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New York Charges Times Square Bomb Suspect with Terrorism BELLA Opinion. Tradition. HADID JEWS DIVINE PROTESTS SHOULDN’T PROVIDENCE AND JERUSALEM BEFRIEND QATAR HUMAN CHOICE MOVE A2. A10. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL HAPPY CHANUKAH $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017 | 27 KISLEV 5778 VOL. XLV NO. 2335 New York Charges Hundreds of Th ousands in Israel Times Square Bomb Mourn Death of Suspect With Prominent 104-Year-Old Ultra Terrorism Orthodox Rabbi BY REUTERS & ALGEMEINER STAFF Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews crammed into the streets of a Tel Aviv suburb on Tuesday to mourn a 104-year-old rabbi who had signifi cantly infl u- enced a succession of Israeli coalition governments. A New York City Police (NYPD) offi cer stands in the subway corridor, near the site of an attempted detonation Dec. 12, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Brendan McDermid. Th e funeral ceremony of Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Stein- man in Bnei Brak, Dec. 12, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Baz Ratner. BY REUTERS & of a weapon, supporting an act of but said the couple have a ALGEMEINER STAFF terrorism, and making a terroristic six-month-old baby boy. Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman led a council of threat under New York state law, “We have found his wife and sages that controlled the small Degel Hatorah lawmakers’ New York offi cials on Tuesday the New York Police Department in-laws in Dhaka. We are inter- faction, part of the United Torah Judaism party, which has said they charged a Bangladeshi said, adding US authorities may viewing them,” one of the police often held the balance of power in Israel. man with terrorism, accusing him of also bring federal charges. offi cials toldReuters. In particular, Shteinman broke with tradition by giving setting off a pipe bomb a day earlier Investigators in Bangladesh New York offi cials on Tuesday tacit consent to the enlistment of religious soldiers in the in a crowded Manhattan commuter were questioning Ullah’s wife, said they charged a Bangladeshi fi rst ultra-Orthodox unit set up by the Israeli military. hub, as investigators in his home according to two offi cials who man with terrorism, accusing him of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose govern- country questioned his wife. declined to be identifi ed as they setting off a pipe bomb a day earlier ment includes ultra-Orthodox political parties, said the Akayed Ullah, 27, was were not permitted to discuss in a crowded Manhattan commuter Continued on Page A3 charged with criminal possession the matter publicly. Th ey did not hub, as investigators in his home provide details on the questioning, Continued on Page A3 An Open ShabbatCalendar Parshat Mikerz Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 4:11pm | Shabbat Ends: 5:15pm פרשת מקץ Letter to Th e New School P.O.B. 250746, Brooklyn, NY 11225-3203 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 page A8 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2016 Th e Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2017 Opinion. Jews Shouldn’t Befriend Qatar Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, specifically told Forbes that Israel has STEPHEN M.FLATOW/ not approved them. JNS.ORG In a lead editorial, The Jerusalem Post last week challenged the claim by one Jewish official that he was secretly negotiating with Qatar to get Hamas to hand over the bodies of two deceased Israeli soldiers. If Qatar wants Hamas In a stinging rebuke to those who claim to hand them over, it does not need to meet with that Qatar is becoming “moderate,” a senior American Jews to do so. Hamas’ top leaders, Qatari cabinet minister last week visited and Khaled Mashaal and Yusuf al-Qaradawi, are embraced the leaders of the most anti-Israel, living right there in Qatar’s capital, Doha. terror-sponsoring country on earth — Iran. That’s the same al-Qaradawi who has Qatar’s minister of the economy, Sheikh publicly praised Hitler, and prayed for Allah to Ahmed bin Jassim Al-Thani, visited Tehran in help him finish the job. President Donald Trump meets with the emir of Qatar in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 2017. order to seek a huge expansion of Qatari-Iranian “Oh Allah,” al-Qaradawi declared in one Photo: White House / Shealah Craighead. sermon broadcast on Al Jazeera, “take this trade. According to Forbes, Al-Thani met with appropriate partner for negotiations, visits or In a recent letter to Trump administration oppressive, Jewish, Zionist band of people … Iran’s foreign minister and industry minister in any contacts with American Jewish leaders. officials, a bipartisan group of lawmakers count their numbers and kill them, down to the hope of increasing trade from the current Otherwise, those Jews risk being “used to expressed their “deep concern” that Doha the very last one!” $1 billion annually to a whopping $5 billion whitewash the crimes of terrorism and continues to serve as “a sanctuary to Hamas The Jerusalem Post editorial asked: annually. This follows Qatar’s recent