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"Ezra to 'Post': Right-wingers planning anti-Sharon attacks"
The Jerusalem Post ^ | Oct. 13, 2005 21:58 | Updated Oct. 13, 2005 22:32 | By YAAKOV KATZ
Posted on 10/13/2005 6:37:35 PM PDT by F15Eagle
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "While the threat level has decreased since disengagement, there are still far-right activists in the midst of planning attacks against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon or the Temple Mount and are currently on the Shin Bet's watch list, Internal Security Minister Gideon Ezra has told The Jerusalem Post.
“Security around Sharon is tight for a reason,” Ezra told The Post in an interview coinciding with the holiday season. “There were attacks against Palestinians before the pullout [from the Gaza Strip] and even though they were not against Sharon they were of the same mold.”
“There are crazy people out there and anything is possible,” he added.
Ezra, who celebrated this month a year to his appointment as Internal Security Minister, said in an extensive interview that while the Shin Bet has improved itself 1000 percent since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin 10 years ago, the threats against Sharon were still high and the security organization should continue investing all available resources in protecting him.
“The sky is the limit,” he said.
Ezra, former deputy head of the Shin Bet, called for the use of administrative detention in the case of Jewish terror suspects as well as in the case of suspected crime lords on the scale of jailed kingpin Ze'ev Rosenstein."
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"Women in burkas face benefit cuts"
TIMES ONLINE ^ | 10/14/05 | Anthony Browne
Posted on 10/13/2005 6:17:57 PM PDT by Pikamax
Women in burkas face benefit cuts By Anthony Browne, Brussels Correspondent
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A DUTCH city is to cut benefits for unemployed Muslim women whose refusal to take off their burkas stops them getting jobs. Utrecht City Council voted for the measure the day after the Dutch Government announced plans to ban women wearing the burka in some public places as a security measure, and on the same day that Maria van der Hoeven, the Education Minister, urged a ban on burkas in schools.
The burka, a traditional women’s dress in some Muslim societies, covers the entire body except the eyes. The sanctions also apply to women wearing a face-concealing veil, or niqab.
Utrecht made the decision after two Muslim women receiving €550 (£380) a month in unemployment benefits told the jobcentre that they did not attend job interviews because no one would employ them because of their burkas, which they refused to remove.
A spokesman for the city said that the problem was not widespread, but added: “It is a point of principle which applies to all women who refuse to remove their burkas for job interviews. People get benefits when they are out of work but there is also an obligation to do everything to get a job. These women were educated, spoke good Dutch and had opportunities in the labour market.” The city will cut the women’s benefits by 10 per cent a month if they continue to refuse to take off their burkas for job interviews."