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• JTA: A former International Criminal Court prosecutor will advise the Argentinian Jewish umbrella organization still looking for justice after the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community’s Buenos Aires headquarters. They’re trying to thwart an Iranian-Argentinian “truth commission.” See also Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer’s take:
I hope I’m wrong about this, but the end result of this so-called Argentina-Iran “truth commission” will be a finding saying that a handful of low-level Iranian officials were involved in the case, which allows Iran’s regime to claim it didn’t have anything to do with it, and Argentina to claim it has solved the case.
That would amount to a big blow to justice, and an insult to the memory of the 85 Jews and non-Jews who died in the terrorist attack.
• Very nice praise for Israel in the Cyprus Mail. Theodore Panayotou (no slouch himself) explains “Why Israel succeeds and Cyprus fails” in terms of innovation and entrepreneurship.
In Israel, an insatiable questioning of authority and an anti-hierarchical ethos dominates political and economic life. In Cyprus the ‘deification’ of power and hierarchy dominates all aspects of life.
• Egypt received delivery of four US-made F-16 fighter jets. According to a statement from the US embassy in Cairo, the four are part of a group of 20 jets to be sent to Egypt by the end of this year. Business Week says uneasy US lawmakers are questioning the deal.
• Egypt reverts to the lowest common denominator. A member of the secular/anarchist “Black Bloc” is under arrest for his involvement in what authorities are describing as an Israeli-directed sabotage plan.
(Image of textbooks via Flickr/albertogp123)
For more, see yesterday’s Israel Daily News Stream.
Gary Katz
7:22 pm
Feb 04, 2013
So does Abby (not Dear) Martin really believe that Israel employs death camps, kills anyone who hides a Palestinian, forces Palestinians into slave labor and performs cruel medical experiments on them? Does she have evidence of an Israeli krystallnacht in the West Bank? If so, she’s ignorant. If not, she’s merely a liar. Probably both.
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batya dagan
9:27 pm
Feb 04, 2013
Does Israel have gulags? Did she kill millions to steal their grain? Russia committed so many crims against its own people that it has no right to even talk about other countries make belief crimes.
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David Guy
9:32 pm
Feb 04, 2013
What Jewish owned press is Steve Bell refering to? Aside from the Jewish Chronicle what media in Britain is owned by Jews? Seems to me this is not just trite but a blantant attempt to recycle the antisemitic meme that Jews control the Media.
Wish they did.
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Steve
10:11 pm
Feb 04, 2013
Pretty lady. Pretty uneducated! Pretty prejudiced! Pretty stupid! Maybe a pretty good actor but with pretty devious intentions. Should stick with modeling agencies because she just is not pretty bright!!!!
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Gary Katz
10:27 pm
Feb 04, 2013
Steve, imagine if you were married to her and had to listen to her constantly nagging you.
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Vitali
10:16 pm
Feb 04, 2013
Please, do not pay attention on those, the weak-minded and ignorant idiots who will shout about Israel. They desperately want to catch your attention. You haven’t look at them. They deserve only scorn
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shloime
5:22 pm
Feb 05, 2013
no!
it was weak-minded and ignorant idiots who led the national socialist party to power in 1933.
while the “smart” people just ignored them.
lies must be disproved before they become “common knowledge”.
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Steve
10:38 pm
Feb 04, 2013
Gary,,
That would be worse than torture. She’s waaaaay too demonstrative. In reality, laughable because one just cannot take someone like that too seriously.
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Gary Katz
10:43 pm
Feb 04, 2013
Ha ha! I can just picture her yelling and jumping around like in her video, “Why haven’t you taken out the garbage?! Are you going to just sit around, watching the ball game? You’re worse than an Israeli!”
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emes
12:23 am
Feb 05, 2013
…..and where did hitler learn his methods if not from the Russian pogroms, the partition of Poland, the Pale of Settlement, Jews in before the Revolutions – I could go on with a more detailed description of the abominations which Russia executed; as Ivan the Terrible decreed that if the Jews would not embrace Christianity then drowning was their lot and Jews were officially excluded from Russian territory until the partition of Poland in the late eighteenth century – Even in the 1980′s a Jew in Russia was ‘owned,’ a property of the State – oh, but that is child’s play according to the rantings of Abby Martin, Palestinians are far from being owned, they can go when they like from Israel.
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Ofra BenDavid
3:48 am
Feb 05, 2013
I liked all the comments that you all made, Martin and her twisted mind got what she deserved from you all, thank you for standing for Israel and G-d bless you all.
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Gary Katz
3:55 am
Feb 05, 2013
Ofra, thanks; same to you! We really trashed her, didn’t we, heh heh! She had it coming, though. Maybe the key to combating her kind of stupidity is to fight back with humor, as razor sharp as necessary.
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Carole63
10:04 pm
Feb 05, 2013
The only democratic nation in the Middle East, that`s Israel! Where does she get her information from? Probably all the muslim nut-jobs! They are good liars!
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Steve
11:08 pm
Feb 05, 2013
Shloime is correct about Germany in 1933 and is not wrong about disproving lies.
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anneinpt
6:11 pm
Feb 06, 2013
The link to the article about Sarah Honig in the Irish Independent is incorrect. Here is the correct link:
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/columnist-targeted-by-antisemitic-hate-mail-29045984.html
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