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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (3833)	3/7/2004 11:49:08 PM
From: rrufff	Respond to of 3959

I thought you were a fan of Al Jhezeeeera and MEin Kampf.

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (3833)	3/8/2004 3:31:42 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3959

The holidays are a joyous time! Arab taxi driver beaten by mob in Jerusalem Spate of attacks on Arabs in capital reported in recent days. Today -- Purim in Jerusalem -- taxi driver and police officers attacked by drunken youngsters. by Tal Yamin-Wolvovitz A worrisome increase in Jewish attacks on Arabs in Jerusalem has been reported in recent days. Today (Monday), an Arab taxi driver traveling through the ultra-Orthodox Shmuel Ha'navi neighborhood in the capital was attacked by dozens of drunken youngsters (Purim, the only Jewish holiday when intoxication is permitted, was celebrated in Jerusalem today). The driver was pulled out of his car and severely beaten. A police cruiser called to the scene also became a target for attack. The three police officers found themselves in a middle of a riot, as they were being attacked by the angry mob. Police reinforcements subsequently arrived at the scene and managed to rescue the police officers and the taxi driver. The injured driver drove himself to the hospital, while the lightly injured police officers were treated at the scene. In a different incident in Jerusalem today, Ultra-Orthodox youngsters stoned a taxicab driven by an Arab. The taxi driver sustained light injured and was taken to hospital for treatment. The attackers managed to flee the scene. In two incidents yesterday, an Arab worker at a central Jerusalem pharmacy was also beaten, while another taxi driver sustained light injuries after being attacked by youngsters, who shattered his windshield. maarivintl.com

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (3833)	3/12/2004 5:27:13 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3959

'If it suits America tomorrow, they would start a jihaad inside India' Pakistan's former Inter-Services Intelligence chief Hamid Gul in this exclusive telephonic interview tells Harinder Baweja that the US is just looking for a pretext to enter the subcontinent, and that it would be bad for India as well. New Delhi, September 14 [2001] What is your response to the terrorist attacks in America? And do you think that Osama bin Laden is behind them? I said that it was a horrible/horrendous picture that one could see. But, you see, they haven't reached any conclusion. So it is prejudging the involvement of. Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan. It is a convenient bogey to divert attention, and I think that the Israelis would be very pleased about it. And so would the Indians. But that is not the real thing. I think it is a sophisticated job: the radar jamming and the piloting of the aircraft because there are no errors. Four aircraft, two airlines were involved, and from 8.45 am - that is when the first (aircraft) hit the north tower (of the World Trade Centre) - to the crash at the Pentagon, there was a gap of one hour. In this one hour, everything seemed to be quiet. It seemed like it was a coup-like situation. One knows that after the Florida fiasco of the Presidential election, there is a big rift between the Jewish lobbies and George Bush and his Administration. He has not taken a single Jew in his Cabinet. So (Ariel) Sharon (the hawkish Israeli prime minister) and company are very upset with George Bush. They (the Jewish lobbies) have been told to indulge in acts of terrorism in the past. Why can't they do it now? If you would recall, after the Wye River accord when (President) Clinton went begging (Israeli prime minister Binyamin) Netanyahu to accept peace, Netanyahu said over the CNN that we (the Jews) will set Washington on fire, and they (the CNN) had quickly switched off the telecast. [...] robert-fisk.com

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (3833)	4/5/2004 4:09:22 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3959

Straight from the Only-Democracy-in-the-Middle-East (TM): Mon., April 05, 2004 Nisan 14, 5764 Rabbis tell woman married in U.S.: Choose divorce or jail By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent In a precedent-setting decision Sunday, the Rabbinic High Court ruled a woman must go to jail for refusing to accept a divorce from her husband. The President of the High Court, Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar, has the option of altering the ruling. However, if he does not do so, and if the Supreme Court does not intervene in the decision, the woman will be faced with the choice of accepting the divorce or going to prison. The names of the couple in question are under a gag order, but one detail that has been released is that they are not Israeli citizens. He is an American citizen, and she is Belgian. They were wed in a religious ceremony in the United States. The dayanim (rabbinic judges) wrote in their ruling that they were guided by the principle of equality between the sexes. "We did a great deal for the freeing of women from their agunut [women who cannot divorce because their husbands refuse or can't be located]," explained the chief judge, Rabbi Shlomo Dichovsky. "However to the same degree we must remember that a man also has human rights, and he is also entitled to liberty from his wife, who must grant him a divorce." However, legal experts on the subject argue that the rabbinical court is keen to show its dedication to equality only when it is a matter of defending the rights of men. According to Jewish law, there is no equality among the sexes in matters having to do with divorce. While the agreement of a woman to accept a divorce is no less a prerequisite than it is for the husband to grant it, when a woman refuses to grant a divorce, the court may grant the husband the right to marry a second wife. This is not an option open to a woman whose husband refuses to grant a divorce. The matter reached the courts in Israel when the wife filed a property claim against the husband in family court. The husband, a lawyer by profession, is wealthy, and his wife sued him for $10 million. In July 2002 the rabbinical court ordered the woman to accept the divorce, but she refused. The dayanim justified their unprecedented decision to jail her by pointing to the woman's behavior, which they said indicated she wanted to blackmail her husband, using her power not to agree to the divorce as a means to extort money. haaretz.com