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Jerusalem News 919

August 30, 2010, Elul 20, 5670
Contents:
1. Rabbi Obadiah Yosef Arouses Ruckus Over Anti-Palestinian Remarks
2. Recent Major Oil Discoveries in Israel
3. Syria is Sore and Sorry:  800,000 Refugees in Syria Drought

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1. Rabbi Obadiah Yosef Arouses Ruckus Over Anti-Palestinian Remarks
From: imra@netvision.net.il

+++SOURCE: Jordan Times 30 Aug.'10:"Abbas, Palestinians should die -Israeli
rabbbi", Reuters
SUBJECT: Rabbi Ovadia Yosef invokes 'plague'

QUOTE: "both sides to avoid incitement, which has included anti-Jewish sermons by Palestinian clerics"


OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An influential Israeli rabbi has said God should strike the Palestinians and their leader with a plague, calling for their death in a fiery sermon before Middle East peace talks set to begin next week.

"Abu Mazen and all these evil people should perish from this Earth", Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual head of the religious Shas party in Israel's government, said in a sermon late on Saturday(28 Aug), using Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' popular name.

"God should strike them and these Palestinians - evil haters of Israel - with a plague," the 89-year-old rabbi said in his weekly address to the faithful, excerpts of which were broadcast on Israeli radio on Sunday(29 Aug).

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu distanced himself from the comments and said Israel wanted to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians that would ensure good neighbourly relations.

"The comments do not reflect Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's view or the position of the government of Israel," Netanyahu's office said in a statement.

The Iraqi-born cleric has made similar remarks before, most notably in 2001, during a Palestinian uprising, when he called for Arabs' annihilation and said it was forbidden to be merciful to them.

He later said he was referring only to "terrorists" who attacked Israelis. In the 1990s, Yosef broke with other Orthodox Jewish leaders by voicing support for territorial compromise with the Palestinians.

Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said Yosef's latest comments were tantamount to calling for "genocide against Palestinians". The rabbi's remarks, he said, were "an insult to all our efforts to advance the negotiations process".

Arriving at Netanyahu's office for a weekly Cabinet meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai of Shas declined to comment when asked by reporters about Yosef's sermon.

Netanyahu and Abbas are due to resume direct peace talks in Washington on Thursday,(2 Sept.) the first such negotiations in 20 months in a peace process that commits both sides to avoid incitement, which has included anti-Jewish sermons by Palestinian clerics.

2. Recent Major Oil Discoveries in Israel
Potential of 4 Billion Barrels of Oil Offshore
 http://www.israelnationalnews.
com/News/News.aspx/139364
 by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Extracts:

More optimistic reports continue to flow from the giant Leviathan energy field off the Haifa coast. Following previous higher estimates of gas and 'signs of oil,' the latest report points to a potential of 4 billion barrels of ?black gold.?

The ramifications of the discovery are immense. If the estimates materialize, Israel will become self-sufficient in energy, enjoy a boon of employment for engineers and laborers, and will become an exporter of gas and oil. The shekel, barring a conflict with Hizbullah or Iran, may become rock-solid, dropping the representative rate; Israel's shekel is now worth about 26.3 cents (3.8 shekels) to the dollar.

The announcement of the new estimates states that there is a 17 percent chance of finding reserves equal to 3 billion barrels of oil at a depth of slightly more than a mile undersea. The oil field is slightly beneath the mammoth gas reserves that already have been estimated to contain 13 trillion cubic feet of gas.

There also is an 8 percent chance that another 1.2 billion barrels exist at an even lower level. Earlier this month, oil reserves at Rosh HaAyin, east of Tel Aviv and bordering Samaria, were estimated to have a possible potential of 1.5 billion barrels of oil but that commercial quantities will be much lower, if at all. Israel's estimated oil consumption is slightly less than 100 million barrels a year.

Yitzchak Teshuva, head of the Delek Group that is part of the consortium probing the Leviathan field, has jubilantly exclaimed that the gas reserves will turn Israel into an energy exporter.

A South African company will head the drilling, but if a decision is made to drill at deeper levels for oil, a North American company with experience at those levels will be contracted.

(IsraelNationalNews.com)

3. Syria is Sore and Sorry:  800,000 Refugees in Syria Drought
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/
News/news.aspx/139381
 by Gil Ronen
Excerpts:

A harsh four year drought, along with poor national infrastructures, has driven hundreds of thousands of Syrian farmers off their land in the country's northeastern section. The land where wheat grew abundantly is dry, and provides no sustenance.

The United Nations estimates that 800,000 people had to leave their homes. Most relocated to camps at the entrance to cities, and have no access to electricity or running water. The residents complain that there are no schools, either, in the camps, and that many of the children have to work to sustain their families.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Brit-Am Comment:
There is plenty of room in Brazil and other Latin American countries to absord all the Arabs of Syria and all the Palestinians.

Some Facts About Syria
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3580.htm
Natural resources: petroleum, phosphates, iron, chrome and manganese ores, asphalt, rock salt, marble, gypsum, hydropower.
Agriculture: Products--wheat, barley, cotton, lentils, chickpeas, olives, sugar beets, and other fruits and vegetables; beef, mutton, eggs, poultry, and other dairy products. Arable land--33%.
Industry: Types--petroleum, textiles, pharmaceuticals, food processing, beverages, tobacco, phosphate rock mining, cement, oil seed extraction, and car assembly.
Trade: Exports (2008 est.)--$13.6 billion: crude oil, minerals, petroleum products, fruits and vegetables, cotton fiber, textiles, clothing, meat and live animals, wheat. Major markets (2007)--Italy 22%, France 11%, Saudi Arabia 10%, Iraq 5%, Egypt 4%, Jordan 4%.

Population (2009 est.)*: 21 million.
Population growth rate (2009 est.): 2.37%.
Major ethnic groups: Arabs (90%), Kurds (9%), Armenians, Circassians, Turkomans.
Religions: Sunni Muslims (74%), Alawis (12%), Christians (10%), Druze (3%), and small numbers of other Muslim sects, Jews, and Yazidis.

Most people live in the Euphrates River valley and along the coastal plain, a fertile strip between the coastal mountains and the desert.

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