New laws discourage citizens of "enemy of the State" demanding Israel

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seorang musuh negara tak pernah memiliki hak untuk tampil di pengadilan Israel.

Jerusalem (News and Us) - Anggota Knesset (Parlemen) Israel memberi suara yang mendukung rancangan peraturan yang akan melarang warga dari "negara musuh" menuntut negeri tersebut, demikian laporan Jerusalem Post, Rabu.

Peraturan tersebut diberi nama "Dirani Bill", yang merujuk kepada gerilyawan Lebanon Mustafa Dirani --yang saat ini menuntut ganti rugi dari Israel.

Dirani, mantan anggota milisi Syiah di Lebanon, diculik oleh personel pasukan komando Israel pada 1994, sewaktu ia diduga mengetahui nasib pilot Angkatan Udara Israel Ron Arad --yang ditangkap oleh anggota milisi Dirani satu dasawarsa sebelumnya.

Ia ditahan di kamar tahanan terpencil sebagai kartu-tawar buat warganegara Israel itu. Namun ia disiksa oleh para penangkapnya dan bersaksi di satu pengadilan Israel atas penyiksaan tersebut.

Dirani dibebaskan dari penjara pada 2004, sebagai bagian dari kesepakatan pertukaran tahanan. Pada 2000, ia menuntut negara Israel sebesar enam juta shekel (1,67 juta dolar AS) dalam satu gugatan yang diajukan ke Pengadilan Wilayah Tel Aviv.

Peraturan baru tersebut, yang mulanya diusulkan oleh anggota parlemen "hawkish" Ayelet Shaked --dari Partai Jewish Home-- dan David Rotem dari Partai Yisrael Beytenu, disahkan dengan 55 anggota parlemen mendukung dan 23 menentang, demikian laporan Xinhua.

Menurut rancangan peraturan itu, peraturan tersebut mengikuti langkah negara lain Barat.

"Berdasarkan prinsip yang diterima ini, seorang musuh negara tak pernah memiliki hak untuk tampil di pengadilan Israel," demikian antara lain isi rancangan peraturan itu.

"Selama ada keadaan perang antara Israel dan negara lain, seorang warga dari negara itu yang terlibat dalam kegiatan teror tak bisa menuntut Israel," katanya.

Sebaliknya, anggota kelompok sayap-kiri di Knesset Tamar Zandberg --dari Partai Meretz-- yang menentang rancangan tersebut, mengatakan warga dari negara musuh yang disiksa di Israel masih memiliki hak, tak peduli apa kondisi diplomatik dengan negara yang bersangkutan.

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Wednesday words: the State of the Union (Mormon) and more

The NewsFeed of the peak of our vocabulary includes new, funny and surprising words (and some who run off just fun in the old tongue) useful.

State of the Union video vocab: Skutnik

No, there is no Russian satellites. A Skutnik is an average Americans who often to something heroic has been invited by the President's guest at the State of the Union (or other joint session of Congress). The eponymous hero was a man named Lenny Skutnik. 13. January 1982 a plane in the Potomac had crashed. Go at the top of the work, Skutnik passed the site and the dove in icy waters, to save a woman, while others watched. Ronald Reagan an invitation that exemplary human being extended in 1982, and Skutniks have a feature on the SOTU since then.

In the year 2011 for example invited Barack Obama Daniel Hernandez, the intern, that Republic Gabby Giffords breastfed head injury after she was shot last January. This year, many of his guests were more political. It was a young man with cancer that could afford treatment for the Obama of the health care reform. There was a General Motors plant manager, a symbol of a job of that saved the auto bailout. The most famous Billionaire Warren Buffett sat there Secretary, whose Coronation was a higher rate than their boss (and good fodder for political metaphor).

(Photos: 30 years Skutniks: special guests in the State of the Union)

Presidential usage: the pulpit

Last night was Obama with his pulpit, a term the Oxford English Dictionary describes as "every problem out to talk about a public office or position of the authority which the occupant is an excellent opportunity,." Good old Theodore Roosevelt was the first person, this term to use. Teddy said, spun round in his swivel chair over a century before, and said: "I suppose my critics call to preach, but I have as a pulpit!" A pulpit is a platform from the preacher delivering a sermon. And back in the day, tyrant first-class, sweaters or capital (as in "capital, my good chap!"). In the today's tongue we could translate this as "the badass pulpit."

