish law forbids the sale of weapons to foreigners, even if it is known that they will be used to kill other foreigners. This is doubly true of assisting criminals, the rabbi said. :And here we are talking about an operation following which Jews will be murdered. This is several times worse,” he said.

The only way to free Gilad Shalit is by “turning off the taps” on Gaza, he said. “From a Jewish Law perspective, their electricity and water need to be shut off.”

By advancing the deal, “Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is doing something that is opposed to Halacha and people must not vote for such a man,” Eliyahu warned. “If the State of Israel went in Torah ways, everything would seem simpler and quicker,” he added. 

PA Signals Israel: Freeze is Pointless
Dec 4th, 2009
Daily NewsArutz Sheva - Hillel Fendel
Categories: Today's Headlines;Peace Process

 
Though Israel has stopped all construction in Judea and Samaria, top PLO official Ahmed Qureia has told the European Union envoy to the Middle East that there is no reason to return to negotiating table, in light of Israel’s intransigence and rejection of international law.

The PA’s Maan news agency reports that former PA prime minister Qureia, who now heads the PA’s Jerusalem Affairs Department, told Christian Berger this week, “As a result of the ongoing violations and Israel's refusal to recognize the Palestinian people's right to self-determination, as well as its rebuffing of its commitments under the Road Map plan and under international law, returning to negotiations will be meaningless."

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and other Israeli government leaders have emphasized that the controversial freeze is being implemented in order to persuade the PA to agree to resume negotiations with Israel.

Qureia, also known as Abu Ala, was discussing with Berger a Swedish proposal for the EU to declare eastern Jerusalem the capital of yet another Arab state - this one in the middle of the Jewish Biblical heartland.

The current EU president, Sweden, has drafted a proposal that is expected to be submitted to EU Foreign Ministers next week. The draft, which was leaked to the public on Tuesday, also implied that the EU would recognize a unilaterally declared Palestinian state.  The U.S. and other countries have warned the PA not to take such a step.

The report omitted any mention of the recent Israeli decision to stop all Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria.

Obama Again Delays U.S. Embassy Move to Jerusalem
Dec 4th, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

US President Barack Obama on Thursday again invoked a six-month delay on the move of the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. The US Congress in 1995 passed a law recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital and demanding that the embassy, which is currently in Tel Aviv, be relocated there. But the law also allowed the president the ability to delay the move for a period of six months if national security concerns warranted.

Former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both renewed the delay every six months for the duration of their presidencies. Obama first ordered the delay in June.

The White House has failed to approve the move out of fears that it would upset the Palestinians and the Arab world, which claim the eastern side of Jerusalem for themselves, and reject the legitimacy of Jewish sovereignty there.

Judge: Parents Bigots for Opposing 'gay' Lessons
Dec 4th, 2009
Daily NewsWND - Chelsea Schilling
Categories: Today's Headlines;Moral Decline

Families grilled about religious beliefs, church sermons against homosexuality

A judge has attacked parents, suggesting they are bigots for seeking to opt-out their elementary-age children from a mandatory controversial pro-homosexual curriculum, according to a non-profit law firm.

The parents were represented in California's Alameda Superior Court by Pacific Justice Institute. On Dec. 1, Judge Frank Roesch denied a motion to allow them to have their children excused from the lessons.

According to the group, Roesch blasted the parents for seeking enforcement of a provision of the California Education Code that gives parents a right to opt their kids out of health education.

Education Code Section 51240 allows a parent to have a student excused from instruction, "If any part of a school's instruction in health conflicts with the religious training and beliefs of a parent or guardian of a pupil."

However, Pacific Justice Institute said Roesch repeatedly insinuated that the parents are bigots and insisted there can be no homosexual indoctrination because, he purportedly argued, people are born that way.

In his opinion Roesch said the opt-out provision in section 51240 "is not reasonably construed to include instruction in family life education, but was intended to be more limited in scope."

Pacific Justice Institute reported, "The judge equated a view contrary to his own with creationism and called both false."

