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Is Jerusalem Heading For Another Intifada?

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 06 November 2014 | 23.31

Ugly blocks of reinforced concrete are the new feature on Jerusalem's streets, deployed in the night, with no indication of how long they will remain in place.

In Arab neighbourhoods in the east, they are restricting roads, allowing security forces to establish vehicle checkpoints and block traffic in an instant.

At bus and tram stops in the west, they act as barriers to prevent cars being driven into bystanders - the new mode of attack being adopted by Palestinians, used twice already to deadly effect.

In the midst of clashes and security crackdowns, it has galvanised the debate about whether this is the start of a third intifada - another uprising by Palestinians against Israel's occupation.

Video: Car Ramming At Tram Stop

There is little doubt this is the worst violence in more than a decade, but for those who lived through the first intifada in the late '80s and early '90s, and the second which began in 2000, this new wave of Jerusalem unrest appears to be of a different character.

Dr Mahdi Abdul Hadi, director of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, says the city is now "full of chaos", but this is a spontaneous outburst of anger, rather than something more organised.

"The concept of intifada means leadership, strategy, political programme, funding, networking and building up a relationship between groups, which we don't have now. What we have is consensus by the youth of Jerusalem, defending their holy site, defending their property," said Dr Abdul Hadi.

"We are prisoners under Israeli military occupation: they attack us, they kill us, they arrest us, they deport us, they close our neighbourhoods - what you witness is an Israeli iron fist crushing the Palestinians on a daily basis. Along this line you find independent, individual, unexpected reaction by the youth defending their rights and their beliefs."

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David Tsur, an Israeli MP, was commander of the Israeli border police during the second intifada. He, too, believes there are key differences between that and the current situation.

"The exact definition (of an intifada) is not so important…We've faced much more severe terrorism than we're seeing now, but there is no such thing as 100% security - if someone comes with a knife or a car, they can obviously attack others," said Mr Tsur.

He cited the collapse of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, and the mishandling of the issue of Jewish access to the Haram al Sharif, or Temple Mount, by right-wing groups, as contributory factors.

However, Mr Tsur also accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of attempting to exploit the sensitivity of the holy site for political opportunism.

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  1. Gallery: Jerusalem Unrest Sparks Fears Of New Uprising

    Israeli security forces have clashed with Palestinian youths in Jerusalem

The unrest comes after Israeli police killed Muataz Hijazi, who was suspected of shooting Israeli right-wing activist Yehuda Glick

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Gunman Confesses On TV Then Hijacks Camera Van

A gunman flagged down an Australian TV cameraman to confess to his crimes - before changing his mind, stealing the news van and crashing into a petrol station.

Peter Steer was on his way to cover reports of a siege in Queensland - on his first day working for Channel 7 News - when a barefoot biker beckoned him to pull over.

In the first of a remarkable series of events all captured on video, the leather-clad suspect began weeping while telling Steer: "I've done an extremely bad thing...

"I hope she's alright. I think she's dead."

With blood on his hands and while Steer can be heard reporting the matter to police over the phone, the sobbing biker says: "I surrender myself to God."

But despite the cameraman calling police again to tell them "it's extremely important, I have the person you're looking for", the suspect has a change of heart and jumps into the news van.

Footage shows him pointing a gun at Steer, who tells the man: "Don't be an idiot."

The fugitive ignores the advice and the dashboard camera on the vehicle shows him smashing into a road sign outside a petrol station a short time later.

He then crashes into a gas tank, causing a dangerous leak, before armed police arrive and arrest the man - who was reportedly asking for a lighter as he sprinted towards the leaking container.

Describing the extraordinary sequence, Steer said: "He got off his bike and approached me and said 'I've got a story for you'.

"I said 'Well mate, you better hurry because I'm going to a shooting', and he said 'Mate, I'm the shooter'."

Steer said he was not too shaken by incident.

"I'm fine. I keep telling people I just need a cigarette," he told Fairfax Radio 4BC.

"I was very, very annoyed with myself. I should have locked the car up. My car's a write-off now."

The man was later charged with attempted murder, armed robbery, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, unlawful possession of a weapon and unlawful damage.


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Crackdown As Men Jailed Over 'Gay Wedding'

By Sherine Tadros, Middle East Correspondent

Gay rights activists in Egypt say they are facing the worst government crackdown in more than a decade.

It comes after eight men were jailed for three years by a Cairo court after video emerged of them allegedly taking part in a same-sex wedding ceremony.

The mobile phone footage shows two men exchanging rings during a private boat party on the Nile.

There is also a cake and at one point the men are seen embracing while others cheer.

