Israel in Secret Talks With Syrian Rebels?
January 1, 2013 14:12 by Pesach Benson• Times of Israel: The PA took exception to Shimon Peres’ comments about engaging Hamas.
“He’s meddling in Palestinian politics and deciding who can and who can’t be a party to talks,” said Saeb Erekat, the chief PA negotiator. Peres had said on Monday that Israel should negotiate with Hamas, provided that the Islamist rulers of the Gaza Strip meet certain conditions.
Tony Karon of Time tweeted a different take on Peres:
• NY Times bureau chief Jodi Rudoren pounded the pavement in Rishon LeZion talking to locals about “the matzav.”
Arab Spring Winter
• Egyptian currency’s tanking. Take your pick of Reuters or BBC coverage.
• A Reuters cameraman was shot in the leg while filming in Aleppo. YNet says Ayman al-Sahili, a Libyan national, was evacuated to Turkey and his life is not in danger.
• The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports 39,520 Syrians killed in 2012.
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Anthony Garland
2:57 pm
Jan 01, 2013
When will the world at large realise that not a single Muslim leader, secular or religious is a moderate? For instance, the UK government thinks it is talking to “moderate” Muslim leaders but in fact they are serious fundamentalists bent on forcing Islam on the UK! .Anyone who thinks otherwise is seriously deluded!
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Dany
4:45 pm
Jan 01, 2013
Moderate Islam is a recipe that only deluded people can digest.
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emes
7:34 pm
Jan 01, 2013
The very mention of Rabbi Meir Kahane fills many, mainly Jews, with dread sadly he is no longer with us but if he were the whole complextion of recent attrocities from muslims would be jaded.I feel sure his feedback on this situation would be a homeopathic one by “treating like with like” – we do not have a strong character to lead us out of this world-wide fundamentalist, Jew-hating predicament we need untity! enough of these milk-sop self-hating Jews – there was no preferential treatment of Jews in line at the gas chambers – noone offering a hand to lead us back to our own country, we had to do this on our own and you know what? people respected us then & we felt proud where is pride now.
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Sandy
11:34 pm
Jan 01, 2013
Kol Hakavod (well done) to Emes. The trouble with us Jews is that we’re frightened of our own shadows!
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brian
4:20 am
Jan 02, 2013
not happy with israel talking with the rebels if true – they are killing christians by the thousand. in a latest instance they hung one and cut another up and threw the remains in a river.
when will israel learn that the only friends they have in the world today are the christians – myself included.
http://www.ea.org.au/Ethos/Engage-Mail/Kidnapping-and-Killing-of-Christians-in-Syria.aspx
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emes
10:55 am
Jan 02, 2013
Thank you Brian, there truly are many Christians who have assisted Jews through history, it is affirmed in the Avenue of the Righteous in Israel – in turn Jews have always offered a hand to whomever but it is numbers we need to abate the onslaught of hatred in this world, which is on line for despotic overthrow. Jews have turned the other cheek so much that it almost feels like a massage from the amount of slaps in the face received. Yes, it seems Christians too are on the decline and are also on the receiving end of the islamic inhumane and incomprehensible hatred, so a combined force would be preferable to the cock-eyed look we always seem to attain.
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emes
11:14 am
Jan 02, 2013
Feel sorry for Andre Psheniknikov’s mother – mind you, from the name it might be that he is a derivative from a pogrom – there seems a desire on his part to self destruct – or in this case, water finds its level – If he wishes to be a party to the other side, then the muslims will soon remind him who he is and he will return, either in bits or in even more bits!
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