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Sunday, Jan. 15 '17, י"ז בטבת תשע"ז
HEADLINES:
1. PRO-ISRAEL PROTEST COUNTERS PARIS CONFERENCE
2. TRUMP FIRES LEGENDARY INAUGURATION ANNOUNCER
3. NEO-NAZIS IN CHILE ATTACK JEWISH YOUTH
4. DENMARK CUTS UNEMPLOYMENT TO ISIS MEMBERS
5. TRUMP'S SWEARING-IN: THE MOST EXPENSIVE IN HISTORY
6. FRANCE SAYS US EMBASSY MOVE WILL BRING 'SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES'
7. ABBAS ASKS PUTIN TO STOP TRUMP FROM MOVING THE EMBASSY
8. GAD ELBAZ: REVOLUTIONIZE JEWISH MUSIC AND VIDEO CLIPS
1. PRO-ISRAEL PROTEST COUNTERS PARIS CONFERENCE
by Mordechai Sones
Activists from Lev HaOlam and other organizations arrived in Paris today to protest the anti-Israel conference that convenes there today.
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Cornelia, an activist for the organization who came specially from Holland with approximately 120 more Dutch people to Paris for the demonstration, told Arutz Sheva, "We are gathering here to stand up for the Nation of Israel, to stand up for the G-d of Israel, because of this unrighteousness that the seventy nations are coming together ...
"They think they can determine the land and who the land belongs to, but the land belongs to G-d and G-d gave it to the Jewish and the Israel people....So it is an absolute abomination that the seventy think that with John Kerry and Obama, their last deeds before they leave the White House, they think they can do this; it is absolutely terrible.
"But it's a fantastic atmosphere here, there are many, many people, and it's absolutely wonderful...Am Yisrael Chai!"
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2. TRUMP FIRES LEGENDARY INAUGURATION ANNOUNCER
by Chana Roberts
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In an unprecedented move, President-elect Donald Trump has fired traditional inauguration announcer Charlie Brotman, replacing him with Steve Ray.
Ray is a Washington, DC.-based freelance announcer, and formerly volunteered with Trump's campaign.
Brotman, 88, has announced every inauguration parade since former President Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn into office in 1957.
In an interview with CTV News Channel on Thursday, Brotman said, "Devastated is a word that covers it all. Yes, I was really disappointed, to say the least... I'm asking, 'Did I do something? Am I too old? What's going on?"
Brotman told CNN he "thought he was going to commit suicide."
Though he still doesn't know why he was fired, Brotman has received an outpouring of support. In addition, a Washington-based TV station asked him to share on inauguration day anecdotes, thoughts, and experiences from previous inauguration day parades.
"I've never received so many emails, so many voicemails," Brotman said, emphasizing the response was "overwhelming."
Brotman is the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants to the US, and was working as an announcer as the Washington Senators baseball team when Eisenhower offered heard him and offered him a job.
A Trump transition team spokesman said Brotman would be honored as "announcer chairman emeritus."
Though Trump invited Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to attend January 20's inauguration ceremony, Netanyahu has announced he will not attend. However, Hillary and former President Bill Clinton are expected to attend the ceremony, despite the disagreements the two of them have with Trump.
3. NEO-NAZIS IN CHILE ATTACK JEWISH YOUTH
by Orly Harari
A group of neo-Nazis in Chile attacked a Jewish youth wearing a shirt with an Israeli flag.
The attackers threw stones at the Jew, and yelled anti-Semitic insults at him. A few minutes later, the neo-Nazis came closer and began to beat the Jew on his chest, stabbing him in his arms and legs with a knife.
According to reports, the Jew was forced to remain at the site until emergency crews arrived to administer first aid.
Chile's Jewish community responded by saying, "We cannot allow more people in our country to become victims of hate. Nothing justifies this attack."
There are approximately 18,000 Jews in Chile out of a population of 17,500,000.
4. DENMARK CUTS UNEMPLOYMENT TO ISIS MEMBERS
by Arutz Sheva Staff
As part of a new initiative to combat terrorism and the ISIS, Denmark will stop paying benefits to Islamic State terrorists. The initiative will include anyone considered to be a national security risk or who may have traveled to join armed group abroad.
At least 34 ISIS members were discovered in December 2016 to be receiving unemployment payments for their time fighting for ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
According to Ekstra Bladet newspaper, Employment Minister Troels Lund Poulsen demanded the terrorists repay the Danish government at least 672,000 Danish Krone (around $91,000).
The Ritzau news agency quoted Poulsen as saying, "Finally, we can put a stop to foreign fighters… financing their travels to Syria to fight for Islamic State with public money... We must prevent more vulnerable young people become radicalized and ending up supporting terrorist organizations' vile ideology."
