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Cameroon says Nigerians Killed in Border Market Grenade Explosion
Cameroon says 10 Nigerians were killed Monday when a grenade exploded near a market on the two countries' border. Authorities denied local media reports of suicide bombings and said the explosion was caused when a Nigerian boy found a grenade and was playing with it when it detonated.
The governor of Cameroon's far north region, Midjiyawa Bakari, says Monday's deadly explosion was on the El Beid bridge linking a border market that spans both Cameroon and Nigeria.
He says a Nigerian boy found a grenade and was playing with it when it detonated.
Bakari says the 10-year-old boy found the explosive device in a heap of debris near the bridge, which links the Cameroonian town of Fotokol to the Nigerian town of Gambarou. The boy apparently thought the grenade was a piece of scrap iron that could be sold, he says, but the device exploded in his hands, killing the boy and eight other people on the spot and wounding 30 others.
Bakari said Cameroon's military and rescue workers rushed the wounded to a hospital in Fotokol, where another victim died from wounds.
He said all those killed and 25 of the wounded were Nigerians while five were Cameroonians.
Local radio stations had reported that two female suicide bombers with the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram were responsible for the explosion.
But Bakari dismissed the reports as unfounded and said Cameroonian officials have kept Nigerian authorities informed about their investigation.
The governor said they were probing the origin of the grenade and whether it was from a military or Boko Haram.
Cameroon's military says it's been more than a year since it had large clashes with the terrorist group. But, abandoned weapons and explosives are sometimes recovered in areas of previous fighting.
Military spokesman Serge Cyrille Atonfack Guemo says locals should always report when suspicious objects are found.
He says the large presence of Cameroon's military in border towns with Nigeria, in spite of falling attacks by Boko Haram, is to protect civilians — especially schools, markets, houses of worship, and popular places. The military is detecting and rapidly destroying all dangerous objects left behind from years of fighting, says Guemo.
Eight Cameroonian soldiers were killed along the Nigerian border in February 2015 by a mine explosion.
The United States has helped train Cameroonian troops to detect and dismantle landmines and explosive devices.
While military clashes are less frequent, Boko Haram still targets civilians along the border.
In December, the militants — disguised as traders — attacked and killed at least 50 fishermen on an island on Lake Chad, which borders Cameroon and Chad. At least 20 of those killed were Cameroonians.
The United Nations says Boko Haram's 10-year insurgency has killed over 27,000 people in northeastern Nigeria alone, and displaced two million, while the conflict spilled across the border to Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.
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Why I wrote "New Testament People"
Address by Rabbi Raymond Apple at the launch of his book, New Testament People: A Rabbi's Notes, at Beit Avi Chai, Jerusalem, on 13 February 2017.
My book, New Testament People: A Rabbi's Notes, published by Authorhouse in association with the Australian Council of Christians and Jews, has been launched in Sydney and Melbourne, and now I introduce it to Jerusalem.
I have spent my life studying and teaching Judaism. I have been a Jewish spokesman on many platforms – the pulpit, the classroom, the written and printed word, the audio-visual media – as well as university campuses, Christian seminaries and the church Press – constantly urging the "undimmed eye and unabated natural force" of the teachings of Moses and the rabbis. I have generally been received with respect, even when I rather shocked my audience.
My interfaith involvement has brought me many friendships, but I have also learnt, as Rabbi JB Soloveitchik says ("Confrontation", Tradition 6:2, 1964), it is impossible for a Jew to really get inside the mind of a Christian, and vice-versa. Still, I was moved by Paul van Buren's view that our age of mutual respect has a radical significance in the long, often difficult story of Jewish-Christian encounter.
Writing on the "theology of displacement", Van Buren has said: "The church looked at the Jews from its own position and saw only a stubborn refusal to accept what the church preached as the truth. It seems never to have crossed Christian minds that what the church called Jewish stubbornness was, from Israel's perspective, fidelity to Torah and Torah's Author" (A Christian Theology of the People of Israel, NY: Seabury Press, 1983, p. 276). Modern scholarship shows that many aspects of Christian history need re-assessment; many Christians now see the harm done by an unhistorical approach to the Jewish milieu of Jesus.
There are really two New Testaments – the Gospels which depict Jesus the human being, the Jew, who was more or less a Pharisee and did not intend to forsake Judaism, and the post-Gospel material which depicts the new faith which was built around and upon the figure and preaching of Jesus.
In the first New Testament, Jesus took part in debate, sometimes questioning the traditional view, becoming controversial when he spoke in the first person and claimed special status. No-one is certain how much of his teaching was preserved verbatim, how much was reworked by redactors. Nor can anyone explain why the quiet man of peace is sometimes aggressive and speaks with the robustness of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Nobody can solve all the problems but we can delineate some of them.
If we ask whether Jesus would have approved of the New Testament in its Gospel form, we cannot be sure of the answer. He would certainly not endorse the hostility and horror unleashed in his name upon his fellow-Jews. Nor would he seek to escape the fate of the Jews who were crucified in the Nazi Holocaust. Whether or not Martin Buber was right to call Jesus "my great brother", Jesus himself would have said with the Biblical Joseph, "I go seeing my brethren".
Jewishness is where he came from. His milieu was Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Moses and Aaron, Elijah and Isaiah, though he believed they had come alive again in him. He saw the upheavals of his time as the pangs of the Messiah and thought of himself in messianic terms. He diverged from tradition in his exegesis of Scripture but he probably had no intention of creating a new religion.
