Israel Daily News Stream 06/05/2012
June 5, 2012 14:53 by Pesach BensonIranian Atomic Urgency
• The Washington Institute (pdf) assesses how Iran might respond to an Israeli attack.
• Is Iran Building a Third Enrichment Plant?
• Worth reading: A pair of Iranian ex-pats take to the Globe & Mail op-ed pages to explain “Iran’s calculus of terror.”
Arab Spring Winter
• A Washington Post staff-ed takes a dim view of the Mubarak trial:
His trial was less a serious judicial exercise than a smokescreen thrown up by the military council that removed him from office. The generals who once reported to Mr. Mubarak now desperately seek to preserve their power, despite a promised transition to democracy, and to avoid being held accountable for their own crimes. Mr. Mubarak’s prosecution was meant to defuse the popular demand that the old regime be held accountable while obstructing it in every meaningful sense.
• Rahim Elkishky (Al-Ahram) makes a compelling argument that “Islamists didn’t hijack the Egyptian revolution because liberals never had the numbers to carry it off.” Via Michael Totten.
• Remember when terrorism was air travel’s biggest threat? This from the Daily Star:
A scuffle between Syrian air hostesses supporting their country’s government and those against it resulted in the delay of a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight to Dubai, a Saudi newspaper reported Monday.
• For commentary/analysis of the Syrian situation, see Max Boot (LA Times) and Arnaud de Borchgrave (UPI).
Rest O’ the Roundup
• As an Israeli, I’m disturbed by the firebombing of a home for African migrant workers. As a journalist, I’m disappointed in mistaken headlines in The Guardian and LA Times. Not all migrant workers are refugees.
• Mark your calendars for October 6: That’s when a Turkish court will begin the Mavi Marmara trial. The four indicted Israelis — all high level IDF officers at the time of the raid – won’t be in Turkey any soon, so what’s the big deal? The NY Times writes:
Instead, the trial is likely to serve as an opportunity for the 490 people listed in the indictment as direct and indirect victims of the raid to air their grievances and their version of events in detail, and for Turkey to keep the issue in the spotlight as it presses Israel for an apology and compensation.
• Israel plans to open one of the world’s largest “aircraft boneyards” in the Negev. By the numbers, we’re talking about storing 500 aircraft on a 650 acre site. Approximately 25 planes will be dismantled annually, creating 1,000 jobs. More at The Media Line.
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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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