Jerusalem News (31 May, 2013, Sivan 2, 5773)
Contents:
1. Beards Keep You Young, Healthy & Handsome, Says Science by James Thilman
2. South Koreans Boil Dogs and Cats Alive!
3. Norway and other European obstacles to peace by Nan Jacques-Zilberdik -
4. Obama is not your brother!
5. Gigantic Mystery Ancient Structure Discovered Underwater in the Sea of Galilee
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1. Beards Keep You Young, Healthy & Handsome, Says Science
February 20, 2013 by James Thilman
http://www.newnownext.com/beards-keep-you-young-healthy-and-handsome-says-science/02/2013/
Extracts:
Researchers discovered that men with beards and moustaches actually enjoy numerous benefits including, but not limited to, instant handsomeness.
A study from the University of Southern Queensland, published in the Radiation Protection Dosimetry journal, found that beards block 90 to 95 percent of UV rays, thereby slowing the aging process and reducing the risk of skin cancer. Got asthma? Pollens and dust simply get stuck in that lustrous facial hair. Additionally, all that hair retains moisture and protects against the wind, keeping you looking young and fresh-faced. What's more, shaving is usually the cause of ingrown hairs and bacterial infections that lead to acne.
To conduct the study, researchers left bearded mannequins, along with less attractive, follically-challenged ones, in the blistering sun of the Australian outback and then compared the amount of radiation absorbed by each.
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2. South Koreans Boil Dogs and Cats Alive!
http://www.change.org/petitions/millions-of-dogs-tortured-butchered-in-s-korea-boycott-2013-9th-international-mdpd-congress-in-seoul-s-korea
In South Korea, 2 million dogs are tortured and eaten every year. Even though the country has established an Animal Protection Law for companion animals, dogs are still beaten, hanged, electrocuted and treated abominably by farmers and slaughters. And dogs and cats are still being beaten and boiled alive for so-called elixirs, which do not have medical properties except in the minds of naive customers.
South Korea is one of the Asian countries that consume dog meat for centuries. They say dog's adrenaline go to the extreme by torturing them and it makes the meat taste much better. they believe it's good for their skin and health, and it has an effect of making male more masculine and gives sexual energy.
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3. Norway and other European obstacles to peace
http://unitycoalitionforisrael.org/news/?p=9408
Nan Jacques-Zilberdik - The Jerusalem Post, May 27th, 2013
Extracts:
For two months, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide has been questioned by his parliament's Scrutiny Committee because the Foreign Ministry has been giving false information to parliament since 2011. The Foreign Ministry had denied that the Palestinian Authority pays high monthly salaries to security prisoners, among them convicted terrorists. Palestinian Media Watch, where I am a senior analyst, exposed these PA salaries already in 2011. These salaries are paid from the PA's general budget, which is funded in part by Norway and other international donors.
At the time, Norway's Foreign Ministry refused to accept PMW's reports, basing itself on false data supplied by the PA. Had the ministry seriously studied our reports, Norway would have learned in 2011 that the PA has a special program to give salaries to prisoners, including those convicted of multiple murders.
Finally, two months ago Eide acknowledged that the information the Foreign Ministry had been giving to parliament for two years was false. However, Eide's public response since then has been a great disappointment.
In an interview to the Norwegian newspaper Dagen, he did not criticize the PA for lying to Norway, nor did he condemn it for using donor money to pay salaries to convicted terrorists. He did not challenge the PA's ethical foundations as supporters and glorifiers of terrorists and murderers, nor did he explain his ministry's so-called  'imprecise' statements to parliament.
PMW [Palestinian Media Watch] has documented that the PA is not only paying salaries to terrorists, but is also glorifying them, and promoting hatred through many different branches of government that receive donor money.
Norway's and other international donors' continued unconditional funding of the PA's general budget, enabling it to use donor money as it pleases, makes these international funders participants in this hate promotion and terror glorification. Notwithstanding Eide's claim that the Israeli government wants Norway to keep supporting the PA so it does not collapse, this does not free Norway of its responsibility to check what its money is funding, and to publicly condemn the PA when its actions are unethical.