In the second New Testament, the post-Jesus generation reconstructed his life, teaching and status, so that Jesus the Jew became Jesus the Christ and Christianity became a gentile faith, incorporating other influences and interpreting Jesus in ways that radically departed from Judaism.
The parting of the ways involved a series of paradoxes: universalism and particularism, faith and works, sin and atonement, death and rebirth, today and tomorrow, earthly man and ineffable God. Sometimes the new faith leant this way and sometimes that. As much as it is essential to establish the Jewishness of Jesus, it is important to recognise the way he was re-shaped.
Both sides are sure they are right; the question is whether they can live and let live. And both have to face up to a new factor: a resurgent Islam which is not yet certain whether it can handle the independent spirit and ethos of the other two monotheistic faiths.
The encounter must be within a climate of civilised discussion, robust without rancour, without aggressiveness or arrogance. That is the type of mood in which I wrote this book, and it is in this mood that I hope it will be read. I am not looking for winners or losers. I am not seeking to dismiss or defeat, but to respect and understand. I am not seeking to destroy you but to know you.
Is the world big enough for all of us? I believe the answer is yes, but it is already an achievement to recognise the question.
What I say to readers is, "Enjoy the book, think about it, and decide what matters more, the answers or the questions".
Rabbi Apple's video message from the book launch can be viewed here.
The softcover and ebook editions of New Testament People: A Rabbi's Notes are available from Amazon, AuthorHouse, The Book Depository (free worldwide shipping), and elsewhere online. Selections from the book can be previewed on Google Books.
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The Simpsons Flashback: "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" Review
The saga of Artie Ziff continues.
By Robert Canning
Updated: May 13, 2012 12:35 am
Posted: Sep 8, 2008 3:22 pm
During the summer months, IGN will be taking a look back at
The Simpsons with weekly flashback reviews. Instead of trying to decide which episodes to highlight by picking and choosing from their vast back catalogue of 19 seasons, we've decided to let syndication narrow the field down a bit. In Los Angeles, the show reruns three times a day during the week. From those episodes, a "Syndicated Episode of the Week" will be chosen. This week, it's "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" from season fifteen.
For a character that saw limited screen time in a flashback episode from season two, Artie Ziff sure has some staying power. His failed prom date with Marge was memorable for many reasons -- Jon Lovitz's great voice work, for one -- and though it took him eleven seasons to reappear, "Half-Decent Proposal" saw Artie in fine comical form. When reviewing that episode last week, I found it difficult to fit in all my favorite Artie Ziff moments. In fact, I couldn't even find room to mention the hilarious dancing he does when his second attempt at the high school prom fails. So when a third installment of the Artie Ziff saga aired in season 15, I was hoping for more of the same from good ol' Artie. Unfortunately, "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" fails to match the previous episode's quality in both story and humor.
I blame Homer Simpson. Or rather, I blame Dan Castellaneta (the voice of Homer) and his wife Deb Lacusta. Their script pushes Homer's stupidity to the extremes, early and often, which diminishes the comedic affect. In the opening scenes, Homer is taking Bart, Lisa, Rod and Todd to the movies. When the movie he wants to see is sold out, he takes them to horror movie "The Redeadening." Once in the theater, Homer dismisses Lisa's plea to leave and then uses her head to rest his soft drink. It's a bit funny. And what's funnier is when Marge confronts Homer about his decision stating, "Homer, that's a rare lapse in judgment for you."
Of course, it's not. Homer is always making the wrong choice or a bad decision. It's what makes Homer funny. But it really only works when Homer is trying to make the right choices. Here, he's just blatantly ignorant. It continues throughout the episode. The arrival of Artie Ziff in the Simpson attic does little to save the episode. We learn he's living in the attic because Ziff Corp has gone bankrupt. We later learn that the company's failure is due to Artie's misappropriation of funds and that the SEC is looking to prosecute him. When he loses his company's shares to Homer in a poker game, Homer becomes the head of the company and is hauled off to jail.
The story makes little sense. Homer goes before Congress and is then sent to Springfield Penitentiary. Artie falls for Selma and has a change of heart after their brief encounter and then turns himself in to free Homer. Not exactly the most compelling storyline. And along the way, Homer continues to be an unfunny dolt. During the Congressional hearing, he misinterprets what his lawyer is telling him and then accuses the man of coming on to him. Then, after a full half-hour of such idiocy, Homer is freed from prison and thinks Lisa is Maggie, grown up and talking, and that Artie is Bart. This might have been funny had we not been beaten over the head with how stupid Homer is supposed to be.
But that's why episodes in this vein aren't very funny. Homer isn't stupid. He's unlucky, and unsure and sometimes tries too hard for the wrong reasons, but he's not as stupid as episodes like this make him out to be. We can laugh at Homer when he opens a bag of potato chips in the space shuttle, or when he sent Bart to work at the burlesque house. He simply wanted to share chips with his fellow astronauts, and he misguidedly wanted to teach Bart a valuable lesson about responsibility. But it's hard to laugh when the writers force Homer make a choice simply because it's the stupid thing to do. It's probably the one thing that's hurting the series of late, more than anything else. The belief that Homer equals idiot equals funny. That's simply not the case.
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