Israel Daily News Stream 05/08/2012
May 8, 2012 15:42 by Alex Margolin
Everything you need to know about today’s media coverage of Israel and the Mideast.
Irish Justice Minister accuses Palestinian group of cyberbullying. Is the Arab Spring moving to Jordan? And what do Arabs really think about Iran?
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Israel and the Palestinians
• Binyamin Netanyahu pulls off surprise maneuver, cancelling early elections and bringing the Shaul Mofaz-led Kadima party into the government, securing a stable coalition for the next 18 months.
• House demolitions are back in the news thanks to a recent recommendation from the Shin Bet to demolish the homes of the murderers of the Fogel family last year. The killers stabbed five members of the family, including a four year old boy and a three month old girl. They are serving life sentences.
• Irish Justice Minister Allan Shatter accuses the Irish Palestinian Solidarity Group of “cyberbullying” after Irish folk group Dervish cancels show in Israel to honor cultural boycott of Israel.
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• In an LA Times op-ed Aaron David Miller outlines Barack Obama’s attitude towards an Israeli attack on Iran as a “very bad idea.”
No president could ever tell an Israeli prime minister not to defend the nation, but Obama made it as clear to Benjamin Netanyahu as any U.S. president could that a unilateral Israeli strike would be a very bad idea.
For Obama, an Israeli attack would mean higher oil and gasoline prices, roiled financial markets, regional tensions, a stalled American recovery and more attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan. And for what? At best, an Israeli strike would buy a year or two until Iran’s nuclear program would be back on track, this time with more international legitimacy and support from the Russians and Chinese.
• Ynet article looks at how Israel is fighting back on campuses in California, which are among the most anti-Israel campuses in America.
California, one of the most liberal and left-wing states in the US poses a particularly difficult challenge: Most of the universities here are anti-Israel among both professors and students. On the other hand, Los Angeles alone is the largest Israeli population center outside of Israel, and all the universities have a relatively high percentage of Jewish students. So there is a big vacuum.
Paul Tenenbaum
4:53 pm
May 08, 2012
I believe that Mr. Aaron Miller of the LA Times ought to expand his horizon of realities. If Israel with Netanyahu would attack the installations and this would have to be a well coordinated attack in conjunction with the the USA, what would the damage to Iran be?
In WWII when there were about 1000 allied planes bombing their targets we had results. If Israel manages to destroy one or more installations, Russia and China would be quick to replace them.
I wonder if Iran would be in the actual situation working on nuclear bomb today if Bush had not attacked Sadam Hussein an enemy of Iran and we eliminated him.
If, if, if. If we were able to consider consequences before a final decision much damage could be avoided.
Hindsight.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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Steve Edelman
6:35 pm
May 08, 2012
Hindsight makes everyone smart. If the weapons of mass destruction were not taken to Syria and
were found by our Military, the Leftist Media would find another cause to get rid of Bush.
Iraq and Iran will never live together in peace. That is not Hindsight, but fact. Iraq, when it gets on it’s feet, will be fighting Iran soon enough.
If Israel takes out Iranian installations with the sanction of the U.S.,
the Chinese and Russians could and I say could try and replace them. However that takes time, and there will be another President in the White House, who hopefully will have Middle East advisers that he will listen too. China and Russia will not replace, unless the U.S. President shows
weakness, like the present President.
It’s funny but reality is perceived, one way by the Republicans and another way by the Democrats
and the true way by History…….
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Anne Lesser
6:44 pm
May 08, 2012
I’m confused, the article on California universities indicated that students were not “anti-Jewish” but “antiZionist.” Does this not defy logic when historically the Zionist founders of Israel believed that the country should be free to all its inhabitants with religous freedom for all? This Zionist premise might also shed light on why some Jewish American students are “anti-Israel”, although I suspect they are not “anti-Israel” but are opposed to an Israeli government that is moving away from their founding fathers which is much like what is happening here in the US.
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Moll
12:18 am
May 09, 2012
I for one, am not upset to see the unrest, oppression, poverty, chaos, murderous maneuvering of the uncivilized tribal arabs, with arab-killing-arab, OR what is euphemistically being called “arab spring”, moving into more and more uncivilized countries. It keeps the tribal arabs busy establishing a pecking order amongst themselves. Scripture accurately identifies the ishmaelites as being a “wild ass of a man, with his fist in every man’s face, and every man’s fist against him…”(Genesis 16:12). Leaves very little “head-time” to be fomenting mischief into the civilized world. When the civilized world has had enough of these disruptive tribal people, just oust them — deport them, get rid of them. When in Rome, behave like Romans. You don’t like it, go back to where you came from.
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M.Sphardi
4:42 pm
May 13, 2012
After WWII, more than 15,000,000 displaced refugees moved without UNRWA and without the mendacious Goebbels’ propaganda that the liberal West has swallowed since the 1948 failure of the five Arab armies with British support. In revenge for their defeat, Arabs expelled Arab Jews and expropriated their abundant assets. These Jews now constitute more than half of Israel’s Jewish population, and after having survived in the Arab world for more than 2500 years, they are well equippped to deal with their neighbors in ways that confuse most Western Liberals.
By expressing their compassionate solidarity with the Palestinians, they only perpetuate the harm being done by the Arab intransigence and UNRWA humiliations. Liberal support not only buys the half truths of the Palestine tragedy, but perpetuates the already 64 years of misery for the Palestinians. As liberals, we become enablers, we perpetuate their misery.
Consider that Israel, faced with an even larger number of Arab Jewish refugees and with none of the vast resources of the Arab League, managed to absorb and nurture their refugees while the Arab world has done the very opposite and cruelly wasted Palestinian lives.
Liberals end up supporting the misery of the Palestinians by not examining all the relevant facts and history, thereby assuring the hostile Arabs that their cause is just. It must be discovered that there are TWO injustices:that of the Arab Jews who have made an adjustment in Israel and the Palestinians who have been persuaded that they don’t have to make an adjustment because the liberals and UNRWA have told them that they are right in their belief that a refugee is a refugee well into future generations, an astonishing definition. Fortunately, the US House and Senate will be clarifying that insidious definition this year by saying that a refugee is one who personally lost his domicile and NOT his heirs. So instead of today’s vaunted nearly 5,000,000 Palestinian refugees, there will be fewer than 50,000 of the original surviving refugees.
As a 1941-49 UCLA student, I’m embarrassed that our students are not learning to probe for all the relevant facts, to be critical thinkers.
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