decision antisemitism,” as the Post puts it. terrorist officials.” The House of Represen- “Given that Qatar openly supports Hamas in to restore full diplomatic relations with Iran, One Jewish official recently wrote: tatives also recently adopted a resolution its declared goal of Israel’s destruction, could following a nearly two year suspension. “Maybe by engaging the Qataris, Jewish condemning Qatar for providing “significant Qatar be using American Jews to whitewash All of this leaves a handful of American leaders can help lead the world’s richest financial and military support” to Hamas. itself? … Is Qatar playing them?” Jewish leaders with a bit of egg on their faces. country from the dark side to the light.” Histor- Congress and The Jerusalem Post are right. The Post pointed out that Al Jazeera, Earlier this year, Qatar hired a Jewish- ical experience suggests that it is more likely It’s not a morally complicated issue. the viciously anti-Israel television network, owned public relations firm in Washington to be the other way around. It’s clear-cut. Governments that sponsor is an arm of the Qatari government; Qatar to improve Qatar’s image in the United States. Those who lower themselves into the murderers of Jews should not be rewarded. “has pledged more than $1 billion to Hamas’s Soon afterward, officials of a few Jewish swamp of terror-supporting dictators might Meetings with Jewish officials, visits by Jews declared campaign for Israel’s destruction and groups met privately with Qatari officials; find themselves sinking deeper and deeper to Qatar, articles by Jews claiming that Qatar offers refuge to its top leaders,” and “Qatar is some of them even visited the Gulf kingdom. into the muck of moral compromise, as they might be changing — these are rewards for a Hamas’s ally and single largest donor, paying There were some rumors — perhaps make one excuse after another for a regime regime that is desperate to improve its image. out hundreds of millions of so far.” spread by Qatar’s Jewish friends — that the whose behavior is inexcusable. Qatar does not deserve such rewards. A regime that harbors terrorists who vow Jewish contacts with Qatar were secretly Fortunately, members of Congress from A version of this article was originally to kill all Jews should not be considered an approved by the Israeli government. But both parties are speaking out against Qatar. published by The Jewish Press. New York Times Finally Shows Some Improvement in Anti-Israel Bias It’s almost as if the argument for the occupied Palestinian territories and its the continuing to pretend, contrary to reality, that deliberate attempts to erase the Palestinians’ Algemeiner Journal IRA STOLL Jerusalem is not Israel’s capital is so weak that historical, political, cultural and demographic BOSTON the Times feels the need to repeat it over and presence in historic Palestine.” (USPS 927800) is published weekly over again, as if sheer volume of words will Also on December 7, the Times published a (except for the week of Passover compensate for lack of logic. piece by a former Obama administration official, and Succos) In case you were fortunate enough to Steven Simon. That article criticized what it called Subscription rate $40 per year The New York Times is gradually miss any of the articles, here is a roster: Trump’s “ill-timed plan to recognize Jerusalem Algemeiner Journal improving. The cascade of commentary aimed at as the capital of Israel. Such recognition limited That’s the happiest face to put on the denying Israel its capital began with a Times to West Jerusalem might make sense to clinch 508 Montgomery Street slight improvement in how the newspaper’s staff editorial dated December 5. The online Israel’s buy-in at the endgame of a negotiation, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225-3023 editorial and op-ed page greeted President version of that editorial now carries a correc- but not at the very outset, when an ill-defined Periodicals Postage Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as tion. Uncorrected, however, is the Times pledge will antagonize Palestinians and most Paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. Israel’s capital, compared with how it treated contention that Trump’s decision “Almost likely inflame the Arab world.” and at additional mailing offices Trump’s decision on the Iran nuclear deal. certainly will make an agreement harder to On December 8, Times columnist Roger Back in October, the Times published reach by inflaming doubts about America’s Cohen announced what he described as a POSTMASTER: seven editorial or opinion pieces in favor of honesty and fairness as a broker in negotia- “more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger reaction to Send address changes to Trump keeping the deal, and just two opposing tions, raising new tension in the region and Trump’s announcement.” it, a tally that I described at the time as “lopsided,” Algemeiner Journal perhaps inciting violence.” On December 9, under the headline, and an “unprecedented Times onslaught of On December 6, under the headline “Our Dashed Hopes For Jerusalem,” the Times P.O.
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