Child become a symbol of Israeli extremism

Israeli girl has become a blessing Margolis (8 years) to the national symbol of religiouscoercion in Israel after being persecuted by Jewish extremists have spat upon, in protest at her clothes, which they considered indecent.

Margolis and returned Thursday to her school in the town of Beit Chiems for the first timeafter the case, which occupied the headlines of the media in Israel, where he wasreceived, and Education Minister Gideon Saar.

Margolis did not pronounce a single word upon entering the school, but her motherHadasa said she hoped "that leads everything we've done so far to change", warning the extremists, saying "I will not bow to threats and bullying."

The paragraph television broadcast last Friday has shown Jewish fundamentalists spit onMargolis; because they saw that her clothes were not "decent enough".

And appeared on the grace of Margolis - which belong to a religious family of Jewish immigrants in America - the symptoms of anxiety as a result of the harassment faced byevery day while walking to school, and since that day begun is a symbol against religious coercion in Israel.

Rejection of discriminationIn protest over the incident, more than 10 thousand Israeli Tuesday in a demonstration to protest the discrimination against women, and religious extremism in the house Chiems, about 30 kilometers from Jerusalem.
The parliamentary opposition leader Tzipi Livni, "We strive for personal Israel, not only in the house of the sun and not only on the exclusion of women, but against all extremists who suddenly appeared to try to impose their vision of the world on us."
On Tuesday, he urged Israeli President Shimon Peres of its citizens to rally against the "ultra-Orthodox who are trying to impose strict religious system," he said in a statement, "We are fighting for the nation's spirit and essence of the state."
Peres said face "on a test to be a state-wide rally to save the majority from the claws of a small minority undermine the greatest values," asserting that "no right to the person threatened a girl or a woman or any person in any way .. They are not masters of this land."
It also condemned the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the religious extremists "who spit or curse the women because of their clothes or charge separation between the sexes."
Israeli commentators described the house Chiems as a symbol of the struggle between Israel's religious and secular, with mounting fears of the spread of extremism in society, especially as the population growth rate of religious people with large families faster than the secularists.

According to the latest study conducted by the community of the Central Bureau of Statistics, the proportion of ultra-Orthodox eight percent of the total number of adult Jews in Israel. The Israelis are secularists who describe themselves as a minority percentage of 41 percent.
It is worth mentioning that some bus routes in the suburbs, which is described as "religious" in Jerusalem is already a separation between the sexes; where the sitting women in the back of vehicles, nor need when Israeli law so but they are subjected to verbal passengers males if they refused to do so.
Although the extremists represent only ten percent of all residents of Israel's 7.7 million people, they have political influence in a country which did not get any political party, never a majority in parliament, coalition governments assume power always.
In November last, he warned the President of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, Ephraim Halevy, former of the danger which threatens the existence of Israel is the growing radicalization of the Haredim (ultra-religious any) and not the Iranian nuclear program.
Halevy said - in a lecture at the School of Israeli military - the real existential threat to Israel coming from the inside, and Jewish extremism and increase the proportion of religious extremists.
The word Haridam is the plural of the word Harida, which means in Hebrew "met", and this community maintain and adhere to their followers dressed in a traditional, and they know that they are represented by Intellectual Asset ancient Jewish, as the purest, and is characterized families of Haredim to increase their number, as they refuse birth control, which explains the increasing numbers compared to laity in Israeli society.
Does not serve the majority of orthodox Jews in the Israeli army, and authorities agree on the exemption from military service, despite the controversy raised by the internal, the government established with the special battalion with religious to be a compromise; which take into account the religious requirements of the battalion.

Source: Agencies

Do Stunt Latin American leaders?

Hugo Chavez: the region's leaders to be cautious (Reuters)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the U.S. may have invented a way to hit Latin America's leaders of cancer, after he joined the Argentine President Cristina Fernandez to the list of the heads have been diagnosed with this disease.

The statement was a controversial habit of socialist Venezuelan leader, who underwent surgery in June to remove a tumor in the pelvis, but Chavez stressed that he does not bring any charges, but thinking aloud.

Chavez said in a televised speech to soldiers at a military base "would not be strange if they invented a technology for cancer is not known to be one."

In recent times, been diagnosed with Chavez and Fernandez, President of Paraguay Fernando Lugo, the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff, and former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, cancer, all of them leftists.
Doctors say that the President of Argentina has a very good chance to recover, you will not need chemotherapy or radiation therapy.

Fernandez had cancer and HPV, the most common type of thyroid cancer, and there is no evidence that the disease spread.

The announcement of her after less than a month on the performance of the right to continue a second term four years after winning a landslide election in October / November.
The surgery is performed for Fernandez, on the fourth of January next.