While the ceremony is not legally or religiously binding, in a conservative society where homosexuality is frowned upon, the video - leaked months after the event - has sparked controversy.

Within days of its release, dozens were rounded up by police.

After a short trial, eight of the men in the video were handed jail sentences for "inciting debauchery" and other charges.

A close friend of the men in the video told us the sentencing has sent shockwaves through the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.

Kim, which is not his real name, told Sky News: "We are terrified, really terrified.

"To get to the people in the video, the police raided three parties in the space of 48 hours and made arrests. They took people from their homes."

Kim also said there is nowhere safe for homosexuals to meet or even talk now.

"There's no chatting, messaging or online dating. It feels like we are being strangled," he said.

Homosexuality has long been a social taboo in Egypt and it is not the first time the LGBT community has been persecuted.

In 2001, the famous Queen Boat trial saw 52 gay men charged with debauchery and offending religion.

But since President Abdel Fatah al Sisi took power last summer, rights organisations say there has been a sustained and co-ordinated crackdown, with more than 80 homosexuals and transexuals arrested since June last year.

Scott Long, a Cairo-based human rights activist who focuses on LGBT rights, thinks the latest arrests are part of a general crackdown.

He said: "Whether it's young atheists, or long-haired revolutionaries or even guys who sell clothes illegally on the streets downtown, there's an enormous police crackdown on any kind of behaviour the state doesn't like.

"But it's really easy for them to target LGBT people because they're unpopular nobody will stand up to defend them."

In the hours and days after the alleged gay wedding video emerged, the homophobic backlash played out on the airways. 

One of the so-called grooms called in to a popular TV station insisting the party was for a birthday and that he is not gay.

But the host mocked him, asking him repeatedly if he was gay and whether he had a girlfriend. 

Unlike other countries, Egypt does not have a law explicitly criminalising homosexuality.

Prosecutors use existing laws to do with morality and public decency to arrest those they suspect are from the LGBT community.

They are not the only ones who currently feel targeted as the state increasingly closes in on those who will not conform to its ideals - regardless of whether they pose a threat.

It is a crackdown that often seems to care more about appearances than the truth.


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Mexicans In Protest March Over Students

Mexicans In Protest March Over Students

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Video: Mexicans March For Missing Students

Tens of thousands of people in Mexico City have taken part in a march to protest against the government's inaction over the disappearance of 43 student teachers.

The students disappeared from the southern city of Guerrero in September.

The mainly young crowd carried Mexican flags with black mourning bands replacing the red and green stripes, counting off the numbers from one to 43.

One protester carried a sign attached to fake skull which read: "Out Pena Nieto", in a reference to Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto.

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  1. Gallery: River Searched For Mexico Students

    Mexico's federal police on a boat search a river for 43 missing student teachers, who disappeared last month and are feared massacred, in Acatlan, in the southwestern state of Guerrero

The students from a rural teachers college disappeared after a confrontation with police in Iguala, a city about 80 miles (130km) southwest of Mexico City

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Authorities say the attack was ordered by Jose Luis Abarca, the mayor of Iguala, along with his wife and the city's police chief

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Earlier this week authorities said they had arrested four drug gang members involved in the kidnapping of the students. Prosecutors claim corrupt local police delivered the captives to hitmen linked to the local Guerreros Unidos drug ring

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Mexicans In Protest March Over Students

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Video: Mexicans March For Missing Students

Tens of thousands of people in Mexico City have taken part in a march to protest against the government's inaction over the disappearance of 43 student teachers.

The students disappeared from the southern city of Guerrero in September.

The mainly young crowd carried Mexican flags with black mourning bands replacing the red and green stripes, counting off the numbers from one to 43.

One protester carried a sign attached to fake skull which read: "Out Pena Nieto", in a reference to Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto.

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  1. Gallery: River Searched For Mexico Students

    Mexico's federal police on a boat search a river for 43 missing student teachers, who disappeared last month and are feared massacred, in Acatlan, in the southwestern state of Guerrero

The students from a rural teachers college disappeared after a confrontation with police in Iguala, a city about 80 miles (130km) southwest of Mexico City

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Authorities say the attack was ordered by Jose Luis Abarca, the mayor of Iguala, along with his wife and the city's police chief

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Earlier this week authorities said they had arrested four drug gang members involved in the kidnapping of the students. Prosecutors claim corrupt local police delivered the captives to hitmen linked to the local Guerreros Unidos drug ring

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Explorer To Be Eaten Alive By Wild Snake

An explorer who once claimed to have ridden an anaconda through the jungle "like a horse" plans to be swallowed by a snake on live TV.