Culinary category of the week: "Mormon food"

On the front page of the New York dining section today is times it a story about Mormon kitchen, which reporter Julia Moskin describes as "Part of a larger Western tradition of hearty meals, seasonal food and food preservation, which is ideal in accordance with modern farm to table." This turgid definition to contrast with the stereotype is that tariff is Mormon all Jell-o, casseroles and mashed potatoes/cream insert food here. One could note that many other groups of Methodists to Midwesterners, these dishes (and then need, NAP) enjoy several years events. On a side note: Aunt Linda, please keep this twice baked potatoes come.

Last days of plate: Funeral potatoes

Famous saints of the last fare is "funeral potatoes," a cheesy, creamy potato casserole, traditionally for grieving families after a lover on cooked died (because nothing says "It pains me" as strength), although they easily "party potatoes" or "holiday potatoes," to leave. In the times article, the author describes an updated version that the younger generation is used by Mormons. It has in addition to the traditional cheddar Gruyère, but used mostly the same ingredients. Hey, no one said change was simple – and churchin' until the cheese is a good first step.

Conservative style: the missionary haircut

Since we already on the subject of the Mormons are, it seems appropriate, their characteristic appearance give a shout out. That requires "Missionary haircut", that hair combed and parted on the one hand be short. If you heed the Missionary Training Center (MTC) in Provo, Utah, it has to 'report' with this haircut and the correct missionary clothing, traditionally a white, short sleeve button up, trousers and tie. It may not be an exciting look, but Walt Disney would certainly agree. (See next item.)

Magic facial hair category: Disney Bart

There is a certain dress code that "Actors" that costumed work in theme parks, and not costumed, must comply with. Walt's soldiers essential and tidy be (or they may be forced from the Jolly Roger with their pink slip). Things that are forbidden are great earrings, red fingernail Polish, bright eye shadow and two-coloured hair. The remuneration of the bare weapons made big news in the last year, and this week the Kingdom relaxed a regulation, so that men moustache, beards and Goatees, the "fully, properly maintained and groomed on no more than a quarter inch in length are grown." The news came as a cruel mockery, whose Haare is growing, in the face in all actors incomplete.

(More: Disney theme park employees allowed to grow beards and Goatees)

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Sandusky Scandal: Penn State Child Abuse Charges Lead to Two Resignations

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Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General / APFormer Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald "Jerry" Sandusky, center, is escorted in handcuffs to a waiting police car

Penn State’s legendary football coach Joe Paterno is under fire after two university officials stepped down over a child abuse sex scandal, leaving fans to question how much the iconic coach really knew.

Jerry Sandusky, a retired defensive coordinator for Paterno, was charged with sexually assaulting at least eight boys. The incidents spanned over 15 years, the Associated Press reports. The recent news prompted an emergency meeting of the university’s Board of Trustees, and resulted in the resignation of Tim Curley, the school’s athletic director, and Gary Schulz, the senior vice president for business and finance.

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The two high-ranking officials, who maintain their innocence, were charged with perjury and failure to report to authorities in 2002, when an assistant witnessed an incident in the team’s locker room showers with Sandusky. The witness, now identified as former quarterback and now coach Mike McQueary, reported to Paterno, who said he informed Curley but was unaware of the details of the episode.

“It was obvious that the witness was distraught over what he saw, but he at no time related to me the very specific actions contained in the grand jury report,” Paterno said in his statement. “Regardless, it was clear that the witness saw something inappropriate involving Mr. Sandusky. As coach Sandusky was retired from our coaching staff at the that time, I referred the matter to university administrators.”

Sandusky, who was once thought to be Paterno’s successor, retired in 1999 but continued using Nittany Lions facilities for his charity, The Second Mile, a mentoring program for at-risk kids. The former coach, 67, is facing a 40-count indictment, including reports of sexual advances, touching, oral and anal sex.

Curley and Schulz face arraignment Monday, while Sandusky was released on $100,000 bail Saturday. Paterno has not been implicated in the case, but will surely draw attention for not following up on the reported abuse after he was informed. Paterno was honored in October for his 409th career win, and the last undefeated team in the Big Ten were enjoying a successful 8-1 record before the sex scandal was unveiled.

Joe Amendola, Sandusky’s attorney, said his client has maintained his innocence over the three-year investigation.

“He’s shaky, as you can expect,” Amendola told WJAC-TV. “Being 67 years old, never having faced criminal charges in his life and having the distinguished career that he’s had, these are very serious allegations.”

That being said, you would think Sandusky could have selected a better name for his autobiography.

