Tuesday Links Part 2

From Ian:

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Silwan's Jews subjected to repeated attacks
Trial of five Palestinians exposes regular use of homemade Molotov cocktails, stones against Jews in attempt to oust them from east Jerusalem neighborhood

Judge Yoram Noam gave his verdict on the cell members. They were convicted of attempted arson, aggravated battery, aggravated assault of a police officer, weapons production, rioting and more.
Judge Noam stressed that each of the defendants was convicted for numerous counts of Molotov cocktail-throwing. He noted the severity of the danger posed to residents and drivers in Silwan, the pre-meditation and the "ideological impetus at the foundation" of these crimes.

Police Nab Weapons Cache Hidden in Arab School

For the third time in a month, security officials have confiscated a large cache of weapons hidden in an educational institution in northern Israel. The haul on Monday in the Arab village of Abu Snan in the western Galilee included handguns, rifles, and even mortar shells. Police believe that the weapons were being stored by criminal groups.

Undiplomatic EU diplomats

The Jerusalem report is but one example of the ongoing EU soft war against Israel. European diplomats helped draft the unilateral Palestinian statehood bid at the UN in November and they also helped to push it through. Now they want to isolate Israel further by recycling some of the most vicious accusations against Israel from the Arab league.
The recent report hardly positions EU as a credible peace broker in the Middle East. It only shows how European foreign policy is too important to be left in the hands of anonymous EU diplomats but will have to be managed by democratically elected parliaments and governments of the EU member states. Luckily, among these EU-member states there are still those who subscribe to the original EU values of respect for human dignity, liberty, human rights and democracy. And perhaps one should add, respect for history.

David Singer: Palestine: Suspending Disbelief Is An Unbelievable Hoax

In his recent article in the New York Times entitled – “To Achieve Mideast Peace,Suspend Disbelief” - Mr Ross concludes that neither side believes the other side is committed to the two-state solution but that cannot be an argument for doing nothing.
He further states that if the two-state solution is discredited as an outcome – something and someone will fill the void.
Ross speculates that the Islamists of Hamas, with their rejection of two-states, seem primed to fill the void – when he says the conflict will be transformed from a nationalist into a religious one and at that point it may not be possible to resolve.
One can only shake one’s head in amazement that Mr Ross actually believes this is a nationalist conflict and not a religious conflict.

Attorney asks to bar Jews from Taliban trial jury

Lawyer for Muslim-American accused of lying about trying to join Pakistani jihadists does not want client’s anti-Zionism to sway jury
A Jewish attorney representing a suspected would-be terrorist in New York Federal Court has asked the judge to bar Jews from sitting on the jury, saying his client’s anti-Israel rhetoric may sway opinion.

Schalit signs petition urging Obama to free Pollard

Former kidnapped soldier Gilad Schalit became the latest well-known Israeli to sign a petition Monday calling upon US President Barack Obama to commute the life sentence of Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard.
The petition has been signed by nearly 150,000 Israelis, including Nobel prize winners, dovish authors, and politicians from across the political spectrum.

Israel Start-Up’s Anti-Obesity Pill Set to Go Big Time

An Israeli-made pill may be on its way to make the world slimmer. The “slim pill” to reduce obesity could go on the market as a medicine, with the help of a major pharmaceutical company.

Smartphone App Helps to ‘Balance’ Alzheimer’s

A new smartphone app helps caregivers manage the myriad tasks of coordinating help for their loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, a disease that affects a person's memory, ability to think, to perform everyday activities, and their behavior.

Bonus Biogroup builds first-of-its-kind bone regeneration center

Ground broken in Haifa for revolutionary facility set to produce personalized human living bone for grafts.
The 750-square meter facility at Haifa’s Matam High Tech Park will have three divisions: a production center for growing human bone grafts, to supply the company in its upcoming clinical trials; an R&D center to further expand the applications of human bone grafts for transplants, and a headquarters and administration center from which it will supervise its R&D activities in the US.

Israelis Take Home Top Cookbook Honors at the “Oscars of Art Cookbooks” in France

The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards at the Louvre in Paris–the so-called “Oscars of art cookbooks”–crowned Seafoodpedia – a design cookbook edited by Shalom Maharovsky, owner and founder of Mul-Yam (Across the Sea) restaurant in the Tel Aviv Port – as the Best in the World in the fish and seafood category.