Israel Daily News Stream 06/12/2012
June 12, 2012 15:22 by Pesach Benson
Today’s Top Stories:
1. Ahmadinejad wants to raise Iran’s profile in Egypt.
2. Is a new pan-Arab satellite channel just a Syrian/Iranian mouthpiece?
3. UN condemns Syria for using kids as human shields.
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Israel and the Palestinians
• Haaretz (paywall) obtained previously undisclosed numbers of Palestinians who lost their residency rights between the Six Day War and the creation of the Palestinian Authority. We’re talking about nearly 250,000 Palestinians who lost their residency after being away from the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem for prolonged periods of time. The PA’s denunciation will be two-faced because they don’t really want Palestinians coming back to Palestine. I call this phenomenon The Fright of Return.
• Maan News: Mahmoud Abbas’s sons are considering legal action against Foreign Policy over Jonathan Schanzer’s article on their business interests.
• Asharq al-Awsat: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to raise Iran’s profile in Egypt with a post-election visit:
The Iranian President is trying to exploit Egypt’s rejection of its former regime in the interests of his own country, in a populist manner, whereby he wants to say to the Egyptians that Iran was wronged by Mubarak, just like you.
This is not all, of course. According to what was reported by the Egyptian delegates, Ahmadinejad spoke about what he called a Western conspiracy aiming to break up the Arab and Muslim world, striking its military and strategic strength. Ahmadinejad claimed that: “the solidarity of Egypt and Iran would be guaranteed to dispel the arrogance of the Zionist enemy, and limit America”, and that “the resilience of the people, with the Egyptians at the forefront, would crystalize a new Middle East without America and Israel”.
jeb stuart
4:20 pm
Jun 12, 2012
What I suspect Bin jiddo’s pledge is addressing is the need for proper news dictated by extreme Sharia Law. Which is a criminal perspective and has become in application a crime against humanity throughout the region where Christians and other minortities not “Muslim” in a restrained defintion by jihadists that threatens even modernists and moderate Muslims. The BBC has admitted without shame it has submitted to intimidation when covering Palestinian news, most of the news desks even in Israel try to balance reporting by including a “fair” ratio of Arab or Muslim reporters, but this has become more and more an egregious and subverisve attack on the legitimacy of a free press .
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Mr. Light-bright
7:16 pm
Jun 12, 2012
I have been reading Vanity Fair’s profile on Benjamin Netanyahu:
“Netanyahu has always had an excuse to do nothing with the Palestinians. The handicapping is that he still won’t, his new partners notwithstanding.” I feel that to be lie-full. If anything the profile should mention a noteworthy peace-talks player in the knesset, to have in contrast, HOWEVER I read not one.
[page 4] “Amos Oz, the well-known Israeli novelist, recently wrote that most of Israel would happily line up behind Netanyahu and Barak if they withdrew from the West Bank but that they never will: they fear it would earn them what is in Hebrew the most insulting label of all: freyer, or sucker. ” WHY would that be true?
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Mr. Light-bright
7:18 pm
Jun 12, 2012
Continued 2/2: Vanity Fair’s profile on Benjamin Netanyahu.
[page 5]“Finally, the issue that has hung over Netanyahu seemingly forever—that “psychobabble” about whether his father’s death would liberate him from his demons and prejudices—will be answered.” What demons and prejudices for example…?
Over all I found the paper well put together, HOWEVER I am very confused/disturbed by a few parts.
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Adam
6:03 pm
Jun 13, 2012
Dear Mr. Lightbright,
Apparently, Vanity Fair accused Netanyahu of being prejudice against those who try to destroy Israel and to start a new Holocaust.
That is true.
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Sara
11:03 am
Jun 13, 2012
Who would of thought . honestreporting is defending an Arabic regime (syria)
this is a 100% proof that the regime has a strong relations with tne zionists.
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Adam
5:49 pm
Jun 13, 2012
Dear Sara,
The only times when Israel had “strong relations” with the Arab occupied Syria and her rulers, Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar were during the 6 Day War and the Yom Kippur War.
And you should learn more about Zionism.
Zionism is the Liberation Movement against the Arab colonial occupation of the Middle-East and North Africa.
Arabs should go back to the Arabian peninsula. They have nothing to do in Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Lebanon, Judea and Samaria, Nubia, Libya, etc…
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