Israel Daily News Stream 04/22/2012
April 22, 2012 13:31 by Pesach BensonIranian Atomic Urgency
• CNN’s Christiane Amanpour interviewed Defense Minister Ehud Barak about the Iranian nuclear threat. In Part 1, Amanpour’s fixated on an Iranian fatwa banning nuclear weapons (ooooh) while Barak gets testy on the issue of Israel and the US sharing the same view on intelligence assessments.
In Part 2, Barak is irritated when Amanpour gets hung up on the nuance of whether Ahmadinejad expressed his desire to either wipe Israel off the face of the map — or — to simply remove the unnatural Zionist entity. The conversation eventually turns to the Syrian uprising.
Arab Spring Winter
• An encouraging sign: Syrian opposition leader Nofal Al-Dalawibi was interviewed by Israel Radio.
Dalawibi’s interview marked the potential beginning of a change from that mindset, should the Syrian opposition struggle prevail. When asked about the “fear that many Israelis have” that Islamic forces may occupy the political vacuum in Syria if Assad falls — and what effect that would have on Syria’s relationship with Israel — Dalawibi replied that the Syrian people do not want any more fighting. Syrian civilians have been left out of the political process for over 40 years and they only want peace, he added.
Dalawibi was speaking by telephone from Paris to Israel Radio’s Arab Affairs Correspondent Eran Zinger. Portions of the recorded interview, conducted in Arabic and translated into Hebrew for listeners, were released Friday and Saturday.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• Two Israeli naval commandos injured aboard the Mavi Marmara talked about the incident for the first time. YNet writes:
Meanwhile, Y. also landed on the deck. “As I was sliding down the rope, I saw a group of people fighting. I had no choice, as I couldn’t climb back up. So I kept sliding down and saw four or five terrorists waiting for me there, armed with clubs, metal pipes and chairs. I came down, and they immediate started to beat me up, focusing on my head. I was wearing a military helmet, but they got it off, shattered it and started to pulverize me with blows to the head. While doing it, they started pulling me towards the edge of the deck, in order to throw my overboard.”
Seconds after landing on the Marmara’s deck, his left arm was completely crushed and remained hanging from his shoulder. Y. managed to pull out his handgun with his other hand and fired at the legs of his assailants.
“At that moment, I spotted one of our soldiers on the other side of the deck, with two terrorists standing above him and beating him up; he was bleeding on the floor. So I fired at the two terrorists and brought them down.”
How did you know who’s a terrorist and who’s an innocent civilian?
“There was no problem identifying them. The terrorists wore orange life vests, protective vests, and gas masks. All of them were equipped with cold arms. This is not what innocent peace activists look like.”
By this time, A. also managed to pull out his handgun. “The moment the assailants saw that I was holding a gun and waving it, they got away. I then looked up and saw another terrorist with a handgun aiming at a member of my squad. At that moment I opened fire at him and finished him off. I went back and saw that the terrorists who were on top of me earlier were now fighting my comrades. I opened fire at another one who jeopardized another soldier and took him down.”
• NY Times correspondent Isabel Kershner visits the Arava Power Company, “now the leading commercial developer of solar power in Israel.” Its 18,600 solar panels are generating electricity and now international investors:
“God could not have invented a better place to do solar power,” he said during a recent tour.
• The UK just can’t get rid of Al-Qaida cleric Abu Qatada. It may take another 12-18 months to resolve whether he can be deported to Jordan. Details at The Guardian and Daily Mail.
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Frank Adam
4:20 pm
Apr 22, 2012
This is proof from Arab mouths of what has only been surmised from Arab actions; that ever since their defeat in 1948 The Arab parties to the Arab vendetta with Israel, have only sought a re-run of 1948 hoping to to win and drive all Jewish and Christian Israelis into the sea – or at best back to Europe forgetting that most Israelis are in families that fled the Arab World.
OK! but then come another 1948 re-play: what if Israel this time instead of being optimistic liberals does assimilate the customs of the Arab region to treat all Moslem Arabs West of the River Jordan like Arabs would treat Jews ??? Everybody qv Masaryk’s comment, gets the Jews and trade unions they deserve. Why should Arabs be an exception???
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EmJay
4:41 pm
Apr 22, 2012
Re: the story on Eisner vs the “great dane” Ias:
Below is a recent video clip on You Tube of how the Danish police treat the protesters in Copenhagan. It’s about 9min. long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpeiNso-Lqw
Whenever the Eisner story gets talked about, or the 90sec. You Tube of the attack is shown, make sure this video clip is also presented alongside. So that intelligent people can make their own deductions about what is actually going on.
The unpublished story here really is: why did “the great dane” participate in a protest in Samaria rather than engage in a protest at home? Can it be that he understands that there are very real consequences of his protest actions? For instance, is there a price attached to protesting in the streets of Copenhagen that he is not willing to pay? Can it be that he understands that participating in a protest amongst perceived underdogs can bring him the reward of fame? It’s the same mindset that sends “missionaries” abroad from their home country. There is a saying that those who can’t make it amongst their peers, go to the underdogs! Examine “the great dane’s” live. Has it been a life of failure to achieve approval, acceptance, acknowledgement, attention at home — amongst family, peers, cohorts?
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BUTSeriously
3:07 am
Apr 23, 2012
The M/E conflict source is here, and no one wants to confront it:
“THE CORRUPTION OF THE BALFOUR MANDATE BY BRITAIN IS THE WORST POST-W.W.II CRIME OF ALL.”
The silence by the world’s Christians resulted in legitimizing on-going atrocities of a 3-state presented as a 2-state [poor math] and transferring the name Palestinian held by Jews exclusively for 2000 years on to Muslims who are panting for another H [poor history].
Signs & omens are this is backfiring on those who have resorted to the VE VERE NOT AVARE syndrome – they have surely shackled the hands of their Lord. Eurabia is happening and the Islamist regimes are crumbling from within.
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batya dagan
4:57 am
May 02, 2012
What should a terrorist do? He has all this time on his hands , no walls to stop him , certainly no woral walls to stop him so he goes back to what he does best – terror. In jail he will be taken care off and life will not be so bad after all.
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