More Israeli child abuse of Palestinian children

Palestinian PM to skip East Jerusalem event due to Israeli pressure
Fayyad was to appear at reception in Dahiat al-Salam marking completion of 15 new East Jerusalem schools; police issued warrant banning event at hall, leading owner to move reception to the streets....

Israel to snub UNESCO in shrine dispute
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it will snub inspectors from the U.N. body that preserves world heritage sites during their upcoming visit to the West Bank. UNESCO has defined two sites there as Palestinian Mosques. Israel says they are Jewish holy sites as well. Israel’s deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, said on Thursday that Israel will not cooperate when the UNESCO delegation arrives. He says ties regarding other heritage sites have not changed. The most contentious of the sites...

Israel to snub UNESCO envoys for defining shrines holy to Jews, Muslims as just Palestinian
Jerusalem — Israel says it will snub inspectors from the U.N. body that preserves world heritage sites during their upcoming visit to the West Bank. UNESCO has defined two sites there as Palestinian Mosques. Israel says they are Jewish holy sites as well. Israel's deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, said on Thursday that Israel will not cooperate when the UNESCO delegation arrives. He says ties regarding other heritage sites have not changed. The most contentious of the sites is in t...

Nursery worker child abuse report due - Yahoo! News UK
A report into how paedophile Vanessa George came to Abuse babies in her care at a nursery is to be published. Skip related content George, 40, from Plymouth, was jailed last year for abusing toddlers at Little Ted's Nursery in the City. Plymouth City Council's Safeguarding Children Board initiated a serious case review following her arrest and dozens of people were interviewed. The aim is to determine how a respected and well-liked nursery worker was able to commit her crimes. It is unde...

Ofsted and nursery criticised over Vanessa George child abuse case
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 November 2010 13.12 GMT Poor Regulation, inadequate staff training and a lack of supervision created an "ideal environment" in which nursery worker Vanessa George could Abuse Children in her care, a review concluded today. The serious case review on the George case criticised the regulator Ofsted for not picking up concerns about Little Ted's nursery in Plymouth, where George sexually assaulted infants. Members of the Plymouth Safeguarding Children Board, which carrie...

Australia: Child-Protection Inquiry Details Abuse, Neglect
On Oct. 26, Kon Vatskalis, the Northern Territory minister for Health and families, launched Children's Week in the northern Australian city of Darwin. "The theme for this year's Children's Week is 'Listen Carefully to the Voices of Children,'" he stated in a Press Release. "There certainly hasn't been a more important time to listen to the voices of our children." Children in the Northern Territory, particularly indigenous Australian children, haven't exactly had the government's ear lately....

Fayyad: Jerusalem suburbs will one day be part of Palestinian capital
Palestinian PM skips inauguration of school in East Jerusalem after Israel issues warrant banning PA events in Jerusalem municipality....

Fayyad cancels Jerusalem visit after Israel warning
By Mohammed Assadi Ramallah, West Bank | Tue Nov 2, 2010 9:43am EDT Ramallah, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinian Prime Minister canceled an official visit on Tuesday to an area Israel regards as part of Jerusalem after Israel security forces were ordered to prevent such a trip. Prime Minister Salam Fayyad had been scheduled to open a road in Dahiyat al-Salam, which falls within the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem as defined by Israel following its annexation of the territory after the 19...

UNESCO Erases Israeli Protests from Rachel's Tomb Protocol
“The attempt to detach the Nation of Israel from its heritage is absurd,” a statement by the Prime Minister’s Office asserts, in response to the UNESCO decision to recognize Rachel’s Tomb as a Mosque and criticize Israel's inclusion of the Machpelah Cave as a "national heritage site." “If the nearly 4,000-year-old burial sites of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of the Jewish Nation – Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah – are no...

Pro-peace revenants to join protests against 'security fence'
Three pro-peace revenants from the Gush Etzion area went to Bethlehem on Wednesday under heavy 'Palestinian' security. There, they met with the local Governor, and agreed to join in Protests against the 'security fence' in nearby Walajeh on Friday. The settlers, members of the Eretz Shalom ("land of peace") movement, arrived at the municipality's fourth floor under tight Palestinian security and met with senior Bethlehem officials for about an hour. The settlers' two cars, which traveled on th...

Analysis: Obama's midterm loss could be Netanyahu MidEast win
By Jeffrey Heller Jerusalem | Wed Nov 3, 2010 12:39pm EDT Yasser Abed Rabbo, a Palestinian peace negotiator, voiced confidence the Republican victories would have no bearing on the White House's Middle East policy. "The American interests in the region do not change as a result of Midterm Elections," he told Voice of Palestine radio. But George Giacaman, a Palestinian political scientist, said the Obama Administration had already shown "great weakness" in standing up to Israel over settlement...

Israel cancels UK talks over arrest threat
Israel has suspended a special strategic dialogue with the UK as long as visiting Israeli officials face possible Arrest for suspected War Crimes against Palestinians, officials said yesterday. The announcement came as Foreign Secretary William Hague met senior Israeli officials in Jerusalem. Pro-Palestinian Activists have filed complaints against Israeli officials over Military operations. British courts have issued Arrest Warrants for Israeli officials, and though no-one has been arrested, a...

Abbas, Fayyad can enter Jordan by cars
Published: Nov. 4, 2010 at 8:18 AM Palestinians waiting to cross the Allenby Bridge from Israel into Jordan wait with their suitcases in a Parking Lot of the terminal in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank on July 28, 2009 as temperatures rise above 40 degrees Celcius (104 Fahrenheit). The border crossing was closed for several hours as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the facility, announcing extended hours of operation, and commenting that this was one of the measures Israel is...

