Today’s Top Stories
1. Continuing developments from PM Netanyahu’s Africa tour: Tanzania will open an embassy in Israel and Israel promises to help Kenya build a wall to keep out terrorists.
2. Abbas calls on UN Security Council to reject the Quartet report because it mentions Palestinian glorification of violence against Israelis. PA calls to boycott Quartet.
3. After arresting two Gazans with terror financing cash hidden in their shoes, Israel gained valuable intelligence about new Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror tunnels.
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4. HonestReporting’s “Red Lines: The Eight Categories of Media Bias” is a video series based on our latest E-book (available on Amazon for a small fee). In the fourth video of the series, the Jerusalem Post’s Steve Linde and Gil Hoffman, The Algemeiner’s Ruthie Blum, and Dan Diker of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs discuss lack of context with HonestReporting.
5. AP’s Messy Math: In an article on Israel’s response to recent attacks, the Associated Press vastly under-counts Palestinian terrorist attacks.
Israel and the Palestinians
• At least 10 Palestinians were injured in clashes with the IDF in the West Bank village of Dura early Wednesday morning after troops attempted to arrest suspects in the Hebron area.
• Three IDF soldiers were lightly injured in a possible car-ramming attack near the Neve Daniel settlement outside of Bethlehem.
• NGOs fume over lack of Gaza rebuilding, call for war crimes charges, urge Israel to lift blockade of Gaza.
Mideast Matters
• With the release of a report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by the Quartet of Middle East mediators, Reuters Israel Bureau Chief Luke Baker notes a reduction in international criticism of Israel (though in my opinion the reduction is minimal) and increased criticism of Palestinian incitement. Yet Baker accuses (with no meaningful evidence) that the change must be due to Israeli political gamesmanship rather than a reflection of real world events.
• The International Business Times reports that Islamic State published a “kill list” with 1,700 names targeting members of US churches and Jewish synagogues.
Around the World
• Did Israel tamper with phones belonging to French government officials during diplomatic visit?
• British Labour Party leader and outspoken detractor of Israel Jeremy Corbyn says that he regrets calling Hamas and Hezbollah ‘friends.’
• Israel-Africa relations are very much in the news lately, but they have actually been growing for a long time. I discovered the hashtag #israelinafrica which helped me find interesting content on Twitter and Facebook including this fascinating chart.
#IsraelinAfrica projects benefit many people in countries across the continent for decades. Here are some of them: pic.twitter.com/qFhWVYYdBw
— Israel ????? (@Israel) July 6, 2016
Commentary/Analysis
• While most obituaries of Elie Wiesel have been positive and often quite touching, a few have used his death as an excuse to promote an anti-Israel political agenda. We previously wrote about The Independent, The Alegemeiner reviewed The New York Times and similar examples popped up in The New Yorker and The Chicago Tribune.
• Tablet Magazine asks whether Palestinian nationalism may be coming to an end.
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Tablet Magazine: I Am Woke: Why I Am Finally Raising My Voice Against Jewish Erasure in the Anti-Racism Movement.
– The Tower: Palestinian Boycott of Quartet Should Ring Alarm Bells.
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