Israel Daily News Stream 06/05/2012
June 5, 2012 14:53 by Pesach Benson
Everything you need to know about today’s media coverage of Israel and the Mideast.
UNESCO to formally consider World Heritage status for Church of the Nativity. Date set for Mavi Marmara trial. Did the Mubarak trial serve justice, or military interests?
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• UNESCO says it will consider adding Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity to its World Heritage List. According to UNESCO’s statement, the site’s full name will be “Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem.”
Is the PA’s UNESCO push political? Heck yeah. Last year, Hebron’s mayor, Khaled Osaily told Time that World Heritage status for the Tomb of the Patriarchs would pave the way for PA control over the site and bar Jewish prayer there.
FYI, another Israeli site contending for World Heritage status will fly under the radar of the Bethlehem stink. “Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot/Wadi el-Mughara caves. ”
• While Congress tries to get an accurate count of the original Palestinian refugees, Asaf Romirowsky (Haaretz) picks apart the UNRWA:
UNRWA states that the Palestinians are occupied – indefinitely. UNRWA has financial and political interests in maintaining this fiction: as long as the Palestinians are refugees, UNRWA is in business. Of the 30,000 people that UNRWA employs, the vast majority are Palestinian: UNRWA is the largest single employer of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Contrast this to the UN High Commission for Refugees, that only employs 5-6,000 people globally, and which focuses far more clearly on resettlement and rehabilitation of refugees and building new lives, and not on maintaining services that prop up the status quo.
• AP picks up on Sandra Tamari, a peace activist expelled from Israel after a security agent poked through her GMail account looking for incriminating evidence.
Leonard KAHN
3:59 pm
Jun 05, 2012
Why not have Israel indit all those clownds on the Mari Marmara includin the Israeli M.K. and have a trial before Turkey’ trial.
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m
6:02 pm
Jun 05, 2012
“Is the PA’s UNESCO push political? Heck yeah. Last year, Hebron’s mayor, Khaled Osaily told Time that World Heritage status for the Tomb of the Patriarchs would pave the way for PA control over the site and bar Jewish prayer there.”
Those bastards are muslims and don’t give a shit about anything to do with Jesus. Where are the protests? How does one protest this? Perhaps Israel should bar those filthy slouches of shit from their false “dome” that is sting on Jewish Land.
And where is the outcry from Christians about what the pa nazis are proposing?
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R. Cross
6:51 pm
Jun 05, 2012
I am willing to bet even money that there were no reporters on any of the other ships in that so-called convoy. I suspect that all of them were on the Mari Marmara to record the incident which I further suspect was designed to sour relations between Israel and Turkey. I think that this is the case and I feel that the perpetrators of this wicked scheme have made the Turks look like fools. This in itself is unforgivable, not only because of its blatant transparency but they have now dragged Turkey into an insidious position of having to take sides. They obviously have to stand with their Moslem neighbours because the country is predominantly Moslem. But what is the cost?
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Karin Berryman
3:25 am
Jun 06, 2012
To ‘m’, When you use the terms you do, you don’t legitimize the point you’re trying to make. I certainly understand your feelings (we’re humans!), but please drop the rabid language of those others who are driven by bitterness and entrenched racism. Honest Reporting is about sticking to the facts, and keeping a clear head. Without question Israel and the West is fighting the ideology (Socialism and Islam combined) that will destroy reason, equal rights, and the best possible outcome for every global citizen, for the domination of the world. We really have to pull together ‘m’.
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emes
9:56 am
Jun 07, 2012
There was a very slow game of chess being constructed in 1914 when Britain broke up the Ottoman empire thus giving freedom to its people and yet, unconciously by removing Turkish Rule from Palestine, as well as other areas, this led to further granting of entry of Jews into their national homeland. The British Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, announced in a speech in November 1914 that “The Turkish empire has committed suicide.” This was a result of Turkey abandoning his support of Zionism to improve his relationship with Germany – Asquith wasn’t considering the Jews he was trying to prevent over 100 million Moslem subjects of Britain’s empire from joining a jihad against Britain.
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