The Danish initiative also criminalizes the "dissemination of terrorist propaganda" and allows extremist sites and those distributing extremist materials to be blocked. In addition, "radicalized convicts" will have to go through a special "exit program" before they will be allowed to be released on parole.
Denmark's PET intelligence agency PET estimates that at least 135 people have left the country to fight in Syria and Iraq.
5. TRUMP'S SWEARING-IN: THE MOST EXPENSIVE IN HISTORY
by Guy Cohen
President-elect Donald Trump's swearing-in ceremony and the accompanying festivities will be the most expensive in US history.
$90 million was raised for the festivities, beginning with the swearing-in on Friday. The Associated Press reports that Barack Obama's first inauguration in 2009 cost $55 million, while his second, in 2013, came to $43 million.
Among the outstanding contributions to the event: Boeing donated a million dollars and Chevron Oil Company donated half a million dollars.
Trump promised that the event would be "a very, very elegant day", with a massive presence of spectators. The head of the event's design team, Tom Barak, said that the intention is to avoid a circus atmosphere "and transmit the idea that it's 'Back to Work'." He also provoked ridicule when he said he wanted to surround Trump with "the soft sensuality of the place."
Trump will hold three Inaugural Balls (Obama held 10 balls for his first inauguration). The parade will last about 90 minutes. The longest inaugural procession ceremony was for the first inauguration of President Dwight Eisenhower, in 1953. It lasted more than four and a half hours, and included 73 orchestras and 59 exhibits.
6. FRANCE SAYS US EMBASSY MOVE WILL BRING 'SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES'
by AFP
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Sunday that if US President-elect Donald Trump moves the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem it would have "extremely serious
consequences."
Speaking as 70 countries gather in Paris to try to revive Israeli-Arab peace efforts, Ayrault told French TV he believed Trump would find it "impossible" to fulfill the pledge he made during his campaign to transfer the embassy.
"When you are president of the United States, you cannot take such a stubborn and such a unilateral view on this issue. You have to try to create the conditions for peace," Ayrault said.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas warned Saturday that peace could be dealt a mortal blow if Trump, who has vowed unstinting support for Israel, moves the US Embassy to Jerusalem.
Doing so would reverse decades of US policy that has until now maintained that the final status of Jerusalem - whose eastern and largely Arab side has been occupied by Israel since 1967 - should be determined in peace negotiations with the Arabs.
The Paris meeting is mainly symbolic, but comes at a crucial juncture for the Middle East, five days before Trump is sworn in as US president.
7. ABBAS ASKS PUTIN TO STOP TRUMP FROM MOVING THE EMBASSY
by Elad Benari, Canada
Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to intervene in order to stop the United States from moving its embassy to Jerusalem.
Top PA official Saeb Erekat told AFP on Friday he had passed on the message from Abbas to Putin during a visit to Moscow during which he met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
"The letter asks President Putin to do what he can about the information we have that President-elect Donald Trump will move the embassy to Jerusalem, which for us is a red line and dangerous," Erekat said, according to the news agency.
PA officials have in recent days continuously warned against moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a campaign pledge of President-elect Donald Trump.
Abbas last week wrote Trump a letter in which he warned the President-elect against moving the American embassy, saying that such a move would be crossing a "red line" and could jeopardize peace prospects.
Earlier in the week the PA chairman warned of "serious implications" if the embassy is moved, saying, "Moving the embassy will have serious consequences not only for the Palestinian people, but also for the legitimacy of the entire international struggle against the occupation."
Erekat himself has threatened that moving the American embassy to Jerusalem would destroy the Israel-PA peace process.
On Friday, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem used his sermon at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound to say the embassy move would represent an "assault" on Muslims across the globe, noted AFP.
Earlier this week, PA leaders called for prayers at mosques across the Middle East to protest Trump's plans to move the embassy to Jerusalem.
According to Mohammad Shtayyeh, a senior PA official and Fatah central committee member, the PA leadership has been informed by diplomatic contacts that Trump could call for the move in his inauguration speech on January 20.
(Arutz Sheva's North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
8. GAD ELBAZ: REVOLUTIONIZE JEWISH MUSIC AND VIDEO CLIPS
by Yoni Kempinski, Chana Roberts
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In an exclusive Arutz Sheva interview, Israeli singer Gad Elbaz spoke about his new focus on music video clips.
"In this generation, you can see the entire youth are onscreen, all the time, 24/7," Elbaz said. "Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and they find themselves doing that all day.
"The Jewish new generation needs more material - good, kosher, upper-class...music. I love hasidic music, and I love a lot of music. We need more modern music out there so I'm calling on right now, all the singers that have talent, that can have, make good music videos - go ahead and do so, because this is shlichut, this is what you need.
"Go to someone who has money and persuade him... Our youth need someone, good music, to follow, to listen, to be proud of that they're Judaism [sic]," Elbaz said.
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