148 NATIONS DISAVOW JEWISH TIES TO JERUSALEM, TEMPLE MOUNT

“The international community must stop participating in such a blatant denial of history. You must not permit these blatant attempts to delegitimize Israel,” Furman said.

BY TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

 DECEMBER 2, 2018 00:57

 

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A general view of Jerusalem's old city shows the Dome of the Rock in the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, October 25, 2015. (photo credit: AMIR COHEN/REUTERS)

The UN General Assembly in New York on Friday approved six anti-Israel resolutions including two that ignored Jewish ties to the Temple Mount.

The primary resolution on Jerusalem, that passed 148-11 with 14 abstentions, also disavowed Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem.
Both that text and a second more global one on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which passed 156-8, with 12 abstentions, spoke of Judaism’s most holy site – The Temple Mount – solely by its Muslim name of al-Haram al-Sharif.

The votes comes as Israel is working to shore up international support for its sovereignty in Jerusalem.

A third text, which was approved 99-10 with 66 abstentions, called on Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights.

The United States, Canada and Australia voted against all six resolutions, which are the first batch of some 20 resolutions that the UNGA annually passes against Israel.

“We live in a time of many crises, crises that are raging around the Middle East and around the world. It is a shame that rather than addressing these crises, the UN passes so many biased resolutions,” said Israeli Deputy Permanent Representative Noa Furman.

She said she was particularly concerned by the two resolutions that ignored Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount.
“This omission was deliberate. It shows yet another instance of the Palestinian refusal to recognize the proven historical connection between Judaism, Christianity, the Temple Mount and Jerusalem as a whole.

“The international community must stop participating in such a blatant denial of history. You must not permit these blatant attempts to delegitimize Israel,” Furman said.

The European Union, which supported both texts, warned it could stop doing so unless more include language was used to reference holy sites in Jerusalem.

Speaking on behalf of the EU, the Austrian representative said the EU stresses “the need for language on the holy sites of Jerusalem to reflect the importance and historical significance of the holy sites for the three monotheistic religions.”

It added, “future choice of language may affect the EU’s collective support for the resolutions.”

PLO Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour thanked UN member states for their support of texts that reference a two-state resolution to the conflict based on the pre-1967 lines with east Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state.

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This “global consensus, which all of us have worked for, is still the cornerstone of finding a just and lasting peace to the conflict.”
US representative Leslie Ordeman, who is deputy political coordinator, also spoke out against the texts.

“We are disappointed that despite messages of support for reform, member states continue to single out Israel with these resolutions.

“As the United States has repeatedly made clear, this dynamic is unacceptable. Again, we see resolutions that are quick to condemn all manner of Israeli actions, but say almost nothing about Palestinian terrorist attacks against innocent civilians. This is particularly acute now, when the rocket attacks on November 12 saw more projectiles fired on a single day than on any day since 2014.”

Both Israel and the US took issue in particular with the two resolutions passed Friday that continued to support the work of the “Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People” and the “Division for Palestinian Rights.”

“The Palestinians are the only actor in the UN system with a dedicated division within the UN Secretariat. The message that it sends is that the Palestinians never need to come back to the negotiating table – they can rely on flawed and biased mechanisms, such as these, to push their agenda,” he said.

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'Drunk' Tesla driver, 45, arrested for 'falling asleep behind the wheel while his car was on autopilot mode' driving down the highway at 70mph

• California man Alexander Samek, 45, was arrested Friday morning at 3.37am
• He was found passed out behind the wheel of his Tesla Model S car by officers
• His car is believed to have been on autopilot mode going down Highway 101 at 70mph while the driver was asleep 
• California Highway Patrol officers had to drive in front of his car to slow it down 
• He allegedly failed a field sobriety test and was arrested
• Officers suspect that his car was on autopilot mode, investigation to take place 

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PUBLISHED: 12:42 EST, 30 November 2018 | UPDATED: 00:28 EST, 1 December 2018

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Alexander Samek, 45, was arrested in Palo Alto early Friday morning at 3.37am in his grey Model S Tesla and was identified by Redwood City Police

A California man has been arrested on suspicion of drunk driving after he was found asleep behind the wheel of his Tesla believed to be running on autopilot mode.

Alexander Samek, 45, was arrested in Palo Alto early Friday morning at 3.37am in his grey Model S Tesla and was identified by Redwood City Police. 

Cops followed his car after spotting the Tesla driving south on Highway 101 at 70mph while it looked like the driver was passed out behind the wheel.

They suspect the car was on autopilot mode, but a proper investigation will take place.  

In order to get the car to stop a California Highway Patrol officer had to get in front of the Tesla to make it slow down and eventually pull over at a gas station.

When officers peered into the car, the driver was still passed out. 

The officer who pulled him over said the driver appeared very drowsy and possibly sleeping, according to KTVU. 

The driver was woken up and allegedly failed a field sobriety test and was arrested, according to ABC. 

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Cops followed his car after spotting the Tesla driving south on Highway 101 at 70mph while it looked like the driver was passed out behind the wheel But this isn't the first time an incident like this has happened. 

