Jerusalem News 888. Views, Jews, Ten Tribes News
16 December 2009, 27 Kislev 5770
Contents:
1. Zulus to fight AIDS with circumcision
2. Blair: said removing Saddam was a motive for invasion of Iraq.
3. Daniel Pipes: American Taxpayer Money Spent on Eradicating Hebrew-Language Signs
4. European funding for "refusal" Popaganda in Israeli Society
5. Israel confirms U.K. arrest warrant against Livni
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1. Zulus to fight AIDS with circumcision
From: surfer11 <surfer11@iprimus.com.au>
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/zulus-to-fight-aids-with-circumcision/story-e6frfkui-1225807552513
Zulus to fight AIDS with circumcision
From: AFP
December 07, 2009 6:43AM
THE king of South Africa's Zulus wants to revive the practice of circumcision among his people to help fight the spread of AIDS, the Sapa news agency reported today.
A number of studies have shown that circumcising men can halve their chances of contracting the HIV virus, and the World Health Organisation has recommended since 2007 that circumcision be included among anti-AIDS strategies.
"In the context of the fight against HIV and AIDS I should announce my intention to revive the practice of circumcision amongst young men," King Goodwill Zwelithini said during a traditional festival.
Zulus practised ritual circumcision until the start of the 19th century, when the legendary king Shaka put a stop to it because it deprived him of young warriors for months at a time.
The authorities in South Africa's north-east KwaZulu-Natal province are now in talks with King Zwelithini about the practicalities of reintroducing circumcision.
"Circumcision will assist in the fight against the pandemic, although on its own does not prevent the spread of sexual transmitted diseases," the head of KwaZulu-Natal's regional government, Zweli Mkhize, said.
2. Blair: said removing Saddam was a motive for invasion of Iraq.
War critics say Tony Blair is 'rewriting history'
Published Date: 13 December 2009
By Hazel Mollison
? Blair: said removing Saddam was a motive for invasion of Iraq.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/War-critics-say-Tony-Blair.5907445.jp
The former prime minister ? who is due to give evidence in the new year to the Chilcot inquiry into the war ? said the threat posed by Saddam to the wider region had meant it was right to remove him from power.
But opponents have accused him of trying to "rewrite history" and leading the country into a "disastrous and illegal war".
Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell said Blair would not have obtained the support of the Cabinet or parliament for war if he had been so open about his view on regime change at the time.
In a BBC radio interview yesterday he said: "In spite of experience, in spite of the benefit of hindsight, Mr Blair still does not realise just how much of a foreign policy disaster Britain's involvement in the military action against Iraq turned out to be.
"I have no doubt whatsoever that if Mr Blair had told his cabinet what he is now saying, he'd have found it very difficult to keep all of them ? he did, of course, lose Robin Cook and, eventually, Clare Short. But the one place he would have undoubtedly failed would have been in the House of Commons."
Angus Robertson MP, the SNP's Westminster leader and defence spokesman, said: "Tony Blair appears to be rewriting history before he is called before the Iraq inquiry, but his admission now raises crunch questions for the current Prime Minister.
"Would Gordon Brown still have bankrolled the war had he known there were never any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
"The heat is now on Gordon Brown, as the chancellor who wrote the cheques for this disastrous and illegal war."
Blair told Fern Britton in a BBC interview to be broadcast today that other factors influenced his decision to back military action in 2003.
He said: "I would still have thought it right to remove him. Obviously you would have had to use and deploy different arguments, about the nature of the threat.
"It was the notion of him as a threat to the region, of which the development of WMD was obviously one, and because you'd had 12 years of United Nations to and fro on this subject, he used chemical weapons on his own people ? so this was obviously the thing that was uppermost in my mind."
He also acknowledged that there were families who blamed him for the deaths of their loved ones in a conflict in which they believed Britain should never have been involved.
The Stop the War Coalition's national convener, Lindsey German, said Blair should face legal proceedings should he repeat the statements in the interview to the Chilcot inquiry.
She said: "Not to do so will confirm what many people suspect that Sir John Chilcot's committee was handpicked by Gordon Brown with the clear intention of whitewashing war crimes."
3. American Taxpayer Money Spent on Eradicating Hebrew-Language Signs
by Daniel Pipes
August 27, 2009
updated Sep 28, 2009
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/08/american-taxpayer-money-spent-on-eradicating
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), an independent federal agency "that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State" has embarked on a four-year, $20-million project to help Palestinians prepare for statehood in the West Bank by replacing road signs that include Arabic, English, and Hebrew with ones just in Arabic and English.
Comment: So much for the prospects of normalization, harmonious peace, or a Palestinian population content to live side-by-side with Israel. (August 27, 2009)
4. European funding for "refusal" Popaganda in Israeli Society
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: NGO Monitor: European funding for "refusal" propaganda in Israeli high
schools
Press Release
Release date December 14, 2009
European funding for "refusal" propaganda in high schools
NGO Monitor research shows that the radical NGO New Profile is funded directly by Quakers UK, SIVMO (Netherlands), Cordaid (Netherlands, receives Dutch gov't and EU funding), Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP), Gush Shalom, Zochrot, and other organizations and individuals.
As reported in the Jerusalem Post, New Profile has been prohibited from making presentations in public schools due to its calls for Israelis to refuse to serve in the military.
According to the Minister of Education, Gideon Sa'ar, "It is impossible that there will be preaching for draft-dodging or against enlistment in the IDF in our schools."
New Profile is also an active member of the NIF-funded Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP), an umbrella group that also includes Machsom Watch, Women in Black, and others. CWP's mission statement emphasizes its commitment "to the struggle to end the occupation; to the full involvement of women in peace negotiations; to an end to the excessive militarization of Israeli society."
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