Jerusalem News (14 January 2016, 4 Shevet, 5776)
Contents:
1. Iran is Ranked No.1 Globally for Human Trafficking Ranking
2. More than 400,000 Jews in Judah and Samaria. Ultra Orthodox comprise largest group!
3. Why Palestinians Love Baby-Killers By Bassam Tawil
4. New Trouble for Activist Nawi: More NGO Checks, Possible Conspiracy to Commit Murder By David Israel
5. Clinton 'Very Interested' in Secret Plans to Fund Shaming of Israel and Spark 'Palestinian' Demonstrations By Lori Lowenthal Marcus
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1. Iran is Ranked No.1 Globally for Human Trafficking Ranking
is the result of deteriorating economic conditions and the erosion of the middle class due to poor state administration Asharq Al-Awsat Saturday,
9 Jan, 2016
 http://english.aawsat.com/2016/01/article55346369/iran-is-ranked-no-1-globally-on-human-trafficking-list
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In a report issued by the US Department of State, Iran occupied first place for world-wide human trafficking, in particular the trafficking of children.
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Iranian police stations have registered strange complaints such as unearthing tombs, stealing parts of corpses and smuggling them. Children are the biggest victims of injustice in Iran and are exposed to child labour and sexual violations amongst other crimes registered at global monitoring centres. Experts believe that poor state management in Iran has led to the erosion of the middle class and a rise in the crime rate.
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Hamed Al-Kanani explained in research he presented to the King Faisal Center for Research that Iran, along with Russia and Thailand came first among countries accused of participating in worldwide human trafficking. In the report issued by the US Department of State, the US accused Tehran, Moscow, and Bangkok for not doing enough to fight human trafficking. Furthermore, these three countries have surpassed the figures for Venezuela, Algeria, Syria, Yemen, North Korea, and Zimbabwe which top the list prepared by the State Department every year.
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In contrast, the report has upgraded Saudi Arabia's rank to the third level after its incessant efforts to protect victims. Malaysia has also made a remarkable improvement since its bottom ranking last year. Due to the great efforts that Kuala Lumper has made in this area, Malaysia is now classified in the 2nd class of countries that are under surveillance.
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The International Labor Organization (ILO) says that human trafficking brings in an approximated $150 billion in annual profit, of which $99 billion are acquired from the sex industry. The US approximates the number of human trafficking victims to be somewhere around 20 million victims.
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2. More than 400,000 Jews in Judah and Samaria. Ultra Orthodox comprise largest group!
The number of Jews in Judah and Samaria is ca. 402,000. 125,000 amongst them are ultra-orthodox. More than half of the rest national religious.
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3. Why Palestinians Love Baby-Killers
http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/why-palestinians-love-baby-killers/2016/01/12/
By: Bassam Tawil
Lebanese terrorist Samir Kuntar (left) was killed this week in Syria. Kuntar murdered four Israelis in 1979, including Einat, Danny and Yael Haran. Kuntar's murderous resume turned him into a hero in the eyes of many prominent Palestinians.
{Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website}
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Samir Kuntar was a terrorist who committed one of the most brutal terrorist attacks one can imagine. On April 22, 1979, Kuntar, who was then 16 years old, murdered four Israelis in the Israeli city of Nahariya. One of his victims was a four-year-old girl, Einat Haran. Kuntar smashed her skull after murdering her 31-year-old father, Danny.
This week, Kuntar was killed in an explosion that destroyed his apartment south of the Syrian capital, Damascus. He had been in Syria helping President Bashar Assad commit war crimes against his own Syrian citizens. Kuntar had been sent to Syria also as part of the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah terror group, to plan major terror attacks against Israel from Syria.
Kuntar was not a Palestinian. He was Lebanese Druze. This irregularity still has not stopped Palestinians from adoring him for murdering Jews. Palestinians will worship anyone who carries out a terror attack against Israel or Jews, such as the Japanese terrorist, Kozo Okamoto, who led the 1972 massacre at Israel's Lod Airport, in which 24 people were murdered and more than 70 wounded.
In the eyes of many Palestinians, Kuntar's murderous resume, like Okamoto's, has turned him into a 'martyr' and a 'hero.' The arch-terrorist is now being mourned in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a 'national hero and fighter' who sacrificed his life for the sake of the Palestinians. This is who many Palestinians consider their role model: the only requirement is that they try to destroy Israel and murder Jews. It is as if all the Muslims in France idolized the men who committed the November 13 massacres at Paris's football stadium and the Bataclan Theater, and committed themselves to being just like them.
In the Gaza Strip, only hours after the terrorist was killed in Syria, a Palestinian father, Maher Huthut, announced that he has named his newborn baby after Samir Kuntar. The announcement was presumably meant to express Palestinian 'gratitude' for Kuntar's 'sacrifices' on behalf of the Palestinians. In yet another sign of affection for Kuntar, various Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip set up a large tent to receive condolences over his death. Hundreds of Palestinians visited the tent to express their deep condolences over his death, and many pledged to follow in Kuntar's footsteps.
This outpouring of sympathy and affection from the Palestinians for Kuntar should not surprise anyone. Palestinians have long been glorifying terrorists and jihadis who attack and kill any Jew, whether soldier or civilian. When Palestinian leaders, the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, not even Hamas, openly endorse terrorists and name streets, squares and schools after them, they are sending a message to their people that murdering Jews is a noble and dignified undertaking, and that it is virtuous to do more of it!
