Today’s Top Stories
1. A Palestinian terrorist shot and killed an Israeli Border Policeman and two civilian guards outside the Israeli community of Har Adar. A fourth Israeli was hospitalized and is now in moderate condition. The Palestinian was killed by responding security forces.
According to media reports, the 37-year-old Palestinian, Nimer Mahmoud Ahmad Jabbar, was a father of four from a nearby village and had a permit to work in Har Adar. After arousing the suspicion of the guards, Jabbar pulled out a pistol, hitting his victims at close range.
The dead were identified as 20-year-old Border Police Staff Sergeant Solomon Gabrieh of Be’er Yaakov, and civilian security guards Youssef Othman of Abu Ghosh and Or Arish of Har Adar. The injured Israeli, Amit Steinhart, 33, of Har Adar, is being treated in Hadassah En Kerem Hospital.
Har Adar, located about 15 km west of Jerusalem, lies on the edge of the Green Line.
More on the attack at the Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Ynet, Haaretz and Israel HaYom.
See also our assessment of Har Adar Terror Attack Headline Fails.
2. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah’s bolstering Hezbollah’s ranks in Lebanon by importing Iraqi Shiite fighters. The Media Line picked up on an Arab report accusing Hezbollah of putting its interests above Lebanon’s.
The article charged that the Iraqis have been resettled in Hizbullah installations in the southern part of the country, apparently in areas where United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 prohibits Hizbullah’s presence.
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3. A Pakistani diplomat is catching flak after presenting an old photo of a Gaza girl as Kashmiri victim of India’s military. Fauxtography strikes the UN.
“The picture was taken on 22 July 2014 by an American photographer Heidi Levine. This photograph was published by New York Times on March 24, 2015 [in a slide show], under the caption ‘Conflict, Courage and Healing in Gaza,'” said Paulomi Tripathi, an Indian UN representative.
Of fake photos and jilted narratives: At #UNGA Maleeha Lodhi shares photo of a Palestinian girl while showing "the face of India". pic.twitter.com/MBK3fadcwe
— Naila Inayat (@nailainayat) September 24, 2017
4. Failure to Correct: How AP Spreads an Error Far and Wide: AP reports arrive at news sites with a built-in kosher certificate. But without an official AP correction, media outlets don’t feel obliged to make changes or corrections.
Israel and the Palestinians
• As you might have expected funding issues threaten Fatah-Hamas reconciliation.
Hamas wants to include 43,000 military and civil employees within the government, however, Fatah refused this, claiming that it can’t encompass all the employees immediately.
• Props to Ben Lynfield for scratching my itch:
Why do state-seeking Palestinians oppose Kurdish independence vote?
• Rejecting Israeli pressure, Interpol’s executive committee will allow its general assembly to vote next week on whether or not to accept a PA request for membership. Ynet reports that Israel and the haven’t thrown in the towel on blocking the move.
The American side has not yet given up, however, and was still attempting to convince the Palestinians to withdraw their own candidacy.
Israel had hoped Interpol’s Executive Committee, which sets the general assembly’s agenda, would decide not to put the Palestinian request on the docket on the grounds that “Palestine” is not a state according to Interpol’s own parameters.
• An Arab-Israeli was killed in Syria while fighting for Islamic State, family members confirmed.
• As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructs government ministers to keep mum on Kurdish independence, the Washington Post looks at Israeli-Kurdish relations.
• Haaretz: “In a scenario that the energy experts have long warned about, Israel’s supply of natural gas has been halted after a crack in the single pipeline linking the Tamar field to Israeli users was discovered on Thursday.”
Around the World
• Swedish court moves neo-Nazi march on Yom Kippur away from synagogue.
• UK Labor activists accuse Jeremy Corbyn of burying his head in the sand over anti-Semitism amid an effort to “purge” Jews from the party. More at the Jewish Chronicle and Daily Telegraph, which picked up on Guido Fawkes.
On Monday, party members again attacked Israel and compared its treatment of the Palestinian territories to the Nazis’ treatment of Jews.
At a fringe event titled Free Speech on Israel, speakers called for the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) and Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) to be “kicked out” of the party and said Israel had committed “genocide” in Gaza.
• A survey of British attitudes on various Mideast issues uncovered a lot of ignorance behind the hot air. The Independent writes:
Despite giving opinions on wide-ranging subjects including the status of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, more than half of respondents admitted having “limited knowledge” of the Arab world and another 25 per cent said they “don’t know anything” about the region.
• Despite BDS protest, a number of Israeli films were shown at the Toronto Palestinian Film Festival. Three were award-winning films about Israeli Arabs, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Israeli Arab filmmakers, among them Maysaloun Hamoud, have drawn criticism from supporters of the BDS Movement for accepting Israeli funding.
Come to think of it, if the government didn’t provide funding for Israeli-Arab film makers, Israel opens itself to accusations of discrimination so either way, the BDS critics will complain anyway.
• Does this mean BDS will boycott Pope Francis?
Commentary/Analysis
• Here’s what else I’m reading today . . .
– Dov Lieber: Bahrain-Israel ties not ready for prime time
– Ben-Dror Yemini: Mohammad Bakri, enemy of the Palestinians
– Charles Bybelezer: ‘Lebanon equals Hezbullah, Hezbullah equals Lebanon’
– Yaya Fanusie, Alex Entz: Hezbollah financial assessment
– Ray Takeyh: The nuclear deal is Iran’s legal path to the bomb
– Dr. Lawrence Franklin: A Jewish-Catholic partnership against Islamist violence?
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