Archive for March 27, 2012

| March 27, 2012
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USB Flash Drive Inventor Unveils Smart TV Startup Comigo

Israeli entrepreneur Dov Moran, the inventor of the USB flash drive, last week launched his new startup, the Smart TV venture Comigo.

 

The company’s platform aims to enhance the TV experience by extending viewing across all types of handheld devices, opening up personalization and interactive socialization capabilities.

Comigo creates applications for smartphones and tablets (Android and iOS based), an Android-based Smart Set-Top-Box. Its platform make it possible to watch video-on-demand (VOD), internet broadcasts, such as YouTube and movies and pictures stored on a home computer.

It also enables users to stream content from one device to another. For example, a user can stream information to tablets or smartphones, in order to start watching a show on TV and continue watching it on a tablet or smartphone elsewhere.

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| March 27, 2012
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Report: Hamas holds dozens of drivers in Gaza power crisis

Dozens of taxi drivers apprehended for allegedly spreading ‘rumors’ about the territory’s worst power crisis in years, officials say.

Police in Hamas-ruled Gaza have detained dozens of taxi drivers for allegedly spreading “rumors” about the territory’s worst power crisis in years, officials said Monday.

The detentions, which began over the weekend, signaled that the Islamic
militant Hamas is increasingly concerned about the political fallout from
crippling shortages of fuel and electricity.

Authorities did not explain what got the drivers in trouble, beyond saying
the “rumors” had to do with the energy crisis.

However, residents say there’s growing talk among Gazans that Hamas is
keeping separate supplies of fuel for its government and loyalists, a claim
Hamas denies.

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| March 26, 2012
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US Supreme Court Sends ‘Jerusalem Passport’ Case to Lower Court

The US Supreme Court has sent back to the lower court the question of whether a passport can list “Jerusalem, Israel’ as a place of birth

 

 

The US Supreme Court has returned to the lower court a decision whether Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky’s passport can list “Jerusalem, Israel’ as his place of birth.

The case has made its way all the way through the entire United States court system, from the district court, through the court of appeals, and up to the highest court in the land.

But on Monday, March 26, Supreme Court justices sidestepped the delicate issue of Menachem Zivotofsky v. Continue Reading »

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| March 26, 2012
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‘Israel to cut off UN Human Rights Council contact’

Senior official says Israel to try to convince other countries to follow suit; no decision punitive measures against PA.

 

The Foreign Ministry decided Monday to cut off all contacts with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), a senior diplomatic official said.

The move came following the decision by the council last Thursday to send a fact-finding mission to the West Bank to probe the impact of the settlements on Palestinian human rights.

From now on, the officials said, Israel’s ambassador to the UN organizations in Geneva will not appear before the council, answer any phone calls from the council, or cooperate with them in any way.

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| March 26, 2012
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Knife Discarded by Soldier’s Attacker Gave Him Away

Arab who stabbed female soldier on Jerusalem Light Rail threw his knife out a bus window and was caught.

 

The Arab who stabbed an Israeli female soldier in Jerusalem two weeks ago threw his knife out a bus window as he was on his way to a hiding place after the attack. This led to his arrest, it now turns out.

The suspected terrorist is an 18-year-old resident of eastern Jerusalem. He was to be brought before the Magistrates’ Court on Jerusalem for remand Monday, and police said it would ask to keep him incarcerated until the end of legal proceedings against him. Continue Reading »

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| March 26, 2012
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Muslim guide on how to beat you wife now in Bookstore

Muslim guide on how to beat and control wives sells at a Canadian bookstore

 

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A local bookstore in Canada has sold all its copies of “A Gift for Muslim Couple,” a Muslim marriage guide that advises men on how to beat and control their wives, a newspaper reported on Friday.

The 160-page book, published by Idara Impex in New Delhi, India, is written by Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi, who is described in the book’s foreword as a “prolific writer on almost every topic of Islamic learning,” The Toronto Sun reported.

The book which is available at online Islamic bookstores and even through eBay, advises husbands that “it might be necessary to restrain her [wife] with strength or even threaten her.” Continue Reading »

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| March 26, 2012
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Soldier says attacked by Arabs in Jerusalem

Home Front Command soldier evacuated to hospital with light injuries after being beaten on Jerusalem street

 

An IDF soldier sustained light injuries Sunday evening when he was attacked on Polanski Street in Jerusalem, Ynet reported.

The soldier, 19, was treated at the scene by volunteer paramedics and later evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. Police were scouring the area for the assailants, who fled the scene.

The soldier, who serves in the Home Front Command, was in uniform but was not carrying a weapon. He told police that two young Arabs had beaten him without any provocation on his part. Continue Reading »

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| March 26, 2012
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UN panel urges Israel to shelve ‘racist’ Bedouin relocation plan

UN committee says Law for the Regulation of the Bedouin Settlement in the Negev is discriminatory and would legalize racist practices.

A United Nations committee has called on for the withdrawal of an Israeli draft law that would move 30,000 Bedouin living in the Negev to permanent, existing Bedouin communities.

According to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Law for the Regulation of the Bedouin Settlement in the Negev is discriminatory and would legalize racist practices.

