From PressTV

An Israeli settler has run over a five-year-old Palestinian boy in the southern occupied West Bank, inflicting moderate injuries on him.

Palestinian medics identified the victim as Yamen Nabil Mahmoud, adding that the boy was struck by the car while trying to cross a road near the city of Tulkarm, located about 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) west of Nablus, on Friday.

On October 19, 2014, five-year-old Palestinian girl, Enas Khalil, died after being injured in a hit-and-run incident involving an Israeli settler near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Khalil was one of the two girls that an Israeli settler hit with his car on the main road in the town of Sinjil near Ramallah. The second girl, identified as eight-year-old Nilin Asfour, was also badly injured in the accident.

On August 17, a Palestinian man was killed after being knocked down by an Israeli settler in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
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From Ynet News

Fox News joins chorus of Netanyahu critics

Conservative outlet’s anchors say relationship with US will suffer, after New York Times, American officials slam timing of prime minister’s Congress address. The criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over his intention to address the US Congress two weeks before the Israeli elections, has not stopped at water’s edge. And while the criticism from President Barack Obama’s administration and the editorial board of the New York Times was expected, this weekend the Likud leader was targeted by a network he once counted among his supporters – Fox News.

During a conversation between anchor Chris Wallace and presenter Shepard Smith, the two agreed that Netanyahu’s strategy an example of “dicey politics”.

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From Ynet News

Rabbis: French aliyah will lead to assimilation

Leading religious leaders voice concerns that French Jews’ immigration will result in mixed marriages, cause religious Jews to stop observing mitzvot. A number of prominent rabbis have voiced concerns and expressed their objection to the immigration of French Jewsfollowing the recent terror attacks in France.

The ultra-Orthodox press affiliated with the Ashkenazi leadership is arguing that the aliyah from France is halachically problematic since about 50% of French Jews live in mixed marriages and will be required to undergo a conversion process.

According to sources, some of the new immigrants will not be able to convert due to the haredi demand to reject proselytes and not to welcome them into the Jewish religion.
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Poor old Kingdom. And old is the only word you can use about Saudi Arabia, where monarchical brothers take precedence over sons.

King Abdullah died at 90. He had outlived two other crown princes. His successor Salman is already 79 and cannot expect to survive much more than a decade. And at 69, the new Crown Prince Muqrin is no spring chicken. Can these old folk go on ruling one of the richest nations on earth without a revolution?

And how long can our Western leaders go on stroking and purring and fawning over – and arming – these Croesus-like autocrats before they make themselves look as pitiful to their own electorates as they do to the Arabs who have to tolerate Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi ethics – the most purist, anti-apostate extremism and a ruling family of thousands whose cult-like worship was founded by a violent 18th-century Muslim preacher. Remember the Taliban? Remember, for that matter, Osama bin Laden?

Abdullah was “candid and had the courage of his convictions”, Obama told us. He had a “commitment to peace” and “strengthened understanding between faiths,” said statesman Cameron. All this of a man in whose kingdom dozens are beheaded every year after trials which match no recognised standards of fairness, in which a Burmese woman was dragged through the streets of Mecca this month, screaming her innocence of the murder of her step-son, only to have her head chopped off by a government executioner who needed three sword-hacks at her neck to decapitate her. That’s some commitment to peace and interfaith understanding

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From PressTV

Thousands of Palestinians take to the streets of West Bank in protest of a cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) published by the French satirical Charlie Hebdo.

During the Saturday rally, which was called by the Tahrir Party, protesters chanted, “France is the mother of terrorism. America is the mother of terrorism.”

Some protesters held banners which read, “There is only one God and Muhammad is his messenger.”

“We have taken to the streets in order to demand Muslim armies act the way France and the West deserve in response to the repeated offenses against the Prophet, peace be upon him,” said Tahrir party member Baher Saleh.
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