Israeli-Palestinian Talks Revealed
February 6, 2013 14:10 by Pesach Benson• For more commentary on the Israeli-Palestinian textbook tiff, see Ruthie Blum.
• Worth reading: Mali Reveals the Media’s Gaza Bias
Yet when it comes to Islamists in Gaza, suddenly all moral clarity disappears in an avalanche of clichéd images and headlines ignoring the most basic truths. France can launch military attacks about 2,000 miles south of its border in response to an Islamist threat that endangers nobody in France, but Israel is vilified if it responds militarily to deadly rocket attacks targeting its civilians from two miles to its south.
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• Caught on video: A Syrian national tried to whack Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a shoe during the Iranian leader’s visit to Cairo. YNet adds:
Ahmadinejad’s visit to al-Azhar, the highest religious institution in Egypt, was also not so well received, as several radical Muslim protestors blocked his path and prevented his and his entourage’s entry to the institution.
The guy with the shoe could just as easily have been a BBC sympathizer. AP reports that Iran detained more journalists the regime says are linked to the Beeb. The regime rounded up a bunch of BBC journos just a few days ago.
• Hmmmm. Argentina compares Britain in the Falklands to the Israeli occupation. Foreign Minister Hector Timerman even called British residents “settlers.” More at the Daily Telegraph.
• The Sydney Morning Herald and the Globe & Mail update on the Australian and Canadian angles to the Burgas bombing.
(Image of Ward via YouTube/DavidWardMP)
For more, see yesterday’s Israel Daily News Stream.
Tuvia Fogel
8:46 pm
Feb 06, 2013
Is it just a coincidence that Borzou Daragahi was born in Teheran?
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shloime
4:49 pm
Feb 07, 2013
most iranians, and especially those outside of the “islamic republic”, are generally not anti-semitic. most of those outside iran also despise and oppose the islamist regime.
there is no particular need or benefit to demonize people who might even be friendly to us.
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Gordon Ross
9:12 pm
Feb 06, 2013
Brit MP David Ward continues to work hard at scareing those who so desperately want to believe in the Israel/Jewish bogeyman. He should feel free to use whatever words he wishes, and we who know his game should feel free to use whatever words we wish to expose his motives.
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M.Sphardi
9:37 pm
Feb 06, 2013
There have been so many assassinations in the Arab world and the very word itself is of Arabic derivation that I find myself fearing for Pres. Obama’s safety. So often such events are blamed on Israel even though engineered by others. It would be a tragedy that Israel does not need. I wish him a safe trip, but I really would rather that he not come to Israel itself.
The US not needing Arab oil so much any more means that Israel may expect more objectivity on the part of the US State Department with its shamelessly legendary Arabist bent We hope foo that there won’t be any embarrassing, reflexive bowing to the Saudi royalty this time.
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Henry Federman
11:12 pm
Feb 06, 2013
The David Ward article, you could take that article and replace “The State of Israel” with “the Muslim states” plus a few other countries and that would fit just perfectly. There is a vast conspiracy from most Muslim countries supported by Saudi Arabian oil money that does exactly what you said about Israel . Maybe, just in case David Ward has time he could investigate Iran,et al, to find out about a “huge operation” against Israel .
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