US naturalist Paul Rosolie will attempt the stunt wearing a protective suit with a "tail," which his assistants can use to pull him out if the snake does not regurgitate him first.

A trailer for the programme uploaded to YouTube shows Mr Rosolie making his way through the Amazon claiming he is entering a "previously unexplored" ecosystem.

"We're going to get me inside of a snake," he says as his team leap off their canoe to wrestle and capture a large anaconda.

"We're going to make me as appealing as possible so the snake says, 'Well, I got this big thing here, I might as well get a free meal'," he says, adding "You have to go head first" as he approaches the reptile in his snake suit.

Mr Rosolie does not explain why he wants to be swallowed by the snake and not everyone is happy with his plans.

A petition on change.org is calling for a boycott of the Discovery Channel, which plans to broadcast the stunt live this weekend.

A statement posted by the petition's creator says: "This is animal abuse to the highest degree and absolutely disgusting, and could kill the snake - an adult green anaconda cannot fit the width of an adult man's shoulders into its body.

"It once again reinforces the negative stereotype of snakes, which one would think would be the opposite of what Discovery should be trying to do."

Responding to suggestions the stunt would be cruel, Mr Rosolie tweeted: "If u know me - I would never hurt a living thing. But you'll have to watch #EatenAlive to find out how it goes down!"

Originally from New Jersey, Mr Rosolie is no stranger to the natural world.

Environmental website Mongabay claims that at the age of 18 he ventured into the Amazon rainforest alone to work at a research station.

He is also said to have explored a floating forest, mentored an indigenous tribe, been stricken by tropical disease and hand-reared a baby anteater.

The Discovery Channel was not available for comment.


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Berlin Wall Artist: We Must Fight For Freedom

An artist who painted the Berlin Wall almost every day between 1984 and 1989 has said the next generation must "fight for freedom", ahead of the 25th anniversary of the wall's demolition.

Thierry Noir began creating brightly coloured paintings on the structure while living in Kreuzberg, an isolated part of West Berlin, during the 1980s.

He is now bringing his iconic imagery to central London, where he is painting murals at the German Embassy to mark the landmark anniversary.

The Frenchman said he had been living in Kreuzberg for two years when he decided to begin his artwork.

"After two years of that life, I realised that I (was) getting a little crazy because the wall was a really depressing area, like a melancholic life," he told Sky News.

"So I decided just to do something against the wall and from that day everyone wanted to know: 'Who pays you? Who is the bad guy behind you? Are you manipulated by the French government?'

"It was a taboo at the time, the Berlin Wall was like a death machine and to paint that wall was like a break in the history and everybody wanted to know something about that."

He said he hoped younger people would take notice of his latest creations.

"Now we are just in front of the former GDR (East Germany) embassy, so it's a big symbol to paint inside and outside that embassy, to tell the young generation: 'Do not repeat the mistakes of your parents'," he said.

"It's difficult to explain to somebody who was not born at that time, but when they look to that art, so they can realise that something is strong and the strong thing is freedom and you have to keep the freedom.

"It's not easy and you have to fight for freedom. I try to explain to them that it's not so easy, but I try."


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AC/DC Drummer Rudd Charged Over Murder Plot

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has been charged with attempting to arrange two murders after New Zealand police raided his home.

The 60-year-old has also been charged with threats to kill and possessing methamphetamine and cannabis.

He has been released on bail and is due to appear in court again on 27 November.

The Australian-born musician joined the band in 1975 before leaving in 1983. He rejoined the group in 1994.

AC/DC, one of the highest grossing music acts of all time, have had numerous hits including Back In Black, Highway To Hell and Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.

In September the band revealed that founding member Malcolm Young had dementia and was being treated in a Sydney care facility.

Despite Young's illness, Rudd was quoted earlier this year as saying the band would not fold.

If convicted Rudd could face up to 10 years in jail.

In a statement the band said: "We've only become aware of Phil's arrest as the news was breaking. We have no further comment.

"Phil's absence will not affect the release of our new album Rock or Bust and upcoming tour next year."


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Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Is Revealed

Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Is Revealed

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Video: Man Who Killed Bin Laden Revealed

By Sky News US Team

The former Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama bin Laden has been identified for the first time as Rob O'Neill.

The revelation in the Mail Online came ahead of a Fox News interview in which Mr O'Neill is expected to discuss the May 2011 raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where the terror mastermind was killed.

The website described Mr O'Neill, 38, as a veteran Navy SEAL who had concluded several tours of duty, including in Afghanistan and Iraq.