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The Grand Tradition of the White House State Dinner

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White House state dinners are Washington's quintessential social events and a way to practice classy diplomacy. The dinners can honor a good relationship with a foreign leader, like Thursday's dinner for South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and first lady Kim Yoon-Ok, or they can be an attempt to patch over a bad one.

[Check out this slide show of state dinners throughout history.]

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle's fifth official state dinner followed Congress's approval of free-trade agreements with Korea, Columbia, and Panama, which had been languishing since they were introduced in 2007 under President George W. Bush.

The visit also apparently inspired Republican Sen. John Kyl to, at the last minute, stop blocking the nomination of the new U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Sung Kim. The Senate confirmed Kim­­—who will be the first Korean-American ambassador to Seoul—minutes before President Lee addressed a joint session of Congress.

Past dinners have also been a way to further U.S. foreign policy. In September 2001, for example, Mexico's President Vicente Fox marked his growing relationship with Bush during a state visit. The two were looking for ways to cooperate on the fight against drug trafficking and find a solution to illegal immigration from Mexico to the United States. Experts close to the issue believe some kind of path to citizenship was imminent, but the 9/11 attacks changed everything, pushing the immigration discussion immediately to enforcement.

During the Cold War, there were a few visits by Soviet leaders, which kept up the delicate diplomatic dance the two countries practiced. In 1990, just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa visited with President George H.W. Bush. Gorbachev disregarded the black-tie dress code and wore a business suit, as he had done during his previous state dinner with Reagan in 1987.

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In 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was the first Soviet leader to visit the United States. During the state dinner, he and President Dwight D. Eisenhower talked openly about the tricky relationship between the two nuclear powers. Eisenhower said, "Because of our importance in the world, it is vital that we understand each other better."

Khrushchev agreed, acknowledging the need "to come to an agreement on the improvement of our relations, because our two countries are much too strong and we cannot quarrel with each other. ... If we quarrel, then not only our countries can suffer colossal damage but the other countries of the world will also be involved in a world shambles."

The dinners have also marked cultural events close to the heart of the American people, like the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The Kennedys had scheduled a state dinner for West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, but after Kennedy was shot a month before the dinner, the responsibility fell to President Lyndon Johnson. Since the nation was still mourning Kennedy's death, Johnson moved the state dinner to his Texas ranch for a less formal barbecue.

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D.C., Maryland and Washington State Hold Highest Concentration of STEM Jobs

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STEM-related job growth is booming in Washington, D.C., Washington, Virginia and Maryland, according to a new analysis by EMSI, an employment data company.

Those places have the highest concentration of STEM-related workers per capita. Between 2001 and 2011, the number of jobs in STEM-related fields in Washington, D.C. grew 13,758, an 11 percent increase. The firm estimates that there are more than 8 million STEM-related jobs in the U.S.,, 3.7 percent more than in 2001.

California, with more than 1 million workers in STEM-related fields, is still the nation's leader in the industry. Over the past decade, however, the state lost more than 19,000 STEM jobs as the dot-com bubble burst and the recession hit.

Tennessee, Nevada, and Mississippi had the fewest relative concentration of STEM workers, compared to the national average.

EMSI estimates that men hold nearly 75 percent of all STEM-related jobs, and that 20 percent of the STEM workforce is 55 or older.

For a more detailed look at the numbers, check out EMSI analyst Joshua Wright's article at newgeography.com.

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'Jersey Shore' Rejected By its Namesake State For Film Tax Break

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Thanks to the folks at MTV, the Garden State is now recognized for its Italian-American-centric beaches, bars, gyms, tanning salons and laundromats. And for some reason, New Jerseyans aren't thrilled about it.

But Gov. Chris Christie is putting his foot down, blocking the MTV show Jersey Shore from receiving a $420,000 tax break. Though Christie suspended the film tax credit program in 2010 on behalf of budget cuts, the show's first season was filmed in 2009, qualifying it for funding.

(MORE: New Jersey Taxpayers Cough Up $420K to Support MTV's 'Jersey Shore')

"I have no interest in policing the content of such projects," Christie said. The governor, who is no fan of the show, noted that it is his role to make sure New Jersey taxpayers are not stuck paying "for a project which does nothing more than perpetuate misconceptions about the state and its citizens." Among those misconceptions is the belief that the cast is actually from Jersey; in reality, the vast majority of the self-proclaimed "guidettes" and "juiceheads" are from New York.

Lawmakers have criticized the TV show's impending tax break since it was first revealed by the statehouse bureau of The Star-Ledger of Newark and The Record newspapers earlier this month. MTV spoksewoman Noelle Llewelleyn told the AP she wouldn't comment on the tax issue but emphasized, "Jersey Shore itself will not be affected." NewsFeed gathers this is supposed to be a good thing.

