Liberman calls for full adoption of Levy settlement report
By JPOST.COM STAFF 10/17/2012
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman advocated the adoption in full of the Levy Report on settlement construction on Wednesday, saying it would solve problems in both national and international areas.
It is important for the government to adopt the conclusions of the Edmond Levy Committee, Liberman said in a statement posted on his party’s Facebook page, specifically those declaring “that Judea and Samaria are not areas under military occupation, even under international law, and that the settlements there are not contrary to international law.”
Adopting the report, he added, would significantly strengthen the State of Israel.
Netanyahu, Lieberman to unify parties
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman intend to announce the unification of their Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu parties, a Channel 2 report indicated on Thursday.
The move, due to be announced in a press conference in Jerusalem’s Dan Panorama Hotel, and that must first pass in the Likud’s convention, may be an attempt to overpower a possible unification between centrist and left-wing parties.
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The Innovation Nation
by Michael Ordman
As we near the end of Israeli Innovation Month, the news is just full of the discoveries and cutting-edge products of the Jewish State.
The Weizmann Institute in Rehovot has combined Innovation Month with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month to publicise many of its innovative developments and research that could potentially eradicate breast cancer in the future. And over at Tel Aviv University, PhD student Ya’ara Saad’s innovation has been to grow neuron networks from fruit flies in the laboratory. By subsequently measuring electrical activity and synapse development, she is building a platform for testing potential treatments for neuro-degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Whilst on the subject, the NeuroAD system of computer exercises from Israel’s Neuronix not only stops deterioration of Alzheimer’s Disease symptoms, in some cases it actually improves patients’ cognitive performance.
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Obama’s Greatest Foreign Policy Error
“The error was that the problem was not Islam, but Islamic violence.”
By Daniel Greenfield, FPM
Obama’s greatest foreign policy error was the same one that had been made by Bush and by numerous past administrations. The error was that the problem was not Islam, but Islamic violence.It was Obama however who took that error to its logical conclusion by pursuing a foreign policy meant to part Islamists from their violent tendencies by allowing them to win without the need for terrorism.
Obama’s greatest foreign policy error was the same one that had been made by Bush and by numerous past administrations. The error was that the problem was not Islam, but Islamic violence.It was Obama however who took that error to its logical conclusion by pursuing a foreign policy meant to part Islamists from their violent tendencies by allowing them to win without the need for terrorism.
Violence, the thinking in diplomatic circles went, was inherently alarming and destabilizing. When Islamists don’t take over, they move to the West, preach radical theology, gather up followers and begin blowing things up. But let them take over their own home countries and they’ll no longer have any reason to draw up maps of London and New York, not when they’re beheading adulterers and burning churches back home.
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When US Troops Leave Afghanistan 
“In cases where the woman is seen as a clear sinner who stands in defiance of Shariah, such a woman is not only allowed to be attacked but there is an obligatory instruction for such action.” — Ehsanullah Ehsan, spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, discussing the shooting of 14 year-old Malala Yousafzai for asking for an education; he has vowed to try again to kill her.
The Pakistani Taliban caused widespread revulsion when it recently gunned down 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, whose “crime” was to ask for an education. Although assassinations and terrorism are common in Pakistan, what provoked such outcry is that Yousafzai was targeted because of her background as a campaigner for women’s rights.
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‘Morsi harsher on Hamas than previous regime’
Defying expectations, the current regime in Egypt has acted more harshly against Hamas than the previous one, Vice Premier Silvan Shalom told Israel Radio on Thursday.
“It’s good for the public to know that the current leadership is acting against Hamas in a very tough way,” Shalom said, specifying that it is destroying tunnels “one after the other,” limiting movement and blocking it from carrying out terrorist activity from Egyptian territory.
“I can tell you that Egypt’s actions against Hamas are much harsher than it was under the previous regime,” Shalom said.
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The Real Reason Behind Benghazigate?
By Frank Gaffney, Jr., Center for Security Policy
President Obama’s once-seemingly-unstoppable march towards reelection hit what he might call “bumps in the road” in Benghazi, Libya late on September 11, 2012. It might be more accurate to describe the effect of the well-planned and -executed, military-style attack on a diplomatic facility there as the political equivalent of a devastating improvised explosive device on the myth of the unassailability of the Obama record as Commander-in-Chief.
Thanks to intrepid investigative reporting – notably by Bret Baier and Catherine Herridge at Fox News, Aaron Klein at WND.com and Claire Lopez at RadicalIslam.org – and information developed by congressional investigators, the mystery is beginning to unravel with regard to what happened that night and the reason for the subsequent, clumsy official cover-up now known as “Benghazigate.”
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Ted Belman
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