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Anti-government protesters wave clapping tools and blow whistles during a rally at the Democracy Monument in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014. Thailand's capital is bracing for traffic chaos as anti-government demonstrators plan to occupy major road intersections in what they describe as an effort to shut down the city. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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Thai anti-government protesters, dressed up in national flags, stand during a rally at the Democracy Monument in Bangkok, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014. Anti-government demonstrators were preparing Sunday to occupy major intersections of Thailand's congested capital in what they say is an effort to shut down Bangkok, a plan that has raised fears of violence that could trigger a military coup. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)
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Thai anti-government protesters shout and cheer during a rally at the Democracy Monument in Bangkok, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014. Anti-government demonstrators were preparing Sunday to occupy major intersections of Thailand's congested capital in what they say is an effort to shut down Bangkok, a plan that has raised fears of violence that could trigger a military coup. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)
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A Thai anti-government protester gestures while listening to a speech from the stage during a rally at the Democracy Monument in Bangkok, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014. Anti-government demonstrators were preparing Sunday to occupy major intersections of Thailand's congested capital in what they say is an effort to shut down Bangkok, a plan that has raised fears of violence that could trigger a military coup. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)
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In this July 17, 2013 file photo, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., left, talks with President Barack Obama following a statement with Richard Cordray, the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. As she enters her second year in Congress in 2014, Warren told The Associated Press she's focused on improving the economic futures of American families by reigning in student debt, easing what she calls the nation's retirement crisis, and doubling funding for federal research programs. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 file photo, one of the few to have a mosquito net, a displaced family who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor by boat across the White Nile, sit under it after waking up in the morning in the town of Awerial, South Sudan. Sub-Saharan Africa has seen a very violent start to 2014 with raging conflicts in South Sudan and Central African Republic - the death tolls are huge and the individual incidents gruesome, with one estimate saying nearly 10,000 have been killed in South Sudan in a month of warfare. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 23, 2013 file photo, French soldiers lay a wounded man, who had been attacked during a protest, atop a military vehicle as they take him to get medical help, at Mpoko Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic. Sub-Saharan Africa has seen a very violent start to 2014 with raging conflicts in South Sudan and Central African Republic - the death tolls are huge and the individual incidents gruesome, with one estimate saying nearly 10,000 have been killed in South Sudan in a month of warfare. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 file photo, displaced people arrive with what belongings they had time to gather by river barge from Bor, some of the thousands who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor by boat across the White Nile, in the town of Awerial, South Sudan. Sub-Saharan Africa has seen a very violent start to 2014 with raging conflicts in South Sudan and Central African Republic - the death tolls are huge and the individual incidents gruesome, with one estimate saying nearly 10,000 have been killed in South Sudan in a month of warfare. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 file photo, people displaced by the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor, queue for medical care at a clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) set up in a school building in the town of Awerial, South Sudan. Sub-Saharan Africa has seen a very violent start to 2014 with raging conflicts in South Sudan and Central African Republic - the death tolls are huge and the individual incidents gruesome, with one estimate saying nearly 10,000 have been killed in South Sudan in a month of warfare. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 file photo, displaced people who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor by boat across the White Nile, prepare to sleep in the open at night in the town of Awerial, South Sudan. Sub-Saharan Africa has seen a very violent start to 2014 with raging conflicts in South Sudan and Central African Republic - the death tolls are huge and the individual incidents gruesome, with one estimate saying nearly 10,000 have been killed in South Sudan in a month of warfare. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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Ariel Sharon February 26, 1928 – January 11, 2014 - In this Dec. 1, 2005 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon smiles during a question and answer session with Israeli news editors at the Journalist's Association in Tel Aviv, Israel. Sharon, the hard-charging Israeli general and prime minister who was admired and hated for his battlefield exploits and ambitions to reshape the Middle East, died Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014. The 85-year-old Sharon had been in a coma since a debilitating stroke eight years ago.(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)
