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Bloggers claim WikiLeaks struck deal with Israel over diplomatic cables leaks.

PARIS - conspiracy theorists came out of the woodwork to suggest that Israel is behind the publication of the WikiLeaks trove - and is manipulating the information coming out to help Israeli interests. 

Minister, opposition slam cabinet's proposal for yeshiva stipends

Officials in Kadima: "Netanyahu is passing the buck onto subsequent governments, enlarging the budget of the religious seminary students to NIS 127 million, reinforcing poverty in the Haredi sector of the population, normalizing the inequalities among those carrying the tax load, and is spitting in the faces of [university and college] students."

Iran said to have cut Hizbullah aid by 40%

Iran has in recent years provided Hizbullah with close to $1 billion in direct military aid, but due to the impact of the recent round of international sanctions, the Islamic Republic has been forced to cut back on the funding.

US flight diverted after tefillin causes bomb scare

US flight diverted after tefillin causes bomb scare

Keep these facts in mind when "donating"

CEO Salary Comparison: American Red Cross, United Way, UNICEF; The Salvation Army


As you open your pockets for yet another natural disaster, keep these facts in mind:
Marsha J. Evans, President and CEO of the American Red Cross... Salary for year ending 06/30/03 was $651,957 plus expenses. (That's $74.42 an hour For EVERY hour of EVERY day.)
Brian Gallagher, President of the United Way receives a $375,000 base salary, plus numerous expense benefits. (That's $42.80 an hour for EVERY Hour of EVERY day.)
UNICEF CEO receives $1,200,000 per year plus all expenses and a ROLLS ROYCE car where ever he goes and only cents of your dollar goes to the cause. (That's $1,369.86

an hour for EVERY hour of EVERY day.)
The Salvation Army's Commissioner Todd Bassett receives a salary of only $13,000 per year (plus housing) for managing this $2 billion dollar organization.

Minister Yishai refused fire truck donations from Christian group

Pro-Israeli group already provided 8 new vehicles, says when Shas took over Interior Ministry, rejecting contribution because of religion.

Israeli firefighters could have received a shipment of brand new fire trucks that would have helped quell the fires that raged over the weekend on Mount Carmel, killing 41 people and turning tens of thousands of dunams into an ashen wasteland. Instead, a charity group charged Sunday, Interior Minister Eli Yishai refused to accept donations from pro- Israel Christians and thus denied the underfunded Fire and Rescue Service much-needed equipment.

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, which raises money for Israel among Christian supporters in North America, said his organization’s ties with the Interior Ministry were severed after it was taken over by the ultra-Orthodox minister two years ago. Eckstein said Yishai’s religious- based rejection of contributions from non-Jewish sources led to the termination after the group had completed delivery of eight fire trucks last year in a donation that had been okayed by Yishai’s predecessor, MK Meir Sheetrit.

“Since that time, under Yishai we have not received any further requests from the ministry because of the way they perceive us,” Eckstein said.
“So we could have had more trucks than those we already delivered.”
While the fellowship gives millions to Jewish, Muslim and Christian groups in Israel each year, some ultra-Orthodox Jews refuse to take its money, which comes mostly from Evangelicals, on religious grounds. According to Eckstein, Yishai would not even acknowledge the fellowship’s contribution of the eight fire trucks.
“We were told very clearly that the minister of the interior would not come to a ceremony,” he said.

“Then I said, what about a photo-op, something we can put in to show we worked on this. But they said no, and we dropped it.”

The trucks were donated to Israel as a consequence of the Second Lebanon War, when firefighters struggled to put out brush fires sparked by some of the thousands of missiles fired by Hizbullah.

Fire and rescue officials confirmed that they had received the eight trucks from Eckstein’s organization but said they were unaware that additional vehicles had been offered and refused.

Yishai’s spokesman could not confirm or deny the story.

'I see no future for Jews in the Netherlands'

Former Dutch EU commissioner says "recognizable" Jews are no longer safe in Netherlands due to Muslim anti-Semitism.

Former European Union Commissioner Frits Bolkenstein said that Jews have no future in the Netherlands and recommended that they emigrate to the US or Israel, Dutch magazine Elsevier reported on Tuesday.

According to a book on Dutch Judaism, released this week, Bolkestein, former leader of the right-wing VVD party, said that due to anti-Semitism amongst young Moroccans Jews who look like Jews - those who wear kippahs or payot - should leave Holland for their own safety.

"I see no future for recognizable Jews, in particular because of anti-Semitism, specifically in Dutch Moroccans, who continue to grow in number," Bolkestein reportedly said. 

The former politician added that the many Arab television channels in the Netherlands contribute to the spread of anti-Semitism. He said he has no confidence in proposed measures to combat anti-Jewish sentiment.

"The Palestinian-Israeli conflict continues to fester," Bolkestein said. "I foresee no quick solution, and anti-Semitism will continue to exist. Moroccan and Turkish young people won't care about the measures."

Politician Geert Wilders, who visited Israel this week, responded that "Jews shouldn't emigrate, anti-Semitic Moroccans should."

Austrian MP Ewald Stadler adresses Turkish Ambassador

Biblical story of Jonah told by little Christian girl

The story of Jonah from Corinth Baptist Church on Vimeo.

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