In January CHP officers pulled over a Tesla and found an allegedly drunk driver also passed out behind the wheel and was found to have a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit, according to CBS.  

Officer Art Montiel says the autopilot function on the smart cars should only be used to assist driers while they're awake and sober and actively using the wheel. 

Tesla hasn't commented on the incident.  

Clerk who thought New Mexico was foreign country refused to give out marriage license

Clerk who thought New Mexico was foreign country refused to give out marriage license

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A District of Columbia clerk and a supervisor refused to accept a New Mexico man’s state driver’s license as he sought a marriage license because she and her supervisor believed New Mexico was a foreign country.

Gavin Clarkson told the Las Cruces Sun-News it happened Nov. 20 at the District of Columbia Courts Marriage Bureau as he tried to apply for a marriage license.

After approaching the clerk for a license and showing his New Mexico ID, Clarkson said the clerk told him he needed an international passport to get the marriage license.

Clarkson said he protested to a supervisor, who also told him that he needed a foreign passport.

The clerk finally concluded New Mexico was a state after Clarkson objected three times. The clerk granted the license to Clarkson and his fiancée.

“She thought New Mexico was a foreign country,” Clarkson said of the clerk. “All the couples behind us waiting in line were laughing.”

Clarkson, who is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation, said if he’d had his tribal identification card he might have had an easier time than showing his New Mexico driver’s license.

In a statement, the D.C. courts system acknowledged the staff error to the Sun-News.

“We understand that a clerk in our Marriage Bureau made a mistake regarding New Mexico’s 106-year history as a state,” Leah H. Gurowitz, spokeswoman for D.C. Courts, said in an email. “We very much regret the error and the slight delay it caused a New Mexico resident in applying for a D.C. marriage license.”

Some migrants heading home: ‘They tricked us; our dreams have gone to hell’

About 350 have decided to return home in the face of a long wait at the border 

Wednesday, November 28, 2018 

For some Central American migrants in Tijuana, the American Dream is over before it even began.

Around 350 members of the first migrant caravan who recently reached the northern border city have decided to voluntarily return to their home countries – Honduras, in most cases – in the face of having to wait for months for the opportunity to file a request for asylum in the United States.

Some migrants who spoke to the newspaper Milenio claim they were misled about their chances of gaining entry to the U.S.

“[Migrant advocacy group] Pueblos Sin Fronteras told us not to worry, that there was going to be transportation, that Mexico was going to open the gates so that we didn’t have to enter [the U.S.] illegally, via the river . . .” Honduran migrant Ulises López said, referring to the attempted border breach Sunday.

“What was offered to the caravan of Honduran migrants was a trap . . . The people that brought us to this place, supposedly [caravan] leaders, took advantage of us, they used us in a horrific way, what they did to us has no name,” he added.

“We came with enthusiasm . . . encouraging those who didn’t want to keep going . . . but when we got here our dreams went to hell.”

Pueblos Sin Fronteras responded to the claims against it in an online statement.

“For the past few days, Pueblo Sin Fronteras has been the object of multiple critiques and declarations that discredit the work we have done for years, and especially our accompaniment of this exodus,” it said.

“These declarations are irresponsible and by criminalizing and defaming us they increase the risks faced by all human rights defenders – both those who speak out and declare their solidarity from within their own contexts, as well as those who put their bodies on the line. These declarations also put members of the Central American exodus in grave danger.”

The group also rejected any suggestion that it had encouraged or participated in the rush on the border, to which United States border agents responded with the use of tear gas.

“. . . Let it be clear that we didn’t organize or encourage [the migrants] to carry out the march [to the border] . . .” Pueblos Sin Fronteras representative David Abud said.

The Federal Police, who set up a blockade at the El Chapparal border crossing bridge that was ultimately bypassed by the migrants, warned against any repeated attempt to cross into the United States illegally.

“Those who break the peace will be processed under Mexican law . . .” Federal Police commissioner Manelich Castilla said.

The National Immigration Institute (INM) said Monday that 98 people who participated in the border protest had been arrested and would be deported.

As many as 9,000 mainly Honduran migrants fleeing violence and poverty are currently in Tijuana or other parts of Baja California, according to Mexican authorities, and 2,000 more are on their way.

The Benito Juárez sports complex, where most of the migrants are staying, is becoming increasingly overcrowded and conditions are squalid.

City officials told the news agency Reuters that there have been multiple cases of respiratory illnesses, lice and chicken pox at the makeshift shelter, where migrants are sleeping in tents or rudimentary enclosures fashioned out of whatever is at hand.

Mayor Juan Manuel Gastélum said today the municipality hasn’t enough food, medications or space to attend to their needs, and repeated a call to the federal government for help. But up to now, neither the current administration nor the new one, which takes office on Saturday, have done anything to relieve the pressure on Tijuana, he said.

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Mother of teenage MS-13 victim was run over and killed – now we know the stunning motive

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Evelyn Rodriguez was killed while defending a memorial she had set up to her teen daughter who was murdered by MS-13 gang members - and now the motive for the killing has been revealed. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) 

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In a heart-breaking tragedy that shocked a Long Island community, Evelyn Rodriguez was run over and killed while protecting a memorial to her daughter, who was murdered by the vicious MS-13 gang. 

