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Photo by andydr NAZARETH ILLIT, Israel (AFP) – The mayor of a Jewish suburb of Nazareth sparked outrage on Wednesday after refusing to allow Christmas trees to be placed in town squares, calling them provocative. Predominantly Jewish Nazareth Illit, or Upper Nazareth, is adjacent to Nazareth, where Jesus is said to have spent much of his life. It has a sizable Arab Christian minority, as does mostly Muslim Nazareth itself. "The request of the Arabs to put Christmas trees in the squares in the Arab quarter of Nazareth Illit is provocative," Mayor Shimon Gapso told AFP. "Nazareth Illit is a Jewish city and it will not happen -- not this year and not next year, so long as I am a mayor," he said of the northern Israeli town. "Nazareth is right next door and they can do what they want there," he said.

A former Internet radio talk show host and blogger was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison on Tuesday for inviting readers of his blog to assassinate three [Ob/Gyns]. ... [The blogger] had faced up to six years in prison. His trial was moved from Chicago to Brooklyn, where the case twice ended in mistrials after jurors deadlocked. In addition to his statements [that the Ob/Gyns deserve to be killed, the blogger] posted photographs, phone numbers, work addresses, and room numbers for the three [Ob/Gyns]. “The [medical] system simply could not function if an individual’s efforts to intimidate a [physician] through threats of violence were protected from prosecution and punishment,” Patrick Fitzgerald, the US attorney in Chicago, said in a statement. “We live in a system where [physicians] should be able to do their jobs and not have to look over their shoulders,” he added. It's good to be a judge, no?

No matter what you think about the competence of our intelligence services, you have to admit that their plan to destroy WikiLeaks is brilliant: Step 1: Force Assange to have unprotected intercourse. Step 2: Mind-control him into refusing to take an STI test. Step 3: Profit! WikiLeaks destroyed!

In Georgia, how much time do you get to spend in jail if you assault a soldier while yelling racial slurs? A little over a month, apparently. Troy Dale West , a southwest Georgia body shop owner, was sentenced in October to six months in jail for assaulting a female Army Reservist at a restaurant: West faced a potential 10 years in prison after being charged with beating and kicking Tashawnea Hill as she walked out of the Clayton County restaurant on Sept. 9, 2009. Hill's 7-year-old daughter watched as West assaulted her mother while yelling racial slurs, police said. West, of Poulan, testified that Hill initiated the fight by spitting on him, which she denied. After serving 1-1/2 months West is now a free man: [Worth County Sheriff Freddie] Tompkins said West accepted work detail each day he was incarcerated. "It's normal procedure," the sheriff told the AJC. "We treated him the same as we would anyone serving for a misdemeanor." And the cherry on top of th