Israel Daily News Stream 05/01/2012
May 1, 2012 14:46 by Pesach BensonIranian Atomic Urgency
• James Fallows and Jeffrey Goldberg are debating whether war with Iran is imminent.
• Why Israeli Challenges to Netanyahu on Iran May Help Obama’s Nuclear Diplomacy
Arab Spring Winter
• The Gaza aid convoy spearheaded by George Galloway is splitting apart because the overland route passes through Syria. The Times of London (paywall) reports:
In February, leaked e-mails between Mr Galloway and President Assad’s media adviser were published in which he referred to the Syrian President as “His Excellency” and the Baathist state as “the last bastion of Arab dignity”.
The Syrian Government has responded brutally to a popular uprising in the country, leaving more than 9,000 dead and leading to widespread diplomatic condemnation. Opponents say that the Viva Palestina mission will lend credence to the regime.
The move has caused a rift with other groups due to take part in the convoy, two of which have pulled out in protest at the “sudden and unilateral decision” by the UK group’s sister charity Viva Palestinia Arabia to travel via Syria . . . .
Abdul Wahab el-Sayed Omar, of British Solidarity for Syria, said: “They could easily go through Egypt instead. The only explanation I can see is that this is a propaganda move aimed at helping the Syrian regime.”
Rest O’ the Roundup
• The IDF’s building a security barrier near Metulla to protect the border town from Hezbollah gunfire. The Jerusalem Post says Israel’s coordinating construction with UNIFIL. Meanwhile, YNet reports that Hezbollah has boosted it’s own drone unit. I wonder what UNIFIL has to say about that . . .
Hezbollah is equipped with Ababil (“Swallow”) drones, which are manufactured and provided by Iran.
The Ababil has several models, including one that can carry a warhead packed with several dozens of kilograms of explosives.
Defense establishment officials expressed concern that Hezbollah would be able to send multiple drones into Israel’s airspace and have them crash into targets in the country’s north.
• Israel’s jobless jumped after the Central Bureau of Statistics changed the way it surveys the nation’s labor market. The first quarter jobless rate is 6.7 percent, compared to 5.4 percent last quarter using the previous system. More at Reuters.
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sharon gordon
5:22 pm
May 01, 2012
Thank G-d for you guys: your fresh, humourous approach is a pleasure to read and a comfort to me when so many people in the country where I live express their strong, highly ignorant opinions!!
I live i Spain and, as you know; Spain is (along with the UK) Israel’s most vocal aggressor. Its people know nothing about Jews, it doesn’t even recognise its history and its debt to the Jews. There is a negligable Jewish population (unlike the UK, where these anti-Israel haters are forced to control their opinions, and there are many counter opinions) but in Spain, as most have never even met a Jew, so these Spanish pseudo intellectuals go unchallenged. They never hear nor want to hear anything about the history of Israel and are willing to believe all that the mass media tell them in regard to the ‘bad;wicked’ state of Israel. I am often alone arueing Israel’s case…. Any chance you guys could take on the Spanish media?
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Robert Skole
5:27 pm
May 01, 2012
I support Honest Reporting and you do a great job. But the format of theb Daily News Stream is horrible. Why can’t you have a simple, one-page report? It’s widely done. No click here, click for forward, click to page 2. . Not all readers have super-modern, super-fast computers and connections. Why do you waste space with a meaningless illustration? You do not gain readers by making it difficult to read your report.
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Samir S. Halabi
6:58 pm
May 01, 2012
A few weeks ago I was in Southern Spain just for a few days break, I was walking along a street minding my own business when two Spaniards for some unknown reason started to attack me, I don’t know whether it was because they thought I was an Arab or a Jew, however what they didn’t notice was that since my last attack by some north Africans I now keep a massive canine weighing in excess of 100kg and standing to his shoulders at around 90c/m protector/bodyguard & trained especially by the Russian Military in self-defence tactics as my personal companion where ever I go. It so happened that before I was even had a chance to defend myself against those thugs, my dog was on them, he just knocked both of them to the ground, there they stayed and never even moved a millimetre, the police I have to say were very quickly on the scene, the two men were known to them as troublemakers, the police did in fact apologize to me, somehow they knew I was Jewish, they also praised my dog for looking after me the way he did, they were very interested in him and wanted to know what breed of canine he was.
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suzette ross
10:18 pm
May 01, 2012
I must say Honest Reporting I don’t find the same problems as Robert….I love the Daily News Streams. Thanks for keeping us up to date and informed.
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Lisa
2:12 am
May 03, 2012
‘McClatchy Newspapers’ Arab pro-Islamism outrageous “writers”
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‘Thugs’ attack Islamists outside Egypt’s Defense Ministry, killing 11
By NANCY A. YOUSSEF AND AMINA ISMAIL
McClatchy Newspapers
May 2, 2012
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/05/02/147471/thugs-attack-islamists-outside.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/02/2780028/thugs-attack-islamists-outside.html
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To the Arab pro-Islamism writers: Nancy A. Youssef and Amina Ismail!
How dare you call anti-Islamists anti-Totalitarianists anti-Muslim-brotherhood as “thugs,” what are the MB in your opinion? What are these Islanists thugs that call to eliminate Christians and Jews? “modearae good-guys,” in your opinion? Do you or do you not know Slafists’ hatred latest calls? Do you not know what Muslim Brotherhood ‘most important’ “spiritial” leader Al-Qaradawi preaches the dehumainazation of non-Muslims as ‘apes and pigs’?
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Galloway trying to prop up Assad with Gaza convoy | ISRAEL TRIBUNE
3:02 am
May 03, 2012
[...] trying to prop up Assad with Gaza convoy May 3, 2012By adminHonest Reporting notes an article in The Times of London: The Gaza aid convoy spearheaded by George Galloway is [...]
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