Now the stunning motive of the killing has been revealed. 

A terrible tragedy 

Evelyn Rodriguez became a spokeswoman against the horrific crime of the MS-13 gang after they murdered her daughter. 

But on a horrible day in September, she was run over and killed while protecting the memorial she had set up to her daughter. 

Many suspected that it was an MS-13 revenge killing, since she was publicly speaking out against the gang, but the real motivation was much more mundane. 

58-year-old Annmarie Drago is accused of running over Rodriguez after a fight over the memorial because she believed it was bring down the property values in the neighborhood. 

Prosecutors say that Drago was trying to sell her mother’s home, and that she tore down the memorial in order to make sure the home sold at the highest price. 

When Rodriguez was told about Drago ripping down the balloons and other mementos, she raced to confront her.

After an altercation, prosecutors allege Drago ran down Rodriguez, who died later at a hospital. 

“She did not want to lose that money from the closing,” claimed Rodriguez’ friend, Vanessa Lopez. “So for twenty stupid thousand dollars, Evelyn is dead. This is disgusting!”

Drago faces up to four years in prison if convicted. She was released without bail against the wishes of the Rodriguez family. 

Evelyn Rodriguez was killed two years to the day after the murder of her daughter, at the exact same place. 

Here’s the video of the charges against Drago:

Rodriguez was recognized by President Donald Trump at his State of the Union speech. The president made it part of his campaign to root out and prosecute members of the MS-13 gang. 

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White farmers' legal fight against plans to give their land to black South Africans without compensation is thrown out by country's High Court

White farmers' legal fight against plans to give their land to black South Africans without compensation is thrown out by country's High Court

• South Africa's High Court rejected a legal challenge brought by white farmers
• President Cyril Ramaphosa plans land expropriation without any compensation
• Afriforum questioned legality of change to the constitution to allow land reforms

By REUTERS and AP

PUBLISHED: 06:46 EST, 30 November 2018 | UPDATED: 16:10 EST, 30 November 2018

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South Africa's High Court rejected a legal challenge today brought by a group representing white farmers against President Cyril Ramaphosa's plans for land expropriation without compensation.

Land is a hot-button issue in South Africa where racial inequality remains entrenched more than two decades after the end of apartheid when millions of the black majority were dispossessed of their land by a white minority.

Ramaphosa, who replaced scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma in February, has made land redistribution a flagship policy as he seeks to unite the fractured ruling African National Congress (ANC) and win public support ahead of an election next year.

In its legal challenge, Afriforum questioned the legality of a key parliamentary committee report which recommended a change to the constitution to allow land expropriation without compensation.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa (right) arriving at the G20 summit by Argentina's Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Faurie, at Ezeiza International airport in Buenos Aires yesterday 

'The relief sought by the applicants... is dismissed,' said Judge Vincent Saldanha.

Afriforum, which represents mostly white Afrikaners, alleged that the parliamentary committee had illegally appointed an external service provider to compile the report, and also failed to consider more than 100,000 submissions opposing land expropriation without compensation.

Around 65 percent of public submissions were against a change, according to parliamentary officials.

Parliament successfully countered Afriforum's case by saying the court action was premature, the committee had not abrogated its powers and all views had been taken into account.

'We welcome the orders handed down today particularly because we've always been of the view that the matter was not urgent,' 

Lewis Nzimande, co-chair of the constitutional review committee, told reporters outside the High Court in Cape Town.

'They [lawmakers] may set aside the recommendations, they may reject the recommendations but procedurally... we can't just reject the whole work of the committee,' he said.

He said the report, just one step in a long process to change the constitution, will probably be debated in both houses of parliament on December 4.

Thereafter, it is expected a new bill proposing the exact changes envisaged to the constitution will go to parliament and further public participation.

Only once both houses of parliament approve changes to the constitution will it be sent to Ramaphosa for ratification. 

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Cyril Ramaphosa has made land redistribution from white farmers to black disadvantaged citizens a flagship policy

This process is unlikely to be completed before a parliamentary election expected to be held in May.

Afriforum said after the judgement they would continue challenging what they say is a flawed process, including through further legal action.

'AfriForum therefore undertakes to use every possible mechanism at its disposal to, in the interest of everyone in the country, fight to the bitter end against the undermining of property rights,' it said in a statement.

Nearly a quarter of a century after the end of white-minority rule, white South Africans comprise just eight per cent of the population but still hold most of the individually owned private land.

This disparity keeps most of the economic power in the hands of a few and makes the country one of the most unequal societies in the world.

In July President Cyril Ramaphosa said the ANC planned to amend the constitution to allow for expropriation without compensation, sparking concerns that the move could destabilise the fragile economy and spur conflict in an already socially divided nation.

A month later US President Donald Trump waded into the controversy by tweeting - incorrectly - that South Africa had begun seizing farms and that high numbers of farmers were being killed.my, infrastructure, and people.