Israel Daily News Stream 04/17/2012
April 17, 2012 14:29 by Pesach BensonIranian Atomic Urgency
• Reacting to Laura Rozen‘s inside coverage of the nuclear talks, Lenny Ben-David says Catherine Ashton gave Iran some freebies.
• CNN‘s Kevin Flower pounds the pavement at Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market, getting man-in-the-shuk comments about Western nuclear talks with Iran.
• In a WSJ op-ed (via Google News) German editor Josef Joffe deconstructs Gunter Grass.
Arab Spring Winter
• Latest reports put the death toll from Syria’s civil war at more than 11,100.
• Haaretz: Jordan’s parliament took the first steps towards banning the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party.
• Ain’t this sweet? Julian Assange’s talk show on Russia Today premieres tomorrow. The guest? Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah. He tells Assange he supports Assad because the regime is more supportive of the Palestinians:
Nasrallah, a freedom fighter to millions though a terrorist to the US, Israel, Canada and the Netherlands, says Assad’s regime “served the Palestinian cause very well.”
This is why Hezbollah supported the so-called Arab Spring in Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt and elsewhere, but when it came to Syria, Hezbollah urged the opposition to engage in dialog with President Bashar al-Assad.
• Mustafa Liddawi, the former Hamas official abducted in Damascus, was released. Maan News writes:
It was not immediately clear who was behind his capture.
His family said he was released late Monday night. They told Ma’an he was tortured during interrogation and taken to a hospital in al-Yarmouk.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• The Columbia Journalism Review gave a soapbox to an Iranian-born journalist who takes the CJR and Justin Martin to task over Martin’s flawed “jailed journalists per capita” statistic.
Allowing Mr. Martin to skewer the Jewish state using faulty statistics undermines CJR’s role as professional watchdog. But the harm done extends beyond journalistic standards. The ultimate impact of pieces like Mr. Martin’s is a softening of the reading public’s moral intuitions and sensitivities. By placing Israel on the same plane as the likes of Iran and Syria, Mr. Martin minimized the threats faced by journalists working under genuine authoritarianisms—not to mention the broader human rights catastrophes underway in these societies.
In Iran, where I was born and spent the first half of my life, journalists and writers are persecuted on a nearly industrial scale; dozens of outlets are shuttered every year. Just last month, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported, Nazanin Khosravani, a reformist writer, began serving a six-year sentence in Tehran’s nightmarish Evin prison for the crime of “propagating against the system”—a charge unheard of in Israel. But why should Western audiences care about these very real injustices when seemingly authoritative “statistics” show the West—including Israel and the U.S.—to be equally authoritarian? Mr. Martin thus challenged the common moral sense of his readers, distorting conclusions they would otherwise draw from straightforward reporting on the realities of practicing journalism in free and unfree societies. Will he earn a dart from CJR anytime soon?
• Some top Washington police officials were inspired after visiting their Israeli counterparts to learn and share ideas. AP writes:
Groomes in particular said she was struck by how quickly Israel, which has a national police force, can respond to a disaster and said the public there seems more accepting of the prevalent security precautions that are in place.
• Huffington Post Pulitzer winner: “You can do great journalism on any platform.” FYI, here’s a list of all the 2012 Pulitzer winners.
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Frank Adam
4:39 pm
Apr 17, 2012
The quick answer to all Arab calumnies about “wars of extermination” is what sort of extermination is it when the literally f—ing Arabs of Palestine have quadrupled their population since 1967 ????
The truth about Arabs is that they are very good at accusing everybody else of what they the Arabs want to do so as to disguise what the Arabs want to do – namely kill every Christian and Jew East of Istanbul and south of Malta.
It is time for every Israeli apologist and diplomat to accuse the Arabs of being out to conquer, expel and liquidate [communist smear in that word] every Christian and Jew. qv Egypt and Iraq besides Gaza and Bethlehem; and above all always say Christian first so that the audience takes the kick does not switch off.
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Paul Tenenbaum
5:29 pm
Apr 17, 2012
I have been saying for the longest time: Israel has certainly the smartest people in medecine, science, innovations and so may others, but they fail in matching or even improving on the Arab “propaganda”. The ARABS rely on what Josef Goebbels said long ago: tell lies and keep repeating them and EVENTUALLY people will believe.
Israel prefers acting like a gentleman.. WRONG. You fight fire with fire. There is plenty Israel can come up such as: what Arab state will really support the Palestinians. Outside of Jordan which other Arab state has helped those who fled, not all Arabs were kicked out.
So the first objective for Israel is to convince Europe of the truth even if it means to embellish same.Example: given the opportunity, Arab women will prefer Israeli hospitals over their own.
This was true many years ago and it is still true TODAY. And there is so much more.
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Len Kurtz
3:42 am
Jun 21, 2012
War of extermination? Only one problem; where are the innocent victims of that extermination?
Arab propaganda too effective? No. It assumes that those to whom it is directed are not Jew haters. But they are and as a result the Arabs do not not have to work hard at it.
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