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16 November 2008 18 Cheshvan 5769
Contents:
1. Female Egyptian Lawyer Promotes
Sexual Harassment against Jews
2. Sinai Bedouin in armed revolt against Egypt, snatch general
3. Mass Circumcision Proposed to save Africans From AIDS Epidemic!
1. Female Egyptian Lawyer Promotes
Sexual Harassment against Jews
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128352
by Hana Levi Julian
(IsraelNN.com) A female Egyptian lawyer has recommended that Arab men begin
sexually harassing Jewish women as a means of forcing Jews to leave "Arab
countries." Egypt, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, is perceived
among Western nations as a moderate Arab nation where secular Arabs are a
majority.
In a video clip of the interview which aired on Al Arabiyah television on
October 31, 2008, Nagla Al-Imam said, "In my opinion, they are fair game for all
Arabs, and there is nothing wrong? this is a new form of resistance."
They [women] are fair game for all Arabs, and there is nothing wrong? this is a
new form of resistance.
According to a translation provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute
(MEMRI), which released the clip, Al-Imam specified, however, that her
"resistance" plan did not include rape.
"No. Sexual harassment? In my view, the [Israeli women] do not have any right to
respond. The resistance fighters would not initiate such a thing, because their
moral values are much loftier than that. However, if such a thing did happen to
them, the [Israeli women] have no right to make any demands, because this would
put us on equal terms, leave the land so we won't rape you. These two
things are equal," she said.
Al-Imam added that she did not want "young Arab men to be interrogated," but
rather, she wanted "these Zionist girls with Israeli citizenship to be expelled
from our Arab countries. This is a form of resistance, and a way of rejecting
their presence."
2. Sinai Bedouin in armed revolt against
Egypt, snatch general
From: Debka@thejmg.com
Subject: DEBKA Weekly Newsletter
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:06:27 -0500
12 Nov.: DEBKAfile's military sources reveal that for five days, around 1,000
armed young Bedouin tribesmen have been holding Egyptian positions along the
Sinai-Israeli border south of Rafah to siege.
Egyptian General Mohammed Shaarawai and 50 soldiers were taken hostage until the
insurrectionists' demands are met.
The gun battles erupted Saturday, Nov. 11, when Egyptian troops posted at the
Nitzana border post opened fire on a suspected drug smugglers' truck, killing
the Bedouin driver. Hundreds of armed tribesmen in pick-up trucks bent on
revenge swarmed to the scene and began shooting up the Egyptian border guards.
Three Bedouin were killed and an Egyptian officer and three soldiers injured in
a clash that took place Tuesday, Nov. 11 south of Rafah.
Wednesday, the Bedouin offensive assumed the form of an organized uprising when
their chief handed the Egyptian officers a list of eight demands for lifting the
siege and releasing their captives.
3. Mass Circumcision Proposed to save
Africans From AIDS Epidemic!
Ancient Jewish Rite May Save Africa From AIDS: Operation Abraham
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128322
by Malkah Fleisher
(IsraelNN.com) The patriarch Abraham, who complied with the Torah-recorded
commandment by G-d to circumcise himself, his sons Isaac and Ishmael, and all
his generations afterward as a sign "in your flesh for an everlasting covenant"
(Genesis 17:13), is the inspiration for a consortium of Israeli doctors who are
training circumcision teams in Africa to fight the continental pandemic of AIDS
in a project called Operation Abraham.
The United Nations announced in 2007 that the procedure could reduce the rate of
the HIV virus transmission by up to 60 percent.
Operation Abraham was launched in 2006 by Dr. Inon Schenker, founder of the
Jerusalem AIDS project and respected researcher and senior consultant
specializing in HIV/AIDS prevention. The project is currently training
counterparts in the AIDS-infested capital of Swaziland, Mbabane, to conduct
assembly line-style circumcisions. Death rates are so high in Swaziland that the
life expectancy of a citizen has plummeted to the tender age of 31.
In interviews with the Chicago Tribune and a website called HIV/AIDS and Sexual
and Reproductive Health Integration, Schenker described the dawning of his
belief in mass circumcision as a solution to the AIDS epidemic in Africa, during
the wave of Russian aliyah to Israel in the 1990s.
Ritual circumcision, which is ordinarily conducted according to the Torah
commandment on the 8th day following the birth of a boy, was performed on tens
of thousands of Russian Jewish men and older boys who were barred from taking
part in the ancient Jewish tradition while living behind the Iron Curtain and
chose to take part in the rite upon emigrating to Israel. According to Schenker,
approximately 1,000 circumcisions were conducted every day in five hospitals
around Israel during the height of Russian immigration.
"Israel is the only country with such experience in mass adult-male
circumcision, and it can respond to a very important humanitarian challenge,"
Schenker told the Tribune.
Operation Abraham, which employs Israeli doctors and educators, Jews, Muslims,
and Christians in partnership with the Jerusalem AIDS project and Hadassah
Medical Center - is in high demand to expand its program, with requests for
training coming from Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, and Lesotho.
Officials from the World Health Organization traveled to Jerusalem in 2006 to
gather information on Israel?s expertise in the field, and used Israeli
methodology to formulate a male circumcision manual and teaching course which
are now part of government male circumcision programs in several African
countries.
Operation Abraham's pilot project was finalized in February 2008, and was
submitted for replication and expansion in the summer. Three training teams
have already conducted training seminars in Swaziland this year.
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