For the uninitiated, the show's initial season focused on a group of young Italian-Americans living in Seaside Heights, a shore community along the boardwalk, and showcased their hard-partying lifestyle. Subsequent seasons have followed the cast to Miami and Italy, though the show's state-damning name has remained the same. Though some state officials denounce the show for tarnishing New Jersey's image, NewsFeed notes you can't discount the show for its cultural contributions: fist-pumping and smushing.

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Washington state gunman shot dead after firing near school field

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SEATTLE | Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:07pm EDT

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A man armed with two rifles opened fire on Saturday near where parents and students were gathered at a middle school football field in a Seattle suburb, before he was shot dead by police, authorities said.

The 51-year-old gunman abandoned his Kia sedan in the center of Issaquah, Washington, blocking traffic, King County Sheriff's Department spokesman Sergeant John Urquhart said.

He then walked a few blocks to an area with several schools and, once there, opened fire without hitting anyone as people took cover, Urquhart said.

"Several Issaquah police officers caught up with him as he was firing, both randomly and at them," he said, and the man was shot and killed by police.

Police said they have no idea what motivated the gunman, whom they did not immediately identify. Issaquah is located 15 miles east of Seattle.

(Reporting by Nicole Neroulias: Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Cynthia Johnston)

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Drug company CEO denied state review of girlfriend's death

SACRAMENTO, Calif (Reuters) - California's attorney general has declined a request by pharmaceutical mogul Jonah Shacknai for a review of the police investigation that ruled the bizarre hanging death of his girlfriend a suicide.
Shacknai, founder and CEO of Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp, has said he sought a reexamination of the case to quell strong doubts raised by relatives of Rebecca Zahau that she took her own life at his mansion near San Diego in July.
In a letter to state Attorney General Kamala Harris, Shacknai wrote that he had no reason to question the findings of investigators who ruled out foul play in both Zahau's death and the fatal fall of his 6-year-old son Max two days earlier.
The boy had been alone with Zahau at the mansion at the time of his spill down a staircase, which police determined was an accident. He died six days later.
Investigators said Shacknai, whose Arizona-based company makes the popular wrinkle filler Restylane and the acne treatment Solodyn, was never considered a suspect.
Police and medical examiners concluded that Zahau, 32, had committed suicide on July 11 hours after learning in a late-night telephone call that Max, then still hospitalized, had taken a turn for the worse.
They even released an unusual video reenactment of how investigators believe she had managed to tie her own hands behind her back before binding her own legs, slipping a noose around her neck and hurling herself off a second-story balcony.
Her lifeless, nude body was found suspended by the neck from a rope later that morning by Shacknai's brother, a guest at the estate at the time.
Some members of Zahau's family disputed the suicide ruling from the start, and one sister has said publicly she believes her sibling was murdered.
In his September 19 letter to Harris, Shacknai said he was "tormented with these unfounded rumors and accusations."
He said a review of the case would serve the interests of justice by providing confidence, comfort and resolution not just to the families impacted by the deaths, but also to the public.
But Chief Assistant Attorney General Dane Gillette wrote back two days later, in a letter released by Shacknai's public relations consultants, that said circumstances of the case did not warrant review by the state Department of Justice.
Earlier this month, a number of Zahau's relatives and her former husband, Neil Nalepa, set up a website seeking donations to pay for a private investigation of the case.
A Seattle-based lawyer retained by the family has told Reuters she had retained forensic and psychiatric experts to reexamine the official findings.
She has cited bits of previously undisclosed evidence contained in the medical examiner's report that police did not reveal, including that fact that Zahau's body was found with a T-shirt stuffed in her mouth.

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64 Structures burn in Washington State Wildfire

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GOLDENDALE, Wash. -a new count Friday shows 64 structures have been lost in the fire burning near col organi in Washington-South Centre.

A spokesman for the fire, Guy Giffords managers, said that the air count does not show how many people are houses. They had previously reported destroyed nine homes and 13 other structures.

Spokesman of the Ministry of natural resources Chuck Turley, explains the number of firefighters will have doubled by 600 Saturday as the state mobilizes resources.

The fire broke out Wednesday and covered 5,300 acres of brush and trees. About 200 houses were evacuated. Traffic on Highway 97 to col organi was closed at times Friday by smoke and fire in the vicinity. A community meeting is scheduled Friday night high school Goldendale.

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Abbas to stake Palestinian claim to state at U.N.