The bill is based on the Prawer Report, which was approved by the cabinet in September. It calls for moving 30,000 Negev Bedouin to communities such as Rahat, Kseifa and Hura.
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| March 26, 2012
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Iran Forces Jewish ‘Minyan’ for Global March: Report

Iran is forcing 10 Jews to join a group headed to Lebanon for the planned Global March on Jerusalem, despite dangers of terrorist kidnappings, according to DEBKAfile. The Islamic Republic is heavily funding the march and flying people from Asian countries to Iran and then to Lebanon.
 

Iranian sources told the website, managed in part by former intelligence officials, that the event’s organizers ordered the Jewish community, estimated at between 15,000 and 25,000 people, to send 10 people to march along Muslims in Lebanon. Ten Jews, by coincidence or not, is the number required for public prayer.

The Iranian leaders of the march reportedly ordered that the Jews, from ages 18 to 22, will have the “honor” of leading the march, which would make them even more vulnerable to Hizbullah and Palestinian Authority-allied terrorists in Lebanon. Continue Reading »

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| March 26, 2012
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Officials: Israel ready for ‘Global March to J’lem’

Processions planned on Israel’s borders to mark 36th anniversary of Land Day; Iran pressuring its Jews to take part.

 

Israel is prepared to handle this week’s “Global March to Jerusalem,” officials said on Sunday, as organizers plan a multi-pronged rush on the country’s borders to mark the 36th anniversary of Land Day on Friday.

Organizers of the event – known as “GMJ” – say they are planning peaceful marches on the Israeli border in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt, at checkpoints in the West Bank and at entrances to the Gaza Strip.

“Our aim is to end the Zionist policies of apartheid, ethnic cleansing and Judaization, which all harm the people, land and sanctity of Jerusalem,” they wrote on the event’s official homepage.

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| March 26, 2012
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NYT Skews Coverage of Toulouse Terrorism

The New York Times is supposed to be the paper of record. Implicitly, it holds itself to a high standard of journalism. Its reporting on the massacre of Jews at a school in Toulouse, however, illustrates how the paper’s ideological bent, particularly its advocacy for the Palestinians, subtly interferes with its coverage of events that just tangentially touch upon the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In its first report of the killings on March 20, The Times recalls the recent history of anti-Semitic massacres in France. It establishes

The shooting on Monday was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in France since 1982, when the Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant in Paris was bombed at lunchtime, killing 6 people and wounding 22.

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| March 26, 2012
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Poll: Gazans Blame Hamas, Not Israel for Fuel Crisis

Poll conducted among PA Arabs finds that most blame Hamas for Gaza fuel crisis. Abbas enjoying increased popularity.

A recent poll conducted among Palestinian Authority Arabs has found that a majority of residents of Hamas-controlled Gaza blame their leaders, not Israel, for the fuel crisis in the region.

The poll, which was conducted by Arab World for Research & Development (AWRAD), was released on Saturday.

When asked ‘Who do you blame the most for the fuel crisis in Gaza?’ 48.4 percent of respondents said Hamas and its government in Gaza were responsible for the crisis. 21.1 percent blamed Israel, which last week transferred diesel to Gaza, and 11.6 percent said the PA leadership under Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was responsible. Continue Reading »

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| March 26, 2012
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AP Retracts Story Because of Hamas Lie

 

In yesterday’s Israel Daily News Stream, I noted an AP dispatch (subsequently updated) reporting the first Palestinian fatality attributed to the Gaza crisis.

A five-month old baby, said the wire service, died when the generator running Mohammed Helou’s respirator, ran out of fuel.

Who wouldn’t be moved by such a tragedy?

Turns out the story was based on a lie. AP issued this retraction (via our colleagues at CAMERA) explaining:

The timing and reason for the death were confirmed to the AP by a man identified as the baby’s father and a Gaza health official, but the report has been called into question after it was learned that a local newspaper carried news of the baby’s death on March 4.
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| March 25, 2012
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Plans revealed for Israel’s tallest office tower

Azrieli Sarona tower in Tel Aviv scheduled to be completed by 2016; 50-stories tall building will offer 125,000 sqm of office space.

 

Azrieli Group controlling shareholder David Azrieli laid the foundation stone Sunday for the Sarona Center – a single, 200-meter, 50-stories tall building in Tel Aviv’s nascent southern Kirya business district.

Azrieli Sarona will become Israel’s largest office tower upon its scheduled completion in 2016, offering 125,000 sqm of working space, a three-story, 11,000 sqm mall, and a seven-story underground parking lot for 1,600 vehicles. It will be the country’s second-tallest building overall, behind Ramat Gan’s 244-meter, 68-story, multi-purpose Moshe Aviv Tower.

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| March 25, 2012
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‘Hamas, Hezbollah helping Iran in Yemen’

US envoy to Sanaa tells ‘al-Hayat’ that Washington believes Tehran working with Shi’ite Muslim rebels in northern Yemen.

 

Washington believes that Hezbollah and Hamas are helping their backers in Iran to expand its influence in Yemen at the expense of Yemen’s Gulf neighbors, the US envoy to Sanaa told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.

In a London interview, Gerald Feierstein was quoted as accusing Hezbollah and Hamas of helping their backers in Shi’ite Iran at the expense of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a bloc in which Sunni-led oil giant Saudi Arabia’s influence is dominant.
Iran is working with Shi’ite Muslim rebels in northern Yemen and secessionists in the country’s south to expand its influence, Feierstein said.

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