'LGBT Lesson #9'

The legal fight over Alameda's anti-bullying curriculum has intensified after the Alameda Board of Education voted to supplement its anti-bullying policy with "LGBT Lesson #9."

The board approved the mandatory program May 26 by a vote of 3-2. Students from kindergarten through fifth grade are required to learn about "tolerance" for the homosexual lifestyle this year.

The curriculum is in addition to the school's current anti-bullying program and is estimated to cost $8,000 for curriculum and training. The school decided parents should not be given an opportunity to opt out of lessons that go against their religious beliefs, even though opponents of the program submitted a petition with 468 signatures of opponents of the homosexual lessons.

In kindergarten, children are introduced to "The New Girl … And Me" by Jacqui Robins. The book is about a young girl who is new at a school and strikes up a friendship with another girl after a popular boy refuses to play with her.

In first grade, students read "Who is in a Family?" By Robert Skutch. It explores different types of families. One page states, " … Robin's family is made up of her dad, Clifford, her dad's partner, Henry, and Robin's cat, Sassy."

In a May 3, 2005, National Public Radio interview, Skutch said he wrote the book because his niece and her lesbian partner "decided to have a family."

He explained, "The whole purpose of the book was to get the subject [of same-sex parents] out into the minds and the awareness of children before they are old enough to have been convinced that there's another way of looking at life. … It would be really nice if children were not subjected to the – I don't want to use the word 'bigotry,' but that's what I want to say anyway – of their parents and older people."

Israeli Jewish settlers are now in open conflict with their prime minister and his government
Dec 4th, 2009
News UpdateJimmy DeYoung
Categories: Jimmy DeYoung News

In a recent meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and the leaders of the Jewish settler movement, the settlers took the lead in what was described as hard and tense emotionally charged exchanges between the man that they helped get elected and those Jews who now say that they are in an open conflict with their own government. The Jewish settlers have made plans to do everything possible to overthrow the Israeli government order to stop all building in what they call God given land.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

The Israeli government's decision to stop all expansion of the Jewish communities in the Biblical lands of Judea and Samaria are in conflict with not only the Jewish settlers but the Bible itself.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu made what he calls a very hard decision when he announced and then began to implement the moratorium on construction on the Jewish settlements in Israel and thus stopping all expansion of the Jewish communities. Netanyahu explained that this move was to force the Palestinians to come back to the negotiating table and begin work on a peace deal to ensure coexistence of the Israelis and the Palestinians in the Middle East. Meanwhile, the Jewish settlers say that this Israeli government decision will ensure no coexistence between Jews in the Middle East and that the settlers plan to coordinate an attack on this government decision. Prime Minister Netanyahu's decision is, in fact, in conflict with Bible prophecy for the Jewish people in the land of their forefathers.

2500 years ago, the ancient Jewish prophecy Ezekiel wrote that the Lord would find the Jewish people wherever they have been scattered across the four corners of the Earth and bring them back into the land of their forefathers (Ezekiel 34:11-30). Ezekiel 35 refers to the land of the Bible, the land that God promised the Jewish people and 35 times it says that when the Jews come back into the land, the area of Judea and Samaria, that they will prosper, in fact, be better than it was in the times of their forefathers. In fact, the Lord says that He will bring the Jews back into their land not because their Jewish but for His holy name sake (Ezekiel 36:22).

Bible prophecy must be fulfilled.

Churches Told Homosexual Opt - Out Illegal
Dec 4th, 2009
Daily NewsCharlie Butts - OneNewsNow
Categories: Today's Headlines;Moral Decline;Persecution

The European Union is telling the British government it is wrong to ban homosexuals from employment in churches.

The decision was initiated by a complaint on the National Secular Society's behalf as they deemed the church opt-outs demonstrated "illegal discrimination against homosexuals." Matt Barber of the Liberty Counsel says this development in Europe is something those in the pro-family movement have long said could be expected.
 