In Jerusalem, Giuliani Takes a Feared Bus Route - New York Times
JERUSALEM, March 11 — No. 18 buses have been traveling across this tense city largely empty since two recent Suicide Bombers killed 45 people on the line. Today, as Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani expressed his solidarity with Israel by climbing aboard the 6:30 A.M. run trailed by staff members and a gaggle of television crews, the problem was finding space. "Who in their right mind is going to get on this bus?" said Cristyne Lategano, the Mayor's spokeswoman, surveying the mob of photographers,...

Knesset committee paves way for civil unions
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- A Knesset committee has made it possible for a Civil Unions law to be implemented in Israel. The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Wednesday approved a registration fee of about $165 for couples to obtain a Civil Union certificate. The law, passed in March and set to be implemented next week, will allow non-Jewish Israelis or those without a religious denomination to be recognized as married. Thousands of Israelis who previously had to travel abroad to marry w...

Israeli intel chief warns of Iran's nukes
Published: Nov. 3, 2010 at 7:51 AM Jerusalem, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Iran has enough Enriched Uranium to build a Nuclear Bomb and will soon be able to build two, Israel's head of Military intelligence said. Speaking before the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, outgoing head of Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin said Iran has enough Uranium Enriched to 20 percent to make one Nuclear Bomb and will soon have enough for two devices, Haaretz reported Wednesday. However, Yadlin noted...

Israeli intel chief warns of Iran's nukes
Published: Nov. 3, 2010 at 7:51 AM Jerusalem, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Iran has enough Enriched Uranium to build a Nuclear Bomb and will soon be able to build two, Israel's head of Military intelligence said. Speaking before the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, outgoing head of Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin said Iran has enough Uranium Enriched to 20 percent to make one Nuclear Bomb and will soon have enough for two devices, Haaretz reported Wednesday. However, Yadlin noted...

Gaza killing marks return of Israeli targeted assassinations
Israel claimed responsibility for Wednesday's killing in Gaza of a Palestinian Militant from a splinter group that Hamas is trying to rein in....

David Horowitzs Archives: Why Israel Is The Victim And The Arabs Are The Indefensible Aggressors In the Middle East
This article first appeared in FrontPage Magazine on January 9, 2002 . 1. The Jewish Problem and Its “Solution” Zionism is a national liberation movement, identical in most ways to other liberation movements that leftists and Progressives the world over — and in virtually every case but this one — fervently support. This exceptionalism is also visible at the reverse end of the political spectrum: In every other instance, right-wingers like Patrick Buchanan oppose nati...

Police: Elderly Pacolet Man Robbed At Home
PACOLET, S.C. -- Pacolet Police are looking for two people who they said robbed an elderly man at gunpoint at his Home Wednesday afternoon. The Robbery happened about 4:15 p.m. at a house on Jerusalem Road. The homeowner, 80-year-old Charlie Tate, said he was sitting on the couch when two men burst through the front door and held him at gun point. "They got me down," Tate said. "It's easy to get you down. The door and everything was open." Tate said that the two men threatened to kill him just b...

Britain and universal jurisdiction
This entry was posted in Media Analysis: Regular briefings on trends in the news. Bookmark the permalink. On Thursday it was widely reported that British Foreign Secretary William Hague, currently on his first state visit to Israel, had been blindsided by the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s decision to cancel a series of ‘strategic dialogue’ meetings pertinent to Anglo-Israeli relations. According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the surprise move came as a result of the Home Office...

The Texas State Senate: District 19
Balancing career and family life is important to Senator Uresti. He raised his two sons, Michael and Carlos, Jr. in the same neighborhood in which he spent his formative years. Both Michael and Carlos Jr. graduated from McCollum High School and continued in their father's footsteps in their own way. Michael is a 2005 graduate of Texas A&M; University-College Station and is currently attending Law School at his father's Alma Mater, St. Mary's University. Senator Uresti became a grandpa on July 22,...

Nursery abuse findings released
A Plymouth nursery where a worker sexually abused Children "provided an ideal environment" for her to Abuse, a report has found. The review into Abuse at Little Ted's nursery found that a lack of formal staff supervision was partly to blame. Vanessa George, 40, from Plymouth, was jailed last year for a minimum of seven years after admitting abusing toddlers at the nursery and photographing it. No other staff at Little Ted's were involved in the abuse. The nursery was closed i...

Nevada mom admits letting boy drive after she drank
MINDEN, Nev. — A Nevada woman has admitted letting her 12-year-old son drive her car because she was drunk. The Gardnerville Record-Courier reports 35-year-old Misty McCollister awaits sentencing Dec. 14. She pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted Child Abuse or neglect. McCollister was arrested Oct. 17 near her home after a witness reported seeing a car weaving in and out of its lane and varying its speed. The witness told sheriff’s deputies he passed the vehicle and saw a Child in th...

Drunk Mom Let 12-Year-Old Son Take the Wheel
Nev. Mom Too Drunk to Drive Lets 12-Year-Old Son Take the Wheel MINDEN, Nev. (CBS/AP) When choosing a designated driver, it's always preferable to pick someone with a valid driver's license - and, oh yes, someone who can also see over the wheel. That wisdom was apparently missed by a Nevada woman who admitted she let her 12-year-old son drive her car because she was drunk. The Gardnerville Record-Courier reports 35-year-old Misty McCollister was arrested Oct. 17 near her home after a witness rep...