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Jerusalem News-726
Jerusalem News-726
24 Shebet 5768, 31 January 2008
Contents:
1. Snow in Jerusalem and the rest of
Israel
2. UN Chastises Israel, Praises Arab States, and Disappoints Canada
3. Rabbi: Jews Must Lead Condemnation of China
1. Snow in Jerusalem and the rest of
Israel
Snow covers areas in northern, southern Israel
Residents of Sde Boker, Mitzpe Ramon, and other areas in southern Israel awake
to fresh coating of snow. Schools in capital closed, bus service to Jerusalem
canceled
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3500987,00.html
2. UN Chastises Israel, Praises Arab
States, and Disappoints Canada
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125094
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
Extract:
(IsraelNN.com) An official of the United Nations was even-handedly ?disturbed?
by the level of religious freedom in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. A
second UN official praised Arab states for ratifying a human rights document
denigrating Zionism. And Canada was sufficiently convinced that the UN would
fail to uproot anti-Semitism from the upcoming Durban Conference on Racism that
it announced it would not take part.
3. Rabbi: Jews Must Lead Condemnation of
China
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125078
by Hillel Fendel
Extract:
(IsraelNN.com) Rabbi David Druckman, the Chief Rabbi of the northern city of
Kiryat Motzkin and an outspoken opponent of Land of Israel withdrawals, says
Jews must take the lead in condemning China for its murder of prisoners of
conscience in order to harvest their organs.
"The atrocity is so great," Rabbi Druckman says on a recently released video,
"that there are simply no words to express it. From a certain standpoint it is
even worse than what the Nazis did... to cut organs from people under the cover
of medical help for other people is simply astonishing and shocking from every
human vantage point."
"It is especially incumbent upon us as Jews to lead the campaign that expresses
total disgust at this phenomenon," Rabbi Druckman says. "Especially us, the
Jewish Nation, that suffered the crimes of the Nazis, may their names be blotted
out, and those of the Communists under Stalin - who can stand by and comprehend
the world's silence at all this?"
Israeli Petition Against Chinese Cruelty
Three months ago, over 220 Israeli rabbis, academics and politicians signed a
petition calling for an end to the atrocities taking place in China. Among the
signatories were 8 Knesset Members (Hendel and Levy from National Union,
Melchior and Cabel from Labor, Kachlon of Likud, and Oron, Gal'on and Vilan of
Meretz).
Over 40 rabbis signed, including Rabbis Chaim Druckman, Shlomo Aviner, Yuval
Cherlow, Shmuel David of Afula, as well as Temple Mount loyalist rabbis, Moshe
Feiglin and leaders of his Jewish Leadership group, and more.
Chinese Torture
China is accused of holding thousands of political prisoners without trial,
beating and torturing people who protest being thrown out of their homes,
employing slave labor for their mass manufacturing industries, and more. Among
the most persecuted groups are the Falun Gong, which numbers at least 70 million
members in China alone. Tens of thousands of practitioners of the Falun Gong
system of meditation and character-building are ruthlessly persecuted by the
government, including having organs removed from their bodies while still alive.
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