He earned two Silver Stars and four Bronze Stars with Combat "V" among other decorations, the report said. He left the service after 16 years.

His decision to come out as the killer of al Qaeda leader bin Laden was made in part because he lost some military benefits, having left the SEALs before a full 20 years of service, according to the report.

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  1. Gallery: Bin Laden's Hideout From Air And Ground

    This aerial view of Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad shows the area (highlighted) before the building was built in 2004 and then again in 2011.

This photograph was taken in 2005. It is believed bin Laden could have lived in the compound for up to six years before he was finally tracked down by the CIA last August.

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The location of the heavily fortifed villa, located just a few miles from the capital Islamabad, has raised questions about how Pakistani intelligence agents failed to detect the world's most wanted man.

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This illustration shows the high walls surrounding the house and the area where all of the property's rubbish was burnt.

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Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Is Revealed

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Video: Man Who Killed Bin Laden Revealed

By Sky News US Team

The former Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama bin Laden has been identified for the first time as Rob O'Neill.

The revelation in the Mail Online came ahead of a Fox News interview in which Mr O'Neill is expected to discuss the May 2011 raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where the terror mastermind was killed.

The website described Mr O'Neill, 38, as a veteran Navy SEAL who had concluded several tours of duty, including in Afghanistan and Iraq.

He earned two Silver Stars and four Bronze Stars with Combat "V" among other decorations, the report said. He left the service after 16 years.

His decision to come out as the killer of al Qaeda leader bin Laden was made in part because he lost some military benefits, having left the SEALs before a full 20 years of service, according to the report.

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  1. Gallery: Bin Laden's Hideout From Air And Ground

    This aerial view of Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad shows the area (highlighted) before the building was built in 2004 and then again in 2011.

This photograph was taken in 2005. It is believed bin Laden could have lived in the compound for up to six years before he was finally tracked down by the CIA last August.

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The location of the heavily fortifed villa, located just a few miles from the capital Islamabad, has raised questions about how Pakistani intelligence agents failed to detect the world's most wanted man.

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This illustration shows the high walls surrounding the house and the area where all of the property's rubbish was burnt.

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Philadelphia Abduction: Woman Found Safe

A woman who was captured on CCTV footage being abducted from a Philadelphia street has been found safe outside Baltimore.

Carlesha Freeland-Gaither was found in Jessup, Maryland, and her suspected abductor has been arrested, police said.

Law enforcement agents spotted the two in a car with a broken-out back window and took the suspect, Delvin Barnes, into custody.

They had started tracking his vehicle through a GPS device installed by a car dealer worried because Barnes had poor credit.

The 22-year-old Ms Freeland-Gaither was last seen on surveillance video being grabbed by a man and struggling as she was dragged towards a car on Sunday in the Germantown area of Philadelphia.

The victim's mother Keisha Gaither, who had pleaded for her daughter's safe return, thanked the authorities after she was found.

"I'm taking my baby home," said the woman.

Police and federal authorities had released a series of images over the last two days from surveillance cameras in Maryland and from a Philadelphia supermarket after the abduction.

A cash card belonging to Ms Freeland-Gaither was used at a cashpoint nine hours after she was abducted.

Her glasses and cell phone were found lying on the street where she was grabbed.

The nursing assistant graduated from high school in Maryland and lived with her grandfather in Philadelphia until a couple of months ago, when she moved in with her boyfriend.

Her grandmother Ana Mulero said she has worked with cancer patients and has been pursuing a career in nursing.

She had pleaded for her safe return during a news conference on Wednesday, saying: "We love her. And we just want her to be returned to us safely. Safely. That's all we want."

The FBI had put up a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of her abductor.

Barnes is also wanted for questioning in Virginia about an attempted murder, assault and malicious injury with acid, explosives or fire.


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Violent Clashes During Brussels Protests

Police have used water cannon and tear gas against protestors angry at austerity measures and free-market reforms in Belgium.

Some 100,000 workers converged on downtown Brussels to demonstrate against government policies that will extend the pension age, contain wages and cut public services.

Some protesters clashed with riot police, as pictures emerged of cars being overturned, paving stones being thrown, fireworks being set off and bins being torched.

Paramedics treated at least one protester, who suffered a broken nose.

Rail companies sold low-cost tickets to increase protest numbers in the capital.

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  1. Gallery: Riots In Brussels Over Austerity

    Demonstrators confront riot police during clashes in central Brussels

Around 100,000 Belgians marched in protest at the new government's proposed reforms and cost-cutting measures, the first in a series of demonstrations and strikes planned over coming weeks

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