Jewish groups prepare for the Third Temple with a sample sacrifice for Passover.
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By Maayana Miskin
First Publish: 3/22/2013, 11:34 AM
Jewish groups held a mock Passover sacrifice on Thursday opposite the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The ritual slaughter was not merely a historic reenactment, but, they say, practice in advance of the reconstruction of the Temple.
The practice sacrifice has been held annually for the past several years. This year organizers were unpleasantly surprised by a veto from Israel’s Veterinary Services, which refused to authorize the event. Organizers took the matter to court, and were able to quickly get a ruling permitting the ritual.
Military intel head Kochavi tells Herzliya Conference Iran and Hezbollah are setting up militia in Syria made up of 50,000 fighters.
Head of IDF Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi Photo: IDF
Iran is facing growing economic and domestic pressure due to international sanctions, but Tehran believes that the chances of a military strike on its nuclear program is low, IDF Military Intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi told the Herzliya Conference on Thursday.
Military defections: Twelve armed North Korean soldiers apparently defected across the border to China’s Jilin Province earlier this month but were captured by Chinese troops and sent back to the North. Late last month, two North Korean soldiers shot and killed their senior officer and fled to Jilin Province, prompting experts to suspect something unusual is going on in army units stationed along the border with China. The 12 North Korean soldiers stationed with a border unit defected across the Chinese border in two groups but were sent back after being captured by Chinese troops, a diplomatic source in Beijing said Thursday. Another source in the Chinese town of Yanji near the border with North Korea, said the other two North Korean soldiers shot and killed their senior officer and crossed over the border into Changbai, Jilin Province, causing Chinese troops nearby to scramble into emergency mode. The spate of defections may be related to food shortages. International aid to the North has dropped sharply since it launched a rocket in April last year, affecting the food situation for soldiers as well as ordinary people. litary defections:
March 22, 2013 – CHINA - At least 24 people died and scores were injured after a tornado carrying huge hailstones lashed southern China, causing widespread devastation and a ferry to capsize, domestic media reported Thursday. The ferry overturned in a river in the south-eastern province of Fujian, causing the deaths of 11 people with four missing, web portal qq.com reported. Nine people were killed in Dongguan, in Guangdong province in the south, according to the report. It showed images from the city of a car windscreen which appeared to have been smashed by egg-sized hailstones. Many of the dead in Dongguan were trapped in collapsed buildings.
European officials are openly admitting that the two largest banks in Cyprus are "insolvent", and it is now being reported that Cyprus Popular Bank only has "enough liquidity to cover the next few hours". Of course all banks in Cyprus are officially closed until Tuesday at the earliest, but there have been long lines at ATMs all over Cyprus as people scramble to get whatever money they can out of the banks
Senior defense source: Israel will not allow Hamas to "drizzle" rockets again.
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By Gil Ronen
First Publish: 3/21/2013, 10:47 PM
Moshe Yaalon
Reuters
Israel has responded to the firing of
four rockets at Sderot Thursday by cutting the permitted fishing zone
for Gaza fishermen in half, from six miles to three miles offshore. This brings the fishing zone back to its size before Operation Pillar of Defense. "We will not allow Hamas to go back to the previous situation of a
'rocket drizzle,' and the entire defense establishment is in agreement
on this matter," a senior defense force in southern command told Arutz Sheva.
PA chairman welcomes President Obama’s speech in Jerusalem, as Hamas condemns Obama for “adopting Israel’s position”.
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By Elad Benari
First Publish: 3/22/2013, 2:16 AM
Abbas and Obama in Ramallah
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Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas welcomed President Barack Obama’s speech in Jerusalem on Thursday, while Hamas condemned Obama for “adopting Israel’s position”. "President Abbas welcomed President Obama's speech in Jerusalem
saying that achieving peace and the option of two states on the 1967
borders are the way to bring security for the Israeli and Palestinian
peoples," the PA’s peace negotiator Saeb Erekat told AFP.
Iran will "annihilate"
Tel Aviv and Haifa if it comes under attack by the Jewish state, warned
supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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By Rachel Hirshfeld
First Publish: 3/21/2013, 6:04 PM
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
AFP file
Iran will "annihilate" the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa if it comes under attack by the Jewish state, "supreme leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Thursday.
"Every now and then the leaders of the Zionist regime threaten Iran
with a military attack," Khamenei said in a live televised speech from
the northeastern city of Mashhad, referring to Israel.
"They should know that if they commit such a blunder, the Islamic
republic will annihilate Tel Aviv and Haifa," he said, according to the AFP news agency.
Egyptian judges recommend the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood, say it has no legal status.
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By Elad Benari
First Publish: 3/21/2013, 6:15 AM
Protest against Muslim Brotherhood policies
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A panel of Egyptian judges has recommended the dissolution of the
Muslim Brotherhood movement, from which President Mohammed Morsi hails,
saying it has no legal status. According to a report on the website of the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram,
the State Commissioners Board (SCB) recommended on Wednesday that the
Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) reject a longstanding appeal by the
Muslim Brotherhood to revoke the 1954 decision made by former President
Gamal Abdel Nasser's Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), declaring the
group illegal and ordering its dismantling.
Why
is the global economy in so much trouble? How can so many people be so
absolutely certain that the world financial system is going to crash?
Well, the truth is that when you take a look at the cold, hard numbers
it is not difficult to see why the global financial pyramid scheme is
destined to fail. In the United States today, there is approximately 56
trillion dollars of total debt in our financial system, but there is
only about 9 trillion dollars in our bank accounts. So you could take
every single penny out of the banks, multiply it by six, and you still
would not have enough money to pay off all of our debts. Overall, there
is about 190 trillion dollars of total debt on the planet. But global
GDP is only about 70 trillion dollars. And the total notional value of
all derivatives around the globe is somewhere between 600 trillion and
1500 trillion dollars. So we have a gigantic problem on our hands. The
global financial system is a very shaky house of cards that has been
constructed on a foundation of debt, leverage and incredibly risky
derivatives. We are living in the greatest financial bubble in world
history, and it isn't going to take much to topple the entire thing.
And when it falls, it is going to be the largest financial disaster in
the history of the planet.
By Michael, on March 20th, 2013