Palestinian terrorist Ibrahim Hamed is serving 54 life sentences for planning at least five suicide bombings at the Hebrew University, in cafes and in a shopping mall, in which dozens of civilians were murdered. Terrorist Abbas al-Sayid is serving 35 life sentences for planning suicide bombings at a Passover celebration, killing 30 Israelis, and at a pedestrian mall, killing five and wounding 100.
These are just two examples of terrorists the PA calls 'heroes.'
But they are no different than other terrorists around the globe, who likewise have slaughtered innocent people. Such killers should be universally condemned. But they and other Palestinian terrorists are lauded as heroes by the PA leadership, in addition to receiving high monthly salaries from the PA payroll, facilitated by donor countries like Norway.
Norway and other donors continue to ignore most of PMW's findings.
They silently accept without condemnation the PA's teaching hatred of Jews, glorification of terrorist murderers, and praising suicide bombers as 'role models.'
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4. Obama is not your brother!
Obama said:
# I will stand with the Muslim should the political winds shift in an ugly direction #Â The Audacity of Hope, p.261
(Deu 17:15 KJV) Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
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5. Gigantic Mystery Ancient Structure Discovered Underwater in the Sea of Galilee
Submerged Structure Stumps Israeli Archaeologists, Associated Press
Extracts:
The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists
dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient
life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated.
It's thousands of years old, Â a conical, manmade behemoth weighing hundreds
of tons, practically begging to be explored.
The problem is - it's at the bottom of the biblical Sea of Galilee. For now,
at least, Israeli researchers are left stranded on dry land, wondering what
finds lurk below.
The monumental structure, made of boulders and stones with a diameter of 70
meters (230 feet), emerged from a routine sonar scan in 2003. Now
archaeologists are trying to raise money to allow them access to the
submerged stones.
"It's very enigmatic, it's very interesting, but the bottom line is we don't
know when it's from, we don't know what it's connected to, we don't know its
function," said Dani Nadel, an archaeologist at the University of Haifa who
is one of several researchers studying the discovery. "We only know it is
there, it is huge and it is unusual."
Archaeologists said the only way they can properly assess the structure is
through an underwater excavation, a painstakingly slow process that can cost
hundreds of thousands of dollars. And if an excavation were to take place,
archaeologists said they believed it would be the first in the Sea of
Galilee, an ancient lake that boasts historical remnants spanning thousands
of years and is the setting of many Bible scenes.
In contrast, Israeli researchers have carried out many excavations in the
Mediterranean and Red Seas.
Much of the researchers' limited knowledge about this structure comes from
the sonar scan a decade ago.
Initial dives shortly after that revealed a few details. In an article in
the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology published earlier this
year, Nadel and fellow researchers disclosed it was asymmetrical, made of
basalt boulders and that "fish teem around the structure and between its
blocks."
The cone-shaped structure is found at a depth of between three and 12 meters
(nine and 40 feet) beneath the surface, about half a kilometer (1,600 feet)
from the sea's southwestern shore. Its base is buried under sediment.
The authors conclude the structure is man-made, made of stones that
originated nearby, and it weighs about 60,000 tons. The authors write it "is
indicative of a complex, well-organized society, with planning skills and
economic ability."
The rest is a mystery.
Yitzhak Paz, an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority who is
involved in the project, said that based on sediment buildup, it is between
2,000 and 12,000 years old, a vast range that tells little about it. Based
on other sites and artifacts found in the region, Paz places the site's
origin some time during the 3rd millennium B.C., or about 5,000 years ago,
although he admits the timeframe is just a guess.
It's not even clear if the structure was built on shore when the sea stood
at a low level, or if it was constructed underwater. Paz reckons it was
built on land, an indication of the sea's low level at the time.
In order to fill in the blanks, archaeologists hope to inspect the site
underwater, despite the expense and the complexities.
Nadel noted that working underwater demands not only a skill such as scuba
diving, but also labor-intensive excavations that are particularly difficult
in the Sea of Galilee, which already has low visibility and where any
digging can unleash a cloud of sediment and bury what's just been uncovered.