Israel Daily News Stream 05/13/2012
May 13, 2012 13:55 by Pesach Benson
Everything you need to know about today’s media coverage of Israel and the Mideast.
Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike continues. Syrian media revels in arrival of Gaza aid convoy. Why is the Palestinian journalists’ union attacking free press?
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Israel and the Palestinians
• Worth reading: I was impressed with the nuance in the National Post‘s explanation on the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike.
• A staff-ed in The Observer (UK) supports Palestinian hunger strikers. The editors are entitled to their views, but nothing in the commentary supports this over-the-top headline:
• Hamas now has a 300-man force in Gaza foiling rocket attacks against Israel. Haaretz adds a caveat: the unit won’t act if Hamas decides that “Israel is the one who strikes first.”
• Worth reading: Clifford May (National Review) dissects the UNRWA’s debased definition of Who is a Palestinian Refugee? Why does the agency’s delineation matter?
By increasing the number of refugees, by maintaining that population in poverty, dependence, and anger, by understanding that the “right of return” will be demanded by some Palestinian leaders, UNRWA is helping the extremists to prevent peace and continue to wage a war of annihilation against Israel. This anti-peace policy is being funded largely by Americans: We’ve always been the largest donor to UNRWA, contributing about $4.4 billion since 1950.
• Not so great moments in Palestinian press freedom: Khaled Abu Toameh explains why the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate is punishing its members who meet with Israeli counterparts. What Toameh can’t explain, however, is why
The syndicate, dominated by Fatah and affiliated with the Palestinian Authority leadership in Ramallah, threatened sanctions against any Palestinian journalist who engages in “normalization” with Israel.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate functions more as a political body than a union that is supposed to defend the rights of its members.
The syndicate wants Palestinian journalists to serve as soldiers on behalf of the Palestinian cause. Journalists, according to the syndicate, should first and foremost be loyal to their president, prime minister, government, homeland and cause. As for the truth, it appears at the bottom of the syndicate’s list of priorities.
Toameh leaves unanswered the silence of international media and human rights groups.
• The Australian apologized for a recent Israeli apartheid headline critiqued by HonestReporting.
• Ehud Olmert to CNN: I was very close to reaching peace with the Palestinians, but right-wing US elements foiled my plans. Dore Gold (Israel HaYom) responds: Israel wasn’t as close to an agreement as the former PM implies:
In fact, when carefully examined, Olmert’s secret talks with Abbas should be seen as the latest proof that the fundamental gaps between the most maximal concession made by an Israeli prime minister did not meet the minimal requirements of Abbas for an agreement. This was not the first time that the myth of an impending Israeli-Palestinian breakthrough, that never happened, was widely promoted.
jeb stuart
4:11 pm
May 13, 2012
The insistent false reporting by the Guardian, is a clear demonstration of how bowed England has become by its Sharia Law factions and americans should take as a warning. First the high end figure of 1600 Palestinians is ridiculous perhaps as manyas 300 are involved in the hunger strike. Secondly, even if they were charged who is to say they would not still be on a hunger strike? They can’t achieve by violence what they want so now they are following the lead suggested by President Obama (2009, in speaking to the Islamic Palestinian community challenged, “Where is your Martin Luther King?” the problem is Reverand King had a much different end in mind and historically can proven to be pro-American.) to use peacfeful resistance for the same purposes as a loaded gun. This is standing peaceful resistance on its head to achieve goals that will be utterly ruthless, the “Right of Return” and the subjugation of all non-Muslims living in “Islamic lands”. An example of the President’s successful adherency to his suggestion is the increased numbers of Coptics who have fled a Muslim Brotherhood, sharia Law state that is imposing strict religious laws and where burning churches has become so common it is no longer reported. We need people in leadership who have a clear vision of the reality of Islamists ends and not the fantasy facade of Peacnik activists whose fictions are as destructful as roadside bombs.
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Moll
7:14 pm
May 13, 2012
“Toameh leaves unanswered the silence of international media and human rights groups” BECAUSE Toameh has yet to critically plumb the origins of the nature of the conflict between the descendants of Ham and Japheth (the gentiles) and the descendants of Shem, specifically the seed of Abraham, through Isaac & Jacob — the chosen “children of Israel”, the jews. This conflict is but a metaphor for the conflict which was from the beginning of creation of mankind — between the Creator-G-d and the rebellion of creation against His authority over them.
Thus, the roots of the middle east conflict are spiritual, played out through the human soul (mind/will/emotion) and the physical body of man. Further, the Creator-G-d gave man the “free will to choose” blessings OR curses, life OR death. Our Creator-G-d does not over-ride our choices.
Further, all jewish people, whether they are secular, political, or religious, represent a “finger pointing up to a Creator G-d of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob to Whom all mankind (both jew and gentile) is accountable. Man who is in rebellion against the authority of this Creator G-d of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob over the life of man, seethes with anger and rage when confronted by a reminder that there is a Creator G-d to whom man is accountable — and since the jew is this finger pointing to a Creator G-d, rebellious man, (in this case designated as the international media and human rights groups) takes it out on the jew. The gentiles don’t make a distinction between secular, political or religious jews — they just project their confused hatred against those who remind them they will be held accountable. So the middle east is a spiritual conflict between the Creator G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the rebellious created being. So, as long as man works to bring about by his works a semblance of peace, there will be none.
G-d notes in His WORD that “When my people, who are called by my name (that is jew and gentile, alike), will humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, THEN, I [G-d] will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins and will heal [them] their land” (IIChronicles 7:14).
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SantaFeSteve
9:32 pm
May 13, 2012
Hunger strikes are good. 300 less prisoners to take care off.
If they have legitimate grievances that is a different story but my general approach to hunger strikers is to allow them to commit suicide. It is a human right.
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Karin Berryman
8:50 am
May 14, 2012
It’s Israel’s birthday today, mine also. Happy Birthday Israel on your 64th year as God’s nation! It has been given you several thousand years ago, it is your birthright.
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Karin Berryman
8:54 am
May 14, 2012
It’s Israel’s birthday today, mine also. Happy Birthday Israel on your 64th year as God’s nation! It has been given you several thousand years ago, it is your birthright. I’m having trouble posting this, but my name, email are all I have to give you, I don’t have a Website.
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Jannette Ben david
1:55 pm
May 20, 2012
For Mr, Olmert you should come up with a better lie.
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Len Kurtz
9:29 pm
Jun 22, 2012
I guess it is inhumane if each prisoner does not have his/her own widescreen HD television.
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