Israel Daily News Stream 05/02/2012
May 2, 2012 14:51 by Alex Margolin
Everything you need to know about today’s media coverage of Israel and the Mideast.
Another Israeli security official comes out against attacking Iran. How do Israeli soldiers compare to UN peacekeepers? And do pro-Palestinian activists have to be anti-Israel as well?
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Israel and the Palestinians
• The IDF officially closed its investigation into the 2009 shelling of a home in Gaza that killed many members of a single Palestinian family.
In its findings, the Israeli military said its investigation “totally refuted” allegations that the incident was a war crime. It denied the building was deliberately targeted or that soldiers acted recklessly.
Following the war, a U.N. report accused Israel of deliberately attacking civilians in its campaign against Hamas militants. The report’s lead author, South African jurist Richard Goldstone, later questioned that finding, although the report was never modified or withdrawn.
• Tensions in mixed cities rising over plans for new construction dedicated to the National Religious.
Just as in other mixed cities, such as Jaffa and Acre, national religious groups are moving to Lod in growing numbers, buying apartments, setting up schools and yeshivas and adding thousands of committed new residents. Their goal is clear: to shore up the Jewish community and prevent the emergence of an Arab majority.
“There was a time when the main goal for us was to go and live in a settlement. Today, there is another goal and that is to reinforce all the cities inside Israel,” says Aaron Attias, the head of a new yeshiva in the old city of Lod and the man who sparked the national religious resurgence in the city.
• Anti-Israel academic Ilan Pappe and Peace Now head Yariv Oppenheimer offer differing opinions on the possibility a two-state solution. The Toronto Star article also includes an illuminating snippet involving Yossi Beilin, a key figure in the Oslo Accords.
Although Beilin maintained that a two-state solution was still possible, he wrote an open letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asking him to disband the Palestinian Authority and set up by Oslo as an interim administration until the Palestinians gain statehood through peace negotiations.
The result would put Israel in formal control of all Palestinian territory as an occupying power, thus inviting international criticism.
• The Institute for National Security Studies published a 3-page report on Palestinian discourse on social media. Worth reading.
Iranian Atomic Urgency
• IDF Intelligence head Shlomo Gazit joins the chorus of security leaders warning against an attack on Iran, saying that Iran would rebuild anything Israel destroyed and gain diplomatic legitimacy.
sandy lesberg
4:35 pm
May 02, 2012
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Dr Arthur M Blank
5:44 pm
May 02, 2012
I’m in favour of one State – Israel. The Palestinian State is already a reality. It’s called Jordan. Gaza should be absorbed by Egypt and may they all prosper and leave us alone!
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steve mann
6:08 pm
May 02, 2012
I agree with completely- But no one wants to talk about it-!
It appears not even the Israeli government. Why-?
After all King Abdullah and his Hashem people have less connection with what was the mandated land, even than the refugees created by his father.
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Tony
7:10 pm
May 02, 2012
Sandy,,
You got me baffeled here,, A 3 State Solution??? Israel is already a state.and where it BELONGS,,,But Gaza and Palestine?? Where would Palestine be,?? and who would live there?? As you “obviously” know I’m Sure,”????”,Gaza Was part of Egypt,, But after the 6 day war when Israel Vanquished all the Arab states that dared attack her, Egypt Relinquished Gaza to Israel,, In other words,, They left Israel to deal with the Palestinian Problem.,,and although Israel moved into Gaza,and built kibbutzim,which they then left and handed to the Palestinians,so they could ,at least start a LIFE But ,they decided to ,turn Gaza into a Terrorist training camp,,etc, But If we base these facts on History, then Egypt should be the Homeland for the Palestinians,,no?
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jimmy
6:36 pm
May 02, 2012
Remember there are no occupied territories. Israel is administering the same former Palestine territories that Jordan and Britain did before.
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Tony
6:58 pm
May 02, 2012
I heard recently that Egypt was ready to give citizenship to all Palestinians in Egypt?? GOOD,, why not give them The Sinai too to build their Future state??:)
As to Pro-Palestinian Activists,,,We are having Presidential elections here at the moment in France, and its getting real Hot,, I mean the debates between the Right and Left, etc,etc,, But On Monday there were Mass meetings for the candidates,,all over Paris,,to not only celebrate these Political Presidential debates But also for the 1st May, A Workers Holiday were syndicats get out on the streets and shout and yell their Grievences,,,and One Groupe of Far Left Schmucks , that only got 3% votes, decided to Stage an ANTI ISRAEL Manifestation.which as you so rightly put it,,” Do Pro Palestinians have to be Anti Israel.
That certainley is a question well worth asking these JEW AND ANTI ISRAEL HATERS.ITS A VERY PERTINANT QUESTION;
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Bob Poplar
8:07 pm
May 02, 2012
Israel uses more restraint than you and I would in dealing with terrorists who were our neighbors. When you consider that their strategy is well announced. I head on BBC a Palestinian spokesman attempting to justify their barbaric behavior saying “if we had airplanes to use as bombers we would use them, we use what we have.” Why the press continues to take sides with them is based on Oil revenues that are making some radicals in the Arab World very rich. Obviously the Royals are made more rich and that’s what this is all about. Most of the Israelis are at sympathy with the Palestinian people but what can they do if their rulers do nothing. 50 years in the camps and centuries before on the run. Also, weren’t their ancestors the so called “Barbary Pirates” centuries ago. What a heritage to come from. No wonder the “sob-sisters” are supporting them.
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