Iranian Revolutionary Guards Set Up Shop in Gaza
February 26, 2013 18:14 by Pesach Benson
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Today’s Top Stories
1. Palestinians buried their newest “martyr,” Arafat Jaradat. This Washington Post snippet brings back memories of the previous intifada, when Big Media danced around the implausible deniability of Arafat/Fatah/Al-Aqsa Brigades ties:
Thousands joined the funeral procession, which was punctuated by shots fired by masked gunmen of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. A statement by the group distributed to the crowd vowed to avenge Jaradat’s death. “We promise the Zionist occupation that we will respond to this crime,” it said.
But Abbas sounded a different note in remarks at his headquarters in Ramallah, urging Palestinians not to be swept up in a cycle of deadly confrontation with the Israelis.
2. According to Israeli media reports, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have set up shop in Gaza
These representatives are expert missile builders who moved to the coastal territory to help Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants develop long-range missiles.
Israel security and diplomatic sources have confirmed the Iranian presence, but would not release any more information.
3. Iran and the world powers are meeting in Kazakhstan for another round of nuclear talks. Judging from Reuters, you can already write this one off.
But with the Islamic Republic’s political elite pre-occupied with worsening internal infighting ahead of a June presidential election, few believe the meeting Tuesday and Wednesday in the Kazakh city of Almaty will yield an immediate breakthrough.
4. The NY Daily News Disinfects BDS. Newspaper staff-ed slams Omar Barghouti after giving him a platform to explain the BDS movement.
5. Gaza Rocket Strikes Israel . . . But What’s the Photo? Great headline, lousy image.
Israel and the Palestinians
• First Gaza rocket since November truce hit Ashkelon. Jerusalem Post coverage.
• Fatah: Palestinian Authority supports escalating popular resistance
• Palestinian groups are putting pressure on a British security firm, G4S, for providing services to the Israeli Prisons Authority. More at Sky News.
• For more commentary/analysis on the violence, see Martin Fletcher of NBC News, Dan Margalit, American Thinker, a Jerusalem Post staff-ed, Ron Ben-Yishai, Christian Science Monitor, Richard Baehr. Last but not least, there’s The Commentator.
• Elliott Abrams on John Kerry’s obsession with the peace process. It’s based on this Haaretz report.
• A commentary in the Washington Times raises a new issue with this month’s controversial study of Israeli and Palestinian textbooks:
. . . the researchers decided not to examine religious passages found in textbooks, claiming that one cannot criticize the Koran or the Bible. This methodological decision meant that the report excluded texts such as the following: “God’s Messenger said: ‘The Hour of Resurrection will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews. The Muslims will kill them, and when a Jew would hide behind a rock or a tree the rock or the tree would say: “O Muslim, O worshipper of God! There is a Jew behind me; come and kill him”’” (“Noble Hadith and Its Studies,” Grade 11, 1996, p. 200).
Excluding religious verses from research led to the misleading notion that the Palestinian textbooks are devoid of outright incitement. Unfortunately, these types of omissions cause the authors to distort the problematic picture that the study supposedly attempted to fix.
• Academic freedom, hate speech, Israel-bashing, gay rights, and pinkwashing (what’s pinkwashing?) are colliding at City University of New York. If you thought Brooklyn College’s BDS event was noxious, CUNY’s event may be even more so. Alan Dershowitz took it on in a NY Post op-ed.
• An Open Letter to George Galloway (from the humiliated debate organizer). See also Vivian Bercovici’s BDS take down in the Toronto Star.
- For Israel’s last military attache in Tehran, “Argo” is kids stuff
- Canadian peacekeeper disappears on Israeli-Syrian border
- Is Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah being treated for cancer
Tony Cotton
6:52 pm
Feb 26, 2013
Is it not an act of war for Iran to have troops in Gaza making rockets?
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Aisha2
8:02 pm
Feb 26, 2013
Stop talking. Bomb their asses.
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Moll
8:05 pm
Feb 26, 2013
RE: Story #1: Mosab Hassan Yousef (born 1978) in Ramallah, Samaria, is the eldest son of a Hamas founder and leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef. From 1997 to 2007, he worked undercover for Israel. He wrote about what he discovered in his book ‘Son of Hamas’. He writes that in the Israeli prisons, the arab prisoners were torturing fellow arabs. Jaradat died of the torture he endured from the hands of fellow arabs. When his lawyer writes that in Court, when Jaradat HEARD that he was to be kept in jail for a few more days, he turned to his lawyer, shaking with fear. What Jaradat feared was the torture he knew would continue from his own kind — fellow arabs being kept in jail with him.
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rhoneyman
5:12 pm
Feb 27, 2013
Moll:
1. Why would his fellow inmates torture him unless they suspected he was an Israeli collaborator?
2. Whether he was a collaborator or not, why wouldn’t Israeli guards intervene and isolate a prisoner subject to physical mistreatment as soon as they became aware of it?
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batya dagan
4:42 am
Feb 27, 2013
Why is our media so in love with the worst of humanity -if one can call terrorists who kill for fun and Allah humanity?
Is there a hidden admirartion of what they do ? Do some in the media wish to be able to do the same to Jews and Coptics and children ?
Why is the media so uncritical when telling us that the Gaza murderers shot yet another missile
into Israel, just like that, whomever dies, dies?
What part of the brain can blame the victim again and again and yet again?
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