Jerusalem News (30 October, 2013, Cheshvan 26, 5774)
1. US is now the Largest Oil Producer in the World!
2. Germany has Humiliated Israel and forced her to submit to Palestinian Falsehood
HRW Praises Israeli Decision to Attend UN Rights Review by Ari Yashar
3. German-led EU Motion Aims to Ban Circumcision
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1. US is now the Largest Oil Producer in the World!
# The US has finally surpassed Saudi Arabia as the largest oil producer in the world, after an explosion in the use of hydraulic fracking created the largest oil boom in nearly 40 years, only beaten by the production boom in Saudi Arabia between 1970 and 1974. #
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2. Germany has Humiliated Israel and forced her to submit to Palestinian Falsehood
HRW Praises Israeli Decision to Attend UN Rights Review by Ari Yashar
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/173314#.Um9YJiT8IdU
Human Rights Watch praises Israeli submission to UN Human Rights Council review, but calls for further concessions.
First Publish: 10/28/2013, 8:08 PM
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Human Rights Watch on Monday praised the Israeli decision to attend a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Periodic Review, set for Tuesday, while at the same time urging Israel to make more concessions to UN involvement in local affairs.
The leader of New York-based Human Rights Watch, Bill Van Esveld, said "Israel's decision to end its misguided boycott of the UN Human Rights
Council is a positive step."Â
Van Esveld, however, tempered his praise by calling on Israel to make further concessions to the UNHRC, saying: "Israel should now reverse its wrongful position that its human rights obligations don't apply to the occupied Palestinian territory, start working with the UN's human rights team on the ground, and stop blocking visits from UN rights experts."
Israel cut ties with the UNHRC in March 2012 after the organization stated its intention to investigate how Israeli settlements may be infringing on local Arabs' rights. Israel accuses the UNHRC of singling it out at each of its three annual meetings and passing resolutions against it.
Israel's decision to renew cooperation with the UNHRC came on the heels of international pressure. According to a Haaretz newspaper report Sunday, Germany's foreign minister Guido Westerwelle warned Israel to face the Periodic Review or face severe diplomatic consequences.
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3. German-led EU Motion Aims to Ban Circumcision
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(a) European Council Calls for Circumcision Ban by Maayana Miskin
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/172466#.Um9Y3ST8IdU
The European Council calls circumcision of children a violation of human rights, calls for legal ban until age 15.
First Publish: 10/3/2013, 11:18 AM
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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a pan-European group, has passed a resolution condemning circumcision of children as a violation of human rights, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports.
The resolution passed with 78 in favor to just 13 against. Fifteen people abstained from the vote.
The legal ban proposed would seriously impact Jewish communities, which practice circumcision of male infants at the age of eight days. Muslim communities, too, have the practice of circumcising boys, usually before the age of 10.
Male circumcision is one of Judaism's most fundamental laws.
The resolution covered not only the circumcision of young boys, but female genital mutilation, body piercing involving young children, and corporal punishment as well.
According to the JTA, amendments were raised trying to remove references to male circumcision from the bill, but all were rejected. An amendment to remove a reference to 'religious rights of parents and families' from the original resolution was accepted.
A German court banned circumcision in 2012, leading to a joint Muslim-Jewish campaign to keep the practice legal.
In May 2013, a Norwegian paper published an offensive cartoon comparing circumcision to child torture. The motifs used in the cartoon led to charges of anti-Semitism.
Jews and Muslims in Europe have also faced campaigns against animal slaughter done in accordance with religious tradition. Poland has banned kosher slaughter, and slaughter has come under attack in France and Holland as well.
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(b) European council passes anti-ritual circumcision resolution
http://www.jta.org/2013/10/02/default/council-of-europe-passes-anti-male-circumcision-resolution#ixzz2jCFLUCLn
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(JTA) Â A resolution that calls male ritual circumcision a 'violation of the physical integrity of children' was passed overwhelmingly by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
The council, a pan-European intergovernmental organization, debated and passed the resolution on Tuesday based on a report by the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development led by German rapporteur Marlene Rupperecht. The resolution passed by a vote of 78 in favor and 13 against, with 15 abstentions.