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In this Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013 photo, Gideon Joffe, president of the Jewish Community of Berlin, speaks during the opening ceremony of a celebration of Jewish culture in the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin. The 10,000-member Jewish Community of Berlin, which experienced a stirring post-Holocaust rebirth, is in danger of falling apart - riven by cultural rivalries, its finances under official scrutiny. At the center of the storm is Joffe, who was elected nearly two years ago as community president. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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In this Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013 photo, Gideon Joffe, president of the Jewish Community of Berlin, speaks during the opening ceremony of a celebration of Jewish culture in the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin. The 10,000-member Jewish Community of Berlin, which experienced a stirring post-Holocaust rebirth, is in danger of falling apart - riven by cultural rivalries, its finances under official scrutiny. At the center of the storm is Joffe, who was elected nearly two years ago as community president. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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In this Dec. 16, 2013 photo, Tuvia Schlesinger gives a news conference in Berlin. Schlesinger, 61, a retired police official who comes from a Berlin family that left for Israel after the Holocaust and returned here in 1959, is helping lead a call for new elections for the leadership of the Jewish Community of Berlin. If that fails, many say they will break away and found their own group. "It hurts to give it all up and let it all go to the dogs," Schlesinger says. "My parents helped rebuild this community after the war. I’d hate to see it break apart completely." (AP Photo/Ferdinand Ostrop)
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In this Dec. 16, 2013 photo, Tuvia Schlesinger listens to a question during a news conference in Berlin. Schlesinger, 61, a retired police official who comes from a Berlin family that left for Israel after the Holocaust and returned here in 1959, is helping lead a call for new elections for the leadership of the Jewish Community of Berlin. The 10,000-member organization, having experienced a stirring post-Holocaust rebirth, now fears it’s in danger of falling apart. And Berlin authorities are so alarmed by alleged financial irregularities that they have suspended millions of euros (dollars) in subsidies the community has enjoyed for decades. (AP Photo/Ferdinand Ostrop)
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This Jan. 7, 2014 photo shows the dome of the Neue Synagoge (New Synagogue) in Berlin. The 10,000-member Jewish Community of Berlin, which experienced a stirring post-Holocaust rebirth, is in danger of falling apart - riven by cultural rivalries, its finances under official scrutiny. At the center of the storm is Gideon Joffe, who was elected nearly two years ago as community president. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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This Jan. 7, 2014 photo shows the Neue Synagoge (New Synagogue) in Berlin. The 10,000-member Jewish Community of Berlin, which experienced a stirring post-Holocaust rebirth, is in danger of falling apart - riven by cultural rivalries, its finances under official scrutiny. At the center of the storm is Gideon Joffe, who was elected nearly two years ago as community president. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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FILE - In this Oct. 10, 1973 file photo, Maj. Gen. Ariel Sharon, right, views a map together with Maj. Gen. Haim Bar-Lev in the Sinai desert, during the 1973 Middle East War. Sharon, the hard-charging Israeli general and prime minister who was admired and hated for his battlefield exploits and ambitions to reshape the Middle East, died Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014. The 85-year-old Sharon had been in a coma since a debilitating stroke eight years ago. (AP Photo/Israel Government Press Office, File)
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Palestinians dance after hearing the death of Ariel Sharon, the hard-charging Israeli general and prime minister, as they celebrate in the Ein el-Hilweh camp near the southern city of Sidon, Lebanon, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014. Sharon was loathed by many Palestinians as a bitter enemy who did his utmost to sabotage their independence hopes — by leading military offensives against them in Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza and a settlement drive on the lands they want for a state. In 1982, Sharon engineered Israel's invasion of Lebanon, portraying it as quick, limited strike to drive Palestinian fighters from Israel's northern border. But Israeli troops advanced to outskirts of Beirut and war escalated. Fighting continued in southern Lebanon until Israel withdrew in 2000. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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Palestinians burn a poster of the former Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014. Sharon was loathed by many Palestinians as a bitter enemy who did his utmost to sabotage their independence hopes — by leading military offensives against them in Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza and a settlement drive on the lands they want for a state. Sharon died Saturday, eight years after a debilitating stroke put him into a coma. He was 85. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