Despite what the European politicians funding them wish to think, Palestinian leaders are not educating their people for tolerance, non-violence and peace. Instead, with the money they are given by these dreamy northerners who seem to imagine the world is one big loving day-care center, they continue to poison the hearts and minds of their people through incendiary lies and the most bigoted rhetoric.
The Europeans, who are largely bankrolling this venom, should be made to know that this is what their generosity is used for. And that this is precisely why no peace process with Israel will ever work. Thanks mainly to the largesse of European funding that keeps most Palestinians from thinking of other ways to earn a living, Palestinian terrorism is now a big business! The gullible Europeans have enabled an entire generation to be raised on the glorification of terrorists such as Kuntar.
In this sick, twisted society that the Europeans have bought and paid for, anyone who murders Jews is considered a role model. But anyone who supports peace with Israel is instantly denounced as a 'traitor. ' It is high time for the Europeans and others in the West to wake up.
About the Author: Bassam Tawil is a scholar based in the Middle East and regular contributor to the Gatestone Institute web journal.
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4. New Trouble for Activist Nawi: More NGO Checks, Possible Conspiracy to Commit Murder
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/new-trouble-for-activist-nawi-more-ngo-checks-possible-conspiracy-to-commit-murder/2016/01/12/
By: David Israel
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Many in Israel's left have been trying to disassociate themselves from Ezra Nawi, the activist who was secretly taped on a Channel 2 news program Uvda bragging about sending Arab land brokers to certain torture if not death in the hands of the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security service (selling land to Jews is an act of treason under PA law). Those who defended him quickly became the new pariahs of Israel's mass and social media. Then came a follow-up report Monday night showing Nawi was on the payroll of Breaking the Silence and Rabbis for Human Rights.
According to the Channel 2 revelation, Nawi was seen at the Tel Aviv offices of Breaking the Silence, picking up cash and a check for fellow activist Guy Butbia, an activist who tapes the reaction of IDF soldiers to riots Nawi arranges in the area of the southern Hebron Mountain.
Meanwhile, right-wing journalist Shai Glick, who filed a police complaint regarding Ezra Nawi's activities, reported a conversation with an investigating police officer who told him the Arab land broker Nawi was conspiring to hand over to the PA is an Israeli citizen. Nawi and several other activists were attempting to invite this Israeli citizen to the Arab village of Yatta, south of Hebron, where PA police would be waiting to arrest him.
This last revelation probably explains why Nawi hightailed it to Ben Gurion International, to catch a flight to anywhere else, when police caught him and took him in for questioning. It's starting to sound like conspiracy to commit murder, which Israel frowns on, regardless of one's political conviction.
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5. Clinton 'Very Interested' in Secret Plans to Fund Shaming of Israel and Spark 'Palestinian' Demonstrations
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/clinton-very-interested-in-plans-to-fund-shaming-of-israel-and-spark-palestinian-demonstrations/2016/01/12/
Advisers to Hillary Clinton suggested clandestinely encouraging Palestinian Arab protests and also to raise 'billions of dollars' in a 'Pledge to Palestine.' Clinton: 'I am very interested.'
By: Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Published: January 12th, 2016
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While the U.S. government complains about a proposed Israeli law that will force non-governmental organizations operating in Israel to reveal whether they're actually operated by foreign governments, it turns out that the U.S. government itself planned to use NGOs in Israel to manipulate Israeli policy. How? By sparking demonstrations among Palestinians, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Several high-level advisors to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sketched the plan in emails, and Clinton directed that the emails be printed, apparently so she could study them carefully.
In an email, former Ambassador Thomas Pickering proposed to Clinton exactly who should be involved in the demonstrations, and the specific venues and buildings at which demonstrations should be conducted. He even names at least one NGO to steer the protests he wanted to create: 'The Peace Now organization (Shalom Akshav)' ' which Pickering suggests 'despite its decline.'
The goal of the Pickering proposed demonstrations was to force Israel back to the negotiating table with the Palestinian Arab leadership.
Strikingly, given recent U.S. attacks on Israel's proposed law mandating transparency among NGOs, the State Department advisers cautioned Clinton that their campaign would have to be secret. Â The United States, in my view, cannot be seen to have stimulated, encouraged or be the power behind the plan to encourage such demonstrations. To achieve the desired result without being outed, Pickering suggested that third parties and a number of NGOs be drafted to be the public face on the plan.
Pickering was awarded an honorary degree by Brandeis University in 2014 for 'elevat[ing] diplomacy to a high art.' Indeed.
The State Department emails describing the Pickering plan have something to offend everyone. Pickering urged Clinton to include only Palestinian women, and not men, in the planned demonstrations because the men would not remain peaceful. 'On the Palestinian side, the male culture is to use force.  Indeed', Pickering explained to Clinton, 'for Palestinians 'male culture comes close to requiring' violence.'
The spirit of Pickering's proposal was echoed by Anne-Marie Slaughter, who, in another email, proposed that the State Department find a group of millionaires/billionaires who would promise to contribute billions of dollars in a 'Pledge for Palestine.'Â Slaughter was confident that 'even 30 calls to the right people in the Clinton fundraising network' would quickly generate the desired cash. Slaughter appeared to delight at the prospect of having Israelis be shamed for building homes 'in the face of a Pledge for Peace.' The email went to Clinton as well as Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, and others. Clinton responded to Slaughter's proposal, writing: 'I am very interested, pls flesh out. Thx.'Â Slaughter served as Clinton's Director of Policy Planning.
Apparently the actual uses of the funds were unimportant, because Slaughter's email did not say anything about what the money should be spent on. Perhaps tunnels in Gaza.