Israel Daily News Stream 06/12/2012
June 12, 2012 15:22 by Pesach Benson• Everybody picked up on a UN report accusing the Syrian army of using kids as human shields. This Daily Telegraph snippet sums it all up:
The report said children were being tortured in detention, forced to fight, made victims of sexual violence and executed.
The UN’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict named Syria as one of the worst offenders on its annual “list of shame” of conflict countries.
• A new pan-Arab satellite channel was launched to “balance out” Al-Jazeera’s coverage of the Arab Spring. According to AP, the people behind the Beirut-based Al-Mayadeen (The Squares) feel Arab coverage of the uprisings is biased against the Iranian and Syrian regimes.
Bin Jiddo has pledged a balanced and professional approach at Al-Mayadeen, but his background has skeptics wondering whether the station will simply be a mouthpiece for Iran and Syria. Bin Jiddo used to lead Al-Jazeera’s Beirut operations and was the only journalist who was granted an interview by Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
AP adds that George Galloway is already on board to host a weekly show.
• Worth reading from Sky News:
Syria: Destruction And Propaganda On The Front Line
• McClatchy News: Syrian rebels use explosive “drone trucks.”
Unlike the car bombs that U.S. troops came to fear during the Iraq war, this vehicle wasn’t driven by a young fanatic set on martyrdom. In fact, it wasn’t really driven at all. Rather, it was piloted – by remote control. Its pilot remained safely concealed in a nearby house as he steered the truck around a corner, then accelerated it into the stronghold wall.
• For several hours yesterday, there was live streaming video coming out of Homs. As The Lede put it, “The images opened a brief and intensely immediate window into heavy fighting in the restive city.”
Rest O’ the Roundup
• Vanity Fair profiles Benjamin Netanyahu.
• A new US law allows Israelis to receive E2 investor visas. The Jerusalem Post writes:
Among those eligible for the investors’ visa are businesspeople and representatives of companies who have made significant investments in the United States or opened businesses there.
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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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