Jerusalem News (20 November, 2012. 6 Kislev, 5773)
Contents:
1. Most Popular Boys and Girls Names in Israel
2. Shocking: Evidence Indicates Child Whose Death Was Blamed on Israel, Was Actually Killed by Hamas Rocket (VIDEO)
3. "The True Response: Returning to Gush Katif"
1. Most Popular Boys and Girls Names in Israel
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Israel Baby Names for Boys, 2010
Key: H: haredi, ultra-Orthodox. NR: national religious/modern Orthodox. S: Secular.
Noam (all) pleasantness
Itai (S, NR) biblical
Ori or Uri (S, NR) my light
Yehonatan (all) biblical
Daniel (all) biblical
David (all) biblical
Ariel (S, NR)
Ido (S, NR) biblical
Yosef (H) biblical
Itamar (S, NR) biblical
Yair (S, NR) biblical, he will light
Moshe (H) biblical
Yonatan (all) biblical
Amit (S, NR) colleague, friend
Avraham (H) biblical
Nehorai (NR) mishnaic, light
Guy (S, NR) valley
Yisrael (H) Israel
Eitan (S, NR) strong
Yehuda (NR, H) biblical
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Israel Baby Names for Girls, 2010
Key: H: haredi, ultra-Orthodox. NR: national religious/modern Orthodox. S: Secular.
Noa (S, NR) biblical
Shira (all) song
Maya (S, NR) Russian
Tamar (all), biblical, date
Yael (all) biblical, gazelle
Talia (S, NR), female lamb
Roni (S, NR), sing, shout for joy
Sarah (H), biblical, princess
Noya (S, NR), feminized form of Noy, beauty
Michal (all), biblical
Hila (S, NR), halo
Tahel (S, NR), she will light
Adi (S, NR), jewel
Ayala (all), doe
Hodaya (NR), thanks to God
Maayan (S, NR), spring
Lian (S), non-Hebrew
Ella (S, NR),
Avigayil (NR, H), biblical, lit. father of happiness
Rivka (NR, H), biblical
2. Shocking: Evidence Indicates Child Whose Death Was Blamed on Israel, Was Actually Killed by Hamas Rocket (VIDEO)Â
Forwarded by Josette Briffa
Author: Algemeiner Staff
Extracts:
A dead Gazan child, whose picture made world media headlines claiming him to be a victim of an Israeli airstrike, appears to have been killed by a Hamas rocket that fell short of its target, landing inside Gaza instead of Israel, according to evidence brought to light by anonymous pro-Israel blogger Elder of Ziyon.
According to most accounts, the 4 year old boy Mahmoud Sadallah, was from the neighborhood of Annazla, close to Gaza City.
International publications including CNN and Britain's Mirror ran the tragic images of Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Kandil, Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh and others cradling the dead child, and the media outlets explicitly blamed Israel for the child's death.
Egypt's Prime Minister wept today as he kissed the forehead of a boy killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza,' reads the Mirror's caption under the photo. CNN reporter Sara Sidner referred to the boy as 'another victim of an [Israeli] air strike.'
But even the New York Times was more cautious in its reporting:
'It is unclear who was responsible for the strike on Annazla: the damage was nowhere near severe enough to have come from an Israeli F-16, raising the possibility that an errant missile fired by Palestinian militants was responsible for the deaths.'
After reviewing CNN's footage of the scene of the blast, Yiftah Shapir, a ballistics expert who is the Director of the Middle East Military Balance Project at the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel confirmed to The Algemeiner, 'It is reasonable to say that this damage is from a relatively small explosion at close range.'
'You see a lot of small holes,' he added, 'f it was a very heavy bomb the damage would be worse, and at long range the shrapnel would be spread much more widely because of the long distance.'
Israel National News Reports that the IDF published statistics last night indicating that of, 824 rockets that have been fired at Israel since the start of the most recent hostilities, 100 of those rockets have landed in Gaza.
The IDF strongly denied any involvement in the incident saying that it had not carried out any airstrikes at that time in that area.
