Israel Daily News Stream 03/06/2012
March 6, 2012 15:25 by Pesach BensonIsrael and the Palestinians
• Efraim Karsh looks at the Mideast’s real apartheid.
• For the first time since Hamas took over Gaza, Israel is allowing Gazans to export goods to the West Bank. More at Haaretz.
• I liked how thoroughly McGill Students for Israel denounced Israel Apartheid Week.
Arab Spring Winter
• AFP/Now Lebanon report that the Syrian army is turning its attention to Rastan, a rebel-controlled city located between Homs and Hama.
• The Belfast Telegraph rounds up Big Media reports on Syrian atrocities.
Refugees fleeing though farmland from marauding Syrian troops have claimed forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad are committing war crimes against civilians in Homs, slitting the throats of children and slaughtering their victims “like sheep”.
• Egypt’s pipeline carrying gas to Israel and Jordan was blown up by Sinai Islamists. Haaretz says it’s the 12th such attack.
• The first scandal for Egypt’s new parliament made for a great San Francisco Chronicle headline:
Rest O’ the Roundup
• The New Yorker examines radical and extremist tendencies within the Israeli body politic.
• Shimon Peres meets Mark Zuckerberg today at Facebook’s headquarters to launch the president’s personal page. Don’t miss Peres’ online townhall meeting.
(Image of Obama and Netanyahu via The White House/Lawrence Jackson, Rastan via Wikimedia Commons)
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Frank Adam
6:38 pm
Mar 06, 2012
If Israel really does have 200 Nukes – or 400 – it has enough to ruin the Arab World and Iran – holy cities and Al Ahzar Moslem university included. So we are back to Cold War MAD, and the ayatollahs do want to survive to inflict their sad clericall fascist Twelver Shi’ism on the entire World.
Israel should NOT start this war as it will be hypocritically castigated and left to dry out economically boycotted and worse even if it is successful. Further the US will be damned as Israel’s patron whether they help Israel or not, which will not help Israel’s survival afterwards either.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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Yair
3:26 pm
Mar 07, 2012
Iran started this war long ago. Sooner or later we will need to finish it.
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Steve Edelman
9:17 pm
Mar 06, 2012
Israel should attack the Iranian Guard, the army of the Ayatollah.
The entire army is just open fodder for an air strike. The Generals
in their headquarters on down to the lowest rank could be wiped out
by one attack. The result would be the Ayatollah and his ruling puppets
would be without control and a FREE people will emerge. Then
Iran can be a legitimate nation, without them feeding the terrorist
organizations in the Middle East,….Peace may be attained.
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Jacob T Chachkes, M.D.
11:32 pm
Mar 06, 2012
IF the ‘Guard’ is as vulnerable as you say, admirable idea. Wonder how Khamani might react? Or the rest of the Shiite world? IMHO good beginning. Potential Armageddon no matter what is or is not done, IMHO. Do not know how the Muslims of the world might react, given the reaction to burning the Qur’an.
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Steve Edelman
12:23 am
Mar 07, 2012
Based upon U.S.Military reports, The Revolutionary Guard is vulnerable.
Many of our Generals want to do this with the U.S.A.F. The Iranian Nuclear program
would have no value without a military. There have been many reports of an uprising of the Iranian people, but the boot of the guard has always stopped it. Without the Guard, The Shiites
would be free from the Thugocracy. of the Ayatollah and the Sunnis and the other Muslims.
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Len Kurtz
7:05 pm
Jun 17, 2012
It is all just a game. U.S. doctrine: war is better than peace for business. The U.S. wants a strong Israel up to a point. When it gets too strong or dominating, the U.S. starts the demonization wheel going. It does not want complete Israeli victory because that would be bad for business. It does not want an Israel defeat because it needs it to keep the situation in the Middle East agitated, again good for business. It is a balancing act to keep Israel in the forefront in the Middle East. Those really in power in U.S. have no love for Israel. It’s all business. Obama is just a tool; just like George W. Bush. Who is in power? Just consider those that benefit the most from chaotic situation
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