BBC:
Stephan Kramer in 2008: The alleged threat happened on the holiest day for JewsAn inquiry is under way after a top German Jewish official flashed his legally held gun at a man who allegedly threatened him on a Berlin street.
Both Stephan Kramer and his alleged assailant have filed criminal complaints, accusing each other of making a threat.
Mr Kramer admitted showing his gun but denied drawing it. He told reporters he had tried to calm the situation.
He said the other man had told him to “get out of the way” several times.
Mr Kramer is general secretary of the Central Council of Jews and the incident happened on Wednesday, when Jews were marking their holiest day, Yom Kippur.
While the motive for the alleged verbal assault against Mr Kramer is still unclear, Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said: “Threats against Jewish citizens on the streets are disgraceful and absolutely not acceptable.”
The German capital was rattled in August by an assault on a rabbi by a gang who allegedly also threatened to kill his daughter, aged six.
‘Definitely xenophobic’
Mr Kramer told AFP news agency he had been walking home from a synagogue with his four children near the Kurfuerstendamm, one of the main streets in central Berlin.
“The man obviously felt provoked by the open prayer book I was carrying and my beard,” Mr Kramer said.
OT – Breaking : on Reuters : More jizya to be paid
U.S. Secratary of State Clinton says U.S. to give additional $45 million to Syria opposition
Already announced more financial aid for the Palestinians :
Clinton: U.S. will push to help Palestinians with financial crisis
September 27, 2012
(JTA) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the Palestinian and Jordanian that Washington is ‘looking at every means possible’ to alleviate the Palestinian financial crisis.
According to a senior State Department official, Clinton made the comments Wednesday in New York during a one-hour working lunch with Jordan’s King Abdullah and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who were there for the U.N. General Assembly.
[…]The Obama administration currently has an assistance package on Capitol Hill that includes a $200 million direct budget request for the PA.
more on the page :
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/09/27/3108026/clinton-makes-israeli-paestinian-peace-push-priority
For those who don’t click thru:
“Police have confirmed that Mr Kramer has the right to carry a gun because he is classified as being a particularly vulnerable figure”
A man in Europe who is known to be jewish.
The only problem is all the other visibly jewish people in Europe are now just as vulnurable. The article didn’t say if all the others are allowed to carry guns. They should be.
Yeah they should be, but everyone needs protection at some time and thus should be allowed to own and carry guns.
OT # 2 – More and more jizya
The Obama administration notified Congress on Friday that it would provide Egypt’s new government an emergency cash infusion of $450 million, but the aid immediately encountered resistance from a prominent lawmaker wary of foreign aid and Egypt’s new course under the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood.
[…]Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking at a meeting of the Group of 8 nations in New York, said on Friday that the world needed to do more to support the governments that have emerged from the Arab Spring uprisings, including those in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.
“The recent riots and protests throughout the region have brought the challenge of transition into sharp relief,”
[…]In recent weeks, negotiations over the assistance picked up pace, and the administration decided to provide $450 million instead, including $190 million immediately, because the country’s economic crisis has become acute, with an estimated budget shortfall of $12 billion.
The assistance outlined in letters to Congress on Friday would be contingent on Egypt’s setting in motion economic and budgetary changes that the International Monetary Fund is now negotiating as part of a $4.8 billion loan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/world/middleeast/white-house-move-to-give-egypt-450-million-in-aid-meets-resistance.html?_r=2