1 of 20. A banner with an image of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas which supports his planned bid for statehood recognition at the United Nations, is seen in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Ras al-Amud September 22, 2011, as Al-Aqsa Mosque, on the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount is seen in the background.
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UNITED NATIONS | Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:25am EDT
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asks the United Nations Friday to recognize a state for his people, even though Israel still occupies its territory and the United States has vowed to veto the move.
In what he may see as a date with destiny, Abbas, 76, will hand U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon an application for full U.N. membership, which the Security Council must then consider.
His appeal to the council reflects a loss of faith after 20 years of failed peace talks sponsored by the United States, Israel's main ally, and alarm at relentless Israeli settlement expansion that is eating into the land Palestinians want for a state.
It also exposes Washington's dwindling influence in a region shaken by Arab uprisings and shifting alliances that have pushed Israel, for all its military muscle, deeper into isolation.
Abbas will set out his case in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will also take the podium to argue that only direct negotiations between the two sides can lead to a Palestinian state.
President Barack Obama, who told the United Nations a year ago he hoped Palestinians would have a state by now, said Wednesday he shared frustration at the lack of progress.
But he said only Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, not actions at the United Nations, could bring peace. "I am convinced that there is no short cut to the end of a conflict that has endured for decades," he declared.
But the notion that more talks in the familiar format can succeed where so many have failed seems implausible.
So Abbas, a moderate politician opposed to violence, sees no alternative but recourse to the United Nations, although Israeli and U.S. politicians have threatened financial reprisals that could cripple his Palestinian Authority.
Should that happen, one Abbas aide said, the Palestinian Authority could dissolve itself, forcing the Netanyahu government to consider reassuming responsibility over all of the West Bank -- a major demographic and security liability for Israel.
"We will invite you to become the only authority from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean," the aide, veteran negotiator Saeb Erekat, told Israel Radio.
BURDEN OF HISTORY
A gulf of mistrust separates Israelis and Palestinians, who each feel their existence is at stake in a bitter struggle over borders, security, refugees and Jerusalem.
Political divisions among Palestinians, and the constraints of U.S. domestic politics, where support for Israel is solid and long-standing, further complicate any chance of bridging the gaps.
The divisions are rooted in a heavy burden of history, painfully contested narratives and recurring bloodshed.
The United Nations partitioned Palestine in 1947, but Arab states rejected that and declared war on the new state of Israel, which then captured more territory than it had been allotted under the U.N. plan and dispossessed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, who became refugees.
Two decades after Israel seized the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war, the Palestine Liberation Organization effectively reduced its demands to a state on those territories.
A 1993 agreement signed by PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin set out a plan for Palestinian self-rule, which was never fully implemented.
Israel has continued to expand settlements in the West Bank, although it dismantled them in the Gaza Strip, now ruled by Hamas Islamists who refuse to recognize the Jewish state.
Two Palestinian uprisings erupted in 1987 and 2000, but failed to end Israeli occupation or bring statehood closer.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States would continue to push for a durable, negotiated peace.
"Regardless of what happens tomorrow in the United Nations, we remain focused on the day after," she said Thursday.
Abbas, who has won new popularity at home for his determined stance, accepts that negotiations are necessary, but argues statehood will put Palestinians on a more equal footing.
Israel sees the initiative at the United Nations as a sinister attempt to shear away its own legitimacy.
Diplomats at the United Nations are already looking to limit the fallout from the Palestinian statehood application.
The Security Council could delay action on Abbas' request, giving the mediating "Quartet" -- the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations -- more time to craft a declaration that could coax the two sides back to the table.
But the Quartet, whose envoys met for several hours on Thursday, may be unable to agree on a statement that could satisfy both Israel and the Palestinians.
Another option, advanced by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, would see the Palestinians go to the General Assembly, which could vote to upgrade the Palestinians from an "entity" to a "non-member state" while reviving direct peace talks.
That could allow the Palestinians to pursue Israel in war crimes tribunals, but European diplomats are seeking a tacit assurance they would not do so as long as negotiations last.
Sarkozy's plan sets an ambitious timetable for talks to begin within one month, an agreement on borders and security within six months and a final peace agreement within a year.
Israel was cool to the French proposal. "A Palestinian state should be the outcome of negotiations, which means a Palestinian state should mark the end of conflict and cessation of claims," Netanyahu's cabinet secretary, Zvi Hauser, told Israel's Army Radio.
(Additional reporting by Dan Williams in Jerusalem; Editing by Peter Cooney)

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