Israel Daily News Stream 03/15/2012
March 15, 2012 14:58 by Pesach Benson
Everything you need to know about today’s media coverage of Israel and the Mideast.
Sporadic rocket fire continues from Gaza. Papers publish Assad’s leaked emails. Two polls draw polar opposite conclusions about American support for an Israeli attack on Iran. But why?
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Israel and the Palestinians
• HonestReporting’s exposure of the UN connection for Khulood Badawi’s false photo tweets continues drawing media scrutiny. Sheera Frenkel of McClatchy News picked up on the story.
• Despite truce, sporadic Palestinian rocket fire continues. Schools closed in Be’er Sheva, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Kiryat Malakhi and Gan Yavneh. Details at Haaretz. Today, a rocket landed a few meters from a school in Netivot while students were learning. Nobody was hurt, but parents rushed to bring their kids home.
More on today’s rockets at YNet, Haaretz, and JPost.
Netivot cleans up after rocket last night. One Israeli was injured.
• Daniel Schwammenthal (The Commentator) fisks The Economist‘s take on Israel’s “Auschwitz complex.” At least the magazine apologized for the original inappropriate headline.
• The Netherlands won’t approve EU report on Israeli settlers
George Hale
• Still pinning your hopes on a Palestinian Spring? See Newsweek, where George Hale buries any lingering illusions. Leading moderates are bailing out of Gaza before Hamas comes looking for them. Hale is an editor at Maan News.
Several prominent critics of Hamas have departed the Gaza Strip in recent weeks, relocating abroad nearly one year since grassroots activists launched a popular movement to democratize Palestinian politics and re-unite the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
The failure of the so-called March 15 movement to end the division between Fatah and Hamas has wreaked havoc on freedom of speech and the press for residents of the occupied territories, who continue to be ruled by rival regimes. The news agency I work for, Maan, is no exception.
Read the rest of the article for Hale’s observations on Gaza’s atrocious press freedom.
Iranian Atomic Urgency
• Two surveys released this week show polar opposite results. One puts American support for an Israeli attack on Iran at 25 percent, the other at 62 percent. Why such divergence? It’s all in the question.
ADmiral Robert Lewis O'Dell Birdwell
6:39 pm
Mar 15, 2012
There is a Very Good Reason that the News is Focusing on the iranian Attacks on Our Simple Mindset that there will never Be another Auswitz, in My Mind the only reason it could have been denied By Ahmadinejads Gravy smeared face in the Media is because He is already on Fire with The Abbyss and Khoemaeini’s right behind Him with their Fools in Their Midst. The alst thing that Babylon needs is to look Stupid but its already too late they are Doomed already. God Bless all Of Our Mossy Oaks Society and Our Passover Celebrations are to be Fullfilled by This navember in My Michaels-Elijahs calender too. I Love The Spiritual Kingdom of Israel its my Home. King David aprooves of Our Efforts, With Emanuel in Control We are 1 with The Father, Forever. God Bless and Shalloam.
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Nathan Zafran
7:11 pm
Mar 15, 2012
Dear “Admiral”,
I would have liked to give my reaction to your message. So PLEASE have it written the next time in ENGLISH.
Thanks.
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jeb stuart
2:50 am
Mar 16, 2012
I want to thank Honest Reporting for running the story on the Israeli settler attacks. Israel will face a credibility problem if either the settler attacks are not investigated and proven to be somehow justified; or if unjustified must be reigned in by the Israeli government which has taken some measures to stop the violence. We need more info about the Israeli governments good acts because the other side has plenty of ink to exagerate any incident. The situation where a 23 year old Palestinian woman is shot having made no overt threat by Israeli soldiers if true in all the details should be investigated. We know there are false stories being run, photos that reinvent violence where there is none. But real perspective is needed or the charges Israel is an apartheid state will begin to stick and that will do much harm. Once the propaganda mills get going every incident gets magnified ten fold. This is a situation I am sure the Israeli government, can bring to a good conclusion. I also know the American press is ommissive when the shoe is on the other foot.
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