Chavez said that the region's leaders to be cautious of others, including his close ally, Bolivian President Evo Morales.

Source: Reuters

Barjtan articulate the two American Hormuz

U.S. Navy announced that two U.S. Barjtin crossed the Strait of Hormuz without problems, despite the escalation of warnings between the United States and Iran, which threatened to close this strategic waterway in the event of new UN sanctions over its nuclear program.

A spokesman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet Rebecca Ribarrich The aircraft carrier "USS JohnStennis," and barge rocket launcher "USS Mobile Bay" has "crossed the predeterminedroutine Strait of Hormuz Tuesday."

He did not refer to any U.S. military tension with Iranian naval forces, despite the high toneof words between Tehran and Washington in recent days. Ribarrich confirmed that their contacts with the Iranian navy conducted in accordance with the traditions of professionalmarine usual.

For its part, quoted by the official Iranian news agency Thursday that the Iranian military official met Iranian aircraft on an American aircraft carrier in the region.

Warnings mutualThe Iranian military rejected warnings from Washington and close the Strait of Hormuz, and said that Washington could not dictate what you do on Tehran, adding that Iran would respond to threats.
The commander of the Iranian Navy Habibollah Sayyari Monitoring of U.S. aircraft carrier forces appear to be able to oversee the entire region and monitor the movements of foreign forces accurately.
The Ministry of Defense confirmed Tuesday that the closure of the Strait - through which about a third of the world's oil carried by tankers - is "not permitted".
Has called on France - which is leading a campaign within the European Union to tighten sanctions on Iran - Tehran to abide by international law and allow freedom of navigation.
Plans and EU foreign ministers discuss possible ban on Iranian oil at a meeting on January 30 next.
On Thursday, Prime Minister of Italy Mario Monti said that his country supports a ban on Iranian oil exports, which are the source of funding for nuclear and missile programs of Tehran.
The experts have questioned the ability of Iran to impose a long-term blockade of the straits, and even see some of them they need sea lane like any oil producer.
They note that any naval force of Iran is not comparable to its counterpart U.S. military spokesman confirmed that the name of Washington's confidence in its ability to ensure that the military has met with "our commitments to our friends and partners and the international community."
But some experts see, however, that Iran has the means (including mines and missiles) enough to obstruct the navigation across the Straits.
Also finds that some of them - even if Tehran did not close the Strait - "This war of words Vszbb instability in oil prices, and this is beneficial to Iran," according to Caitlin Talmadzi professor at George Washington University.
The warnings came against the backdrop of growing controversy over Iran's nuclear program, which fears the expansion of sanctions, after speaking to a report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last month for serious concern about the program, which Tehran insists Slmath, says Western capitals is a cover for making atomic bombs.

Source: Agencies

Significant risks from closing the Strait of Hormuz

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The biggest threat to the British economy next year may not come from the euro area, butfrom the Strait of Hormuz, so that one sixth of the world's oil production passes through theneck of the Persian Gulf, and close it could choke the global economy.

That reported in the Times of London, where Pavtaatahitha expressed fears of the possibility of Iran to disrupt oil supplies and the high price. And that if Iran responded, as alleged by the Vice President, to impose sanctions on its oil exports by emphasizing that itwill not pass the "point one" oil from other countries across the Straits, the price will rise a lot. This would be a double blow to the British economy. Since this increase will weakendemand directly and raise industrial costs, but may also force the Bank of England to increase interest rates to show its determination to combat inflation.

The U.S. military has reacted to the threat of Iran yesterday that he will not be tolerated with no break, and that the U.S. Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain to ensure the survival of this vital artery open.
It is worth mentioning that this sea route to the Iranian border narrows to four miles at a certain point, Tehran has tried to disrupt the movement of freight before that mined the Strait during its war with Iraq in the eighties of the last century. In a show of force are now the Iranian Navy military maneuvers in the Strait of Oman next door, including the testing of torpedoes and mines dropped in the sea.
The newspaper pointed out that there is a degree of show of force on both sides, and to restrict Iran's oil exports will push prices higher and hurting the world economy is not convinced the Americans other producers such as Saudi Arabia and Iraq to fill the void. It is clear that there is sufficient capacity available until the start of Libyan oil to flow again.Similarly, Iran knows that block the Strait of Hormuz, a major risk of revenge by the United States could be the brunt of severe fragile economy.
Some analysts believe that the statement, Vice President of Iran close the Strait was just a gesture intended to show of force by raising the price of oil. It is therefore important to continue to put pressure on Iran.
But in return, the West must avoid actions that increase the price of oil without restricting exports of Iran. Because this will hurt the global economy while boosting Iran's ability to finance its nuclear program.

Source: Times