Palestinians Use Water as Weapon Against Israel
January 9, 2013 16:51 by Pesach Benson• Jerusalem Post: Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshaal are meeting in Cairo today to discuss national reconciliation.
• Frida Ghitis isn’t giving up hope on Mideast peace yet.
Arab Spring Winter
• Mohammed Morsi told CNN he’d like the US to release Omar Abdel Rahman, better known as the blind sheikh who was involved in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Morsi talks elegantly about the rule of law, humanitarian considerations, and improving Rahman’s prison conditions. I wonder if Egyptian prisons meet Morsi’s lofty ideals.
• Media reports say Jordan is turning away Palestinian refugees fleeing Syria.
Jordan has absorbed some 126,000 Syrian refugees, but Palestinians fleeing Syria are placed in a separate refugee camp at the Cyber City compound, under stricter conditions, and are banned from entering Jordanian cities. The Jordanian government fears that an influx of Palestinian refugees may tilt the demographic balance in Jordan even more towards the Palestinians, who are already believed to comprise a large majority of the population.
• Israel’s not the only country involved in lopsided prisoner swaps. The Syrian regime released 2,130 civilians — mostly Syrian and Turkish nationals — in exchange for 48 Iranian Revolutionary Guards members pilgrims. CNN writes:
“The big prize for the regime is the Iranians, keeping them happy,” said George Sabra, vice president of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces. “The regime never cared about the lives of the civilian population or even his own armed forces.”
Where are you, Deborah Orr?
• Will Jordan Be the First Arab Monarchy to Fall?
Rest O’ the Roundup
• French students are taking Twitter to court. They want Twitter to release the identities of people who posted anti-Semitic tweets under the hashtag #SiJetaisNazi (#IfIWereANazi) which was one of the country’s top five trending topics last weekend. Details at the Times of Israel.
• So much for first impressions. Staffers at Current TV met their new Al-Jazeera bosses for the first time. Linda Stasi says the encounter left everyone “miserable.”
• With 1.5 million Twitter followers, AP’s cashing in on sponsored tweets. The Nieman Journalism Lab looks at the ethical and practical issues involved. So far, Twitter’s allowing it, but the rules could change.
• I liked the Daily Telegraph‘s photo essay about the Mideast’s big winter storm. Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians, Lebanese and Syrians are all hunkering down. No white wonderland for displaced Syrians — AP describes how one refugee camp became “a muddy swamp where howling winds tore down tents and exposed the displaced residents to freezing temperatures.”
Some frustrated refugees at a camp in Zaatari, where about 50,000 are sheltered, attacked aid workers with sticks and stones after the tents collapsed in 35 mph (60 kph) winds . . .
More on the weather’s regional effects at The Media Line.
(Image of water via Flickr/rich115)
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Alison
6:18 pm
Jan 09, 2013
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Rogue Scholar 05
7:21 pm
Jan 09, 2013
Ah, they said nothing about Al Gore today? So why bring it up? If you can not address today’s issue, no one knows what you are talking about. Sounds like you are just an Idiotard!
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Dany
6:48 pm
Jan 09, 2013
Anyone who believes lies, lives a life of lies and he himself is a lie.
The Palestinian bluff (lie) is about to disappear.
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emes
8:03 pm
Jan 09, 2013
Water for the Palestinians will be become even more scarce through indolence so, the next best thing is to cry to the world that Israel will be holding back their ration and this will lead to yet another conflict – Who developed de-salination? who strived to bring water through to the dry areas farms and orchards? – it certainly wasn’t the palestinians – now, if the local power holders are not interested in reform and there is mis-management in the PWA, does that mean Israel should have rachmunus and the Israelis will have to foot the bill for palestinians lethargy? – ask if the boot was on the other foot would the palestinians offer assistance? – you know the answer!
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Deavman
10:54 pm
Jan 09, 2013
35Mph is 52 km/h not 60
I know, I know…but I like accuracy.
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a kurtz
11:56 pm
Jan 09, 2013
The fact remains that no matter what Israel does it will be admonished. No matter what concessions Israel make it will not be enough. Can’t Israel understand that even if there were no Israel the narrative would shift to the Jews. It is time for Israel understands that this hatred for Jews has been around for a while and will never end because the population has been conditioned for thousands of years to believe all the nonsense. If a Jew so much as make the tiniest mistake then the haters resort to the storyline of “all the Jews are the same”. Not until the mosque and the church change their attitudes Completely can there be any hope.They are the problem.
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AnaMaría
3:01 am
Jan 10, 2013
Really that kind of people seems to be the eye on their necks. Palestinian children are condemned for life into ignorance and distorted view of reality. They like to shape them as sociopaths, that’s a repulsive case of collective abuse of their entire child population. Brutality and bad taste for useless humans…
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