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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• November 12, 2014 at 5:00 am
Secretary
of State Kerry's "peace process" actually put Israelis and
Palestinians on a new collision course.
Not a
single Palestinian Authority official has denounced the wave of terror
attacks on Israel. They, too, are afraid of being condemned by their
people for denouncing "heroic operations" such as ramming a car
into a three-month old infant.
Kerry
and other Western leaders do not want to understand that Abbas is not
authorized to make any concessions for peace with Israel. For
Abbas, it is more convenient to be criticized by the U.S. and Israel than
to be denounced by his own people. Ignoring these facts, Kerry tried to
pressure Abbas into making concessions that would have turned the
Palestinian Authority president into a "traitor" in the eyes of
his people. Abbas knows that the people he has radicalized would turn
against him if he dared to speak out against the killing of Jews.
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Victims of what official Palestinian Authority media
organs call "heroic operations": Left, Dalia Lamkus, 26, run
over and then stabbed to death by a terrorist on Nov. 10. Right:
Three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun, murdered on Oct. 23 when a
terrorist rammed a car into her stroller. Several other victims were
killed or injured in these attacks.
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The recent spate of terror attacks in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the
West Bank did not come as a surprise to those who have been following the
ongoing incitement campaign waged by Palestinians against Israel.
This campaign escalated immediately after U.S. Secretary of State
John Kerry's last failed "peace process" between Israel and the
Palestinians. Kerry's "peace process" actually put Israelis and
Palestinians on a new collision course, which reached its peak with the
recent terror attacks on Israelis.
Kerry failed to acknowledge that Palestinian Authority [PA]
President Mahmoud Abbas does not have a mandate from his people to
negotiate, let alone sign, any agreement with Israel. Abbas is now in the
tenth year of his four-year term in office.
by Lawrence Kadish
• November 12, 2014 at 4:30 am
Rabbis
became, in essence, the health department of their time.
Much
as Jews were accused and attacked for supposedly spreading the plague in
the 14th Century because their dietary ad sanitary rituals gave them a
slight edge in preventing disease, doctors in West Africa have been
attacked on suspicion that they are actually infecting people with the
disease rather than combating it.
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Health workers in West Africa are sometimes accused
of spreading Ebola and attacked. (Image source: Luigi Baldelli/Flickr)
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In an era before antibiotics, blood tests and digital scanning
thermometers; In an era before EKG's, stethoscopes, blood transfusions
and even refrigeration; In an era before doctors, science and even a
rudimentary understanding of human anatomy, there was the ancient Jewish
dietary law of kosher, which continues to offer a lesson for today's
fractured societies of western Africa struggling to contain the Ebola
epidemic.
Centuries ago, with an understanding of microbes and hygiene still
far in the future, Jews observed that those who ate meat from sick or
dead animals would often fall ill and die. Similar woes could result from
animals not consumed in a timely way after being slaughtered. While they
didn't know of trichinosis, they also saw that eating pork could be
fatal. Shellfish and fish without scales contained a similar lethal
threat. The rich and frothy milk of that time could produce gastro
illness when served with meat.
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