Israel bullied Abbas into deferring UN vote
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Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas |
Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas was bullied by Israel to postpone a UN vote on the Goldstone report last year, an Israeli newspaper says.
Abbas' decision to request the UN Human Rights Council to postpone a vote on the Goldstone report about the Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip followed a particularly tense meeting with the head of Israel's Shin Bet security service.
Shin Bet Chief Yuval Diskin told Abbas that if he did not ask for a deferral of the vote on the critical report on last year's military operation, Israel would turn the West Bank into a "second Gaza," Haaretz reported.
Diskin also threatened to revoke the easing of restrictions on movement within the West Bank that had been implemented earlier last year.
The Shin Bet chief, during the meeting, warned that Israel would withdraw permission for the mobile phone company Wataniya to operate in the Palestinian Authority. That would have cost the Palestinian territories tens of millions of dollars in compensation payments to the company.
The Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip last year killed over 1,400 Palestinians, including many women and children.
Abbas' decision to request the UN Human Rights Council to postpone a vote on the Goldstone report about the Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip followed a particularly tense meeting with the head of Israel's Shin Bet security service.
Shin Bet Chief Yuval Diskin told Abbas that if he did not ask for a deferral of the vote on the critical report on last year's military operation, Israel would turn the West Bank into a "second Gaza," Haaretz reported.
Diskin also threatened to revoke the easing of restrictions on movement within the West Bank that had been implemented earlier last year.
The Shin Bet chief, during the meeting, warned that Israel would withdraw permission for the mobile phone company Wataniya to operate in the Palestinian Authority. That would have cost the Palestinian territories tens of millions of dollars in compensation payments to the company.
The Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip last year killed over 1,400 Palestinians, including many women and children.
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German conglomerate Siemens to cut future trade ties with Iran
By Yossi Melman and Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondents, and Reuters
Tags: Iran nuclear, Israel news
German engineering conglomerate Siemens announced Tuesday that it would cut all future trade ties with Iran, although the company intends to maintain existing contracts.
Germany, one of six countries seeking to persuade Iran to suspend its atomic work, is one of the biggest exporters to Iran despite three rounds of modest United Nations sanctions prompted by past Iranian evasions of nuclear monitoring.
Western nations suspect the Islamic Republic of trying to develop nuclear weapons capability, which Tehran denies. It says that its uranium enrichment program is designed solely for electricity generation, not atomic bombs
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Oftewel nu ook de Dag tegen het Antisemitisme.
Niet vergeten, 31 januari de volgende herdenkingsdag.
Holocaust Memorial Day
woensdag 27 januari 2010
Scholen, universiteiten, hogescholen, musea en herdenkingscentra organiseren deze week talloze Holocaust Memorial Day activiteiten. Er wordt massaal gehoor gegeven aan de oproep van de VN om rond de officiële bevrijdingsdatum van Auschwitz, 27 januari 1945, aandacht te vragen voor slachtoffers van de Holocaust en andere genociden. Naar schatting nemen dit jaar 10.000 scholieren en studenten deel aan de activiteiten.
Het thema van de Holocaust Memorial Day 2010 is: Erfenis van de hoop. Scholieren en studenten gaan in gesprek met overlevenden, niet alleen over daden van genocide, maar ook hoe het leven daarna doorgaat en door moet gaan. Aan het project werken ook docenten mee die het seminar Yad Vashem seminar Lesgeven over WOII en de Holocaust hebben gevolgd.
Holocaust Memorial Day wil een bijdrage leveren aan de waakzaamheid voor opkomende rassenhaat, discriminatie en antisemitisme. Veel van de programma’s zijn te vinden op www.holocaust-memorial-day.nl.
Te vinden bij de loepzuivere Cidi
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De jaarlijkse AUSCHWITZ HERDENKING van het Nederlands Auschwitz Comité, is op zondag 31 januari om 11.30 uur, als altijd in het Wertheimpark in Amsterdam.
Two Haitian Jews working with IDF to help survivors
by e.b. solomont, the jerusalem post
port-au-prince, haiti | One is the wealthy Jewish scion of a Haitian business magnate; the other is an Israeli entrepreneur and photographer who has lived here for 19 years.
One donated a football field–sized space to house the IDF field hospital; the other is working in the trenches, gathering tips about possible earthquake survivors and translating between Haitians and IDF rescue squads.
Avi Berman of Israel sits next to a rescued baby at the Israeli field hospital in Port-au-Prince. photo/ap/ricardo arduengoBoth Reuven Shalom Bigio and Daniel Kedar — Jews who have lived in Haiti for years — are working behind the scenes to support Israel’s mission in the Caribbean nation.
“These two guys assisted in such a way that made us look so good,” Israeli Ambassador Amos Radian said Jan. 19.
The two expatriates were at the Israel base to go over the arrival of more IDF personnel (Bigio) and to coordinate a possible rescue mission (Kedar
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Does Gilbert Bigio make Israel look good?
By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 25, 2010
When Amos Radian, Israel’s Dominican Republic-based ambassador to the nations of the eastern Caribbean, spoke to the Jerusalem Post last week, he was unequivocal in expressing appreciation towards the Bigio family.
Gilbert Bigio, a Syrian Jew and honorary consul for Israel in Haiti also happens to be among the wealthiest men in that impoverished nation. The day before Israel’s relief team was due to arrive in Haiti, Ambassador Radian spoke to Reuven Shalom Bigio, son of the business magnate.
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