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The of the country’s business monopo- ernment coalition and call for ear- and ego-driven politicians to put shortened electoral cycle is likely lies and reducing tariffs on imports & Prices! ly elections less than two years af- this rating at risk. to lead to politicians making cost- are likely to stall,” the report added. ter the last ones will have “negative “Israel’s political turmoil is cred- ly promises for tax breaks or new Moody’s stated that Israel’s sys- SEE AD ON BACK COVER ramifi cation,” on Israel’s econo- it negative for the sovereign be- spending programs that will af- tem of proportional representation my, credit ratings agency Moody’s cause it will dampen economic con- fect future budgets and be diffi cult is “inherently unstable, with coali- warned in a report on Monday. fi dence, delay the implementation to reverse,” the report also warned, tion governments often formed by Israel has enjoyed Moody’s ‘A1’ of growth-boosting reforms and adding that election-time promis- ideologically disparate partners. 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Discover at STUDIO 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM December 18, 2014 • 26 Kislev, 5775 3 NEWS UN: Iran’s Israel-Genocide Mossad Spy Arrested Threats ‘Totally Unacceptable’ by Hezbollah By Mark Langfan/Arutz7 Carmen Maria Rodriguez of Radio yer who fi rst coined the term “genocide” (JNS.org) The Lebanon-based terror Marti asked the question that sparked and fought against genocide. Lemkin sin- group Hezbollah said an offi cial in its ex- Adama Dieng, UN Special Adviser to Dieng’s direct censure of Iran’s recent glehandedly lobbied the 51 nations that ternal branch has been arrested for spying the Secretary-General on Prevention of waves of calls for Israel’s annihilation. made up the United Nations at the time for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency. The Genocide, on Tuesday emphatically stat- Dieng went on to elaborate that not only for a UN Convention against Genocide. It Mossad agent was part of Hezbollah Unit ed that Iran’s genocidal threats to “wipe are Iran’s genocidal threats to wipe Isra- was his work that brought forth the doc- 910, which carries out operations against Israel off the earth” are “totally unac- el off the map “totally unacceptable,” but ument, which is the basis for the interna- specifi c Israeli targets, and allegedly pre- ceptable.” Dieng was at the UN’s head- also that “Israel is a state, and has the tional criminal tribunals that have and vented such attacks, the Lebanese website quarters in New York to commemorate right to exist as a state, and its security are prosecuting the crimes committed El Nashra reported. The spy, who pretend- the Anniversary of the Genocide Con- has also to be protected.” in Rwanda and in the former Yugoslavia, ed to be a businessman, was allegedly re- vention that was fi rst adopted on De- Dieng proceeded to explain that Raph- as well as for the International Criminal cruited by the Mossad during a visit to an cember 9, 1948. ael Lemkin was a Polish Jewish law- Court in The Hague. Asian country.