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British Holocaust-denying bishop convicted in German court |
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German news agency DPA reported in January that an administrative court in Regensburg convicted Bishop Richard Williamson of incitement and levied a fine of 1,800 euros. The case was retried after an earlier conviction of Williamson was overturned on procedural grounds. Seventy two-year-old Williamson told a Swedish TV station in 2008, during an interview conducted near Regensburg, that he did not believe Jews were killed in gas chambers during WW II. Holocaust denial is a crime in Germany. A traditionalist group of breakaway Catholics, the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), expelled Williamson last October. Williamson did not attend the court proceedings. Please login or register to see the full article |
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Japan may recall its Observer Force |
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Japan is looking to recall its troops stationed in the Golan Heights as part of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), citing concerns over the deteriorating security situation in Syria, Japanese media reported. Japan currently stations 47 troops along the border between Israel and Syria, which has seen sporadic cross border fire as Syria’s civil war bleeds into Israeli territory. The UN recently said it would step up its UNDOF force, due to increasing threats on the unarmed observers. According to a report in the Tokyo daily Yomiuri Shimbun, the Japanese government has determined that the safety of the troops has become an issue and they may be recalled. The Japanese contingent, part of the multinational, 1,000 strong UN force stationed along the Israeli-Syrian border, was scheduled to be rotated home in March 2013. Though mortars and bullets have been fired into Israel, no Israeli soldiers have been injured. In November 2012, Israel fired a missile at a Syrian artillery crew after a mortar hit an IDF position. Unarmed UN observers have been threatened, and have had to provide medical treatment to Syrian forces who clashed with the opposition in the demilitarized zone, according to a report by UN chief Ban Ki-moon. Please login or register to see the full article |
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Talks looking to reopen Nepalese jobseekers |
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According to local news sources in Nepal, Israeli Ambassador to Nepal, Hanan Goder-Goldberger said negotiations have been intensified with the Nepalese government to resume the stalled process to send Nepalese job seekers to Israel soon. “We are hopeful that we will reach an agreement soon which will pave the way to re-start the process of sending Nepalese job aspirants to Israel within a fewmonths,” said Goldberger at a press conference. Objecting the reported unethical practice and exploitation of jobseekers by manpower agencies, Israel suspended visas for the recruitment of Nepalese workers, especially caregivers, three years ago. Though the Nepalese officials and Israeli embassy officials met several times to seek ways to resume the process, thenegotiations failed to achieve any breakthrough. Israel instead, has been seeking a guarantee from Nepalese officials and manpower agencies that malpractices in the sending process of workers to Israel will not be repeated. Around 8,000 workers, mainly as caregivers, have been working in Israel. Please login or register to see the full article |
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First function for new Thailand ambassador |
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Recently appointed new Ambassador of Israel to Thailand, Simon Roded held his first official engagement with Virachai Virameteekul, Head of Thailand and Israel Parliamentary Friendship League. Virameteekul, along with other members of the group welcomed Ambassador Roded in their meeting to discuss the collaboration in developing the relationships between the two countries’ parliaments, specifically the tie in the form of the Friendship League. Please login or register to see the full article |
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THAI ROYAL PARDON GRANTED FOR A CONFESSED MURDERER IN BANGKOK |
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Eli Cohen, an Israeli national with Australian citizenship, who confessed to murdering his wife in Bangkok in February 2004, has received a royal pardon from the King of Thailand. Cohen is set to be released in May 2013 and could return to Israel.  Cohen, 45 years, was married to the victim, Carol Cohen for 10 years. The couple decided to ‘amicably’ split and he moved to Australia while Carol remained in Israel.
In February 2004, Cohen invited his ex-wife to meet him in Bangkok saying he wanted to spend some time with her in the city. He sent her a one-way plane ticket. Carol did not realize at the time until she was on her way to the country. Her family immediately arranged a return flight for her as soon as she notified them but less than 24 hours after landing in Bangkok, she had already been murdered. Cohen murdered his ex-wife in his hotel room, where he mutilated her body, crammed it into a suitcase and threw it into the river. He then contacted the Israeli embassy in Bangkok to report Carol missing. But was almost instantly suspected as the chief suspect in her murder when police discovered his hotel room looking like a ‘slaughter house’. Some parts of her body have yet to be found. In December 2004, Cohen was sentenced to life imprisonment. He did not receive the maximum penalty of the death sentence, despite confessing to the murder, as he managed to convince the judges that the murder was not pre-meditated but happened “in the heat of the moment.” Please login or register to see the full article |
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