"Every time new-fangled gay 'rights' come into conflict with our enumerated freedoms -- in this country, our constitutional right to freedom of religious expression -- we are seeing that gay rights are trumping freedom of religion and freedom of speech," he reports.
 
Barber argues the European Union is criminalizing any opposition to homosexuality. "They've taken this a step further and have even said, 'Churches, you have to affirmatively embrace the homosexual lifestyle,'" he adds.

The Christian attorney further explains that British churches are being told "it is illegal for churches and for religious organizations to tell people involved in the homosexual lifestyle that they cannot take part in the church activities," and that it is even illegal to ban them from church employment.
 
He contends that the European Union has simply provided the United States with a window into its future because of adoption of hate crimes legislation and perhaps punishing employers who will not hire homosexuals.

China Sentences Five More Christian Leaders
Dec 4th, 2009
Daily NewsCompass Direct News
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Church;Persecution

LOS ANGELES, December 3 – Bypassing the court system, China arbitrarily sentenced five more leaders of the Fushan Church in Linfen City, Shanxi Province, on Monday (Nov. 30), this time to re-education labor camps for two years, according to China Aid Association (CAA). A Chinese court last week sentenced five house church leaders to three to seven years in prison after they were arrested en route to Beijing to file a complaint about an attack on their church, according to the advocacy organization. The five leaders sentenced to labor camps this week were accused of “gathering people to disturb the public order” after they organized a prayer rally of 1,000 people the day after military police and others attacked their church members and building on Sept. 13. In what CAA termed “an arbitrary administrative sentence by the Public Security Bureau enacted so the leaders would not be ‘required’ to go through the court and prosecution system,” China delivered the verdicts to church leaders Li Shuangping, Yang Hongzhen, Yang Caizhen (wife of Pastor Yang Xuan, who was sentenced to three years of prison on Nov. 25), Gao Qin (also known as Gao Fuqin), and Zhao Guoai. “Yang Caizhen was seen being beaten severely during an interrogation,” CAA said in a press statement. “Having had one of her front teeth knocked out during a beating, and fasting and praying during her detention, Ms. Yang is reported to look very fragile.”

At Midnight Last Night, the United Kingdom Ceased to be a Sovereign State
Dec 4th, 2009
Daily NewsTelegraph.co,uk - Daniel Hannan
Categories: Today's Headlines;Revived Roman Empire

We woke up in a different country today. Alright, it doesn’t look very different. The trees still seem black against the winter sun; the motorways continue to jam inexplicably; commuters carry on avoiding eye contact. But Britain is no longer a sovereign nation. At midnight last night, we ceased to be an independent state, bound by international treaties to other independent states, and became instead a subordinate unit within a European state.

Yes, a European state. Take a quick dekko at the definition set out in Article One of the1933 Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States: “The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states.”

Until yesterday, the EU qualified on grounds (a), (b) and (c). Now it has ticked the final box. Under the Lisbon Treaty, which came into force today, it acquires “legal personality”, which gives it the right to sign accords and treat with other states. Nor is this right simply theoretical: the EU now has a foreign minister, a diplomatic corps (the European External Action Service) and 160 overseas embassies.

Until yesterday, the EU could not annex additional policy areas without a new treaty, which needed to be ratified by all its constituent nations. Now, it has the so-called “passerelle” clause, or self-amending mechanism. Parliament, in other words, no longer has the final say on extensions of EU jurisdiction. The EU derives its authority, not from its 27 members, but from its own foundational texts.

Until yesterday, Britain could simply walk out of the EU by abrogating the Treaty of Rome and repealing the 1972 European Communities Act. Henceforth, it will have to go through the secession procedure laid down in Lisbon. In other words – in the minds of Euro-lawyers, at any rate, if not of British constitutionalists – the EU gets to settle the terms on which its members are allowed to leave. Formal sovereignty has been shifted from the national capitals to Brussels.

It is appalling, demeaning, disgraceful that such a thing should have been done without popular consent, and in the absence of the referendum that all three parties had promised. “There’s no point in crying over spilt milk,” you might say. True. But there is every point in mopping it up.