The Associated Press report on the story provided additional details that cast further doubt over Israel's involvement in the child's death:
'Mahmoud's family said the boy was in an alley close to his home when he was killed, along with a man of about 20, but no one appeared to have witnessed the strike. The area showed signs that a projectile might have exploded there, with shrapnel marks in the walls of surrounding homes and a shattered kitchen window. But neighbors said local security officials quickly took what remained of the projectile, making it impossible to verify who fired it.
'Furthermore,' writes Elder of Ziyon, 'The Palestinian Center for Human Rights , which is keeping track of everyone killed in Gaza (and which admits that most of the dead have been 'militants,') did not list Mahmoud Sadallah or Aiman Aby Wardah in their list of victims of Israeli airstrikes, although they even include one person who died of a heart attack.'
CNN did not immediately respond to The Algemeiner's request for comment on this story.
See Also:
This Ongoing War Blog: 18-Nov-12: Fell short? Not just the Hamas rockets but the ethics of the journalists covering themÂ
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3. "The True Response: Returning to Gush Katif"
English translation of an article by Shimon Cohen that appeared today
in the Hebrew Arutz 7
Extracts:
At the end of a tour in the south, the leaders of Women in Green state
that the only response that will bring quiet to the south is not to
rely solely on a military operation, but to take civilian possession
of the Gaza Strip, that is, to return to Gush Katif.
Women in Green leaders Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar conducted
yesterday, Monday November 19th, a tour in the south in which they met
the inhabitants of Otef Gaza (the area around the Gaza Strip), along
with IDF soldiers in readiness for possible entry to the Gaza Strip.
...they add that as long as civilian possession of the Gaza Strip
is not restored, that is, the reestablishment of the Gush Katif
communities, there will be no end to the rocket fire from the Strip
and the strengthening of Hamas there.
"There is no point to entering Gaza if we don't intend to remain
there, to control it, to settle it once again," the two state. "Enough
of the fixed ritual - starting, but not finishing. IDF operations like
'First Rain,' 'Southern Arrow,' 'Summer Rains,' 'Bashan Oaks,'
'Squeezed Fruit,' 'Autumn Clouds,' and 'Cast Lead' proved that without
returning to the Gaza Strip, the situation will continue as it was."
When they analyze the reality that has come into being in the area of
the Gaza Strip in recent years, they recall that "seven years have
passed since the expulsion from Gush Katif - the quantity of rockets
and their range have increased significantly. The friction between IDF
soldiers and the Gazans within the Strip has decreased, but,
correspondingly, terrorist acts have been directed against the Otef
Gaza settlements. Likewise, rocket fire has increased towards Sderot,
the communities of the Eshkol region, Ashkelon, Ashdod, and other
cities. Hamas has succeeded in driving almost an entire country into
safe rooms, in putting a stop to regular life in the south, and even
in undermining the security of those living in Gush Dan (the Tel Aviv
metropolitan area) and Jerusalem. If we want to live, and if the
government wants to achieve the goal it has set, that is, the
cessation of rocket fire on Israeli settlements, it must settle Gush
Katif once again."
Katsover and Matar delineate the steps to be taken in order to restore
Israeli possession of the area of the Gaza Strip: "First, the IDF must
enter, clean up the terror nests, and destroy the launch sites.
Afterwards, Nahal he'ahzuyot [paramilitary settlements] are to be
established, which will later be granted civilian status and become
flourishing communities that will weaken Hamas. The creation of
communities will make it possible to crush the Hamas economic, social,
and propaganda infrastructures."
...We also met with the strong and wonderful inhabitants of
Netivot and Ofakim. It is clear to them, as well, that Israel must
take control of the Gaza Strip once again. 'Control' does not mean
only military control, but a civilian presence - communities,
agriculture, fields, vegetables, schools, synagogues and in short:
rebuilding Gush Katif. The land cries out for its sons to return. Any
other solution is like putting on a band-aid to treat cancer."
http://womeningreen.org/returntogushkatif.php
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Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green)
POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel
mailto:wfit2@womeningreen.org